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Technical  and  Bibliographic  Notes/Notes  techniques  et  bibliographiques 


The  Institute  has  attempted  to  obtain  the  best 
original  copy  available  for  filming.  Features  of  this 
copy  which  may  be  bibliographically  unique, 
which  may  alter  any  of  the  images  in  tha 
reproduction,  or  wJiich  may  significantly  change 
the  usual  method  of  filming,  are  checked  below. 


□    Coloured  covers/ 
Couverture  de  couleur 


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Covers  damaged/ 
Couverture  endommagie 


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Couverture  restaur^  et/ou  pellicul^e 


r — I    Cover  title  missing/ 


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La  titre  de  couverture  manque 


Coloured  maps/ 

Cartes  g^ographiques  en  couleur 


Coloured  ink  (i.e.  other  than  blue  or  black)/ 
Encre  da  couleur  (i.e.  autre  que  bleue  ou  noire) 


Coloured  platesi  and/or  illustrations/ 
Planches  et/ou  illustrations  en  couleur 


Bound  with  other  material/ 
Relii  avec  d'autres  documents 

Tight  binding  may  cause  shadows  or  distortion 
along  interior  margin/ 

Lareliure  serr^e  peut  causer  de  I'ombre  ou  de  la 
distorsion  le  long  Je  la  marge  int6rieure 

Blank  leaves  added  during  restoration  may 
appear  within  the  text.  Whenever  possible,  these 
have  been  omitted  from  filming/ 
II  se  peut  que  certaines  pages  blanches  ajouties 
lors  d'une  restauration  apparaissent  dans  le  texte. 
mais,  lorsque  ceia  ^tait  possible,  ces  pages  n'ont 
pas  iti  film^es. 


Additional  comments:/ 
Commentaires  suppldmentaires; 


L'Institut  a  microfilm^  !e  meilleur  exemplaire 
qu'il  lui  a  iti  possible  de  se  procurer.  Les  details 
de  cet  exemplaire  qui  sont  peut-dtre  uniques  du 
point  de  vue  bibliographique,  qui  peuvent  modifier 
une  image  reproduite,  ou  qui  peuvent  exiger  une 
modification  dans  la  methods  normale  de  filmage 
sont  indiquAs  ci-dessous. 


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Pages  de  couleur 

Pages  damaged/ 
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Pages  restaur^es  et/ou  pellicuides 

Pages  discoloured,  stained  or  foxet 
Pages  ddcolories,  tacheties  ou  piquees 

Pages  detached/ 
Pages  d6tach^ds 

Showthrough/ 
Transparence 

Quality  of  prir 

Qualiti  inigale  de  I'impression 

Includes  supplementary  materit 
Comprend  du  materiel  supplemontaire 

Only  edition  available/ 
Seule  Edition  disponible 


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|~~l  Pages  restored  and/or  laminated/ 

r~7]  Pages  discoloured,  stained  or  foxed/ 

r~n  Pages  detached/ 

ryi  Showthrough/ 

I      I  Quality  of  print  varies/ 

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slips,  tissues,  etc.,  have  been  refilmed  to 
ensure  the  best  possible  image/ 
Les  pages  totalement  ou  partieilement 
cbscurcies  par  un  feuillet  d'errata.  une  pelure, 
etc.,  ont  6ti  filmdes  A  nouveau  de  facon  d 
obtenir  la  meilleure  image  possible. 


This  item  is  filmed  at  the  reduction  ratio  checked  below/ 

Ce  document  est  filmd  au  taux  de  reduction  indiqud  ci-dessous. 


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The  copy  filmed  here  has  been  reproduced  thunks 
to  the  generosity  of: 

New  Brunswick  Museum 
Saint  John 


L'exemplaire  film*  fut  reproduit  grfice  d  la 
ginirositi  de: 

New  Brunswicic  Museum 
Saint  John 


The  images  appearing  here  are  the  best  quality 
possible  considering  the  condition  and  legibility 
of  the  original  copy  and  in  keeping  with  the 
filming  contract  specifications. 


Original  copies  In  printed  paper  covers  are  filmed 
beginning  with  the  front  cover  and  ending  on 
the  last  page  with  a  printed  or  Illustrated  impres- 
sion, or  the  back  cover  when  appropriate.  All 
other  original  copies  are  filmed  beginning  on  the 
first  ptga  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  Impres- 
sion, end  ending  on  the  last  page  with  a  printed 
or  llluc.:rated  impression. 


Les  images  suivantes  ont  AtA  reproduites  avec  le 
plus  grand  soin,  compte  tenu  de  la  condition  et 
de  la  nettetA  de  l'exemplaire  film6,  et  en 
conformity  avec  les  conditions  du  contrat  de 
filmage. 

Les  exemplaires  orlginaux  dont  la  couverture  en 
papier  est  imprimte  sent  filmAs  en  commenqant 
par  le  premier  plat  et  en  terminant  soit  par  la 
derni^re  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'Impression  ou  d'iliustration,  soit  par  le  second 
plat,  selon  le  cas.  Tous  les  autres  exemplaires 
originaux  sont  film^s  en  commenpant  par  la 
premidre  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'Impression  ou  d'iliustration  et  en  terminant  par 
la  dsrnlAre  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 


The  last  recorded  frame  on  each  microfiche 
shall  contain  the  symbol  —^^  (meaning  "CON 
TINUED"),  or  the  symbol  V  (meaning 
whichever  applies. 


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Un  das  symboles  suivants  apparaitra  sur  la 
derni^re  image  de  cheque  microfiche,  selon  le 
cas:  le  symbols  «<^  signifie  "A  SUIVRE",  le 
symbols  V  signifie  "FIN  ". 


Maps,  plates,  charts,  etc.,  may  be  filmed  at 
different  reduction  ratios.  Those  too  large  to  be 
entirely  included  in  one  exposure  are  filmed 
beginning  in  the  upper  left  hand  corner,  left  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  frames  as 
required.  The  following  diagrams  illustrate  the 
method: 


Les  cartes,  planches,  tableaux,  etc..  peuvant  dtre 
fllmte  d  dee  taux  de  r6duction  diffirents. 
Lorsque  le  document  est  trop  grand  pour  dtre 
reproduit  en  un  seul  cliche,  il  est  fiimd  d  partir 
de  Tangle  sup^rieur  gauche,  de  gauche  d  droite. 
et  de  haut  en  bas.  en  prenant  le  nombre 
d'images  n^cessaire.  Les  diagrammes  suivants 
illustrent  la  m^thode. 


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PRmXED  BY  QEORQE  JOOUDGE.  NO.  «7  WASHINOTON 

1845. 


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A    SKETCH 


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THE    HISTORY 


OF 


NEWBURY,  NEffBURYPORT,  m  WEST  NEWBURY, 


PROM     183S    TO    1845. 


By  JOSHUA  COFFIN,  A.  B.  S.  H.  S. 


comtth  the  new  come  from  vere  to  w™ 
And  out  of  old  bookeH  iu  gooi  ftithe'^''"' 
Cometh  thi.  now  wience  Sat  iSa  l„e.' 


C/Wiiwcr, 


mo  never  to  hlm«If  hath  said, 
J  au  M  n.\;  own,  my  nahtic  (ond  f ' 


Smn, 


BOSTON: 

1>UBLISHED   BY   SAMUEL    G.    DRAKE, 


No.  M  CoawHiLL. 
PWMTKD  BY  QEOKOE  COOUDOE.  NO.  57  WASHINaXON 

1845. 


STREET. 


iiiojso  »i|ui>^:).Y 


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OLD-TOWW  MEBTING-HOUSE,  1700  1806. 


PEEFACE. 

TiiosK  ulK)  are  familiar  with  ancient,  mythology,  will  recollect  the  story  of  the 
good  Is,s  who  went  orth  wandering  and  weeping  to  gather  up  the  pa-t.  and 
fragments  of  her  murdered  and  .scattered  Osiris,  fondly  yet  vainly  hoping  tit 
she  might  recover  and  recombine  all  the  separate  parts  and  on  e  more  vie  v 
her  husband  m  a  1  h.s  former  proportions  and  beauty.'*  Whh  equal  assiduh- 
but  wuh  far  less  lamentation,  has  the  compiler  of  the  following  Lnes  been  o.' 
many  years  engaged  at  intervals,  in  collecting  the  scattered  fragments  of 'Ould 
^ewberry ;  and  has  arranged  ins  imperfect  materials  in  the  form  which  they 
now  exh.brt  to  the  reader.  No  one  can  be  more  sensible  than  himself,  of  its 
cUhc,ences,its  want  of  .symmetry  and  proportion,  which  the  reader  rlaay,  if 
he  chooses,  attribute  as  much  to  the  want  of  skill  in  the  artist,  ,.s  to  the  lack  of 

*  Qimrlerly  Register. 


iv 


P  R  E  F  A  C  K . 


tho  roqui.sito  materials.    Throughout  the  wholo  of  this  compilation  hf>  has  en- 
cloavori'd  to  rnako  a  broad  distiuction  betwi-oa  fact  and  tradition,  and  to  iclate 
nothinrr  an  fact,  which  ho  docs  not  beliovo  to  be  true.     Strypo  in  his  annals 
says,  '  I  have  chosen  to  set  down  things  in  tho  very  words  of  tho  records  and 
oriK.nals,  and  of  tho  authors  themselves,  (rather  than  in  my  own,  without 
frainmj,'  and  dressing  them  in  more  modern  language,)  whereby  the  sense  is 
sure  to  remain  entire  as  tho  writers  meant  it.  whereas  by  alfecting  too  curious- 
ly to  change  and  model  words  and  senten.tes,  I  have  observed  tho  sense  itself 
to  be  often  marred  and  disguised.'     This  is  tho  course  that  the  compiler  has 
taken.     He  has  endeavored  to  give  as  accurate  a  representation  as  possible,  of 
the  character  of  tho  inhabitants  of  N.-wbury  and  their  transactions,  for  over  two 
hundred  years,  and  has  been  desirous,  in  tho  language  of  Tacitus, 'sine  ira 
smo  studio,'  without  fear,  favor,  or  affection,  neither  'to  extenuate,  nor  aught 
set  down  in  malice.'     Me  is  well  aware  that  his  stat(>ments  in   many  places  do 
not  agree  either  with  the  tradition,  or  the  belief,  of  many  of  the  inhabitants 
of  the  town,  or  with  history.     Whore  he  has  been  obliged  to  differ  from  com- 
mon  opinion,  ho  has  done  so  for  reasons,  which  to  him  appeared  entirely  satis- 
factory, and  has  been  pleased  to  find  that  the  instances  have  been  very  few 
where  fact  and  tradition  do  not  substantially  agree.     It  is  however  much  to  be 
lamented,  that  so  small  a  number  of  the  fi,  t  settlers  were   in  tho  habit  -f  re- 
cording the  transactions  of  the  day,  and  that  the  journals  or  diaries  of  those 
who  made  a  record,  should  have  been  in  so  many  instances  lost  or  destroyed. 
Mr.  Anthony  Somt^rby,  tho  first  school-master  of  Newbury,  the  ancestor  of  all 
of  that  name  in  this  country,  and  one  of  our  best  and  most  useful  citizens 
kept  a  diary  of  passing  events,  as  I  have  been  informed  -by  those  who  have 
seen  it,  but  of  which  no  trace  can  now  be  found.     An  aged  lady,  one  of  his 
descendants,  mformed  me  that  he  versified  the  whole  book  of  Job.     Numerous 
instances  might  be  given   where   valuable   papers  in   large  quantities,  have 
been  destroyed,  because  they  were   'so  old  that  nobody  could  read  them.' 
'  All  are  not  such,'  and  among  tho  many  persons,  who  have  in  various  ways 
rendered  valuable  assistance  in  the  compilation  of  this  work,  the  author  can- 
not forbear  mentioning  the  names  of  Messrs.  Robert  Adams,  reverend  William 
S.  Bartlet,  Daniel  Dole,  Moses  Davenport,  George  Danforth,  doctor  Ebenezer 
Hale,  doctor  E.  G.   Kelley,  Tristram  Little,  Josiali  Little,   Mose.«  Pettingill, 
esquire,  Horatio  G.  Somerby,  of  Boston,  and  Charles  Toppan,  of  Philadelphia^ 
to  whom  he  tenders  his  warmest  acknowledgments  for  the  interest  they  have 
manifested  in  the  work,  and  the  aid  they  have  afforded  toward  its  completion, 
and  to  all  others  not  mentioned  by  name,  who  have  rendered  any  assistance. 
If,  as  is  undoubtedly  the  case,  he  has  made  any  mistakes,  or  omitted  any 
necessary  or  valuable  information,  he  will  be  greatly  obliged  to  any  person  or 
persons,  who  will  correct  those  mistakes,  or  supply  those  omissions,  as  it  is  his 
intention  still  to  continue  to  collect  information,  in  order  that  some  future  his- 
torian may  bo  able  to  supply  his  deficiences,  and  at  some  future  day  may  pre- 
pare a  work,  which  will  do  justice  to  tho  reputation  of  '  Ould  Newberry.'     The 
sources  whence  the  compiler  of  the  present  history  has  derived  his  materials, 
are  almost  innumerable,  and  to  specify  them  all,  would  require  a  small  volume! 
The  principal  are  the  colonial,  province,  state,  county,  town,  church,  and  parish 
records.     The  towni  records  have  been  well  kept,  and  with  the  exception  of  a 
few  missing  leaves  of  the  first  book,  are  full  and  accurate.     The  records  of  the 


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PR  R  FACE.  y 

first  church  commence  in  1674,  th«  preceding  transactions  of  the  church,  having 
been  to  al    uppearancn  .ntentionally  destroyed  ;  a  loss  very  much  to  be  reZt 
.o<i,  but  wh,ch  has  m  part  beon  supplied  by  ..opious  ,„„,a,ions  from  the    ounty 
records.     .Some  persons  mav  siinnn«..  t\,n* .  «-ouniy 

the  ecclesiasti.al'a,rairs  oTtl.  tT  '  1X171  ''''"  T  TT'  "'' 
othor  way  could  .ho  peculiar  trui  s  „  the  .1  ,  T''"''""''^  *'"''  '"  "" 
develoDcd      It  was  L    '";''.  "'"'V     ^^^  '''"^'■a^'er  of  our  ancestors  be  fully 

cZt^t  x^z :;:;::  :^'r  ,r;  «^«y '-v-braced,  and  th^ 

;n  their  oJlaud/tha.  induced  '^^ht^  fi^'^f  ^^l^rl^  ^rS 
land  ?o"'.?  r""'^?  ''""  •'"  P°P"'°"^  ""'•  -^"'-'^-J  tow  s  of  th.n"  fl.he 

ourlorernlhor,,  and  tho  „c„/icc,  Ihoy  raado  for  Ihuir  posterily,  wilhoul  a  know]. 
.dg»  of  ,l,„»  p„,o,plo,,  „,,i,.l,,  lik„  a  m.i„.,p,in5,  L,  ,v.';  ,l,i„r  1  „°°i™ 
Bu,  „„o„el.  1,,.  been  .aij  o„  .hi.  ,:„bjec..     Ou,  a„en.io„  for  a  f,;  pagrS 
be  given  to  alloirs  more  secular.  ^^ 

Tl.o  lown  ot  Newbury  »a.  originall,  one  of  tho  largest  towns  in  the  conntv 
It  was  about  thrrteen  n.llo.  ,„„,,  »„,,  „„o„,  „,  „„„.  ,^„„,|  .^  .^/r^rpS' 

c'etrrrrwlr  "■""■"■"""^  ""-'"'-^''^  neanytwothensar::' 
.h.  state,  i„  whrch  Newbury  and  NeX^rt  Zi r,!""''""  "*'  "•'•"  ''' 


Newbury 

750 
10 
75 
43/ 
36 
26 
393 
14 
1450 
2380 
10,802 
192 
592  £  74,131 


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430 
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210 
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341 
502 
1468 
645 
318 


£57,726  £24,068 
£  2825 


Nowbiiryport. 

875         Polls  ratable. 

'•  supported  by  the  town. 
"  not  supported  by  the  town. 
Dwelling  houses. 

Shops  separate  or  adjoining  other  buildings. 
Tan  houses,  slaughter  houses,  &c. 
Barns. 

All  other  buildings  of  £5  value  and  upward. 
113  1-2  Acres  of  tillage  land. 
86  3-4      "    of  English  and  upland  mowing. 
113  1-2      "    of  pasturage. 
71 76        Tons  of  vessels,  of  5  tons  burthen  and  upward. 
Stock  in  trade. 

Horses  and  mares,  3  years  old  and  upward. 
Oxen,  4  years  old  and  upward. 
Cows,  4  years  old  and  upward. 
Swine,  6  months  old  and  upward. 
Ounces  of  silver  plate. 
Debts  due  to  any  persons. 
Monies  on  hand. 


146 

30 

1741 

160 
5149 


Newburyport  also  in  1781,  had  ten  distil  and  sugar  houses,  three  rope  walks, 


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thirty-nine  wure-hoiwe-i,  ami  ci^^hly-m-veii  llioiistimii  iiino  liiwulrfil  siipcrli- 
cittl  f(!«!t  of  wharl'.  Newbury  aI«o  hiul  in  1781,  HixU'eti  uml,  hiiw,  fulliiij,',  uml 
Hlillinit  iiiillf*,  film  tli(iiis;iiul  (iiiii  Iniiulii'd  aiul  m\  (uti'h  dl'  fre'sli  mcmliiw,  throu 
llioiisiiiiii  fiiii'  liiiridu'il  n:iil  siMy-xcvi-ii  iutcs  of  ftiilt  miirsli.  niiulc  oiik  llioudiirul 
four  hundrod  and  ihirtecii  bnrrcUof  t-ider,  had  ei«lit  liuiidrfd  and  lifly-two  aeros 
ot  wood  liind,  llivf'o  liimdicd  and  tlirr'c  acrci  of  uninipiovnl  land,  and  thirty-live 
acwA  uf  land  uniniprovablo,  had  ti-u  coit.-t,  two  yuais  old.  hnirtccn  <'oltM  ono 
year  ohl,  threo  hundred  and  ono  neat  catlln  thri'o  yoart  old,  throe  hundred  and 
ninety,  two  yearn  old,  three  huiiilnnl  ami  lifty-live,  one  year  ohl,  and  two  thousand 
threo  hundred  and  neventy-.si\  sheep  and  ^oats.  In  IHIt»,  West  Newbury  waH  net 
otfand  ineorp()rat(.'d  an  a  •leparatt)  town.  Tho  state  valuation  for  IHI((,  is  as  fol- 
lows : 

Newlniry.    NVwImryiKirt    We«t  .Vpwhurj*. 

aJ'J  lai'J  404  Katal.le  Polls  Hi  years  old  and  upward. 

'M  Mal('  polls  not  ta.ved  nor  supported  by  tho  town. 
I  "        ''     "    supported  by  tho  town. 

;!()!  \-'i  Dwelliii;;  houses. 

—  Rope  walks. 
1  Grist  •''ills. 
4  Slio|.    within,  or  adjoiniui:  to  dwelling;  hon.'tps. 

7!)  other  shops. 

1  Tun  houses. 

4  Ware  houses  and  storo.<i. 

—  Rope  walks. 

—  Cotton  factories,  1 1,040  .spindles,  and  280  looms 
in  the  same. 

— «•        Woolen  factories. 

—  Spindles. 
'219, "vli  Hams. 
141         All  other  buildings  and  ediliees  of  tho  value  of 

$20  and  upward. 

—  Superficial  feet  of  wharf. 

—  Tons  of  vt.'ssels  and  small  craft  of  5  tons  bur- 
then and  upward. 

41         249()  1-2  Acres  of  Knifli'^h  and  upland  mowing. 

—  1084  1-2  Acres  of  fresh  meadow. 
S8  1-2  4,084  1-2  Acres  of  pasturage. 
• —  279         Acres  of  woodland. 

—  190         Acres  of  unimproved  land. 


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The  throe  towns  also  raised  in  1840,  eight  hundred  and  eleven  bushels  of 
wheat,  one  thousand  two  hundred  and  forty  bushels  of  rye,  six  thousand  and 
seventy-three  bushels  of  oats,  fifteen  thousand  six  hniulrod  and  thirty-five  bush- 
els of  Indian  corn,  and  three  thousand  one  hundred  and  sixty-six  bushels  of 
barley.  Tiiero  were  also  in  Newbury,  throe  thousand  eight  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  and  one  half  acres  of  salt  marsh,  and  two  thou.sand  eight  hundred  and  sixty- 
five  and  ono  half  tons  of  salt  hay  cut  on  tho  same.  Newbury  also  had  two 
carding  machines,  two  fulling  mills,  and  one  and  a  half  saw  mills. 

Since  the  first  settlement  of  the  town,  that  part  of  it  now  called  Newburyport, 


I'  It  i:  K  A  r;  k  .  y|i 

haM  witn..«o.l  gr..!.t  .■Imns-i,  lu.t  only  in  iu  bum„o«H,  bul  in  iUoxtoriuil  unpoar- 
unco.  Ill  Iho  priMfd  i.ro^rru„ui.o  of  thn  procs.ioii,  whi.-h  \munml  iivmrnil 
Washington  with  u,i  ....-ort  in  178!.,  a  i-onspinuou.  plarn  wa.  a^.i^neU  to  the 
(ImtillerK  '  who  w.-n,  ih,.,,  a  n,.,„.,rou.  body  of  .non.  At  that  timo  thorn  wor« 
ten  or  twHvo  d.stilh.r.,.,s  in  tho  town,  and  nh  rop.  walks.  Now  th.m  am  but 
one  of  ouch,  and  mam.fu.-turin,,  a  now  and  n.pi.ily  in.T.aHing  buHine«..,  i«  talc 
n,gthop  u.,,.  ,h.  \V...s.  India  tradn,  by  which  it  onco  ro«e  to  great  wealth. 
In  17!)(i,  doctor  l>wiy;lit  thus  writes  : 

'  Nowburyport  i.s  probably  ,!..,.  Mnall,..st  townnhip  in  tho  ntate,  incl„din«  only  Mix 
.undre.!  and  forty  acres.  It  Iie«  on  tho  nonthorn  «hore  of  the  Merrimac.  The 
town  rs  bn.lt  on  a  declivity  of  nnrivalle.l  beauty.  The  «lope  is  ea.y  and  elo- 
«ar^t  tho«o.l  nch  the  street,vxc...pl  „ne  near  the  water,  clean  ar.d  .weet ; 
ami  the  verdure,  wherever  U  .«  visible,  exquisite.  Tho  streets  are  either  paraU 
lol,  or  n.rht  nn.led,  to  the  nver ;  the  soutlu.rn  shore  of  wbLdi  bends,  he  e,  to- 
wards  the  south  east.  None  of  then.  a.e  vegularly  formed.  Still  there  i^  «„ 
near  ....  appro,v,rn,..t.oa  to  regularity  as  ,„  awake.,  in  tho  n.in.i  of  a  traveler 
w.hpeeul.ar  strength  a  wish  that  the  .e.ulari.y  hud  been  perfect.  For  my! 
sel  was  ,.ot  a  l.ttin  mor.ilied  to  see  so  fair  an  opportu.dty  of  compassing  this 
beauty  on  .so  exqu.s.to  a  spot  linally  lost.  A,  it  is,  however,  there  are  few  towns 
of  e,,nul  bea..ty  i,.  this  co.n.fry.  ,  .  .  The  houses  taken  collectively,  make 
a  better  af.pearan.-e  .ha.,  those  of  any  other  tow,,  ir.  New  England.  Many  of 
then.  a.'e  part.cula.ly  han.lsomo.  Their  appendages  also  unusually  neat  In- 
deed  an  a.r  of  wealth,  taste  an.l  r.le,a,u-e,  is  sp,ead  over  this  beautiful  spot,  to 

Thnfmr  "'"'""•'""'•  •  •  •  '*'■'""  ""^  »«vver  of  the  church  belor,ging  to 
the  fdth  Congregat.on,  a  noble  prospect  is  presented  to  the  spectator.  On  the 
wos  a,.d  south,  sprea.ls  a>.  extensive  cha.npai.m  country,  ornamented  with 
{,ood  farme.-,s  houses,  orchar.ls,  and  cultivate.l  fields,  and  varied  by  a  number 
ot  beaufful  h.lls.  behind  them  rise,  remotely,  two  mountains,  finely  co.n.ect- 
.ng  he  landscape  with  the  sky.  On  tho  north  flows  the  Merrimac,  visible 
.ibout  four  ,n.les  ;  exl,.b.t...g  two  islan.ls  in  its  bosom,  near  the  point,  where  it 
^rst  appears;  and  joining  the  ocea..  between  two  sand  bunks,  on  which  are 
erected  two  movable  Lighthouses.  0„  the  North  shore  stand  the  towns  of 
Sahsbury  and  Amesbury.  Uehiud  this  the  country  .ises  gradually,  parted  into 
a  variety  o  eminences ;  ono  of  them,  which  fio.n  its  appiopriation  by  the  sav- 
ages .s  called  Powow  hill,  particularly  handsome.  Over  all  these  ascends  at 
the  dista.ice  of  twenty-five  miles,  the  roun.l  s.immit  of  Agamenticus.  North 
eastward,  the  Isles  of  Shoals  appear  at  the  distance  of  eight  leagues,  like  a 
cloud  m  the  hor.zon.  Ka.stwa.-.l  the  ocean  spreads  inimitably.  At  a  small  dis- 
tance  rom  the  shore,  Plum  Island,  a  wild  and  fantastical  sand  beach,  is  thrown 
up  by  the  joint  power  ot  w.nds  and  waves  i.ito  the  thousand  wanton  figures  of 
a  snow  dr.  t.     Immediately  bc.eath  is  the  town  itself,  which  with  its  churche 

th"i  ctleof  "^''^  IT'"  ^"''  «^'I'P-^'- '-^PP--  -the  proper  cero 
this  c.rcle  of  scenery,  and  leaves  on  the  mind  a  cheerfulness  and  brilliancy 
.trongly  resembling  that,  which  accompanies  a  delightful  morning  n  My 
cietror."'  "l""'--.^'™  P-'-^hes,  in  which  are  five  congregatio.is^nd  a  so- 
c.ety  of  Wiends.  It  .s  all  settled  in  plantations  formed  especially  alon.  the 
Merrimac  of  excellent  land  under  good  cnltivation.     The  surface  is  gene^'raUy 

nences.     These  em.nences,  of  which  the  doctor  speak.,,  a:e  principally  in 


VUl 


PREFACE. 


West  Newbury,  and  are  called  Pipe-stave,  Crane-neck,  Archelaus,  Old-towrr, 
and  Indian  hills.     With  the  exception  of  the  summit  of  Old-town  hill,  the  land 
on  all  the  swells  in   Newbury,  is  of  the  iirst  quality.     The  Indian-hill  farm, 
ownod  by  co'onel  Benjamin  Poors,  is  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  and  received 
in  1843,  the  premium  of  two  hundred  dollars,  from  the   committee  of  the 
agricultural  society,  who  deemed   it  the   best  managed  farm  in  the  county. 
Newbury  has  also  the  honor  of  having  the  first  incoi-porated  academy  in  the 
state,  the  first  toil-bridge,  the  first  chain  bridge,  the  first  incoiporated  woolfjn 
factory;   and  the  first  vessel  that  displayed  the  American  flag  in  the  river 
Thames,  was  the  Count  De  Grasse,  commanded  by  captain  Nicholas  Johnson, 
of  Nrwburyport.     Many  other  interesting  facts  might  be  menfioned,  for  which 
I  hcve  no  room.     I  will  only  add,  for  the  information  of  the  rf;ader,  that  a  brief 
sketch  of  the  life  of  doctor  John  Clark,  whose  portrait  is  prefixed  to  this  work, 
may  be  found  in  Thacher's  Medical  Biography.  See  also  page  391.    The  wood 
cut  of  the  first  parish  meeting-house,  built  in  1700,  and  demolished  in  1806,  is 
not  an  exact  tepresentation.     It  was  drawn  from  the  recollection  of  one  person, 
by  another,  who  nover  saw  if.     '  The  roof  was  originally  constructed  with  four 
gable  ends  or  projections,  one  on  each  side,  each  containing  a  large  'vindow, 
which  gave  light  U  the  upper  galleries,  where  the  young  people  sat.     The 
children  sat  on  a  seat  in  the  alley,  fixed  to  the  outside  ot  the  pews.     Before 
the  pulpit  snd  deacon's  seat,  was  a  large  pew  containing  a  table,  where  sat  the 
chiefs  of  the  lathers.     The  turret  was  in  the  centre,  and  the  bell  was  rung  and 
tolled  in  the  centre  of  the  broad  aisle.     Originally,  the  space  within  was  open 
to  tho  roof,  where  were  many  ornaments  of  an  antique  sculpture  and  wainscot, 
and  was,  in  the  day  of  it,  a  stately  building,  but  long  before  it  was  torn  down, 
a  steeple  was  substituted  for  the  turret,  the  dormar  windows  were  removed, 
and  the  roof  thus  made  plain,'*  as  it  ap     ars  on  the  third  page.     The  reader 
of  the  following  pages,  will  make  the  fojiowing  corrections.     Page  244,  '  June 
seventeenth,    1774,'  should  be  placed  in  1775.     On  page  270,  for  'captain 
Michael  Smith,'  read  '  captain  Samuel  E.  Bailey.'     On  page  363,  for  '  tattle  ' 
road '  cattle.'    On  page  285,  add  '  reverend  Daniel  P.  Pike,  pastor.'   Other  errors 
the  intelligent  reader  will  undoubtedly  notice,  in  the  followi.ig  sketch  of  Quid 
Newberry. 

•  Reverend  doctor  Popkin. 


m  -T', 


HISTORY    OF    NEWBUEY 


1635-^ 

«OuLD  Newbkrry,'  as  it  was  anciently  called,  was  settled,  incor- 
porated, and  paid  its  first  tax,  in  the  spring  of  1635.     It  der  ves  its 

south  part  of  the  county,  on  the  river  Kennet,  fifty-six  miles  west 

pXI^  who"h.  1 V"  •'"  "^™"'  ^"  ^"^""^  ^'  'he  rLrend  Thoma 
1  drker  who  had  for  some  time  preached  in  Newbury,  England 

ca^d  t  Tf  ?  ''''^''''''-     ™  '''  incorporation  in^l635  if  was 
called  by  its  Jnd.an  name,   Quascacunquen,  a  name,  which  the 

"terfaS'Ii;m\t^?l'f^  'r'^^y^   ^=^^^'>«  word  signifies  : 

walerlail, )  but  to    the  falls,'  on  what  is  now  called  the  river  Parker 

on  who.e  banks  the  first  settlers  fixed  their  habitations.     As  different 

dates  have  been  assigned  by  ditferent  persons  for  the  firsrseSemen 

?635  irn')'"'^'  ^""'^^  '\  "^  1^^^'  ^'h^'-^  "^  1634,  and  otS m 
JS  ;    r    ''"'",  ''''^"^""  ^"  '''^'  ^^^t«  ^"-^i  assertions  I  have  been 

.ninn,     ^   ?"/'''  ''^^'J^'^'  ""^  '^^  ^"^'^^^^^  ^^^ch  induce  me  to 
suppose,  that,  1    any,  no  permanent  settlement  was  here  made  till 

>eai  17o2,  I  find  the  following  entry,  which,  as  far  as  I  can  learn  is 

tl,™,  «•  ih  l<„„,  pmil^jm,  and  calli-d  Iho  name  thorcof  Np»lun'     and  m  r 
f.U.m  t..sa„  ,bc.  joa,,f  l,i,,h,  and  d»tl«,  a.  I,,.  „,c«,d  d„  iw^'/o'n "ho  S 


# 


10 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


• 


of  March,  and  it  hath  been  so  continued,  from  time  to  time,  until  this  day,  and 
now,  by  an  act  of  Parliament,  we  are  ordered  to  bei>;in  the  year  on  the  first  of 
January,  and  in  humble  obedience  to  the  crown  and  (li.,^nity,  I  shall  proceed 
accordingly;  viz.  January  ye  first,  1752. 

JOSEPH  COFFIN,    Town  Clerk.' 

From  the  preceding  statement,  any  person,  without  examination, 
would  be  induced  to  believe  that  '  our  fathers,'  the  first  settlers  of 
Newbury,  all  came  here  in  the  year  1(533,  in  the  ship  Hector.  That 
this  was  not  the  case,  we  have  abundant  proof.  In  !he  first  place, 
the  word.  Hector,  the  name  of  the  ship  in  which  it  is  said  they  came, 
is  not  in  the  original  record,  but  was  inserted  there  by  some  subse- 
quent hand,  and  cannot  be  true,  as  we  have  abvindant  evidence  that 
a  large  majority  of  the  first  settlers  of  Newbury,  came  to  New  Eng- 
land at  different  times  and  in  different  ships,  between  the  last  of 
April,  1634,  and  July,  1635,  as  we  shall  hereafter  see.  In  the  next 
place,  we  have  no  proof  that  the  Hector  came  to  New  England  till 
1636,  when  Mr.  Thomas  INIilward,  who  afterward  settled  in  New- 
bury, came  over  a»  mate  of  ♦'Tat  ship,  ag  will  be  seen  under  that 
year.  It  is,  however,  possible,  that  the  Hector  came  to  New  Eng- 
land in  1633,  as,  out  of  eight  ships  that  arrived  in  '  this  wilderness' 
in  that  year,  the  name  of  one  only  is  not  known.  In  the  year  1634, 
twenty-two  ships  arrived  in  New  England.  Of  these,  we  know  the 
names  of  nearly  all,  but  the  name  of  the  Hector  is  not  among  them. 
Those,  therefore,  who  have  supposed  that  their  ancestors  came  to 
Newbvtry  in  1633,  in  the  Hector,  must,  in  the  absence  of  all  proof, 
place  no  dependence  on  the  apocryphal  tradition,  part  of  v/hich 
nas  been  interpolated  by  some  anonymous  WTiter. 

I  now  proceed  to  give  my  reasons  fox  believing,  that  the  territory 
which  was  afterward  incorporated  by  the  name  of  Newbury,  was 
not  settled  till  the  spring  of  1635.  Possibly,  there  might  have  been 
a  few  interloping  fishermen,  who  occupied  a  part  of  die  coast,  and 
the  banks  of  the  Merrimac  and  Quaseacunquen  during  the  fishing 
season,  but  who  were  not  among  the  permanent  settlers  of  Newbury. 

Governor  Winthrop,  in  his  invaluable  History  of  New  England, 
vol.  1,  pp.  98,  99,  thus  writeo,  under  date  of  seventeenth  of  January, 
1632-3. 

'  The  crovemor,  having  intelligence  from  the  east,  that  the  French  had  bought 
the  Scottish  plantation  near  cape  Sable,  and  that  the  fort  and  all  the  ammunition 
were  delivered  to  them,  and  that  the  cardinal,  having  the  mana-jiug  thereof,  had 
sent  some  companies  already,  and  preparation  was  made  to  send  many  more  the 
next  year,  and  divers  priests  and  Jesuits  among  them  —  called  the  assistants  to 
Boston,  and  iHe  ministers  and  captains,  and  some  other  chief  men,  to  advise 
■what  was  fit  lo  be  done  for  our  safety,  in  regard  tVie  French  were  like  to  prove 
ill  neighbours,  (being  papists  ;)  at  which  meeting  it  was  agreed  :hat  a  plantation 
and  a  fort  should  forthwith  be  begun  at  Natascotl,  partly  to  be  some  block  in 
an  enemy's  way,  (though  it  would  not  bar  his  entrance,)  and  especially  to  pre- 
vent an  enemy  from  taking  that  passaffe  from  us ;  and  also,  th.at  a  plantation 
should  be  begun  at  Agawam,  (being  the  best  place  in  the  land  for  tillage  and 
cattle,)  least  an  enemy,  finding  it  void,  should  possess  and  take  it  from  us.  The 
governor's  son,  (being  one  of  the  assistants,)  was  to  undertake  this,  and  to  take 
no  more  out  of  the  bay  than  twelve  men  ;  the  rest  to  be  supplied  at  the  coming 
of  the  next  ship.s.' 


nrSTOKY   OP   NEWRURY. 


11 


Referring  to  this  subject,  governor  Hutch 


inson  remarks : 


Prom  these  quotations  it  is  evident,  that  it  was  the  determination 

?it  as  nn^^r.^  """f  '°'""-^'  ^"  ^"^^^^"^  '^^'^'  settlements  eXard  as 
last  as  possible,  and,  as  it  was  of  great  importance  thit  thp  firct  ? 
tiers  especially  should  be  men  of  the  rigSKn  in  1630%.'  '  " 
ber  seventh, 'all  persons  were  forbiddS"'  ^1^  "nn  ^  f  ^^f^^ 
WU  in  the  limits  of  their  patent  withom    eaTe.'   '  T  wLam  S 

the^' forth '-fh";  ''  ^^""""^'  ^^  ^°— d  ^'--  who  aTp  anted 
there,  forthwith  to  come  away/f     Affain,   the  court    AnWI     i^jq 

'ordered  that  no  person  whatsUer  sh^ll  go  to  plant  ot^nhabh  fl 
Agavvam,  now  Ipswich,]  without  leave  from  the  court,  excepU^^^^^^^ 
that  are  already  gone  witli    Mr    Tr,t.n  \ATi„tu       "::"').^^^«^piinose 

John  Gage,   Thomas  Hardy,   Mr.'[Joh„l    ThorS^  •  a,"d  S 

J  ■ 

an-i 

winch  si.\  arrivea  in  JVlnv 

Ti>«c.„oV      u         .    ^'^V»  "'^'^'^"  J"  ounti,  ana  one  m  JXovember 

So  great,  in  fact,  was  the  influx  of  emigi-ants  to  New  En-land 
that  HI  many  places  they  could  not  be  accommodated.     "'Eose 

0  hnd  ?:"'  ^-T  C-f-idge,]  complained  of  straitness  for  want 

01  land,  especially  meadow,  and  desired  leave  of  the  court    Mav 

iSi  "    "f  ""'  ''^''  ^"^  enlargement  or  removal,  whchwa^s' 
gmnted ;  whereupon  they  sent  men  to  see  Agawam  and  Me^imrck 

yL.,u,  iv.»t.ioiici,  ibdo,)  to  Connecticut. 

Hubbard,  in  his  history  of  New  Endand    mo-P  IQO    .t^*       .u 
«the  planlation  at  A  ga  win,  was  froTthe 'rt^^SwT'be^ri 
raised  to  a  township,  [August,  1634,]    so  filled   whh  inhabitas^ 
H  .r'""'  ?^  tfiem  presently  swarmed  out  into  another  place  a  S 

MMth  Mr.  Ward  ;  but  he  choosing  rather  to  accompany  s^rncof^hh 
connnymen  (who  came  out  of  Wiltshire  in  Engla^nd,^  o  That  new 


*  Hutchinson,  vol.  l,  page  30. 
t  Winthrop,  vol.  1,  page  133.  ' 


1  General  coiut  record. 

i  Winihrnp,  vol.  1,  page  !3S. 


13 


HISTORY   OF    NEWBURY. 


place,  tl';xn  to  be  engaged  with  such  as  he  had  not  been  aequaiiilcd 
withal  before,  removed  with  them  and  settled  at  Newbury,  which 
recess  of  theirs  made  room  for  others,  that  soon  after  supplied  their 
places.' 

Now,  as  it  is  well  known  that  ]\'Iessrs.  Parker,  Noycs,  Woodbridge, 
and  company,  did  not  remove  to  Quascacunquen  till  May,  1635, 
the  inquiry  naturally  arises  why  they  did  not  remove  to  that  place 
before,  especially  as  Agawam  was  'filled  with  inhabitants,'  the 
situation  of  Quascacunquen  being  one  of  the  best  in  the  country,  and 
the  general  court  extremely  anxious  to  extend  their  settlements  as 
fast  as  possible.  The  answer  to  these  questions  may  be  found  in 
Edward  Winslow's  '  Hypocrisie  Unmasked ;  whereunto  is  added 
a  Brief  Narration,  (occasioned  by  certain  aspersions,)  of  the  true 
grounds  or  cause  of  the  first  planting  of  New  England,'  and  so  forth ; 
lately  reprinted  in  the  '  Chronicles  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers  of  the 
Colony  of  Plymouth,'  by  reverend  Alexander  Young,  Boston.  As 
no  copy  of  the  original  work,  which  was  printed  in  small  quarto  in 
1646,  was  to  be  found  in  America,  Mr.  Young  procured  a  transcript 
of  the  work  from  one  in  the  British  Museum.  On  pages  402,  3,  and 
4,  of  that  extremely  valuable  and  ably  edited  collection,  I  find  the 
following ; 

'  The  next  aspersion  cast  upon  us,  is,  that  we  will  not  suffer  any  that  dilTer 
from  us  never  so  little,  to  reside  or  cohabit  witli  us  ;  no,  not  the  presbyterian 
government,  which  differeth  so  little  from  us.  To  which  I  answer,  our  practice 
witnesseth  the  contrary.  For  't  is  well  known  that  Mr.  Parker  and  Mr.  Noyce, 
who  are  ministers  of  Jes  s  Christ  at  Newberry,  are  in  that  way  and  so  known, 
so  far  as  as  a  single  consj^regation  can  be  exercised  in  it ;  yet  never  had  the 
least  molestation  or  disturbance,  and  have  and  find  as  good  respect  from  magis- 
trates and  people,  as  other  elders  in  the  congregational  or  primitive  way.' 
'  So  also  'tis  well  known  that  before  these  unhappy  troubles  arose  in  England 
and  Scotland,  there  were  divers  gentlemen  of  Scotland  that  groaned  under  the 
heavy  pressures  of  those  times,  wrote  to  know  whether  they  might  be  freely 
suffered  to  exercise  their  presbyterial  government  amongst  us ;  and  it  was 
answered  affirmatively  that  they  might.  And  they  sending  over  a  gentleman 
to  take  a  view  of  some  lit  place,  a  river  called  Meromeck,  near  Ipswich  and 
Newberry  aforesaid,  was  showed  their  agent,  tvhich  he  well  liked,  and  where  we 
have  since  four  towns  settled,  and  more  may  be  fov  aught  I  know  ;  so  that  there 
they  might  have  had  a  complete  presbytery,  and  rvhilher  they  intended  to  have 
cctme.  But  meeting  with  manifold  crosses,  being  half  seas  through,  they  gave  over 
their  intendments ;  and  as  I  have  heard,  these  were  many  of  the  gentlemen  that 
first  fell  upon  the  late  covenant  in  Scotland.' 

Cotton  Mather,  in  his  Magnalia,  vol.  1,  page  73,  makes  a  similar 
statement,  but  neither  he  nor  Win.'slow  gives  the  date  of  the  letter,  or 
the  time  when  the  agent  arrived.  This  deficiency  is  supplied,  not 
only  by  Winthrop,  but  by  the  court  records.  The  former,  vol.  1, 
page  135,  says,  'we  received  letters  from  a  godly  preacher,  Mr. 
Levinston,  a  Scotchman  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  whereby  he  signi- 
fied that  there  were  many  good  christians  in  those  parts  resolved  to 
come  hither,  if  they  might  receive  satisfaction  concerning  some 
questions  and  propositions,  which  they  sent  over.'  This  was  in 
July,  1631.     The  court  records  for  September  state,  vol.  1,  p.  128, 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


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It  IS  ordered,  that  he  Sco  jshe  and  Irish  gentlemen,  who  intends 
to  come  hither,  shall  have  hberty  to  sett  doun  upon  any  place  iVnn 
Memmack  river  not  possessed  by  any.'     From  all  thele  quotatiS 
It  IS  evident,  that  the  general  court,  in  September,  1G34,  had  gran  3 
to  this  expected  company,  through  their  agent,  a  township  oUal^ 
at  the  mouth  of  Merrimack  river,  and  'whither  they  intcni-d    o 
have   come;'    that,   after  receiving  satisfactory   answers   to   thdr 
'questions  and  propositions,'  they  embarked  for  New  Enc^land  and 
after  performing  about  one  half  thck  voyage,  <  they  gave  over  thHr 
mtendments'  in  consequence  of  the  'iL^ifold  e^roC'Tey  mc^ 
and  returned  home.     Now,  when  it  is  recollected,  that  'the^court 
had  forbidden  all  persons  to  plant  within  the  limits  of  their  paS 
without  leave,'  and  that  the  territory  now  called  Newbury   had 
actually  been  granted  to  a  company  of  '  good  christians'  who^ad 
'resolved  to  come  hither,'  and  that  the  settlers  at  Agawam,  fWich  1 
must  have  known  these  facts,  the  reason  is  obviou^s  why^  eT  ne  tl  e' 
took  possession  of  the  territory,  nor  asked  permission  so  to  do 
Neither  IS  it  at  all  probable  that  they  had  heard  of  the  failure  of  the 

ar  "hefe  "'otl  "!  ^'"  '^T'  T""^'  ,  ^'"'^  ^^''^^"^  ^^  ^^is  option 
arc  these.     Of  the  twenty-two  ships,  which  arrived  in  New  England 

during  the  year  1G34,  one  only  arrived  after  June,  and  that  wal  the 

bv  1  ^f '  l'   '-'^  '""'"  ''\  November.     This  opinion  is  corroborated 
by  the  following  extract  from  the  Ipswich  records,  namely : 

'Z»f«m6«-29^7i  1(534  It  is  consented  unto  that  John  Perkins  junior  shall 
build  a  ware  [fish  trap,  upon  the  river  of  Quasycun-  fnow  river' Pirw^r'tn.^^^^ 
enjoy  he  profitts  of  it,  but  in  case  a  plantation  i«  the  eT.«  J  then  he  \s  to 
submu  himself  imto  such  conditions,  as  .A««  by  them  bTimposld,"  *° 

This  conditional  grant  certainly  implies,  that  no  settlement  had 
then  been  commenced,  and  the  probability  that  a  plantatioTi  h  thai 
place  would  soon  be  estabUshcd,  when  their  jurisdiction  would  of 
H^  vv  Z"\  ^''"'  "^'^^'^  "^'"^  P^-«"^«-     ^"  ^'-  »«n^l^«tone  of 

in  NewbiT  h'?h'7!r'^-"^'^  •"  '^'"  ^"'^"'S  y-''"^  ^^'  ^he  first  parish 
in  rsewbury,  is  the  tollowing  inscription. 

Tln?^'""'^  -"T";  ?f"*  ^y  ^'^  ^^*^^''''  "«"^y  Sevvall,  in  the  ship  Elizabeth  ind 

This   inscription   was   undoubtedly  written   by  his   son,  iud-c 
-amuel  ^ewall,jn  whose  diary  I  find  the  following.     '  N^wln'ry 

My  father  has  told  me  so,  who  was  one  of 


S 


was  planted  in  1634 

<v^.,   i?    *   •  1    1  •         .    "r^v  ""  """  ■"'"  '"^  "*'?  WHO  was  one  ot 

^hcjrst   inhabitants.'     The   reverend    Samuel  banforth,  'a  great 

in  lb34.  Captain  Edward  Johnson,  in  his  '  Wonder-workiim 
Providence,'  written  in  1651.  s  --tes,  that  <  Messrs.  Parker  an  NoyS 
bcffan  to  build  the  tenth  church  .t  a  place  called  Newbcr  y  i^  {he 
latter  cui  of  the  year  1634.'     These  appai-ent  conlradictio  7s  ^an  bo 


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HISTOTIY    OF    NEWnURY. 


'li 


easily  roronoilod,  if  wo  bear  in  mind  tlio  fact,  tliat  iho  year,  with  onr 
purilau  fort'lathers,  began  on  tin;  Iwenty-liltli  of  March,  and  not  on 
the  first  of  January,  as  the  custom  now  is.  Not  satisfied  with 
renouncing  all  rites  and  ceremonies,  not,  in  their  opinion,  clearly 
warranted  by  the  bible,  they  altemi)ted  a  reformation  in  the  calendar 
by  repudiating  the  names  of  the  months,  and  of  the  days  of  the 
week,  as  of  liealhenish  origin,  and  allogelher  unsuitable  to  be  used 
by  chrislians,  for,  in  the  language  of  Johnson,  in  his  '  Wonder- 
working Providence,'  '  the  practice  was  designed  of  purpose  to 
prevent  the  heathenish  and  popisli  observation  of  days,  months,  and 
years,  that  they  may  be  forgotten  among  tiie  people  of  the  Lord.' 
They  also  conmicnced  their  year  in  March,  the  twenty-filth  of 
that  month  being  new  year's  day.  In  order,  however,  to  accom- 
di>,t»  all  tiiose  wlio  did  not  desire  this  reformation,  a  double  date 
was  used  between  January  first  and  March  twenty-fifth.  Thus 
twelfth  mo.  1634-5,  meant  either  Feln-uary  the  twelfth  month,  1634, 
or  February  the  second  mo-itli,  1G35,  according  to  the  different 
opinions  of  the  reader.  '  The  latter  end'  of  1634  might  mean,  and 
probably  did  mean,  tlie  time  between  January  first,  and  March 
twenty-fifth,  which  would  then  be  considered  as  the  beginning  of 
1635.  From  all  these  considerations,  the  probability,  therefore,  is, 
that  no  settlement  was  made  in  Quascacunquen,  before  the  year 
1635,  as  it  is  not  probable  that  the  first  settlers  removed  in  the  depth 
of  winter,  as  the  land  was  then,  according  to  all  accounts,  covered 
with  a  thick  and  heavy  growth  of  limber.  Horses  and  carts,  as  a 
means  of  conveyance,  could  not  then  be  used,  as  nothing  but  a  narrow 
and  winding  footpath  led  from  Agawam  to  Quascacunquen.  The 
most  rational  supposition,  and  one  which  accords  with  all  the 
information  we  have  on  the  subject,  either  traditional  or  recorded, 
is,  that  they,  with  Henry  Bewail,  '  wintered  at  Ipswich,'  and  made 
preparations  for  a  removal  in  the  spring.  The  first  notice  we  have 
of  their  determination,  is  given  by  Winthrop,  volume  1,  page  160, 
in  these  words :  'at  tliis  general  court,  [May,  1635,]  some"  of  the 
c/def  of  Ipswich  desired  leave  to  remove  to  Quascacunquen,  to 
begin  a  town  there,  which  was  granted  them,  and  it  was  named 
Newberry.'     In  the  colonial  records,  it  is  thus  noticed. 

'  May  Gth,  1635.  Qnascaounquen  is  allowed  by  the  court  to  be  a  plantation,  and 
it  is  referred  to  Mr.  [Jolm]  Iliunplirey,  Mr.  (Jolin]  Eudicott,  captain  [Nathaniel] 
Turner,  and  caplaiu  |  William]  Trask,  or  any  three  of  them,  to  set  out  the 
bounds  of  Fpswicli  and  QiiMscaciUKiuen,  or  .so  much  thereof  a.s  they  can,  and 
the  name  of  tlie  .said  plantation  .shall  be  changed,  and  shall  hereafter  be  called 
Newberry. 

'  P'nrlher  it  i.s  ordered,  that  it  shall  be  in  the  power  of  the  court  to  take  order 
that  the  aaid  plantation  ^hull  receive  a  sullicient  company  to  make  a  competent 
towne.' 

From  the  preceding  quotations,  it  is  apparent,  that  the  first  inhab- 
itants of  'Newberry'  obtained  'leave  of  the  general  court'  to 
remove  to  Quascacunquen,  settled  there,  and  were  incorporated  as 
a  township  in  the  spring  of  1635.     If  any  persons,  prior  to  that 


mSTORY    OF    NEWnUllY. 


15 


periocl,  had  comrncncod  a  gcttlenient  within  thn  (crriforial  Jimim     f 

leagues  broad.'     'Those  two  r^UoJtJ  ?  .*'Ome  places  three 

people  as  are  yet  in  New  EuTJ;  d  th^Jh''^       "  'T'  ^'  ^"""^ 
inhabitants  in  ^hese  two  lado,^^^^^^^^^^  ^Tl"!  ^^'' r""^.^  "''^ 

smmmmm 

bdJ.^;h:'.;ot'w,r';h"f -f  '^^  ^^^•"'  ^^'^^^^ «- h.n;dSd  ^s 

Short,   Henr;   Short  ^..f^;  '2:^^.:%^,:'^  ^^S 
K  nfl'    ;f  "'''^"  ";"^  r"  •^"'"^'  ^''•'"^^•^'  Ken.;^or    and  Stop£ 

Ames    NovP    '  1  "'"'''  ,^  '"■^^'''  ^^'■-  •^'^''"  Woodbridse,  ]Mr. 

.mmts    r^oyos,    his   wife,    and   brother    Nicholas   Nov(>s    Th  ,mo 

'X"T,fn"'""y^""'  ^^"'•^^  ^^'^^-^'  ^'^-  James  'B^.'.Tid 
Avife,  Ihomas   Coleman,  Francis  Plumcr  and  wife,  M-ith  hs  tvvo 
sons  Josepn  and  Samuel,  with  a  few  others,  whose  name     are  no^ 
Wv..  with  certainly.     For  a  short  time  the  bnsinerof    he  to  ' 
was  transacted    ni    committee  of  the   whole,  but  the    ponuh^i  , 

'int,  one  ni  August,  one  n,    November,  and  one  in  December 

iN<  ^^h^.^,  'the  plantation    soon  received  'a  sulhcicnt  Vonipany  to 


16 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


I 


k 


make  a  competent  touno,'  according  to  the  order  of  the  general 
court,  which  in  the  same  mnntli,  May,  1695,  ordered  the  same  men, 
namely,  Humphrey,  Endicott,  Turner,  and  Trask,  to  set  out  a  farm 
for  Mr.  Dummer,  about  tiie  falla  of  Newberry,  not  exceeding  the 
quantity  of  five  hundred  acres,  provided  it  be  not  prejudicial  to 
Newberry.'  At  the  same  time  '  liberty  was  granted  to  Mr.  [Richard] 
Dummer  and  Mr.  [.lohn]  Spencer,  to  build  a  mill  and  weirc  at  the 
falls  of  Newberry,  to  enjoy  the  said  mill  and  weire  with  such  privi- 
leges of  ground  and  timber  as  is  expressed  between  them  and  the 
toune,  to  enjoy  to  them  and  their  heires  forever.'*  The  court  also 
ordered  that '  no  dwelling  house  shall  be  built  above  a  half  mile 
from  the  meeting  house  in  any  new  plantation,  without  leave  from 
the  court,  except  mills  and  farm  houses  of  such  as  have  their 
dwellings  in  toun.'  '  John  Humphrey,  esquire,  and  captain  Turner, 
were  ordered  to  set  out  the  bounds  between  Salem  and  Ipswich,  and 
Ipswich  and  Newbury,  before  midsummer  next,  and  also  to  view, 
and  inform  the  next  general  court  if  there  may  not  be  another 
toune  settled  conveniently  betwixt  thorn,  and  it  is  agreed  that  the 
bounds  of  said  tonnes  !<liall  be  six  miles  apiece  into  the  country.' 
At  the  same  court,  [May,  1G35,]  'it  was  ordered,  that  Mr.  [Richard] 
Dummer,  and  Mr.  Bartholomew,  shall  set  out  a  convenient  quan- 
tity of  land  within  the  bounds  of  Newberry,  for  the  keeping  of  the 
sheep  and  cattle  that  came  over  in  the  Dutch  shipps  this  yeare,  and 
to  belong  to  the  oa  jers  of  said  cattle.'  These  'owners'  were 
Richard  Saltonstall,  Richard  Dummer,  Henry  Sewall,  and  '  divers 
other  '  gentlemen  iii  England.'  With  the  exception  of  the  lands 
abovB  mentioned,  the  first  settlers  of  '  ould  Newberry,'  granted, 
surveyed,  and  settled  the  lands  according  to  their  own  judgment. 
For  a  short  time,  a  year  or  more,  the  business  of  the  township  was 
transacted  in  committee  of  the  whole.  Mr.  John  Woodbridge  was 
chosen  their  first  toAvm  clerk,  and  Richard  Kent  and  Henry  Short, 
lot  layers.  All  their  records  pertaining  to  gi-ants  of  land,  are  full 
and  complete,  having  been  very  accurately  copied  into  a  new  set  of 
books,  now  called  thigt,.'  Proprietors'  Books,'  which  for  many  years 
have  been  kept  separate  from  the  town  records.  As  there  arc  a  few 
leaves  wanting  in  tin;  first  volume  of  the  transactions  of  the  town, 
the  deficiency  in  thai  respect,  must  be  sup|)lied  from  otlier  sources. 
In  the  records  of  the  court  at  Salem,  I  find  the  following. 

'  I  John  Pike  do  testifio  that  I  was  present  at  the  gathering  of  the  church  at 
Newbury,  and  I  did  hear  our  reverend  pastor  preach  a  sermmi  on  the  eighteenth 
of  Matthew,  seventeenth  verse  ;  '  And  if  he  shall  neglect  to  hear  them,  tell  it 
unto  the  clinrcli :  but  if  he  neglect  to  hear  the  churc^h,  let  him  be  unto  thee  aa 
an  he.ithen  man  and  a  publican,'  wherein  he  did  hould  fortli  that  the  power  of 
discipline  belonged  to  the  whole  chnrcli,  yt  the  matter  of  tlie  chnrch  ought  to  be 
visible  saints  joyned  or  gathfned  together,  that  the  manner  of  their  joyning 
together  ought  to  be  by  covenant,  yt  the  end  of  it  is  for  the  exercisinge  and 
enjoyingo  of  the  ordinances  of  Christ  to;_'eather.  lie  strongly  proved  his  doc- 
trine by  many  places  of  the  scriptiae,  both  in  tiie  old  and  new  testament.     The 


♦  Court  records,  page  15?. 


HISTORY    OP   NEWDURY.  j- 

which  sormon  fojronther  witli  Iho  siTindirna  ,i;,i  .^     »   •     . 
in  (hat  xvayo  ofduin-h  cliscip  "./,v         '-  1  ^"         ."^^^^ 

tli.-n  look  from  },i,s  nu.iKh  I  hJo  hoie  re-iKll^        f  "'""^  r""°"'  ^hich  f 

jovncc  thoy  cho...  their  paMor,  Air/  V/rk"?  ho  .^.^Tr^u"^'''".?"*'  »"'*  b«'ng 
Willi  them  .•i(-cor,linj,M(/thnc()VfMi->rt  ,(>.?.'  i  "''rP'''''  «he  call,  and  joyned 
to  Ih.  .-hrnvh,  con..,;io.l  lo  .he'd  '^loSeviiidr^  T^'',!^'"!  "f'^vard  o^ 
ncf<<cl  m  these  admission.s  of  ye  mernbors  1  vnrn'^  ..  ''"  ^'•'"»'"'"  of  tho  church 

up  the  han.h,,  and  mn  conlin     ,    t  "hC,-^       •'"f '''^^ 
yoaros  untiil  other  doctrine  b^.' tJ'bt  X^d  ^ILh^^HS^^''^  """^^  "' 

'  Swome  in  court,  30  March,  1669  '  ^°^  "^^  ^°"^  P'KE. 

openaiTundi^'at!.::^.'"^''"^^  ''^^^  »^«  meeting  M-aa  on  the  sabbath  and  in  the 
chotJn'Ldr'"""'  ''''''  ^^-  ^^'■'^-  --  «^hoscn  pastor,  Mr.  James  Noyes  wa. 

Similar  topfimonies  wore  nivon  hv   ToJ.n   t?  3   r^, 

Bnnvno.     The  cuune  of  thcscMSn  o^nj;  17  ^      '^  ^"**   ^''""^^« 
tnilioij  in  the  church  wh    h  w-  V  f    Y'""^  ^iven,  was  a  con- 

;viil  be  seen  un^l^^::^  S  S^  ^^\^^  ^  ^P«-«h,  as 

Joh.1  Pike,  RoSpH  e  Tnd  jZT  "  '^"r  I''^'  '^""'^  "^  J""«.  ^« 

luH^irst  sermon  nS  "he  b  'an   "s  TT'^"^'  ^^'^  ^Y'"'  ^''^'^'^ 
on  the  north  bank  of      o  ,;''"^'''f  "^  ^  majoslic  oak,  which  stood 

where  the  rici^e  nl  tn  iT^.H  ?•  ^^/'""^^^^  ^^^^'^  l^^'^^^^ 
Bhaded,  has  lun^.  sinrcr'Sl cd^in  '^  ^^'^'^  ^'^  ^"^^'^^^  ^^  «»«« 

probably,  the  ehuX.:  "SerTand  thci^"^^^^^  ^^"/  ^^^' 

apart  by  them  for  their  -innrn  v!.  *  ,        \    spiritual  guides  set 

also  built,  ^^^i^t  adi  io  Z^  '""!  '  ^  ^  '""'''"g-house^was 
few  rods  northwtltr  lU-i;™^  J/^re  -  ;;h^^^^^^^^^^  p^-en,  a 
house  now  stands      Tim  fir..*         "•»-"'  tapiam    JiiUoch  Plumers 

by  a  peU,i„„  .„'  lie  ..fit^^ro/^ IX  "Z  %^  °'">'=™ 

very  existence  as  a  s,m,»;H?n.;.  '"  ^''  ^'"'^'^  *^^^^^'"'i«l  ^o  their 
rnar^nn  of  e  mead3^1  o„  Iv7  'if'?'  ";«"y/^'«re  built  on  the 
lhe.rcalled  '  the  G  (^L^^i  ^fr .  7,  {  ^^  ^'T/'^'/'^  '^'^  ''''''  P^'^er, 
river,'  as  for  as  TrX J  r lo  ''"•  "'''  ""^  »he  'Little 

in  a  very  shor  tim^tle  1  tx^^.^,  r  •'"  ™'''''  °'*'^^  P'^*^^«'  ««  that 
dwcllir  J  house  Tovohn      P'^l^'^j-''^^'  ^"Y  P^^^on  from  erecting 'a 

leave  of  th:::^.t'ras\^ntird7^s^^^^^^^^^^  ^'T 

ment  was  around  the  meetin-hou'e  on  iho  1.  P^ncipal  settle- 

was  to  be,  as  the  fust  se.fer  Tup^o  ef  trf^,?;""' ^"^  '^'''', 
metropoUs  of  Newberry.     During  ^Lryea;':i/"pE;,Tar:;.1 


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i  ' 


reverend  Hugh  Peter  arrived  in  MnsHnchiisctls,  grand  juries  were 
established  l)y  law,  the  circuhition  of  brass  farthingH  was  prohibited, 
and  musket  bullets  w(!re  to  be  used  instead.  This  year,  August  fif- 
teenth, '  about  midnight  the  wind  came  up  at  northeast,  having  blown 
hard  at  south  and  southwest  the  week  before,  and  blew  with  such 
violence  with  abundance  of  rain  that  it  blew  down  many  hundieds 
of  trees,  overthrew  some  houses,  drave  ships  from  their  anchors. 
In  the  same  tempest  a  bark  of  Mr.  AUcrton's  was  cast  away  upon 
cape  Ann,  and  twenty-one  persons  drowned.  Among  the  rest,  a 
Mr.  Avery,  a  minister  in  Wiltshire,  with  his  wife  and  six  small 
children,  was  drowned.'  '  This  Mr.  Avery,'  says  Cotton  Mather, 
» went  to  Nctoberry,  intending  there  to  settle,  but  being  urged  by 
magistrates  and  ministers  to  settle  in  Marblchead,  he  embarked  with 
his  own  family,  and  his  cousin  Mr.  Anthony  Thacher's,  all  of 
whom  were  lost  except  Mr.  Thacher  and  his  wife.' 

The  ship  angel  '  Gabriel,'  in  which  came  passengers  John  Bailey, 
senior,  and  John  Bailey,  junior,  who  afterward  settled  in  Newbury, 
was  'lost  at  Pemaquid,'  now  Bristol,  in  Maine,  and  '  the  Dartmoutli 
ships  cut  all  their  masts  at  St.  George.'  •  The  tide  rose  at  Narra- 
gansct  fourteen  feet  higher  than  ordinary  and  drowned  eight  Indiana 
flying  from  their  wigwams.'  *  '  The  ellects  of  this  tempest,  one  of 
the  most  violent  and  destructive  probably  that  the  country  has  ever 
experienced,  were  visible,'  says  Morton  in  his  Memorial,  'many 
years.' 

In  September  of  this  year  the  court  assessed  d£200  on  the  towns 
in  the  colony.  Of  this  rate  Newberry  paid  £1  10«.,  Ipswich  X14, 
Salem  d£16,  Charlestown  ^£15,  Boston  £25  IOjt.,  and  so  forth. 

In  the  court  records,  under  date  of  November,  1635,  is  the  follow- 
ing, namely : 

'  Whereas  Thomas  Coleman  hath  covenanted  with  Richard  Saltonstall  and 
divers  other  gentleman  in  England  and  here  for  the  keeping  of  certain  horses, 
bulls  and  sheepe  in  a  general  stock  for  the  space  of  three  years,  and  now  since 
his  coming  hither  hath  been  exceedingly  negligent  in  discharging  the  trust 
committed  to  him,  absenting  himselfe  for  a  long  time  from  the  said  cattle  and 
neglecting  to  provide  something  for  them,  by  reason  whereof  many  of  the  said 
cattle  are  dead  already  and  more  damage  likely  to  accraie  to  the  saidge.itlemen  : 
it  is  therefore  ordered  that  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  said  gentlemen  to  divide 
the  oates  and  hay  provided  for  said  cattell  among  themselves,  and  see  every  one 
take  care  of  their  own  during  the  winter.' 

The  tract  of  land,  which  was  set  apart  as  the  place  for  pastur- 
ing these  cattle,  was  near  the  falls  of  Newbury.  Of  this  land,  Mr. 
John  Spencer  had  a  mill  lot  of  fifty  acres,  Mr.  Richard  Dumrner 
three  hundred  acres,  Mr.  Henry  Sewall  five  hundred  acres,  Mr.  John 
Clark  four  hundred  acres,  '  beginning  at  the  mouth  of  cart  creek.' 
Of  Mr.  Henry  Sewall  we  are  told  in  the  life  f  of  his  son,  judge 
Samuel  Sewall,  '  Mr.  Cotton  would  have  him  settle  in  Boston,  but 
he  preferring  an  inland  situation  on  account  of  his  cattle^  he  re- 


*  Winthrop,  vol.  1,  pp.  165,  166. 


t  Quarterly  Register,  February,  1841. 


HISTORY    OP   NEWBURY. 


10 


moved  to  Newborry.'   How  large  th.^  number  was  who  owned  stock 
in  the  eattlo  conunun.ly  and  whu,h  was  so  soon  dinsolvcd  by  the 
l,..Kl'Ken.^o  of  shepherd  Coleniun,  we  have  no   means  of  knowl mr 
All  we  know  is  that  there  W(>re  '  divers  gendc-mei^  not  on"y  S' 
but  'n.  England,' eaeh  of  whom  soon  found  that  he  eould  best  take 
care  of  Mm  owne  cattle.'     In  the  division  of  the  land  tliroughom 
he  town    he  first  settlers  recognized  the  scripture  rule, « to  10^^  tha 
huth  shall  b(,  g.ven,'  and  the  wealth  of  each  of  t..e  granteesTs  wel 
as  others  of  the  first  settlers,  can  be  very  nearly  esYimated    hv^ .« 
number  of  acres  of  land,  xvhieh  ^verJfr^3  the^^'^^'^h^ ^^^ 
aecordmg  to  the  rule  a^T..ed  upon  in  London,  in  J  629,  by  « the  asS 
aiitsof  the  company,'  who  settled  Massachusetts.     TLy  Ive  to 
each  adventurer  two  hundred  acres  for  every  £50  he  put  ifuo  tl  o 
common  stock,  and  so  in  proportion.   <  Such  adventure/as  send  over 
any  person,  were  to  have  fity  acres  for  each  perso*  whom  d^ev 

F.liLf:n^  P'''""'  ^''"  ^«"«P«"ed  hin.self  Ld  family  t^  S 
J^ng  and  at  his  own  expense,  should  have  fifty  acres. 

Ihis  year,  second  of  September,  «  Francis' Plumcr  was  licensed 
to  keep  an  ordinary,'  f  that  is,  a  tavern.  ucensed 

bom rNewh"'  "^'"""^^V  "^.  •^'''^'"'^^  ^'•"^"'  'h^  fi'^t  ^vhite  child 

nZi  ^  to  Pet  7r^^;       "  ''V'  r^  •      ^'"^  ^'"^^^^^"^'''  i«^^'  «he  was 
rS  nn?l  7^'.>^,^'"  I'^^fy'^n^Vh'ivmg  had  a  good  report  as  a  maid, 

S  ye^  '         "^'"^  ^^'^  sixteenth,  1716,  L  her  eighty! 

1636. 

This  year  the  general  court  enacted,  that « every  particular  town, 
sh.p  should  have  power  over  its  own'  afl'airs,  an^  to    etUe  mur^ 

Snt"^  i?.^'^'  "l^?  ""y  P"^l'«  «^^^r  "«t  exceeding  ^emv 
^ lullmgs  and  hberty  to  chuse  prudential  men,  not  exceeding^ven 
to  order  the  affaires  of  the  towne.'  ^  ' 

The  town  of  Newbury,  availing  itself  of  this  privilege,  chose  '  bv 
^'%'^',f^^<^'^^%^<^r^,narncfy:  Mr.  Edw£d  Woodman?  M? 
John  Woodbndge,  Henry  Short,  Mr.  Christopher  Hussey  Rich^d 
Kent,  Richard  Brown,  and  Richard  Knight.  '&cy  x^at  fi'rst  caS^d 
by  thename  of  Mhe  seven  men.'  then  'tonne's  men^thcT^owne's  men 
Belect,'  and  finally  '  select  men,'  as  they  are  still  cdled.  They  'were 
diosen,  says  the  reverend  Richard  Brown,  in  his  diary, '  from^qulter 
to  quarter  by  papers  to  discharge  the  business  of  the  town,  inS' 
in,  or  refusing  any  to  come,  into  town,  as  also  to  dispose  of  laids 
and  lots,  to  make  lawful  orders,  to  impose  fines  on  tfe  breaker  of 
orders  and  also  to  levy  and  distrain  them,  and  were  fully  impmv 
ered  of  themselves  to  do  what  the  town  h^d  power  for  to  do    TlTe 

sirt7>    '',?^  r^'  '^"^  T"  J^^S*^^  ''  inconvenient  and  burden- 
some to  be  all  called  together  on  every  occasion.' 

About  this  time  it  is  probable  the  town  made  some  regulations 


*  See  appendix,  A. 


t  Colonial  records. 


,■,  Vf."".\^> 


20 


HISTORY    OP    NEWnURT. 


concerning  the  manner,  in  which  tlicir  lowri  nn'cm^'s  or  rm-ctiiifn' 
of  the  'Iremncn'  Hhoiild  be  licld.  As  th(^  town  rpcordn  arc  Uwt  prior 
to  the  tenth  of  June,  Ki;}?,  and  a.H  tii-  niiuiiicr  of  proctuuhii^  in  tlie 
neighboring  towns  wuh  fSHonliiilly  tlic  Hiinic,  tlio  following  Ironi  tho 
SaliHbury  rucordn  will  Hiipply  the  deiieiency  ; 

In  the  year  1(5 10  the  town  '  i>rdert'd  that  in  \hr  firnt  of  every 
meeting  there  hIiuII  i)e  a  miHlerator  chosen  by  the  conipanie.  lie 
ehall  have  power  U)  interrn|)t  anil  call  to  acvouipt  any  that  shall 
exceed  in  Hpeakiiig  and  in  case  of  fayliiig  herein  tu'  shall  be  fyn<'«l 
at  the  discretion  of  the  cornpanie,  and  in  case  the  moderator  shall 
refuse  so  to  doe  he  shall  for  such  oil'enee  pay  two  shillings  and 
sixpence.  Also  that  every  freeman  shall  speaU  by  tnrne,  and  not 
otherwise,  and  shall  signihe  when  he  is  to  speak  l>y  rising  or  putting 
off  his  hatt,  m\d  his  speech  being  ended,  shall  signili(^  it  by  |)Utting 
on  his  hatt  or  sitting  downe,  and  in  case  he  be  interrupted  l»y  the 
moderator  and  shall  refuse  to  cease  shall  forfeit  for  every  such  oilence 
one  shilling.  Also  that  no  person  shall  depart  from  meeting  without 
leave  on  the  like  |ionalty.' 

In  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  the  regulations  adopted  in  1G41 
were  somewhat  different. 

'  1.  The  moderator  was  to  be  chosr  it  the  end  of  every  meeting 
for  the  next  succeeding  one.  2.  Tl  .  oderator,  if  the  elders  were 
not  present,  was  to  open  the  meeting  with  prayer.  3.  He  was  then 
to  state  some  proposition  or  call  on  so'ik;  one  to  do  it.  4.  When 
any  person  addressed  the  moderator  he  was  to  stand  up  or  })ut 
of!  his  hat,  and  no  other  person  was  to  speak  at  the  same  time, 
or  be  talking  of  any  oilier  thing  (when  a  matter  is  in  agitatiorj) 
within  the  meeting  roome.  The  clerk  was  to  call  over  the  '  freemen ' 
and  note  the  absent.' 

Such  substantially  were  tlie  rules  and  regulations,  adoj)ted  by  the 
first  settlers  of  Newbury  in  their  town  meetings,  as  will  in  part  a|v 
pear  hereafter. 

This  year  '  another  windmill  was  erected  at  Boston,  and  one  at 
Charlestown  ;  and  a  watormill  at  Salem,  and  another  at  Ipswich,  and 
another  at  Newbury.'  ^ 

This  mill,  the  first  erected  in  Newbury,  was  built  at  'the  falls,' on 
the  river  Parker,  by  Messrs.  Dummer  and  Spencer,  in  accordance 
with  the  grant  from  the  general  court,  and  an  agreement  with  the 
town  in  1635. 

February  eleventh,  Newbury  neck  was  leased  to  Richard  Pummer 
for  two  years. 

This  year,  the  general 'court  passed  the  following  sumrt  \nc ;  I  pv, 
to  wliich,  and  other  similar  laws,  allusion  will  be  freqm  ;.Jy   uadc. 

'  No  person  after  one  month  shall  make  or  soil  nnj'  bono  lace  or  othor  lace  to 
be  wonie  on  any  garment  upon  pain  of  live  sliilliuf^.s  ihe  yard  for  every  yard  so 
made  o.  sold,  or  set  on,  provided  that  binding  or  isrnall  edging  laces  may  be 
used  on  ^^avraents  or  linen.' 


*  Winthrop,  vol.  l,p.  lOfi. 


HISTOPY   OP    NEWntTRY.  gi 

.To^lma  Womlmnn,  .„n  of  Mr.  Edwnr.l  W,K,<lmnn,  wn«  fho  r,r«t 
while  mult!  f  I  <  horn  in  Ni<w».iirt'  n»  i:  i  i  i  •  •  .  .  '"^'^' 
1703,  111  hiH  sixty-Hcvciilh  v«'nr.  "»'"  m  or  mny^ 

ThiH  ynir,  ll.o  thini  of  jVlard,,  il...  general  conri  laid  a  tax  of  C'JOO 

May  tvventy.fifth,  '  Nrwl.nry  men  wrro  fined  sivnonoo  n.  r 

cl.oo.nK  and  H.-nding  a  d.,.„,;  ,o  tlu-  cJur    w  „  LTo  y^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Z 
Military  men  were  to  bv.  runk.-d  in  llirc,  rci/inirnN     W'  «  I  : 
IB  to  coiiHiHt  of  HauguH,  Sul..,n,  ],>„vvich,  a  d^Cvv  nrv      Mr    iT 
Sp.  -UMT  was  chos..,,  captain  for  N.-vvbn  v      C  R.\La  n     ''''''" 
and  Mr.  J.,lni  S,,..nc..r  Lr.  cliosen  maSra..;     ^^"'"^  ^"^'"'"'• 

disabled  for  on^Var  fro  n  ho^  •  '  '"'f'  "'*'"'*'''  ''""'  '^'  t>« 

instigated  ,o  So  thi"  hv ^t:;:'^,;;;!;!,':"'; f  ""•-•;  ^i^-- 

'a  reliqac  of  anlic-hristi.^n  sn^rsmi      '       T,         ./."""'''r^^'./.^  "« 
company  was  to  have  eolors,   hJl^Z'to  /r  A  /  t)/  '"'.'i  '"'""■^ 
tion  to  the  cross  in  the  vmUm  xv-l    uJu  ,        .-^Z  /""•      J  ''^^  ol'.|f'f> 
It  was   deemed    of    so    rm'l?      ''''''''''*''''''■""«  «^^^ 
promised  to  tike  nls  about       ^'/r^^^T™;    "'^^^    'the    ministers 

^e  jud,men.:^';rm^rwi:        1  "cXll^^  '^^^'T^'  '^  ^^ 
feeiinir,  Mr.  «  Thomas  ]\riK,'n.vl   ..    V  ^""y  '"</''•      J»  this  state  of 

was  Jcrward  f  ^  ^'  i;:;^!-^  o    '^:^'^  Z"  '''' 

Such  language  CO  id  no    i.X  ''^^ }''}'''''' ^'"'^  rebels,'  and  so  forlh.t 
He  was  a^.eo?dinSv  sent  'for  t    '""'.""  "^  "'l""  '=^""^''''  '''^  '"''^'•'^'•'^1 
committed.     He  was  di  c^^       T       ^-"''l  "^"^^"^^  ^''•^'  ^'"^  »'« 

sion,  which  may  ;::r^:/s.:!  ssr!^.;t's^  ^"^"^^^■ 

«achusetts  Bay  in  Amor  ou,  sayS  t  •  t  th  J  "  /  ^n'  '  ^''''"'"-  '»  "'«  ^I"«- 
tliat  Hvould  affirm  so  miu4i1,of,rooi-^  7  ""  J'-i"""--^  '"^1  rebels  and 
do  confes.  (and  «o  de^,  n  ay  be  cc^Jrof.^Tr  '""^•^•'"^^^/^•''i^•l'  expressions  I 
distemper  of  my  own  brain,  Without  anv?  V  ^''"'i"""''  ^''"'"  "''^  ^'^'^^ness  and 
«peak,forwlueKmyunworhrar''i"f^iV.".r.r    "^^  '"^r^'  «»  «"  'hink  or 

Ji'stly  stand  committed.     My-liu,nblT  e  „,?/.    v^^"  f'"'"^  '""  ''"'^ '"  'l"'''''^'"".  ^  ^o 
and  mgenuous  recantation  o^his  m    ^roT^T.il'    '""■r*'  ''ii'"'^  "P""  "^''^  "^VfuH 
n  01  mi.s  mj  gross  failing,  it  would  please  the  governor 

*  See  appendix.       f  Winthrop,  vol.  1  «  156        t  w  .u 

1 .  VI 1.  J,  p.  100.        J  Winthrop,  vol.  1,  pp.  187,  188. 


h.gji'immmmi'vn- 


S3 


HISTORY    or   NEWBURY. 


II     I 


and  the  T38t  of  the  assistants  to  accept  of  this^uy  humble  submission  to  pass  by 
mv  fault  and  to  dismiss  me  from  farther  trouble  and  this  my  free  and  voluntary 
cokessi^n  I  subscribe  with  my  hand  this  mnth  June  1636.^^^^^  ,^^^^^^^  , 

Shortly  after  this,  Mr.  MiUcrd  moved  to  Newbury,  and  became 
one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  town.  He  is  called  in  our  records 
«  Mr.  Thomas  Milvvard,  mariner.'  This  scruple  concerning  the  use 
of  the  cross  in  the  colors,  continued  many  years,  as  we  shall  herealter 
show  The  whole  (  ountry  was  agitated  by  the  controversy,  and  m 
'addition  to  this,  the  theological  difficulties,  and  prosecutions  growing 
out  of  the  'revelations'  of  Mrs.  Hutchinson,  'that  master-piece  ol 
woman's  wit,'  as  Johnson  calls  her,  began  to  create  a  great  excitement. 

The  Pequods,  about  this  time,  were  beginning  to  be  troublesome, 
and  'cattle,'  says  Winthrop, '  were  grown  to  higii  rates ;  a  good  OxV 
cost  £25  or  .£30 ;  a  pair  of  bulls  or  oxen,  £40.  About  thirty  ploughs 
were  used  in  Massachusetts  this  year,  and  much  rye  was  sown. 

In  November,  the  town  ordered,  that  'John  Woodbridge  should 
have  £5  a  year  and  be  free  from  all  rates  and  payments,  while  he  is 
the  towne  register.'  '  The  general  court  empowered  Richard  Dum- 
mer  and  John  Spencer  to  build  a  house  at  Winn^owett  at  the  ex- 
pence  of  the  colony.  The  architect  was  Nicholas  Easton  who  soon 
kfter  removed  to  Newport  and  built  the  first  English  house  there. 
The  house  at  Winnicowett  was  called  the  Bound-House,'  and  was 
situated  in  what  is  now  called  Seabrook.* 


1637. 

In  April,  one  hundred  and  sixty  men,  under  the  command  of 
captain  Stoughton,  were  raised  to  go  against  the  Pequods.  Ot  this 
number  Newbury  raised  eight,  Ipswich  seventeen,  fealem  eighteen, 
Lynn  sixteen,  and  Boston  twenty-six.  It  will  serve  to  give  the 
re'ader  some  idea  of  the  all-pervading  influence  of  the  theological 
discussions,  which  were  then  agitating  the  whole  community,  to 
inform  him,  on  the  authority  of  Neal,  that  these  very  troops  deemed 
it  necessary  to  halt  on  their  march  to  Connecticut,  in  order  to  decide 
the  question,  whether  they  were  under  a  covenant  of  grace  or  a 
covenant  of  works,  deeming  it  improper  to  advance  ill  that  momen- 
tous question  was  settled.  These  soldiers  were  to  have  wer^X 
shillings  pci  month,  lieutenants  £4,  and  captains  £6.  In  May  Mr. 
John  Spencer  was  discharged  from  being  captain.  This  was 
probably  owing  to  his  religious  tenets  he  being  an  adherent  ot 
Mrs.  Hutchinson.  '  Mr.  Edward  Woodman  was  chosen  heutenant, 
and  Mr.  John  Woodbridge,  surveyor  of  the  armes  at  Newbury. 
In  the  same  month  the  election  was  held  at  Newtown,  (now 
Cambridge,)  in  the  open  air.  Then  the  law  required  all  the 
'freemen'  from  all  the  towns  in  the  provmce,  to  meet  at  the  general 

♦  Belknap,  vol.  1,  p.  38. 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


33 


court  of  elections,  and  choose  t'le  magistrates,  including  the  gover- 
nor  and  lieutenant  governor.  This  practice  continuld  till  1663 
In  order  to  prevent  the  re-election  of  sir  Henry  Vane  as  governor 
and  to  Bjengtnen  .be  friends  of  governor  Winthrop,  Henrf  SewaU 
junior,  Nicholas  Noyes,  Robert  Pike,  Archelaus  WoodmanTTtras' 
Coleman  Thomas  Smith,  James  Browne,  John  Cheney,  Nid  das 
Holt,  and  John  Bartlett,  went  from  Newbmy  to  Cambridge  on  foot 
(forty  miles,)  qualified  themselves  to  vote  by  taking  the  freeman'^' 
TeemenTT'/  ^'^^^f'^  «^' ^"  oth^er  worlds,  'were  made 
Ircemen.  f  Winthrop  was  chosen  governor,  and  sir  Henrv  Vane 
and  the  fnends  of  Mrs.  Hutchinson  were  in  a  minority.     ^ 

On  the  morning  of  May  twenty-sixth,  the  fort  of  the  Pequods 
was  attacked  with  fire  and  sword,  and  their  whole  tribe,  four  or  five 
hundred  in  number,  extinguished,  in  that  and  the  subsequem 
attack  by  captain  Stoughton  the  latter  end  of  June. 

In  August,  a  synod  of  ministers,  messengers  of  churches  and 
magistrates,  was  held  in  Newtown,  (Cambridge,)  and  condemned 
above  eighty  erroneous  opinions.  The  general  court  then  took  up 
^le  business,  and  proceeded  to  disfranchise,  or  banish,  or  disarm, 
many  of  those  who  held  these  erroneous  opinions.  «A  gre™ 
nuniber,'  says  Hmchinson,  'removed  out  of  the  jurisdiction.'  The 
court  ordered  abov*  sixty  of  the  inhabitants  of  Boston  to  be 
disarmed,  and  several  of  other  towns;   among  them  were  three 

and  Air.  Nicholas  Laston.  Spencer  returned  to  England,  Easton 
went  to  Rhode  Island  but  Dummer  remained  in  Newbury  In 
June,  two  ships  arrived  with  passengers.     With  them  came   Mr 

,    ,  „^u^"°  """"  "ff'""*  """n  any  place   I'lev  would  Ditch 

'  The  seven  men,  mentioned  in  1G36,  were  affain  chosen  bv 
papers,'  were  desired  to  serve  'for  one 'quarter  longer  and  shaS 
labor  in  the  case  according  to  what  the  Lord  shall^direc ttoloe 
according  to  what  is  prescribed.'  J 

The  preceding  directions  to  the  selectmen,  remind  me  of  the 

S3a-s,;^l";rp:J™"^ '-  ^*"-'^  '-->  - 

*  Judge  Sewall's  diaiy.  f  Town  record.  l  Tow.,  record. 


24 


HISTORY   OF    NEWBURY. 


In  October,  Richard  Singlelerry,  William  Palmer,  John  Moulton, 
Thomas  Moulton,  Nicholas  Busbee,  and  Abraham  Toppan,  were 
admitted  as  inhabitants  of  Newbury.  The  following  is  a  specimen 
of  the  form  of  admission. 

'  Abraham  Toppan  being  licensed  by  John  EndicoU  escjr.  to  live  in  this 
jurisdiction  was  received  into  the  towne  of  Newberry  as  an  inhabitant  thereot 
and  halh  heere  promised  under  his  hand  to  be  subject  to  any  lawful  order,  that 

shall  be  made  by  the  towne.'  * 

•'  Abraham  Toppan. 

In  the  same  month,  fourteen  individuals  were  fined  £4  15s. '  for 
defect  of  fences  whenever  th<  y  shall  be  called  on.''^ 

'  In  September,  William  Schooler,  a  vintner  from  liondon,  was 
hanged  in  Boston  for  an  alleged  murder.  He  lived  with  another 
fellow  at  INIerrimack,  and  there  being  a  poor  maid  at  Newbury,  one 
Mary  Sholy,  who  had  desired  a  guide  to  go  with  her  to  her  master, 
who  dwelt  at  Pascataquack,  he  enquired  her  out  and  agreed  for  fifteen 
shillings  to  conduct  her  thither.  But,  two  days  after,  he  returned, 
and  being  asked  why  he  relumed  so  soon,  he  answered  that  he  had 
carried  her  within  two  or  three  miles  of  the  place,  and  then  she  would 
go  no  further.  Being  examined  by  the  magistrates  at  Ipswich,  and 
no  proof  found  against  him,  he  was  let  go.  About  half  a  year  after, 
the  body  was  found  by  an  Indian  ten  miles  short  of  the  place  ne 
said  he  left  her  in.  About  a  year  after,  he  was  again  apprehended, 
examined,  arraigned,  and  condemned,'  t  on  curcumstantial  evidence. 
In  November,  the  church  petitioned  the  general  court  for  rebel, 
who  passed  the  following  order,  namely : 

'  November  2(1,  1637.  Whereas  it  appeal  (>th  unto  this  court  that  the  inhabitants 
of  the  towne  of  Newbury  owe  divers  persons  neare  the  sum  of  £60,  which  hath 
been  expended  upon  pu'bUck  and  needful  occasions  for  the  benefit  of  all  such 
as  do,  or  shall,  inhabit  there,  as  building  of  houses  for  their  ministers  &c.  whereas 
such  as  are  of  the  church  there  are  not  able  to  bear  the  whole  charge  and  the 
rest  of  the  inhabitants  there  do  or  may  enjoy  equal  benefit  thereof  with  them, 
vet  they  do  refuse  against  all  right  and  justice  to  contribute  with  them.  It  is 
therefore  ordered  that  the  freemen  of  the  said  towne  or  swch  of  them  as  shall 
assemble  for  that  end,  or  the  greater  number  of  them,  shall  raise  the  said  sum 
of  £60  by  an  equal  or  proportionable  rate  of  every  inhabitant  there,  having 
respect  both  to  land  or  other  personal  estate,  as  well  of  such  as  are  absent,  as  ot 
those  dwelling  there  present,  and  for  default  of  payment  shall  have  power  to 
levy  the  same  by  distress  and  sale  thereof  by  such  persons  as  they  shall  appoint, 
and  the  same  bwng  so  collected  shall  satisfy  their  said  debts,  and  if  any  remain- 
der  be,  the  same  to  be  employed  on  other  occasions  by  the  towne.  | 

November.  '  The  inhabitants  of  Newbury  haveing  been  moved 
to  leave  their  plantation,  the  court  granted  them  Winnicowet,  [now 
Hampton,]  or  any  other  plantation  upon  the  Merrimack  below  the 
first  falls,  and  to' have  six  miles  square,  and  those  that  are  now 
inhabitants  and  shall  remove  within  one  yeare,  shall  have  three 
yeares  immunity,  (as  Concord  hath,)  the  three  yeares  beginning  the 
first  of  first  month  next,  namely,  March  first,  1639.'  J 


*  Town  record. 


+  Winthrop. 


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1638. 

Jmuary  18th.  '  The  lease  of  the  neck  of  land  to  Mr.  Dummer 
for  two  years  bemg  expired,  the  towne  doth  take  it  into  thek  own 
hands  and  intendeth  to  dispose  of  it  at  their  pleasure  '4 

It  was  ordered  that  Riehard  Knight,  James  Brown  and  Richard 
Kent  shall  gather  up  the  first  payment  of  the  meetinghouse  mte  and 
the  towne  rate  wilhm  one  fourteenight  on  the  penall?  of  sS  s^Sin"  « 
and  eight  pence  apiece.'  #  f        i  »i  bix  snmmgs 

f^brmr!/lst.  'John  Emery  shall  make  a  sufficient  pound  for 
the  use  of  the  towne  two  rod  and  a  halfe  square  by  the  last  of  Z 
present  month  if  he  cann.'  *  l      ^  "y  ^ne  msi  ol  the 

Mr  p!f  f^^^^  '^\^''.  W«°d'"«"  «hall  have  a  house  lott  between 
Mr.  Easton's  and  the  river  provided  that  if  there  shall  be  a  for f 
bmltby  the  roater^s  side  hereafter  that  then  his  lott  sSgive  way '* 
F^bmarymiu  '  It  was  voted,  that  Thomas  Cromwdl,  Sud 
ScuUard,  John  Pike,  Robert  Pike,  and  Nicholas  Holt,  are  fined  two 
shillings  and  sixpence  apiece  for  being  absent  from  towne  meeti^^ 

all  ^Xf  J^ff"  Tu^"^"^^"'^^^^^  managing 

S//S  /      f  T^   ''"^   ^^'""^   ^^'^'°"«    that    those  tohom    God 
h^th  fitted  and  toho  necessarily  are  called  forth  unto  such  publick 
services,  may  not  be  overbtirdened  with  expense  of  time  and  other 
mtSln^ld  H^  ^^^^^^^"y  -««"d  such   p^ublick  busynesses,  bu 
win       if  f.fTT^f^  *^  '^^  ^"^  that  they  may  bear  that 
llf2'   ^^  ^^"'^1f^  ^^"^^^S^"  ^hat  service  to  which  they  are  called 
and  considering  likewise  the  practice  of  other  townes  and  places  S 
this  government  in  putting  their  shoulders  to  help  bear ^up  and 
sustain  this  common  worke,  either  in  person  or  estafe,  or  both,  wee 
have   herefore  thought  fitt  to  settle  some  way  and  course  in  This 
behalfe  to  the  end  that  such  publick  busynesses  may  be  c^rr  ^d  on 
without  murmuring  by  any,  who  shall  be  appointed  thereunto  and 
have  for  the  present  thought  fitt  that  those,  who  are  sent  frdepmyes 
and  grand  jurors  shall  be  allowed  two  shillings  and  sixpence  for 
foure  dayes  in  which  they  goe  and  returne,  and' twelve  pXe  a  da  J 
for  every  other  day,  which  they  necessarily  attend  towne's  servtY 
f  the  county  find  the  charges  of  diett,  otherwise  more  as  shall  be 
thought  fitt  upon  due  consideration.'  * 

April  Uth.  « It  is  ordered  that  Richard  Brown,  the  constable 
shall  cau.e  a  sufficient  pound  to  be  made  by  the  twenty-first  of  thS 
moneth  to  impound  swyne  and  other  cattell,  in  the  place,  thaTshdl 
be  shewed  him  and  of  that  largeness  which  shall  be  thought  fitt.' 

April  19/A.  Two  constables  and  two  'surveyors  of  the  hi^h 
wayes'  were  chosen  '  for  one  whole  yeere.'  ^ 

I    \P^^^'  TT  ^\"*rop,  '  was  a  very  hard  winter.     The  snow  lav 
half  a  yard  deep  about  the  Massachusetts  from  November  fourth  to 

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March  twenty-third,  and  a  yard  deep  beyond  Merrimack  and  so  the 
more  north,  the  deeper.'  ^r-  u  ^ 

April  21st.  '  Henry  Short,  John  Cheney,  Francis  Pluiaer,  Nicholas 
Noyse,  and  Nicholas  Holt  are  fined  two  shillings  and  sixpence 
apiece  for  being  absent  from  the  towne  meeting,  having  lawful 
warning,  and  su  forth.'  * 

It  was  ordered  that '  Nicholas  Batt  shall  keep  the  herd  of  cows ' 
eight  months  from  the  sixteenth  of  March  till  tlie  sixteenth  of 
November  for  eighteen  pounds, '  nine  pounds  in  money '  and  forty 
bushels  of  corne,  <  provided  he  is  to  keep  them  one  Lord's  day,  and 
the  towne,  two.'  * 

May  bth.  '  It  is  ordered  that  John  Pike  shall  pay  two  shillings 
and  sixpence  for  departing  from  the  meeting  Without  leave  and 
contemptuously.'  * 

William  Morse  was  the  keeper  of  the  *  towne's  heard  of  goatcs,' 
and, '  as  part  of  his  wages,'  he  was  to  have  three  pence  for  every 
goate  above  a  yeere  old,'  and  Nicholas  Batt  was  to  have  twenty-two 
pence  for  every  cow  or  heifer  either  in  money  or  corn  at  seven 
shillings  the  bushel.' 

June  1st.  '  Being  this  day  assembled  to  treat  or  consult  abovit 
the  well  ordering  of  the  affairs  of  the  towne,  about  one  of  the 
clocke  in  the  afternoone,  the  sunn  shiniiig  faire,  it  pleased  God 
suddenly  to  raise  a  vehement  earthquake  coming  with  a  shrill  clap 
of  thunder,  issuing  as  is  supppsed  out  of  the  east,  which  shook  the 
earth  and  the  foundations  of  the  house  in  a  very  violent  manner  to 
our  great  amazement  and  wonder,  wherefore  taking  notice  of  so 
great  and  strange  a  hand  of  God's  providence,  we  were  desirous  of 
leaving  it  on  record  to  the  view  of  after  ages  to  the  intent  that  all 
might  take  notice  of  Almighty  God  and  feare  his  name.'  f 

June  Vdth.  '  It  is  agreed  that  Richard  Singleterry  and  William 
Allen  shall  have  each  of  them  four  acres  of  planting  ground  on 
Deer  island,  provided  the  island  be  not  [over?  ]  twelve  acres.' 

'  The  court  having  left  it  to  the  liberty  of  particular  townes  to 
take  order  and  provide  according  to  their  discretion  for  the  bringing 
of  armtii  to  the  meeting  house,  it  is  for  the  present  thought  fitt  and 
ordered  that  the  town  being  divided  in  four  several  equal  parts,  sayd 
part  shall  bring  compleat  arrnes  according  to  the  direction  of  those, 
whom  the  towne  hath  appointed  to  oversee  the  busynesse  in  order 
and  manner  as  followeth,  namely,  John  Pike,  Nicholas  Holt,  John 
Baker,  and  Edmund  Greenleafe  being  appointed  as  overseers  of 
the  busynesse,  are  ordered  to  follow  this  course,  namely.  They 
shall  give  notice  to  the  party  of  persons  under  their  severall  divisions 
to  bring  their  armes  compleat  one  Sabbath  day  in  a  month  and  the 
lecture  day  following  in  order  successively  one  sifter  another  and  the 

*  Town  records. 

t  Town  records.  '  It  came.'  says  Winthrop,  '  with  a  noi.sc  like  continued  thunder, 
or  the  rattling  of  coaches  in  London.  The  noise  and  shakings  continued  about  four 
minutes.'  '  The  course  of  it,'  says  Hutchinson,  -was  from  west  to  east.  It  shook  the 
ships,  threw  down  the  tops  of  chimnies,  and  rattled  the  pewter  from  the  shelves.'  'This 
was  a  very  great  t  Ttheiuake  and  shook  the  whole  country.' 


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persons  afore  mentioned  shaU  cause  every  person  under  their  seven.!! 
divisions  to  stand  scntinell  at  the  dooresdl  ihrtime  S"  thT  nubl^S 
mooting  every  one  after  another  either  by  himse  f^n  person  or  bv  « 
suftcient  substitute  to  be  allowed  by  the  overseer  of  the  ward      A^nH 

CvVLli^^S^vV^der^^  "^'"'T  ^^^^^y^^^^ 

vvarnimr^L   ?     .        .  defective  in  this  respect,  having  lawful! 

rXct  £  dlili^tlT'*''' ^^'V^"  surveyour^of'the  nrLsTI 
IZTiU  ^^^.^^'n^twelve  pence  for  every  default  according  as  hath 
been  thought  fitt  by  order  of  the  court  ii  ,his  case  providfd.^#       ^ 

e  JvsSder 'in'r"  '^^'^^"^'''  ^'^"^  ^""^^  *«  this^racllce  of  the 
early  setUers  in  ConnecUcut,  as  weU  as  Massachusetts : 

'So  once,  for  fear  of  Indian  beating, 
Our  grandsires  bore  their  gims  to  meetin? : 
tach  man  eauipped  on  Sunday  morn 
With  psalni  book,  shot,  and  powder  horn. 
And  loolced  in  form  us  all  must  grant, 
rl   c       ^'''ent  true  church  militant, 
Or  herce  like  modern  deep  divines, 
Who  fight  with  quills  like  porcupines.' 

in  t^lvf.  '  "^^^'^^^^  there  hath  bin  notice  tak.  n  of  much  disorder 

n  pubhck   owne  meeting  by  reason  of  divers  Speaking  at  one  and 

the  same  time  some  walking  up  and  downef  some  absem   and 

divers  other  miscarriages,  it  is  henceforth  ordered  tSS  if  ai  wlso  J 

ex^tto^c/^T"''  '."^  '^^''  P"'^^"^^^  ^"  '"^^^  '^^'^  there^irrbe 
L^treTa^^ol^^p/'^"^^  ^"  ^'^^  ^^^P^^'   -^   ^^   ^^^   ^^ 

*  Mr  Woodman,  Sir.  Rawson,  Abraham  Toppan  and  John  Knight 
chosen'!"""  ^"^'"'""^^  '"^  ^"^  '"^''^'^  ^"-'-  and  til  new  t 

;  There  is  granted  to  goodmaa  Goffe  some  fresh  marsh  tohere 
mcMKenlmocvedhay  on  this  side  of  Mr.  Greenleaf  SmeJ  and 

iurther    agreed  that  (the  aforefnentioned^condltions    bS  oWed  bi  Mr' 
Dummer)  there  shaU  not  any  other  mill  be  erected  within  The  saydUe^ 

Edward  Woodman. 
John  Knight. 
Edward  Rawson. 
Richard  Brown. 
Henry  Short.' 

\-^h  1638^''  ^'''''"  ^^''''^  ^""^  assented,  at  a  pubUc  meeting,  October 


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August  10//j.  '  Thomas  Halo  and  John  Baker  are  appointed  hay 
wards  till  th(!  town  shall  appoint  new.'  * 

'  The  towne  hath  appointed  that  a  rate  of  twenty-six  pounds 
shall  be  made  speedily  and  gathc^red  within  one  lourtecniglit  lor  llie 
finisliing  of  the  meeting  house.'  f 

'  At  a  general  towne  meeting,  twenty-eighth  of  September,  1(538, 
it  was  granted  that  Mr.  [doctor]  Clarke  in  respect  of  his  calling  should 
be  freed  and  exempted  from  all  publiek  rates  either  for  the  county  or 
the  towne  so  long  as  he  shall  remayne  with  us  and  exercise  his 
calling  among  us.'  * 

November  1.9th.  A  rate  of  twenty-six  pounds  was  ordered  to  be 
made  '  for  the  ollicers,'  [thai  is,  ministers,]  'rating  all  lands  as  they 
are  divided  at  ten  pence  or  five  pence  the  acre.'  # 

'  It  is  ordered  that  Edward  Rawson  shall  supply  the  place  of  Mr. 
Woodbridge  and  be  the  publiek  notary  and  register  for  the  towne 
of  Newbury  and  whilst  he  so  reumins,  to  be  allowed  by  the  towne 
after  the  rate  of  five  pounds  per  annum  for  his  payni's.'  ^ 

May  17th.  '  Newbury  was  fined  six  shillings  and  eight  pence  for 
defects  in  the  roads.'  f 

•  Anthony  Emery  was  fined  twenty  shilings  for  a  pound  breach 
and  to  give  thirteen  shillings  and  fourpence  to  Thomas  Coleman 
for  his  charges.'  f 

'  Newbury  was  fined  five  pounds  for  want  of  a  pair  of  stocks,  and 
time  given  till  next  court  to  make  them.'  f 

'  There  came  over  this  summer,'  says  Winthrop, 'twenty  ships 
and  at  least  three  thousand  persons,  so  as  they  were  forced  to  look 
out  new  plantations.  One  was  Ijegun  at  JNIerrimack,  and  another 
at  Winicowett,'  [now  Hampton.) 

Mr.  Edward  Rawson,  Mr.  John  Woodbridge,  and  Mr.  Edward 
Woodman,  were  chosen  commissioners  for  small  causes  in  Newbury. 

In  a  book  printed  in  London,  1G38,  and  entitled, '  a  true  relation 
of  a  battell  fought  in  New  England  between  the  English  and  Pequot 
salvages,'  I  find  the  following  sentence  : 

'They  that  arrived  out  there  this  year  [1638]  out  of  divers  parts  of  Old  England, 
say  they  never  saw  such  a  field  of  four  hundred  acres  of  all  sorts  of  English 
grain  as  they  saw  at  Wintertown  there,  yet  that  ground  is  not  comparable  to 
other  parts  of  New  England,  as  Salem,  Ipswich,  Newbury,  and  so  forth.' 

1639. 

March  12th.  '  Plum  Island  is  to  remain  in  the  court's  power ; 
only  for  the  present,  Ipswich,  Newbury  and  the  new  planlation 
[Rowley]  between  them  may  make  use  of  it,  till  the  covut  shall  see 
cause  otherwise  to  dispose  of  it.'  J 

In  the  spring  of  this  year,  Mr.  Ezekiel  Rogers,  who  had  arrived 
in  New  England  in  December,  1638,  with  about  twenty  families 
from   Yorlcshire,  having  received  an  addition  to  his  company  of 

*  Town  records.         f  Colonial  records.         J  Colonial  records,  vol.  1,  p.  205. 


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ownors,  disbursing  tJierein  about  eight  liundrcd  pop 

'  By  the  common  and  general  sufTrao'es  of  ihp  hnri v^  nf  f.„„^ 
there  was  irranted  to  the  said  ireutiKa  I    h^  im  L  I  ^'^'"^'^"'"0"^  excepted, 
between  m  and  Ipswich  incompasseTbv  he  1^^^^^^^^       ""1  '""''•'''"^  '''"'  "'^"••''^ 
.  1.  That  their  lineshall  be^nnXmttad  o    het!^n,""''T'7'"^"'  "^"^^'>^  ^ 
river  and  Mr.  Dumrner'.s,  runnin°™uevS  ,.  vvp  n"        ^''l'^'' ''''^  the  jrreat 

the  bounds  of  John  O.s.rood\  form  wtnVh  il.f  ^  .  T%'"  ^'^'^  g'eat  creek  being 
fhat  creeiv  all  the  landf  soutlniS  of  M  T  ,'"^"  ^•'■-  ^^''""''^  "ver  and  above 
fromthepathleading  o  hef  lMo/u,f^^^  f^°"^  »f'»t  "ver 

and  afterwards  to  run  on  a  north  wst  n«  ««  ?'  ^'"^  '"*"  "'«  ^"""'^Y  a  mile 
of  the  side  line  of  Mr  Dummerrtm  I  i^  """T  ""'  ^''•'*''"  ''^'^  «  "^'le 
of  Merrimack.  Provhled  TSif  :^f^;  it  T''''  '^  ''""'''I  '^'^  "^^'''^  ^^'^'^nt 
otherwise  on  this  part  oflld  g  aid   o'theS'.^rk^  ^'  '"''^"'°^   °^ 

a  plantation  or  a  towne  between  us  Ih-it  thpn^ho  .     ?"  ^'''"} ,fi<''^^f^  on  with 

to  all  intents  and  purposes  andTremle  L  nroSlp^°''r" '^  ^«  ^"'"^ 
the  towne  of  Newburv  in  as  imnlL T ^  prop  letyes  and  inheritances  of 

respects.'  f     ''''''''"'^  "^  ^  ''"P'^  ^  manner  as  belore  the  grant  hereof  in  all 

Jwett     He  was  al  (h,s  time  residing  in  Newburv     On  M^ 

■  rSn^'S  "Ne'r  ^''^^  I^-P'""      S  foUow^g 

residents  ol    Newbury,  went  with   Mr.  Bachilor      Tohn 

i.as,o;,^Sm"°ptrd";JI^re'Ss-^s;^^"^^^^^^ 

Tliomas  Jones,  Thomas  MarXn,  wS  LS„"  nT  "  »?'""'y' 
•Tohn    Mouhon,    Thomas    C  ton    WilS    pltr'  W^^^^^^^ 

i..ecessLyttXre'*''aZoJrdl°„ri-rer"^ 

records  «,av  « it  7?   T     f     ?',   "^^  ^^^  probably  never  built.     The 
records  say,    it  is  ordered  and  determined  by  the  body  of  freemen 

*  Winthrop.  vol.  1.  S94.         f  Proprietors'  records.        j  Winthrop..  voL  1,  n.  ogg. 


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that  thore  slmll  bo  a  walk  of  sixteen  feet  broad  on  the  topp  of  the 
great  liill  IVoui  one  end  to  the  other,  and  a  way  of  four  feet  broad 
thronf,'h  Stephen  Kent  his  lotl.'  This  '  walk '  ran  east  and  west,  and 
the  'way'  north  and  south  from  the  green  to  the  lop  of  tiie  'hill.* 
Near  the  c(^nlre  of  this  walk  the  plaee  is  still  pointed  out,  where, 
tradition  informs  us, '  a  sentry  box,  or  waleh  house,  was  erected.'  It 
is  highly  probable,  from  appearances,  that  the  tradition  is  correct. 
The  position  is  a  commanding  one,  and  a  far  better  place  to  '  stand 
sentinell,'  than  '  at  the  doores '  of  the  meeting  house  '  all  the  time  of 
the  publick  m(!eling.' 

June.  'There  was  at  this  time,' "says  Wlnthrop, 'a  very  great 
drouth  all  over  the  country,  both  east  and  west,  ihere  being  littU;  or 
no  rain  from  the  twenty-sixth  of  April  to  the  tenth  of  June.' 

In  consequence  of  the  complaints  against  excessive  wearing  of 
lace,  and  other  superfluities,  tlu;  general  court,  September,  1639, 
'  ordered  that  hereafter  no  garment  shall  be  made  with  short  sleeves, 
whereby  the  nakedness  of  the  arme  may  be  discovered  in  the 
wearing  thereof,  and  such  as  have  garments  already  made  with 
short  sleeves  shall  not  wear  the  same  unless  they  cover  the  armes  to 
the  wrist  with  linnen  or  otherwise.  And  that  hereafter  no  person 
whatsoever  shall  make  any  garment  for  weomen  or  any  of  the  sex 
with  sleeves  more  than  half  an  ell  wide  (twenty-two  and  a  litilf 
inches!)  in  the  widest  place  thereof  and  so  proportionable  for 
bigger  or  smaller  persons.' 

The  court  also  forbade  the  wearing  of  '  immoderate  great  breeches, 
knots  of  rybands,  shoulder  bands,  rayles,  rases,  double  ruffs  and 
cuffes.' 

'  Edmund  Greenleaf  was  ordered  to  be  ensign  for  Newbury  and 
allowed  to  keep  a  house  of  entertainment.'  ^ 

'  Mr. was  fined  ten  shilings  and  sixpence  for  selling  strong 

w^ater  without  license.'  ^ 

'John  Bayley,'  senior,  of  Salisbury,  afterward  of  Newbury,  'was 
fined  five  pounds  for  buying  lands  of  the  Indians  without  leave  of 
the  court,  with  condition  if  he  yield  up  tlie  land  to  be  remitted.'  * 

'  Richard  Bartletl  petitioned  the  general  court  and  was  granted 
twenty  pounds  according  to  his  petition.'  =* 

'  JMr.  Edward  Rawson  is  allowed  five  hundred  acres  of  land  at 
«Pecoit  so  as  he  go  on  with  the  business  of  powder,  if  the  salt-petre 
come.'  * 

The  people  of  Newbury  having  built  a  '  ministry  house,'  a  meeting 
house,  which  was  soon  used  as  a  school  house,  had  their  ferry 
established  at '  Carr's  island,'  and  become  an  orderly  community, 
began  not  only  to  lay  out  new  roads,  but,  as  they  were  rapidly  ex- 
tending their  settlennent  farther  north,  to  take  special  care  of  the 
town's  timber  by  prescribing  a  penally  of  five  shillings  for  every 
tree  cut  down  on  the  tOAvn's  land  without  permission.  Nearly 
the  whole  of  what  is  now  called  West  Newbury,  or  that  part  above 

♦  Colonial  records. 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBUllY.  «j 

Artichoke  river,  was  called  '  the  upper  woo,1h.'     The  commnn  1      i 
in  the  8.,ulherly  part  of  the  town  wa«  ,livi(l,.d  into  the  <.?  ^""^ 

the  'eowcomnu..,,'  ihe  'c-alf  eonuuon,'  a ml^  1  h  V;  ','""' 
and.hegoaKs,of  whieh  the  inhabi,n,.t'H  had  any  'u-h  had  .r''' 
j)re8cribed  Jirnita,  each  /Ock  were  uiid..r  th..  n  ^'  V  ,  "  ""^' 
were  obliged  to  be  Iblded  at  ni  d  i  tole^  U  'I'-'r"'  '^  ^.'"^'P'^'-,  and 
The  town  also  received  a  viii  ?!    >  I?  l'  '"  '^'"'"  ^'"'   evolves. 

p.'n,ons    of    Anth^;    SomX^Sr    h^^^^  "'  "- 

Sonu-rby,Mr.John,  Afr.  llieha«{\J  L  »  ..  Tt'"''? '■■'  ^^'^'y 
hvcn  merchants  of 'Bristol,  Mrw  „„  r: .  T^  fu^')  '^l'"  ^'"^ 
of  Bristol,  who  had  also  lH.,.n \.n  i  \"'"^''K  and  Jliehard  Dole 

before  corning  tTluZ^:.^'^^:^^  --'-!'!'«  transactions 
the  date  cannot  be  lived  w    w, !'..  •  .  "T"'"   ""''  •""''.  though 

master,'  and  Mr  IWarSlv  7^  '''''"-"  •^"^'"  ^'"'""S'  '«»fip 
a  ^'^I'allop'andwa   eni'^vd  '    r'T"'"''  '^'''"  '"  ^^^^^  «^vned 

Newbury  Mr  Sa  f  £|.  .  ' '"  ^'"'^Tf '  '^^  ^^P«  A""'  ^'^^me  to 
near  the' river  iVie^^amlwt^^^  "'•'' "^'''*'^  ^'  «  merchant 

town  grantcllots  of  l-uu  .T  "^''^^  "^'^  '^'^' '  marchant  Dole.'  The 
Johnknigl     lud^fjirof  hn^^^  ft"^  the  qishcrmen's  lots.' 

'follow  fishing/  To  enclurtfX"  •''.''"  ""  r"^'''""  ^''^^  ^^ 
enacted  that  all  estates  eriiXr' d  in  1^  .■■'"'.  ''•""  ^"'"^''""l  ^""rt 
fish,  should  be  fre^VS  S  d?.i  ''f'"^"'^'"«'°'•'"'"•'^P""i••K 
men  after  the  iwentitMh  o  the  nex  r  T\  ^'^-^""'.«"d  forbJde'ali 
cod-fish  for  inanuri  t  of  JonnT  Tfu  "  ^"P*"^  «"y  »^««««  o^ 
weight  of  fish  so  emolovedTr;  '''f  ^"'■'"^'  ^'"^  '-'^^'^y  hundred 
'  All   slup-buiirrs  S  f ',"  ^''""""f^'  "'  S'T''^^  ^^''"ty  shillings.'* 

that  the  inhabitants  of  Nevvburl  ht    et  s";!  an?  "'^  ^J^'^'^ 
Newbury   bar.      Their  eomm,.rL         /    i   •  ""^  "^^^^^^  over 

and  came  up  by  the  wav  of Tw  t  ''.'^'r'^  '■''  '  ^^'"^  ''^''^  P^^ker,' 
:  is  another  Unt  riShf  'n  rce  intf :h;r th'  T  ""^'^^^^^' 
in  breadth,  is  barred  Avith  shoals  oTsand  Z  '  ^""^^'^  ^  "''^'^  °^^'^ 
lead  thereinto,  at  either  end  of  ^  ^LT  •  'i  V"?  *'''''  Passages,  that 
the  mouth  of  sayde  river  Near  Z^  ''^T^'  f'^f  ^^'''^'^  '^^'^^  "S^'^^t 
lesser  ones,  about  wS"  arfs'^uod  i.  ''^- ?''''  ^  two  other 

one  calh,-d  Newberly  ho  other  Vr^ii  "  .^"'^'t'^*^^^  ^"^^"««.  the 
channels,  t^V^.r./,  S^W^  y^/'T- ''Z  '?''"^'  ^'   ^^^'^^'J'  h^"'Ve  %re 

*««/;•.  o;^  .Wuija^'T        '"''"''  habUattons  arc  pitched  nci re  th 


th 


and(orll,e'coasli„c,radt'     A?  I       ■      d,'»,g,„.d  fur  iho  lisl„.rv, 
w,«  ,„„,,,  doep;r'Z,nf;,„wl  t'  v™;  r„?t""'  "'•""'•  "™ 

a.  .Ke  f*  ir  .iLu4rr^.r^-f»-y;,-- [Indian^ 


*  Colonial  records. 


t  Hutchinson. 


J  Hubbard,  p,  n. 


•»  HISTORY    OF   NEWUURY. 

that « at  alnioflt  nil  nonsona  of  thn  vpnr  "b<'«1  to  be  foun«l  both  In  winter 
and  Hiuniticr.'  *  Tn  tlu!  will  of  Uichiml  Kent,  who  died  in  1(>54,  I 
find  the  foiiowinp;  bcciucHt.  «  Also  1  givo  \\w  (irst  Hnlrnon  that  ia 
cauf,'lit  in  my  weir  yearly  to  Mr.  Noyos,  and  lluj  second  to  Mr. 
Ro<,'ers  till  my  Hon  b««  ninet(U'n  years  of  age,'  and  bo  forth.  After 
that,  liis  son  might  do  as  he  Haw  good. 

This  year  Anthony  Hotnerby  eamo  to  Newbnry,  and  was  em- 
ployed  to  teach  school.     It  is  thus  noticed  on  tJie  town  records: 

'Thnro  wan  crranttul  unto  Anthony  Somerby  in  the  year  1639  for  his  oncour- 
agumoiit  to  koiioo  odioolo  forono  ytniro  ioure  akcrs  ol'  upland  ovor  i\w  ^rcal  river 
in  tho  nocke,  alHom.xe  aituKJof  suit  marMh  next  to   Abraham  Toppau'a  twenty 


1  G  4  0 . 

This  year  emigration  to  New  England  almost  entirely  ceased,  in 
eonsiMinencc  of  the  political  change  in  the  allairs  of  England. 

'  This  smlden  stop,'  says  Hutchinson,  '  had  a  surprizing  ettect  on 
the  price  of  cattle.'  Cows  which  had  for  some  time  sold  for  twenty- 
five  or  thirty  poimda,  could  now  be  bought  for  five  or  six  pounds 
each.  The  whole  number  of  neat  cattle  in  New  England  was 
estimated  at  twelve  thousand,  their  sheep  at  three  thousand.  The 
number  of  passengers,  who  had  arrived  from  the  beginning  of  the 
colony  in  two  hundred  and  ninety-eight  ships,  were  estimated  at 
twenty-one  thousand  and  two  hundred,  about  four  thousand  families, 
and  it  is  prol)able,  in  the  language  of  Hutchinson,  that,  since  1640, 

*  more  persons  have  removed  out  of  New  England  to  other  parts  of 
the  world  than  have  come  from  other  parts  to  it.'  The  number  of 
new  settlers  in  this  and  subsequent  years  was  small.  Among  them 
may  be  mentioned  Robert  Adams,  Henry  Jaques,  George  Little. 

The  great  influx  of  provisions,  the  cessation  of  emigration,  with 
various  other  causes,  occasioned  a  scarcity  of  money,  and  of  course 
a  great  abatement  of  the   price  of  all  commodities.     As  neither 

*  money  nor  beaver,'  says  Winthrop,  <  were  to  be  had,'  the  court 
ordered  that  '  Indian  corn  at  four  shillings,  rye  at  five  shillings,  and 
wheat  at  six  shillings  should  pass  in  payment  of  all  new  debts.'  '  Men 
could  not  pay  their  debt*  though  they'  had  enough.'  '  And  he  that 
three  months  bc^fore  was  worth  one  thousand  i)ounds  could  not,  if 
he  shoidd  sell  his  whole  estate,  raise  two  hundred  pounds.' 

Notwithstanding  the  distresses  of  the  times,  Winthrop  informs  us 
that  '  it  was  a  oonunon  rule  that  most  men  walked  by  in  all  their 
commerce  to  buy  as  cheap  as  they  could  and  sell  as  dear,'  and 
complains  of  it  as  a  '  notorious  cvij.' 

'  Most  men  '  at  the  present  day  are  probably  liable  to  the  same 
charge,  '  notorious '  as  the  '  evil  'may  be. 

'  Henry  Sewall,  senior,  was  bound  over  to  his  good  behaviour  in 
sixty-six  pounds,  thirteen  shillings,  and  fourpence,  for  conteiuptuous 
spceche  and  carriage  to  Mr.  SaJtonstall.'  * 

*  Colonial  records. 


lilSTOKV    OF    NEWHUKV. 


33 


•Mr.  John  Woodbrldge  preHrnted  for  rel«ufli„g  a  Morvant  i. 
diMcharged  by  paying  two  HhillingH  and  Hixpenf,..'  *  "  ' 

lln»  «u,mncr  Mr.  John  Ward  and  «on.e  inl.ubitants  of  Newburv 
petitioned  for  a  phic(!  of  Hciileinent.  ^''i-WDury 

In  th(3  court  records  in  tin;  following,  nainelv ' 

1,0  ,„■„,.»  „  ,ho  ■  Nowbury  mon '  wl.o  will,  Mr.  Wurd  l",i  rd  Ptn- 
li,ckol,   i,ow  Huvcrh.ll,   nru  Ihmc.     Williii,„  Wliii,  H™..;,  ;.-, 

Boston,  and  one  gentleman  of  Newburv    Mr    Ri,  J..I1   n 

rstrrd3lfu:va-^^^^^^^ 

al,  pralJ.    Hi,  con.rii.^Iio.f  l-\l';;;^-3^1^X"ror^^^^^ 
ol    las  town,  and  equal    to    Imlf  the    betu'voience    of  tK^   xvhJ 
.ne  ro,,oli.;  yet  he  had  been  a  .nlK-rer  nndl^t  nintaken  vu^stf 
VV  n  throp  and  oth' .  triumphant  nound  nligioni.ts,'  ^    *"* 

Tnft'  ^"'*^'     '  ^^•.^'^'^^'"•d  Woodman,  Mr.  Christopher  Batt  and 

£l;',Sxv^Lrrt?j-'"-  ^'-  -^^  ^«  -.led/ to^Surt?;^ 


1641. 

farVh^-^T'""}-  ''°"?  '^''''■•■^^  '  ^^^  ^^^*'^«  ^^O'^Ifl  make  a  catechism 
for  the  mstruction  of  youth  in  the  grounds  of  relitrion  '     r,^'''"^'^^ 

aiice  with  thia  desire,  ^Ir.  James  Noyes,  of  N^wLT'comuoseT^^ 

short  catechism  for  the  use  of  the  cLd'ren  there'  ^aCpv  of 

the  work,  which  was  reprinted  in  1714,  see  appendix  B        ^^ 

'  Mr.  John  Woodbrid^e,  Mr.  Edward  WooS^td  Mr.  Edwaxd 


*  Colonial  records. 


5 


t  Winthrop,  vol.  2,  p.  4. 


34 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


, 


■4' 


Rawson,  appointed  commissioners  for  smaU  causes  in  Newbury.'  * 
•  Mr.  Rawson  instead  of  Mr.  John  Oliver.' 

'  At  a  court  holden  at  Ipswich  the  twenty-eighth  of month, 

lb41,  George  Carr  is  appointed  to  keep  the  ferry  at  Salisbury  at  the 
island  where  he  now  dwelleth  for  the  space  of  two  years  provided 
that  he  find  a  sufficient  horse  boatc  and  give  diligent  attendance. 
1  he  ierriages  are  as  follows,  namely.  For  a  man  present  pay  two- 
pence,  lor  a  horse  sixpence,  great  cattle  pay  sixpence,  calves  and 
yearhngs  pay  two-pence,  goates  one  penny,  hoggs  two-pence.  If 
present  pay  be  not  made  that  hee  must  book  any  ferriaee,  then  a 
penny  apiece  more.  If  any  be  forced  to  swim  over  their  horses  for 
want  of  a  great  boat,  they  shall  pay  nothing.     Per  curiam.'  + 

Johnson,  in  his  '  Wonder-working  Providence,'  published  in  1651, 
thus  speaks:  'over  against  this  towne  [that  is,  Salisbury,]  lyeth  the 
towne  of  Newberry  on  the  southern  side  of  the  river,  a  constant 
lerry  being  kept  between,  for  although  the  river  be  about  half  a  mile 
broad,  yet  by  reason  of  an  island,  that  lies  in  the  midst  thereof,  it  is 
the  better  passed  in  troublesome  weather.  The  people  of  this 
towne  have  of  late  placed  their  dwellings  so  much  distance  the  one 

"r^il  ^-^^^^y  ^^^^  ^^"^y  '''''  ^i^^^y  to  divide  into  two  churches.' 
llie  dilhculty,  as  will  be  seen,  was  settled  without  a  division. 
Ihis  court,'  (February  second,  1641,)  says  Winthrop, ' having 
lound  by  experience  that  it  would  not  avail  by  any  law  to  redress 
the  excessive  rates  of  labourers'  and  workmen's  wages  and  so  forth 
(lor  being  restrained,  they  would  either  remove  to  other  places, 
where  they  might  have  more,  or  else  being  able  to  live  by  plantinj^ 
and  other  employments  of  their  own,  they  would  not  be  hired  at 
all)  it  was  therefore  referred  to  the  several  towns  to  set  down  rates 
among  themselves.     This  took  better  effect,  h<.  that  in  a  voluntary 
way,  by  the  counsel  and  persuasion  of  the  elders,  and  example  of 
some,  who  led  the  way,  they  were  brought  to  more  moderation  than 
they  could  be  by  compulsion.     But  this  did  not  last  long.'  ± 

♦boL^'  '""T,  t  ^^^^'^""-y  ^t  tl/i^  lime  passed  any  lawt  regulating 
the  wages  of  laborers,  or  the  price  of  goods,  the  record  is  Io%.     To 

rccoS.        "^^^"'^"^y   '^^   ^^'"^^  ^S'^i"  ^l«ote   from  the  Salisbury 

'ApHl  5'A,  1641.     At  a  general  meeting  of  the  freemen  it  was  ordered  that 
the  year  shall  be  ace ompted  thus:  from  the  first  of  Novemberrthe  l4t  of  X 

Sd  rf  t  f ^^^'"f  J  ^Y^  ^^ ''''''''  '"""'^'^  '-^"'1  'he  seven  oXr  summeTmon.  . 
and  all  labourers  for  the  winter  months  shall  have  no  more  but  ""pence 

fn  i^^n,       •^°-P^'i''«  P'^'-  'lay  more  than  labourers,  tliat  is  e  ghteen  p'nSe  day 
in  winfr,  and  twenty-two  pence  per  day  in  summer.'     '  Also  that  mowers  sS 

LTLTeeXl'lEgt'l"  S^^ ''''  ^^' ''  ''-y  --  p-  ^^^  --h^y  ^ 

'Also  that  no  man  shall  sell  clabords  of  five  foot  in  lensrth  for  more  than  thrP« 

bv  th,frf[  ^Ti'"^'  r,1  ^*'  ^^"-^^^  ^'^''"^'^'"g  t°  proportSn,andTthey  cleave 
le^n^h         '^'■''^  '^'^'^"^^  ""^  '""'''^  ^'-^P^"''^  per\undr'ed  for  five^^Tin 

*  Colonial  record,,    t  Court  records,  [,.  e.  county  court.]    J  Winthrop,  vol,  2,  p.  25. 


HISTORY    OF    NEWBURY. 


85 


'} 


'Also  that  noe  man  shall  sell  ani  sawn  hnn]  ft,,  ^^      .1.  ,  o 
hundred,  and  for  the  sawing  no  more  Than  thr.^  T  r  ^^^^  ^l^  ^^'"^"gs  Per 

hundred,  and  for  slitt  work  no  morSnfou"  Shi  lTn..fnnH"^'  ^"'^  '^•"P^"^^  P«' 
'  Al«o  lliat  butter  shall  nott  be  souirforTbov  j  '?fl  '^  sixpence  per  hundred. 
'Also  that  milk  shall  be  sould  for     ree  half  stn.^  ^""^  P"""^" 

penny  skimmed  milk  ale  measure'  ^''^"P'^nce  a  quart,  new  milk,  and  one 

From  the  above  extracts  it  is  evident  thnt  T,ri,o* 
clap-bo^^dswereoriginallyboardJihat^er^^^^^ 
and  were  thence   called   'clove-boards'   nn^    •      '  ^"'^  not 'sawn,' 

cloboards,claboards,'clapWds'         '  ""  P'°""^'   *^^  ^^^ 

adJiL'^^Tc^arX'ot^ralt^^  ^T^  ^^^  ^h- 

months  and  six  shiUings  and  eiht-pSce  Ir'tS"'"^'  ^"''  ^^^  ^^^"'^^ 

Early  this  year,  through  the  ^n^f/^f  HuLh  Per^'^'^^'V 
very  public  spirit  and  singular  activity  on  aU  occSon;   i  Tu'  "^  ^ 
three  hundred  tons  waa  built  at   ^nl^V^  „  T  ^^^^^o^^)  *  a  ship  of 

Boston  of  one  hu„*e^  and'.S.y  t"'  idTe  T^rA'll^  ^' 
eign  commodities  at  this  tim^  <  ^«        i-iJita  me   inal.     All  for- 

price.'  '  Corn  would  buy  nothif?  'T'^'  ^"^  °""  °^'"  ^^  "« 
debts,and  so  forth.  These^sratsftT  "''t  ""'"  "'^^^^  P^^  '"« 
fish,  clapboards,  plant,  aTd  tfs^v  he"  anclteT  V^  ^^"^^'^^ 
very  well)  and  to  look  out  to  tl.oW    «?^  v     V       ^^^^"^^  prospered 

-'  tL  yei  about  threlmndd lu  a^^  drv  fi  ^''^  '°^ ^°"^"'* 
market.'  *     The  town  of    io„  ll  f  '^  f'''^  '"^^'^^  ^^"^  ^o  the 

hempandtostlTxrnLuc":!!^^         ^^^'^'^^  ^^^^^  '^  -- 

hil  Jhe";stfSmtt^;l'S:',  ?^"'P^";'  '.^^^^^"^^'  -^  ^aver. 
the  population  7five  or  ^ix  m4i  hv^  island,  and  the  addition  to 
as  merchants,  all  undoubtX  coitoLd  t^  ,^f.^  ^,?^"  educated 

*^ettlement,  and  to  maL  the^  ce  tTe  '^  T  ""'"u  '*'"  ^'™'^  ^^  ^^^^ 
miles  farther  north.  This  mvvtilr  ""  ^i"''^^  *'^«  ^^  ^hree 
difficulty,  as  we  shaUre"'aftrree  '  ""'  ^Aected  without  much 

shir?c?mTl1leTS;L'TurcE^^  ^'^^  ^  "^'^^^  «^  ^^  Hamp- 
miles  north  of  the  h^aVof  £  "'  ^f  ''•^'""  '"  '"""  ''^''  ^^"^  three 
of  that  state,  pa^^^t^f  j^SSyX^S^I^^i^-^^ 

1642. 

The  winter  of  1641-2  was  unusually  severe     «  All  ih.  u 
frozen  over,  so  much  and  so  lon^,  as  the  hke  ^v  ih     r  I  ^^Y  "^^^ 
Uon,  had  not  been  for  fortv  vearf    Tt  1     *•    '    Ir^^""  Indians'  rela- 
of  November  to  the  tv^ntLTof  FebmarT'^  ^'"T  '^'  ^'^^''^'''^ 

sent  of  ZLlr  ;Lr^^^^^^^  By  thl  generaU  con- 

Henry  Short.  Mr.  i^a.^'^to^'a^JtE^^^^^^^ 


*  Winthrop,  vol.  2,  p.  24,  31. 


t  Winthrop,  vol.  2,  p.  60. 


36 


HJSTORY    OF    NEWBURY. 


4  I 


Hale  and  Mr.  [John]  Woodbridge,  according  to  their  best  judg- 
ments and  discretions.' 

Accordingly,  twelfth  of  March,  1642,  they  determined,  that  the 
several  numbers  or  rights  '  shall  perpetually  belong  to  the  several 
persons  to  whom  they  are  allotted  and  to  no  other  persons  whatso- 
ever, except  he  gett  them  by  purchase  or  some  other  legal  way,'  and 
that  'all  the  commons  within  the  limits  of  the  towne  shall  be, equally 
divided  into  three  several  parts  and  that  the  same  number  of  cattle 
that  are  allowed  in  the  stint  of  the  cows  and  oxen  shall  be  allowed 
in  the  heifer  common  and  a  third  like  quantity  of  young  cattle 
above  Mr.  Rawson's  farme.'  The  number  of  persons  was  ninety- 
one.  One  right  was  assigned  to  the  '  towne  house,'  one  '  to  lye  at 
the  towne's  appointment,'  one  to  '  the  ferry  lott '  and  three  *  for  them 
that  shall  be  schoolmasters  successively.'  This  '  stint '  allowed 
five  hundred  and  sixty-three  cattle  in  each  of  the  three  pastures, 
namely  :  the  cow  common,  the  ox  common,  and  the  heifer  common. 
The  highest  number  of  '  rights '  was  sixty-two  and  a  quarter  to 
R.  Dummer,  the  lowest,  Lewis  and  Mattox,  one. 

On  March  twenty-first '  th(!  town  also  ordered  that  all  commons 
and  waste  grounds  above  Mr.  Rawson's  farme  and  so  to  and  above 
Mr.  Dummer's  farme  to  our  line  next  Rowley  line  shall  lie  perpetu- 


ally common,   according  to    the    former   order 


for   common,   the 


meadows  only  excepted  within  the  verge.'  *= 

This  tract  of  land,  Avhich  was  thus  '  ordered  to  lie  perpetually 
common,^  comprehended  not  only  a  part  of  Newbury,  but  nearly  the 
whole  of  what  is  now  called  West  Newbury,  now  containing  some 
of  the  best  farms  in  the  county,  but  then  considered,  with  the 
exception  of  'the  meadows,'  as  'waste  grounds,'  fit  only  for 
'  perpetual  commons.'  In  1686,  sLx  thousand  acres,  a  tract  more 
than  nine  times  as  large  as  the  whole  of  the  territory  of  Newburyport, 
situated  above  Artichoke  river,  in  what  was  then  called  '  the  upper 
woods,'  was  divided  for  the  first  time  among  the  inhabitants.  It 
was  then  called  '  the  upper  commons.' 

From  the  first  settlement  of  the  town  till  this  year,  the  inhabitants 
had  made  the  '  lower  green,'  on  the  banks  of  'the  great  river,'  as 
they  called  it,  their  central  place  of  business.  At  this  time,  however, 
a  majority  of  them  had  determined  on  a  removal  from  the  '  old 
town '  to  the  '  new  town.'  Their  reasons  for  this  removal  will  be 
given  from  the  records  in  their  own  words,  though  it  is  probable  that 
some  pages  are  lost.     It  thus  commences : 

'  Whereas  the  towne  of  Newbury  well  weighing  the  streights  they  were  in 
for  want  of  plough  ground,  remoteness  of  the  common,  scarcity  of  fencing 
stuffe,  and  the  like,  did  in  the  year  1642  grant  a  commission  to  Mr.  Thomas 
Parker,  Mr.  James  Noyes,  Mr.  John  Woodbridge,  Mr.  Edward  Rawson,  Mr. 
John  Cutting,  Mr.  JohnLowle,  Mr.  Edward  Woodman  and  Mr.  Jolin  Clark,  for 
renioving,  settleing  and  disposeing  of  the  iuRabitants  to  such  place  as  might  in 
their  judgements  best  tend  to  theyr  enlargements,  exchanging  theyr  lands  and 
making  such  orders  as  might  bee  in  theyr  judgments  for  the  well  ordering  of 

*  Tristram  Coffin's  manuscript. 


I 


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37 


the  towne's  occasions  and  as  in  their  commission  more  largely  appeareth  the 

list  of  all  the  stock  of 'eacf  inhabitanra^StJre^  true%airatioi'oV"lll%S 
houses  improved  land   and  fences  that  thereby  a  just  ruirmS  be  ^L. 
proportion   each   mhabitant   his   portion   of   land  ahnnt  tV,f  ^        .  ^  *? 

removing  of  the  inhabitants  there.'  "''*  '^^  "^'^   ^°^'"^'   ^"d 

'  It  was  ordered  at  a  meetinn-  of  the  pio-lit  dunufn^i  «,„       i. 
e^ch  freeholder  should  have  aVouse  lot^of  tSlteTs'"  It  wlXrth  °"''^,  ^''1 

::r  -  i^K  i?;!i!^  ^^  ^;t?i=tihtv^H- ^^ 
^f  tr^^is^j'  ^-«  ^^^^^--  iott;=';^^i[,^^,^^s 

The  day  of  the  month  is,  however,  not  given.  However  m-eif 
might  be  the  dilHculties  they  found  in  remaining  togXr,^S 
greater  ones  in  some  respects  awaited  their  removal.^  As  i.  has  often 
been  smce,  both  here  and  elsewhere,  the  main  objee  oi  S 
contention  was  their  meeting-honse.  The  minority,  thlt  remaincT 
were  unwilhng  to  have  the  house  removed,  and  the  ma  oritTwere 
equally  unwilling  to  go  without  it,  and  when  it  was  remivc7where 
^  place  it  was  the  difficulty,  and  it  was  not  until  fouryearraffer 
made        "     ""'  ^"'"'  opposition,  that  a  decision  was  finaSJ 

The  first  intimation  that  we  have  of  a  new  place  to  set  tliP 
meeting-house  upon,  is  contained  i.i  the  following  grant- 

Ihere  was  granted  unto  Mr.  James  Noyes  that  four  acres  of 
land  upon  the  hill  by  the  little  pine  swamp,^'^^./„vrU7LS  lo 
sett  the  meetiriff  house  about  the  year  1642.'  4  ^ 

Merrimir  '' '^^^T"  '^'''  '^^  ^^'""^  ^''''''^'^  commenced  on  the 
Merrimack.  On  the  twenty-sixth  of  March,  1642,  the  town  of 
Salisbury  'granted  to  Robert  Ring  two  acres  of  upland  upon  the 

£mwoV:l^s'^^^'"^^  ^^''''  ^^"^^*  '^  ^«  -p^-y^s  about^i  •„': 
uftSd^s:sSo^ss.s;;ji:^S:nSs 

from  cX:::^:^^^zzzf  ^^^^'"r  ^  ^^^^^^^  -^--^^-^ 

themselvcrto  Soff  tho  P  l'^".'.f  T'  *''"  "^""^^^  ^ad  combined 
to  TZZn)^  T  T  }  English.'  §  It  was  therefore  thought  fitt 
to  disarm  aU  the  Indians  who  were  within  our  iurisdiction  i 
warrant  was  accordingly  sent  to  Ipswich,  Rowley  aKewbur;  ^t 

oeing  i.ord  s  day,  forty  armed  men  were  sent  for  that  purpose,  but 

*  Proprietors' records,  p.  12.  +  w     -    •  .     j 


?.mi 


38 


I      ! 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


as  It  rained  aU  day,  they  could  not  go  to  his  wigwam,  but  went  to 
his  son  s  and  took  him  which  thc^y  liad  warrant  for,  and  a  scjuaw  and 
her  child,  which  they  had  not  warrant  for,'  *  whorofore  fearing  the 
consequences  '  an  order  was  sent  to  lieutenant  Greenleaf,  or  in  his 
absence  to  Mr.  Woodman  for  sending  hoipe  the  Indian  woman  and 
child  from  Newbury  and  to  send  to  Passaconaway  for  satisfaction.'  f 

On  the  fifteenth  of  November,  Passaquo  and  Saggahew,  with 
the  consent  of  the  above-mentioned  Passaconaway,  sold  for  £3  10s. 
'  to  the  inhabitants  of  Pentucket,'  now  Haverhill,  a  tract  of  land 
fourteen  miles  long  and  six  miles  broad,  '  with  ye  isleand  and  the 
river  that  ye  isleand  stands  in,'  and  so  forth.  Among  the  witnesses 
to  this  deed  was  Tristram  Coffyn,  who  this  year  came  to  New  Eng- 
land, and  went  from  Salisbury  to  Haverhill. 

In  September,  '  nine  bachelors  commenced  at  Cambridge,  young 
men  of  good  hope.'  #  It  was  the  first  class  that  graduated  at 
Harvard  college.  The  students  then  took  their  degrees,  and  are  ar- 
ranged in  the  catalogue,  according  to  the  rank  of  their  parents.  The 
first  graduate  was  Benjamin  Woodbridge  of  Newbury.  See  appen- 
uix,  O. 

December  7(h,  1642.  '  The  men  deputed  for  the  managing  of 
those  things  that  concerned  the  ordering  of  the  new  towne,  declared 
and  ordered  according  to  the  former  intentions  of  the  towne  that 
the  persons  only  abovemenlioned  [ninety-one  in  all,]  (see  appendix, 
letter  D,)  are  acknowledged  to  be  Ireeholders  by  the  towne  and  to 
have  a  proportionable  right  ii'  all  waste  lands,  commons  and  rivers 
undisposed  and  such  as  from,  by  or  under  them,  or  any  of  them  or 
theyr  heyrs,  have  bought,  granted  or  purchased  from  them  or  any  of 
them  tiieyr  right  and  title  thereunto  and  none  else,  provided  also 
that  no  freeholder  shall  bring  in  any  cattle  of  other  men's  or  townes, 
on  the  towne's  commons  above  or  beyond  theyr  propo -tions  other- 
wise than  the  freemen  shall  permit.'  | 


1643. 

This  year,  the  fifth  of  JNIarch,  'at  seven  in  the  morning,  being  the 
Lord's  day,  there  was  a  great  earthquake.  It  came  with  a  rumbling 
noise  like  the  former  but  through  the  Lord's  mercy  it  did  no  harm.' § 

March  28tL  The  town  '  ordered  that  every  house  lott  shall  be 
foure  acres '  and  '  that  he  that  hath  least  land  in  the  new  towne  shall 
have  eight  acres  except  John  Swett,  Thomas  Silver  and  John 
Russe.'  J 

.  'For  the  confirmation  of  all  men's  proprietyes,  and  direction 
likewise  for  the  exchanges  in  the  new  towne,  itt  is  ordered  that  all 
the  lands  as  they  are  entered  into  the  towne's  book  shall  be  estab- 
lished  and  confirmed  to  the  owners  according  as  they  are  entered, 
unlesse  that  any  man  shall  bring  in  just  and  right  exception  against 
any  man's  portion  of  land  within  fourteene  days  after  this  time  to 


*  Winthrop,  vol.  2,  pp.  78,  87. 
I  Town  records. 


t  Colonial  records. 

i  Vinthrop,  vol.  2,  p.  93. 


It  went  to 
s(iuaw  and 
faring  the 
,  or  in  his 
'Oman  and 
sfaction.'  f 
hew,  with 
or  £3  10s. 
it  of  land 
i  and  the 
witnesses 
S[ew  Eng- 

ge,  young 
duated  at 
nd  are  ar- 
ints.  The 
lee  appen- 

laging  of 
!,  declared 
>wne  that 
appendix, 
le  and  to 
md  rivers 
i"  them  or 
or  any  of 
ided  also 
>r  townes, 
ms  other- 


being  the 
rumbling 
3  harm.'  § 
shall  be 
wne  shall 
ind  John 

direction 
[  that  all 
be  estab- 
entered, 
n  against 
1  time  to 


MISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


99 


but  were  forced  to  live  of  Hnma  rr,„„  i        i      n-'i  ""  ^*  April, 

nmch,  men  began  to  loS  about  tremSfellTn  ^"^''?^  ^""^"^ 
cotton,  whereof  wp  h«H  J..^  f  I'lem,  and  leU  to  a  manufacture  of 

flax,  wherein    LTley    to  TeirZ^  ^^  ^^^P  -"cl 

other  towns.'  |    '''^'^y'  ^°  ^^'"^'^  S^^^t  commendation,  exceeded  all 

Salisbury,  Haverhil^SeTe;^^^^^^^^^^ 

xt  now  :s  ^vith  the  exception  of  the'firs?  two  3s  "'"  ""'  '"' 

Net-Plv^Zut^botLScT^nd  ^  TI""'^^  1  Massachusetts, 

confederation  for  th^  mutull  rdvam^e  ''"""'  ^"^^^^^'^  ^^'^^"^^  ^' 

fo^ht:^'s:jz::r:^:!''\  ^^  ^^  "-^'--^  -  -oient 

meeting  house  at  Ne^vburv  tr  o  f'*"^-  ^""'-  ^'  "^''^^  '^P  '^'^^ 
air  with  dust,  yet  rou^h^  God  r  P  ^^"^  ^'^  ^'-  ,  ^^  darkened  the 
only  killed  one^Ind  an  wi^h  mS'  w" ^^  ^^'^  '"  '^"'•''  ''^' 
tween  Linne  and  Hampton  'ThLta  a  remov.rn7.r'''^'^  *•  '^^ 
house  which  neither  n.,rf,r  „  ..  "'vy'^  ^  removal  of  their  meet  njr- 
the  lower  ^een  ^     ^  «"»icipated.     It  was  then  standing  o^n 

^^dt^iTite^^^^^^^  ^;:  <;-bridge  of  all  the 

would,  were  present alsornone^se  The  .'n  '^'"  ^""^^  ^^^^^^'  ^« 
because  some  of  th,  elders  went  nhnnrt  ^  "^'P^l  occasion  was 
ing  to  the  presbytery  as  of  Nowh  V"^  "^^  "^"^^  ^hi"g«  accord- 

concluded  against^some  ^.7  P  v.""^  '°  ^"''h.  The  assembly 
Newbury  miSfsS  tooT^V  J  -.P^'^^y^^'^^"^  ^^'^^  ^»d  ihl 
forth.§     '  There  was  mttSth^w?'^"'^  !.^"  argiaments,' and  so 

of  March,  the  wind  cSnSn^  we,r"f  ^"?  "°  '"^^^  ^^"  »'»«  ^hird 
luu  coniinuing  west  and  northwest  near  six  weeks.'  § 

1644. 

rn^^l^  o\'tte.^Z7^:r^  the  severaU  inconveniencyes, 
of  fences,  whicMfremedvinThe'S/'r'"^  f'^'"  ^^^  insufficiency' 
yeu  in  our  removal  tc/T^^^  ^  ^ ^^  tii  ::.:;f  ^S 

*  Town  records.  .  ,,,.    ,  *^ 

1 '  Straight ,•  that  is, '  narrow  i„  extent  bltSn  /"P'  ^°'- 2' PP-  H  95. 
§  Wmthrop,  vol.  2,  pp.  124  ise  155      •^'^een  Lynn  and  Hampton.' 


6 

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1 

f 

^        i 

V   !■  ^ 

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I 


I 


11 


40 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


easily  be  prevented.  Itt  is  therefore  ordered  that  all  fences  geiuirall 
and  particular  at  the  Jirst  setting  up  sliall  be  made  so  suilicient  as  to 
keepe  out  all  manner  of  swyne  and  other  cattle  great  or  small  and 
at  whose  fence  or  part  of  fence  any  swyne  or  other  cattle  shall 
break  thorough,  the  party  owning  the  fence*  shall  not  only  beare  and 
sutler  all  the  damages,  but  shall  further  pay  for  each  rod*  so  insuffi- 
cient the  somrne  of  two  shiUings'  and  so  forth.  'It  is  likewise 
ordered  that  the  owners  of  all  such  cattle  a^^  the  towne  shall  declare 
to  be  unruly  and  excessively  different  from  all  other  cattle  shall  pay 
all  the  damages  their  unruly  cattle  shall  doe  in  breaking  thorough 
fences.'  * 

'  In  consideration  of  Mr.  Rawson's  k<^'"^ing  the  to'vne  book  it  is 
ordered  by  us  according  to  our  power  \-i  towne  and  courte 

granted  to  us,  that  he  shall  be  freed  am.  .pted  from  all  towne 

rates  for  one  whole  yeare  from  the  twem ,  .imth  of  September  last 
to  the  twenty-ninth  of  September  next  1644.'  * 

'■January  Wlh.     Itt  is  hereby  ordered  and  determined  by  the 
orderers  of  the  towne  affaires  that  the  plan  of  the  new  towne  is,  and 
shall  be  laid  out  by  the  lott  layers  as  the  house  lotts  were  determined 
by  their  choice,  beginning  from   the  farthermost  house  lott  in  the 
South  streete  [now  called  West  India  lane]  thence  running  through 
the  Pine  swampe,  thence  up  the  High  streete,  niimbering  the  lotts  in 
the  East  street  to  John  Bartlett's  lott  the  twenty-ninth  then  through 
the  west  side  of  the  High  streete  to  Mr.  Lowell's  the  twenty-eighth 
and  so  to  the  end  of  that  streete,  then  ****=*  the  Field  streete  to 
Mr.  Woodman's  the  forty-first,  thence  to  the  end  of  that  streete 
to  John  Cheney's  the  fiftieth  then  turning  to  the  first  cross  street 
to  John  Emery's  the  fifty-first  thence  comming  up  from   the  river 
side  on  the  east  side  of  the  same  streete  to  the  other  streete  the  west 
side  to  Daniel  Pierce's  the  fifty-seventh  and  so  to  the  river  side  on 
the  side  the  streete  to  Mr.  Clarke  and  others  to  Francis  Plummer  the 
sixty-sixth  as  heereinunder  by  names  and  figures  appeare.'  *     Here 
follow,  in  the  original  record,  the  names  of  sixty-five  men  and  three 
women.     There  is  also  one  lot  called  '  the  ferry  lott,'  and  one  to 
*  John  Indian.'     This  is  the  first  intimation  wo  have  on  the  records, 
that  there  were  any  of  the  aboriginal  inha    .ants  residing  in  New- 
bury.    His  lot  is  numbered  sixty-one.     The  numbers  of  the  lots 
which  they  chose,  are  affixed  to  the  names,  except  seventeen.     The 
highest  number  given  is  sixty-six.     The  tract  of  land  which  was 
laid  out   as   the   'new  towne,'  contained,  probably,  about  seven 
hundred  acres.     The  exact  limits  of  the  '  new  towne '  cannot  be 
accurately  ascertained,  as  the  original  plan  is  lost.     It,  however, 
extended  farther  north  and  south  than  the  town  of  Newburyport 
now  does,   but  not   so  far  west,  and  east  by  the  waters  o*f  the 
Merrimac. 

On  the  same  day  they  determined,  that '  their  lands  shall  he  liable 
to  njaintaine  all  publick  towne  charges,  as  ministry  and  such  like, 


*  Town  records, 


I 


I 


ter'ffjn'-rin- 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY.-  ^j 

and   that  thereby   they   acknowledge   their  lands '#     Thn.r   oi 
annexed  u  pena  ly  o   uvo  shilJi...  a.'^d  snponJt:\Zry  icJ^A 
timber  or  fence '  with  hi  ci-rtain  i)rescril)c<l  ll.,.;f .         t  lA         .,      '"'^ 

»m.e  l,i,  occai'io,," '*      '    "     *=     '  "'"  '"''""'  ''"  '""y  l">>=  'I'^m  lo 

corner,   thence  runnincr  on   a   s(  •     Ti        i  ^^'   southwest 

assistants.     The  case  was    Ws'    I ,,!].''"  T'  f""'J  '""''  "^" 

Nvcib  uiib.     lu   juxci  ,;i]^e,^  t^,  apprentice  one 


*  Town  records. 

G 


I  Wiiithrop,  vol.  2,ii.  100, 


43 


HISTORY   OP  NIirV^URY. 


<5     in 


Nathaniel  Scwell,  one  of  thoao  children  sent  over  the  last  year* 
from  England.  '  He  used  him  with  continual  rigor  and  unmerciful 
correctioii,  and  expuHed  him  many  times  to  much  cold  and  wet  in 
the  winter  season,  and  used  divers  acts  of  rigor  towards  him,  as 
hanging  him  in  the  chimney  and  so  forth  and  the  boy  being  very 
poor  and  weak  ho  tied  him  upon  an  horse  and  so  brought  him 
(sometimes  sitting  and  sometimes  hanging  down)  to  Boston,  being 
five  miles  off,  to  a  magistrates,  and  by  the  way  the  boy  calling  much 
for  water,  would  give  him  none,  though  he  came  close  by  it,  so  as 
the  boy  was  near  dead  when  he  came  to  Boston,  and  died  in  a  few 
hours  after.'  *  The  governor,  magistrates,  and  elders,  having  met  at 
Salem,  May  thirtieth,  to  consider  this  and  several  other  cases, '  the 
magistrates  seeming  to  be  satisfied,  warrant  was  signed  by  the 
governor  a  week  after,  which  was  not  approved  by  some  in  regard  of 
his  reprieval  to  the  next  court  of  assistants.'*  'He  had  been 
admitted  into  the  church  at  Roxbury  about  a  month  before.'  * 
The  following  order  is  transcribed  from  the  Ipswich  records : 

May  nth.  '  It  is  onlered  that  all  (lojT-rs  for  the  space  of  three  weeks  after  the 
pubhshinir  hereof  shall  have  oiio  Icjrjr  tyod  up,  anif  if  such  a  do-??  shall  break 
Joose,  and  bu  foiird  doing  any  harm,  the  owner  of  the  dogg  shall  pay  dama-es- 
if  a  man  refuse  t„  tye  up  his  doer's  loffg,  and  hee  bee  found  scrapeing  up  "fish 
in  a  come  helde  the  owner  thereof  shall  pay  twelve  ponce  daraaffes,  beside 
whatever  damage  the  dogg  doth.  Bnt  if  any  fish  their  house  lotts  and  receive 
damage  by  doggs,  the  owners  of  those  house  lotts  shall  bear  the  dama'^e 
themselves.  ° 

In  the  Exeter  records,  I  find  the  following,  namely: 

'May  mhj  1644.  It  is  agreed  that  all  dogs  shall  be  clog'd  and  side  lined  in 
ye  day  and  tied  up  in  the  night  and  if  any  dogs  shall  be  found  trespassing  in 
tlie  lots,  they  that  shall  had  them  shall  showt  them.' 

As  in  these  days  <  doggs'  were  very  numerous,  and  fish  almost 
everywhere  were  necessary  as  manure  for  the  corn,  similar  regula- 
tions were  undoubtedly  made  in  Newbury  and  other  places,  though 
the  record  of  such  penalties  and  the  intimation  of  such  a  custom,  if 
any  were  made,  are  now  lost. 

At  the  same  meeting  it  was  ordered,  that  for  every  wolf  killed 
with  hounds,  ten  shillings  should  be  paid, « and  if  with  a  trappe  or 
otherwise  five  shillings  ;  provided  they  bring  the  heads  to  the  meet- 
ing house  and  there  nayle  them  up  and  give  notis  thereof  to  the 
constable,  whom  wee  appoynt  to  write  in  his  books  due  remembrance 
thereof  for  the  clearing  of  his  account  to  the  towne.'  f 

In  the  Hampton  records  of  the  same  year  we  find  a  declaration 
somewhat  similar.  « It  is  hereby  declared  that  every  townsman, 
which  shall  kill  a  wolf  and  bring  the  head  thereof  and  nayle  the  same 
to  a  little  red  oakc  tree  at  the  northeast  end  of  the  meeting  house, 
shall  have  ten  shillings  a  wolfe  for  their  payncs.' 

As  early  as  this  year  Water  street  was  laid  out.     This  street  at 


t 


*  Winthrop,  vol.  2.  pp.  184, 185. 


t  Ipswich  records. 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


43 


ses, '  the 


that  time  'vas  between  Thomas  Mihvard's  fish  house,  and  dw  Jlin^- 
house,  ,v  .ch  «tood  near  the  lout  of  what  in  now  calh-d  Fed. "Jl 

'Tristram  Cofiyn  is  allowed  to  keep  an  ordinary,  sell  wine  and 

'  The  'vinter  of  l^U-S  was  very  mild,  and  no  snow  lav  so  as 
ploughs  might  go  most  part  of  the  winter,  but  on  February  si^.-teenU 
there  fell  so  great  a  snow  in  several  days  as  the  ways  wc^run  as 

1645. 

^«'-^''  4;^  1615.    <  There  was  granted  by  the  towne  of  Newburv 

'By  an  agreement  each  family  in  each  colony  gave  one  neek  o*" 
corn  or  one  shilling  to  Cambridge  college.'  f     ^  ^  ^  '''  °' 

Jf^rch5(h-  This  day  '  the  elders  of  °the  thurehes  throu^^hout  the 
ZXs::^ZlTf''  Cambridge'  to  agree  upon  some  anC^'  I'^o 
lihertvT  ^''^^"''^  of  anabaptism  and  other  errours  and  for 

liberty  of  conscience  as  a  shelter  for  their  toleration   -,nTaI^  ?    u 
others  in  maintenance  of  the  Presbyterial  gZ«t 'T     '°  ^"''''' 

Jrir  for::!!^?^  ^'^  —  of  divldenltS^^S^^X^^ 

.sevfrrefwrkppl.c?"^^^^^^^^  A  committee  of 

wate.-mill  II^M^^Tlf  a.^^i^  ^^i^Cnf  ^l?  ^rT  ^ 
grind  theyr  come.'  And  they  agreed  to  5  e  /nhn  J  ^^'^^"1^]  ^^ 
uel  Scullard  £20  in  merchant-ible  nVv  f  \  ^ '"^^^^^'^^-y  ^"d  Sam- 
upland  and  six  acres  of  meadow  'amnimt  \}f""  •  ^'"^/• "  "^'^^'^  ^^ 
from  all  rates  for  the  firstTeferye^  and  to  ^a  fre"/  n  *?  ""'^''^ 
and  their  heirs  forever,  they  on  fheir  nn.t  ?  freehold  to  them 

mill  between  Niehola^  ^^^^IZRS^^ZZ^Vf' 
ready  for  the  towne's  use  to  g  ind  the  townWrisfl  nt  ^ If  f  '^F 
twenty-ninth  of  September,  1646   I      ''''''"''  ^nsts  at  or  before  the 

December  22d     *  Thomas  Colman  having  taken  a  farme  .n  ♦>,  . 
ne  cannot  attend  to  lav  nut  l-^t.^   t  i      , '"■^/'''^^"  ^  larme  so  that 

lot.  layer  in  hif^^^r.!  i^Vt  wift  aT™,  T'  l^'"""'"' 
have  fo„pe„ce  per  aero  and  wS"  .S^S  to'f  "  ?"  '° 
|Mo  see  .he™  ,aWyed  for,  .he  legal.  ^,ea„,  W^'"fJ  'u    dfoT 


*  Winthrop,  vol.  i2,  p.  210. 

♦  Winthrop,  vol.  2,  p.  248. 


t  Town  records.         J  Winthrop,  vol.  2.  n  210 
I'  Proprietors'  records,  vol.  1,  p.  c.  '  ^'       * 


44 


HISTORY   OP   NEWBURY. 


During  Ihia  yonr  tho  diffirnlty  cornmpncrd  bcUvo(Mi  Mr.  Parkor 
nncl  llie  cliiircli,  foncirniiiq  cluirch  govcrium'nt,  and  was  not  linally 
settled  till  107  y. 


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;.i< 


1640. 

'  Af  n  towno  moctliii,'  of  tho  c'v^hi  men,  Jaiuuiry  scconil,  l()4fi.' 
'Wee,  \vh(wo  iiiiincs  iiro  in  llii!  niiirfj;enl  (fxprcsscd**  lor  tho  HottlcMnj,'  tho 
ilisturhimc'Ort  that  yctt  ivm.iviio  alioiit  tFio  phmtiiij^  iind  notlinj?  the  mooliii<jr 
house  that  all  men  may  cliofirully  ffoo  on  t(i  improve^  thoir  lands  at  tho  now 
towno,  (loo  (U'tormiiio  that  tho  niootinij  hoiiso  shall  Imj  placed  autl  «<>tt  up  at  or 
liotoro,  tho  t\voMli(!th  of  Octobor  uovt  in,  ot  upon,  a  knowlo  of  upland  by 
Ahialianis  TopiJau's  harno  within  a  si\o  or  sixtoou  rodd  of  this  sido  of  tho  ijato 
posts,  that  are  sett  up  in  tlio  hiifh  way  liy  tlu;  said  Abraham  Toppan's  barue/f 
'  Fidward  llawsou  con^l;ildiccnto  this  oriler.' 

This  *  knowlo  of  upland,'  whore  the  mccting-honse  stood  after  its 
removal,  was  on  the  northwest  corner  of  the  present  bnrying  ground 
in  tiie  lirst  parish.  The  Ibllowing  petition  to  the  general  court,  very 
clearly  jiresenis  the  views  of  those  who  were  opposed  to  the 
HMuoviiig  of  the  meeting-house,  and  shows  that  'Edward  Rawson* 
was  not  tiic  only  one  who  '  eontradieented  this  order.' 

'  To  tho  ri^lit  worshipfull,  tho  over  honored  court,  tho  crovornor,  deputy 
governor,  with  tho  rest  of  tho  assistants  and  deputies  now  assomblod  in  Boston.' 

'  Tho  hnmblo  petition  of  us  tho  inhabitants  of  Newbury.' 

'Tho  true  sense  anil  foi'lini,'  of  the  threat  distraetions  and  sad  ^fi^'vances 
among  us,  which  as  far  as  wo  see)  art*  likely  dayly  to  increase  upon  to  our 
farther  smart,  if  not  utter  confusion  rather  than  to  aiiu'iul,  have  caused  us  riiiht 
Avorshipful  with  truly  inoumful  hearts,  after  encountiMini?  witli  many  didicultio.s 
and  usinff  the  utmost  of  means  yt  wo  know,  to  l)riiifr  our  sad  complaints  to  your 
ears,  intreating  you  that  while  yet  there  in  a  little  hope,  which  may  possibly 
decrease  dayly,  and  so  tlie  advaiita<;e  be  lost,  you  would  shew  a  fatherly  aliec- 
tion  to  us  and  strike  in  to  save  us,  if  it  may  be  from  utter  breakinf(.  If  you 
knew  our  hearts  they  would  speak  tar  more  atlectionately  than  our  papers,  and 
the  sad  sijrhs  that  are  on  us  (when  we  consider  with  ourselves  how  many 
thousand  miles  we  are  come  to  enjoy  ordinances,  and  the  shadow  of  a  K"diy 
government,  and  to  be([ueath  so  much,  if  we  could  to  our  little  ones  after  us, 
that  have  adventured  their  lives  with  us,  yet  as  thin;LCs  now  stand  we  are  likely 
to  miscarry  both  of  our  aims)  were  you  sensible  of  them,  could  not  but  movo 
you  to  the  very  heart.  It  is  very  {^riefo  to  us  to  lay  open  our  case  in  such  man- 
ner as  it  is,  lest  we  loo  much  discoviu-  the  shame  that  is  amoniist  us,  yet  as 
there  hath  formerly  been  some  smoke  of  this  lire  in  some  small  occasions 
presented  to  this  court,  which  hath  vanished  because  the  depth  hath  been  not 
considered,  the  truth  soundly  evidenced,  nor  the  just  cause  of  our  ffr'wf  dis- 
covered, therefore  we  are  inforced  to  set  down  thini,rs  as  they  are,  and  thouirh 
in  some  particulars  some  persons  only  have  been  active,  yet  it  hath  bin  witli 
the  well  wishes  of  many,  whose  eyes  have  been  on  them  expecting  and 
desiring  their  good  issue.  And  we  alone  at  this  time  appear  in  this  complaint, 
yet  the  proceedin^:s  and  carriage  of  some  of  their  chief  alfaires  are  very 
distasteful  to  most  of  the  town,  though  it  may  be  on  some  other  grounds,  yet 
we  doubt  not  but  to  say  that  more  of  us  appear  in  this  complaint  than  can  be 
produced  on  the  other  side,  a  great  many  expecting  what  the  issue  will  be,  not 
able  any  way  to  help,  and  so  not  willing  to  displease,  standing  neuter.  Tho 
foundation  of  all  our  troubles  is  a  pretended  commission,  illegal  in  itselfe,  and 

*  These  names  are  James  Noyes,  Edward  Woodman,  John  Cutting,  John  Lowie, 
Richard  Knight,  Henry  Short, 
t  Town  records. 


T\m 


HlfiTORY   OP   NEWBURY. 


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n«  illegally  pr.;«<'iil..(l,  f.iiro  proloncos  to  draw  mnn's  rnnsnnt  ^nnf>,:„     •     ., 

uw-r,  .he  ill, iiv  ai  ,1  h ml  nf  It    :■       "       I    '"!"■  I""''''«'<l'nj.'«  in  the  b.'frjr,. 

h.lpin.   th.    .;tu  ^;      nt     ,  '^  ^,  ^^  .,''^"';^^^  '""I  n.r  hotter  wai.^  Sf 

^vi,uli^^.  in  and  intan.dinu  mo    \,  !^^7    L.     ^u    iZuPrr     T^    ^^''^y 

.1...  Haid  .onnrnssion  |i.|  in  .h.^r'^l'/'^lIC  ^    ,U.  ly  lilll^slS  n^"'  "' 

immmhI    wh.M-.-upon  w„  .shoulil  think  th,>  cominiHsi,,     v^.l  H T  -^^  I"""' 

m-au.'nionts  in  tin,  Ham,.,  imnosMil  |,/t    h.     Z^^^^^^^^^^  promisos  and 

.'..an,  thn.  h,  ,..„  i..  „...  oxe^^S;:  t;;;^.;.^:;!^.!'"^^- -^i-t":..^ 

ate  oppositions  (not  to  siu-uU,.  nf  =,ll  ,)' .T.■'^ 


ionn,l  ourselvos  ck'iuded       ih  I  i   \  ,    , '  """"  ^.'^"'';    '.'P'"'  <l'<-'»,  ■^l^'  wo 

'■•"="•1'  ""to.     It  w,.,-,.   0     o       'u   I   ,:  II,:  w    "  '    ',"""■  ^'!"l''"''ty  ^^•'♦■''  >'"t  ahio  to 

plioit  •  an.l  si,  h.lt  i^a  ,u  U  ,  1  "J  v ""  T  "'  "V'"l''  Y'""-'"  "»  «"^  '^"n- 
stir  and  .set  on  the -mn    11,,     i  ■      ^ '      ' "  ''"'""  '"  "'"  ''"*«  pa.ssa-e.s,  whi,.h 

laki„.,l,,vvnvc      ,;   Iti'^'n.r^  I^isconr.s.at'lastwas'had„ 

tw..oa,tsoftli,,,ototlu:|  1  n.oVr  ins?.  '■'^''^^^  '""  "'''''"'>  '^''''^  P'"'« 
yet  tlu..  voices  of  „.;„,.-    I         ■  if  '"''?'  '''?^  "<>t,  many  .stroni,dy  opposed  it, 

prevailed,  down  it  i.s  ta  u      v   hont  s       I'    .''  '""•   '"'^"'"  1""'*  P'^'"'^  <"  it 

we  are  fo'reed  <o  pay  tow    d    t      Th\    hi  :    u        ''''  -'\"'\"'^  "'"'J  ^^-^le,  whu 
a'Hl  e,,,,„,,.v  an.l   hc^eiv  T  laL  ass  .n^efl  ,  "  .f ''/'"V  '''"■'^^'  ^"'^  town 

dead  hod3-s  lye  are  .so  ,1  away  (as  wee  1  !"i-  '"'  f''"".'''  T^  ''^'^^'^  '"^"7 
«een.tly  ..arrieil)  ,„  «ott  up  JLLt  Xo  b„  •  oLT'.  ' .  ^"''"''^  '^^  ^^''''^'^  '^^^ 
"nmeele  for  both,  but  ospeeiany  lb  us  of  the  ukf  T  , .  "'''''  '"«•»«  judge  it 
seen  nieonvenieiu-es  in  resneet  of  e,.  m-I.L  I  •       ''"  P'''5''e"t  and  already 

many  .nile.s  ,o  be  partake  /.'uth^a^  ,1  u^ofM ^'''"r^'''  '''^'''^  ^^'^  ^•'""''  «« 
put  ns  OH  tliouMht  to  provide  Ibr  omsX^s  ."',",  °  f''-'  '"  ««7et  and  forcibly 
poor  inu,.,..Mit.s,  whicl'i  cannot  (or  e",^^.din;/  a  1 11,  ^''?V  "'^l^'"«J  <'f  our 
means  of  .salvation,  nor  we  ourselvvs  I  .',  r  ^  I?  P;i>takers  of  the  ordinary 
tia<.tion,s,  w]ii,.h  thev  of  the  n  v  t, mM.'o  "''«"».'"'tiil>ly,  and  witli  f^reat  ,11,:: 
I'av..  alrea,ly  felt.  )  ie  s  n  mx  s  t  o,  s  we"  r^I"^''"'"^'  »"  »«  ^V  that  httle  they 
the«e  taotioL  wo  promi.a'h'e  Ide  both  of' v,n  t"  ^"•*''°  ^*'"»'-"-  °f 
must  needs  be  to  our -neat  chanr.a  ,r  ♦i"°  "',V  '^'""^  maintenance  (which 
with  us.  We  wer.3  r^^.^^af^'d'  ShiZ  ^.^S.'""^t*^^  *"  "^^'^'« 
rhe  owne  be.nir  continued  and  .strelcl.e,  out  ,e  ue  iT'  -r''''?'  P'°P««ition,s. 
besides  the  inconveniences  of  a  i,'rea  Iver  a  l^e  o  J  t  ""'^'v'^  "°^  "P^^'^'"'''', 
be  imajinied  that  we  oiihl   feel,!^  J.  .  ' '  **'"'"<^'  whereby  it  cannot 

po.ssibly  many  of  vm\"oe  above  tn?c;iii:°T  ^"r  '^"1^'"'"  "^  '^H  sorts  can 
oc-ca.sions  in  the  wiiit,.r  ti.ne  of  a    l.' la.t";/l",'td^  '^"  "«~? 

to  be  neerer  most  men  havin-  small  he  n  but  In  .1 1'n^  '  will  require  divers 
of  ye  t,.wne  bein- most  popiiFous  wee  hut  h  If  "'f''-^"/''"''  ^^  ♦""o  ends 
one  of  the  elders  mi-ht  L  res  den    with  \   ^^'^^"'f  Jf«>red  either  first,  that 

church  and  maintenance  stilSi^unot^^'anTt''"  "'^"  ^^  ''>-^'  'h« 
there  nu-lit  be  two  churches  an,l  n  o    i'l  °"°-.^"'^-  "^e  same,  or  secondly  that 

of  the  fortner  might  ^e'S^^t  S^f^irSVVT  ""i  'f^'y^  '^  "-'^eJ 
let  us  have  Ute.  helpe  ^d  furtherance  to^Tov^de^a^^^t  t^Z^^^ 


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HISTORY   OP   NEWBURY. 


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which  th«iy  know  with  ihil yful  oxprenHiormdial  miiricii'iU  wnmnn  w«  hiivp  ri'iuUtrotl 

to  Iho  diiirfh  in  wiiIiiik,  iiiiil  wcj!  know  not  what  liulh«M  to  tliink  to  propone,  yett 

wo  fan  rt'coivo  no  iuiMWor  of  onr  (h'sirrw,  aiul  wi'o  MoppcHo  llu-y  ciinnot  annwor 

olhcrwi.ft!  if  tht-y  dony  n.-<  ihcso  lial  ilnit  wo,-  rnnst  liv,!  ul  honu'i  uiui  turn   i^no- 

mnt  athoiHlH  wok  and  ours,  or  atloiiil  on  llio  orilinant-ox  hco  onr  comlitionrt  wliut 

[Ihnyl  will  with  HiicU  ovtiaordiniiiy  incoiivonioiu'oH,  iw  arc  not  to  bo  horiio  which 

wcc  hope  thill  iro.lly  iiiaifistralcH  will  not  Knilnr,  whoso  unthority  w  for  onr  uood 

to  MOO  tho  towiioH  and   chnr(!liiM   hiiildod  and  not   (lo.stroyod.       Ilavinif   IhnM 

Hhovvod  onr  coinplainiH,  ov.My  paiticnlar  chary;o  whereof  wo  «tand  to  dolcnd  and 

maintanio,  anil  least  wee  bo  overledioim  we  mIuiII  now  in  a  word  huiiilily  tender 

to  yon  tho  «nm  of  onr  riMpieMtft.'     (Ueio  tlio  leinainder  of  tho  sheet  on  which 

tho  petition  was  written  is  torn  ol[,  and  all  tho  names  of  the  si^^nors  on  the  othor 

side  of  the  paper  evcept  four,  lost  with  it.     It  concliulos  thus  ;  I     '  And   woo 

profess  and  hereby  eii^ra;r.>  ourselves  to  this  honored  court  that  if  there  should 

be  thoimht  any  jnst  cause  of  complaint  airainst  us  that  woo  should  have  ya 

better  in  case  these  things  aretfianti'd  that  wee  shall  bee  ready  at  any  time  to  be 

directed  and  take  ye  advice  of  others  (in  case  wee  cannot  ai,'ree  ourselves)  to  comu 

to  e(inal  a','re(unent  and  (M)mposition  for  Ihe  promolini;  of  their  prosperous  estate 

suitable  to  our  towne,   whose  uood   we  desire,  as   well  as  our  owiio    whose 

prosperity  we  heartily  wish,  ihoiiiih  (as  we  hope  yourselves  easily  conceive) 

necessity  forces  u:<  to  s(uk  your  favour  in  our  just  petition.    And  woe  the  rather 

d.fsire  your  speciall  help  in  this  case  bt-causo  where  our  whol.i  hope  was  that  in 

case  of  evtreinity  ye  court  mi-,'ht  and  would  lielp  us.     Two  or  three,  if  not 

more  of  their  chiefo  stike  not  to  say  and  speako  more  than  by  intimation  that 

Ihe  court  i,'enerall  hatii  iiolhin-r  to  do  with  it  nor  cannot  help  us,  which,  if  it 

were  so  our  sorrows  would  be  multiplied. 

Edmund  Gbeenleafis. 
Dan  I  EI,  TiiUBsroN. 
Stephen   Kent. 
John  1'ooue.' 

Shortly  after  this  petition  was  prosciitod,  throo  of  tho  piMilionors 
removed  from  Newbury.  Mr.  Grcciih-af  went  to  Boston.  Stephen 
Kent  moved  to  Ilaveriiiil,  Mr.  Henry  Sevvull,  senior,  moved  to 
Rowh;y,  that  he  mifrjit  be  nejir  the  meeting-house  there. 

April.  Sth.  '  Mr.  Henry  Sewall,  Mr.  Woodman,  Henry  Lunl,  and 
Archehxus  Woodman,  were  fyned  twelve  pi-ncr  apiece,  and  Steven 
Kent  for  their  absence  from  the  generall  towne  meeting,  to  be 
gathered  within  ten  dayes.  In  case  the  constal)le  bring  it  not  by 
that  time.  An  liony  Morse  is  appointed  to  distreyne  on  him  for  all 
the  fynes.'  ^ 

At  a  town  meeting  of  the  eight  men,  '  the  time  being  too  sliort  to 
finish  and  perfectly  record  all  the  grants,  which  have  bin  made  by 
the  eight  men,  it  is  ordered  that  whatever  Mr.  Raw.son  shall  record 
that  himself  or  Richard  Knight  doth  porfeclly  remember  was  granted 
to  any  inhabitant  shall  be  by  all,  ami  is  by  all,  hereby  acknowledged 
to  be  authentick  and  legall  as  any  other  grant  allready  recorded,  so 
it  be  done  within  these  six  months.'  * 

*  In  the  end  of  June  we  had  a  strong  hand  of  God  upon  us. 
Upon  a  suddaine  innumerable  armies  of  caterpillars  filled  the 
country  all  over  the  English  plantations,  which  u  voured  whole 
meadows  of  grasse,  Indian  corn,  and  barley.  Wheat  and  rye  not 
much.     Much  prayer  was  made  about  it  and  fasting  and  the  Lord 

*  Town  records. 


mSTORV   OP   NKWIlTmY.  Am 

hoard  nnd  jock  thorn  away  ajfnino  muldonly  in  all  nortM  of  a- 
At  ,1  sr,.„rral   tovvn   n.r.-tin^,  iIm-  icnll,  of  D..oo,nI.or  lOlfi    .1.. 

8ix  vve,.kH,'t  and  «<•  f..rth  "'  '''"  ""^  ^"^^""  ""^"  '"^ 

riv.T  and  Htophn,  I)u,nrn,.r'.s  fn    ,  •      u 7^,  vve  ft    '  T"  ""  T'** 
at'n.-nu.nt  uhout  the  romovoin^^  of  th.  townr't  °' 

pre«Jt,nent:  ^  '"   ""^  ^"""'^^   '^'^'^'    t''«  following 

*  September,  1640.     Wo  nrosont    Annillo    r^i  , 

September  Ut.     Tho  nssombly  or  synod  mot  nt  P      i   •  i 
Indians.' §  ^'^^  "^"  **  ^-^^  day  to  go  to  the 


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1647. 

Kipiiard  Kont,  junior  rI^^,V,K  °,         ",T  '"'""'.'  Rallied  lo 

and .  ,u„  „wid  ./;,l:dS:,r  '^  s'!,  ri^™s  ifiLt 

♦Roxbury  church  records. 

g£^.'r  LS:  -  ;-;ii-  £.>--£  xxr„K  -j 

tW.nthrop,voI.2,pp.270,27I.  '      i-      .      " 

«  Roxbury  church  records.  >vritte„  by  the  reverend  John  Elliot. 


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HISTORY   OP   NEWBURY, 


records.  After  noticing '  the  tcnn  acres  of  upland,  which  the  towne 
granted  him  on  the  island  over  the  little  river,  and  sixty  four  acres 
of  niarish,'  it  grants  him  'all  the  rest  of  the  upland  and  rnarish  on 
the  island  over  the  little  river  being  one  hundred  and  seventy  acres 
or  thereabouts,  being  formerly  granted  to  particular  persons.'  The 
remainder  of  the  island  tiie  said  Richard  Kent,  junior,  obtained 
either  by  purcliase  or  exchange,  either  witli  tin;  town  or  individuals, 
'all  which  land  in  the  island  above  mentioned  being  two  hundred 
and  fifty-eight  acres  or  thereabouts  to  enjoy  to  him  and  his  heires 
forever,'  and  so  forth.  ^ 

April  1st.  '  It  was  ordered  that  Mr.  [Edward]  Woodman  should 
be  moderator  of  this  assembly  and  appointed  to  execute  tlie  former 
order,  that  so  confusion  be  prevented.'  ^ 

This  is  the  first  time  that  mention  is  made  in  the  records,  of  a 
'  moderator,'  though  such  an  ollicer  had  undoubt(xUy  been  chosen 
annually  from  the  first  settlement  of  the  town.  At  tlic  same  meet- 
ing, the  '  selectmen,' '  one  grand  jury  man,'  a  '  constable,'  tliree  '  way- 
wardens,' and  a  '  deputy '  to  the  general  court,  wa>re  chosen.  This 
deputy  was  Mr.  Edward  Rawson,  who  this  year  was  chosen 
secretary  of  state,  in  room  of  INIr,  Increase  Nowell.  The  next 
town  clerk  was  Mr.  John  Lowle,  who  dying  June  twenty-ninth, 
'  Anthony  Somerby  was  chosen  clerk  of  the  writs  at  Newbury,  and 
to  record  births,  deaths  and  marriages  in  the  place  of  John  Lowle 
deceased.'  f 

In  May,  the  following  law  was  passed,  namely :  '  it  is  ordered  that 
w^hen  any  towne  shall  increase  to  tlie  number  of  one  hundred  fam- 
ilies or  householders  they  shall  set  up  a  grammar  school  and  so  forth. 
And  if  any  town  neglect  the  performance  hereof  above  one  year,  it 
shall  pay  £o  per  annum  to  the  next  such  school  till  tliey  shall  perform 
such  order.'  f  In  May  1671  the  fine  was  increased  to  iilO,  and  in 
1683  to  £20. 

May  ISth.  The  town  for  £S  'granted  to  ,Iohn  Emery  that  parcell 
of  land  called  the  greent;,  about  three  akers,  being  more  or  lesse, 
bounded  by  the  half  acre  lotts  on  the  west,  the  hye  way  on  the  south 
east  and  his  own  land  on  the  north,  being  in  a  triangle,  only  the 
twenty  rods  [is]  reserv^ed  in  said  land  for  a  burying  place  as  it  is 
bounded  with  stakes  with  a  way  to  it  from  the  east.'  * 

This  'burying  place '  still  remains,  and  is  situated  east  of  old  town 
hill,  in  land  now  owned  by  Mr.  Paul  Ilsley,  and  is  still  called  the 
'  Emery  lot.' 

This  year,  in  the  month  of  January  or  February,  Mary  .Tohnson 
was  executed  as  a  witch  in  Hartford,  Cormecticut.  This  was  the 
first  instance  in  New  England. 

Mai/  10th.  '  Upon  examination  it  appeared  that  there  was  not 
enough  corn  in  the  whole  country  to  last  two  months.'  f 

June  8th.  The  synod  again  assembhxl  at  Cambridge.  In  conse- 
quence, however,  of  an  epidemical  sickness,  '  which  went  through 
the  country  among  the  Indians  and  English,  French,  and  Dutch, 


*  Town  records. 


t  Colonial  recoi'ds. 


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the  synod  were  forced  to  break  up  of  a  sudden,'  as  'divers  of  the 
escTped? r"  '"'""  ^^^^'  ''■      '  ^""^  ""  ^■^'"'^>^'  ""^  ^^'  f«^  Persons! 

It  was  about  this  time,  according  (o  Winthrop,  that  'a  trade  was 
opened  with  Barbadoes,  and  other  West  Indii  inlands,'  by  vvhkh 
our  cattle  provisions,  staves,  and  so  forth,  were  exchanoed  for '  «u-,r 
cotton,  tobacco  and  indigo,'  which  'were  a  good  help" to  d  scSS 
our  engagements  with  England.'  *  ^         oiscnarge 

Of  this  trade  the  inhabitants  of  Newbury  soon  began  to  avail 
themse  ves,  as  we  shall  hereafter  see,  so  that,  in  the  language  of 
bamuel  Danforth,  in  his  almanac  for  1648,  ^ 

'Heaps  of  wheat,  pork,  bisket.  beef  and  beer 
Masts  pipe-Slaves,  fish  should  store  both  for  and  near. 
Which  fetch  111  wines,  cloth,  sweets  and  good  tobac- 
O  be  contented  then,  ye  cannot  lack.' 

December  mh,  1G47.  '  Tristram  Coffin  [senior]  is  allowed  to 
Keep  an  ordmrtry,  a.id  retayle  Mine,  paying  according  to  order,  and 
also  granU-tl  hbcTty  to  keep  a  ferry  at  Newbury  side.'f  This  ferry 
crossed  the  Merrimae  at  Carr's  island,  George  Car/ keep  ngTiJ 
Salisbury  side,  and  Tristram  Coffin,  senior,  the  '  Newbmy  sid?' 


N 


V: 


1648. 

April  21111.  '  At  a  general  meeting  of  the  freemen  of  the  towne 
It  was  ordered  that  from  henceforth  f?om  yeare  to  yeare  he  meeting 
for  the  choyse  of  towne  officers  shall  be  Jpon  theTst  MoiTday  ? 
March  upon  pubhck  warneing.'  %  ^^nudy  in 

..1  J.^T  ^^^  ^'''''^^?  ^"^  Thorns.^  Marvyn  two  akers  of  land  lying 
near  to  the  new  pond  on  the  back  side  of  Mr.  Nicholas  Nove<f  bi! 

that  he  shaiJ  endeavor  to  his  utmost  to  catch  them  '  t 

June,  «  At  this  court  Margaret  Jones  of  Charlestown  was  indicted 
and  found  guilty  of  witchcraft  and  hanged  for  it.'  &  iTiis  wa  he 
hrst   case   of  that   lamentable  delusion^n    Massachuse  ts    wh  ch 

tSry'art  ^ll  ^'  "^  ^^^-^-     I"  Danforth's  2'anac  for 
^ZZt^  following  note  set  against  the  fifteenth   of  June. 

J,l,   T^N,  ''%T'^  ^"'  witchcraft.'     Alice  should  be  Margaref 
July  loth        riie  synod  met  at  Cambridge  by  adjournment '  & 
'llus  synod,'  says  Mr.  Savage,  in  a  note,  ' erected  the iZus  Cam 
bridge  platform,'  whieli  continued  so  many  years,  and  X-    was  hi 
a  great  degree  occasioned  by  the  change  of  se  itiment   es,rtin" 

p::;s^rfto;^r^"^^  '^  ^"^  -^-^^^-^  «^  Newbu^^^fe 

'John  Bartletl,  constable,  was  fined  forty  shillings  for  not  provid- 
ing  measures,  and   Newbury,  presented  Vor  waiU  of  a  suffident 


*  Winthrop,  vol  ?,  pp.  308,  109,  310. 
t  xowri  rprnrds 

7 


t  Colonial  records. 

}  Wintlirop,  vol.  ■?,  p,  330. 


i 


Ill' 


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HISTORY   OF  NEWBURY. 


pound,'  and  also  presented  « for  want  of  a  convenient  safe  way  for 
the  new  towne  to  the  ferry  side.' 

*  Lieutenant  Edmund  Greenleaf  is  allowed  to  keep  an  ordinary 
in  Newbury.'  f 

'  It  was  ordered  that  Isaac  Buswell  and  George  Carr  shall  have 
power  to  call  upon  N(3wl)ury  to  lay  out  the  country  way  as  far  as 
belongs  unto  them  from  the  island  to  Mr.  Clark's  farme.'  * 

Clark's  farm  was  near  Tluu-low's  bridge,  so  called. 

Tliis  year  the '  court  desired  Mr.  Edward  Rawson  and  JMr.  [Joseph] 
Hills  to  compose  the  amendments  of  the  book  of  laws  passed  and 
make  them  as  one ;  one  copy  to  remain  in  the  hands  of  the  commit- 
tee for  the  speedy  committing  them  to  the  press,  and  the  other  to 
remain  in  the  hands  of  ''le  secretary  sealed  up  till  the  next  court.' 

December.  Thomas  Smith,  aged  twelve  years,  fell  into  a  pit  on 
his  way  to  school,  and  was  drowned.' 


1649. 

*  At  a  generall  lowne  meeting  March  sixth,  1649,  Mr.  Edward 
Rawson  was  appointed  to  serve  deputy  at  the  next  courte  of  election 
for  this  towne  and  to  stay  and  consumate  th(;  all'ayres  of  the  country 
according  to  order  for  the  year  iuUowing.' 

'  At  a  meeting  generall  of  the  freemen  ihe  sixth  of  INIareh  KUO. 
'  There  was  chosen  Mr.  William  GeiTif^h,  .John  Saunders,  Daniel 
Pierce,  Henry  Shorle,  Riehard  Knight,  Robert  Coker,  William 
Titcomb,  Archelaus  Woodman,  and  John  Merrill,  to  bee  a  commit- 
tee for  the  towne  to  view  the  passages  into  Plum  island  and  to 
informe  the  courte  by  way  of  petition  concerning  the  righte  the 
towne  hath  to  the  sayd  island  and  to  have  full  power  with  Mr. 
Edward  Rav/son  to  draw  forth  a  petition  and  present  it  to  the 
next  general  courte.' 

'Mi-.  Edward  Rawson,  Mr.  John  Spenser  and  IMr.  Woodman 
was  chosen  by  the  towne  to  joyne  with  those  men  of  Ipswich  and 
Rowley,  that  was  appointed  to  bee  a  committee  about  Plum  island.'  $ 

May  IfHh,  1649.  The  town  of  Newbury  jxnition  ihe  general 
court  to  grant  them  the  whole  of  Plum  island.  After  deelarijig 
their  confidence  in  the 'christian  readiness  of  the  court  to  uphold 
the  meanest  member  of  this  jurisdiction  from  sinking  under  any 
pressure,'  and  so  forth,  and  so  forth,  they  go  on  to  say :' 

'  The  substance  of  our  desires  is  that,  if  after  you  have  heard  and  perused 
wliat  we  say,  that  m  risrht  Plum  island  belon-^s  not  to  us,  yet  out  of  your 
just  favour,  it  maybe  giauted  to  us  to  relieve  our  pinchinn;  neceaxifies,  without 
vliirli  ve  nee  no  vny  to  continue  or  .wh.Hst  Our  fearcs  were  oceasioued  by  a 
petition  which  was  preferivd  to  the  last  neneial  court  for  it.  Our  apprehensions 
ot  our  ri^ht  to  it  are,  hist,  because  for  three  or  four  miles  toRether  there  is  no 
cliannel  betNvixt  us  and  it.  Second,  because  at  low  water  we  can  go  dry  to  it 
over  many  places,  in  most  with  carts  and  horses,  which  we  usually  doe,  bein'' 


*  Salisbury  records. 


t  Colonial  records. 


t  Town  records. 


C 

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necessita  ed  so  to  doe  since  our  j,niift  to  Rowley  on  the  court's  request  and 
promise  hat  we  should  have  any  thing  in  the  courfs  power  to  granf^  Th  r  "v 
tecause  the  cv,urt  s  order  gives  all  lands  to  dead  low  water  inarke  not  exceed-' 
ing  one  hundred  rods,  to  towns,  or  persons,  where  any  lands  do  so  bo, der 

'Fourth,  because  we  only  can  improve  it  without  damage  to  our  neiybourincr 
plantat.ons,  which  none  can  doe  without  much  damage  to  you,  petUiWs^T 
not  to  the  rmnmg  of  both  the  meadow  and  come  of  yonrpetitioler  and  so  fmil/ 
1  he  premises  considered  we  hope  (and  doubt  n^t/this  LnoS'  court  will  1  e 
just  grounds  to  answer  our  request  and  co.iiirme  tie  island  to  our  towne  a  i  vve 
shall  always  as  in  duty  we  are  bound  pray,  and  so  forth.  ^ 

Thomas  Parkkr.        James  Noyes. 

Pkrcival  Lowle.       William  Gerrisk 

John  Spencer.  Edward  Woodman. 

John  Saunders.  Henry  Short. 

liicHARD  Kent  in  ye  name  of  ye  rest.' 

In  answer  to  this  petition,  the  court,  October  seventeenth,  1649, 
granted  two  fifths  of  the  island  to  Newbury,  two  fifths  to  Ipswich 
and  one  fifth  to  Rowley.  ^  ' 

March.  'Anthony  Morse  was  presented  for  digging  a  pit  and 
downed  ^  ''   "^  seasonably.'     In   this   pit   Thomas   Smith  was 

This  year,  Pentucket,  [now  Bradford,]  'ordered  that  the  fence 
between  us  and  Newbury  shaU  be  made  sufficient  with  three  rails 
on  penalty  of  sixpence  a  rod  fine  for  defect.' 

On  the  tenth  of  May,  1649,  governor  Endicott,  deputy  governor 
Uudley,  with  seven  of  the  assistants,  bore  the  following  tostimonv 
agamst  the  wearing  of  long  hair.     It  is  inserted  as  a  curiosity. 

'Forasmuch  as  the  wearing  of  long  hair  after  the  manner  of  ruffians  and 
barbarous  ndians  has  begun  to  invade  New  England,  cont.ary  to  the  rule  of 
Ood's  wo,d  which  says  It  is  a  shame  for  a  man  to  weJr  Ion-  hair  as  d.,  thi 
^^^rr^"""  ^"'^"■^"^  °'  ^"  ''''  -'^''y  "f  °-  nat/on:'untir  within 

'  We  the  magistrates,  who  have  subscribed  this  paper  ffor  the  shewin-r  nf  ,.„.. 
own  innocency  in  this  behalf)  do  decla.e  and  manifest  o  ,r  dSfkfand  fiet  ."" 
tion  aminst  the  wearina-   nf  si.r  .   lon.r  V.,.;,.    .,„   ......•__.   .   ,,  •      '"'i^i  <^if u^ta- 


against  a  thing  uncivil  ai,d 


tion  against  the  wearing   of  such  long  hair,  as  against  a  liiu, 
unmanly  wheieby  men  doe  deforme  themselves  and  odcul  .obe7  -md  ,ru,  1  "7 
men,  and  doe  co.Tupt  good  manne.s.     We  doe  therefor^  ea,-."e.  t  y  "iS  ^ 
the  elders  of  this  .iurisd,ct,on  (as  often  as  tliey  shall  see  cause  to  minif^  if  ,1.    ' 
zeal  agamst  ,t  in  their  publike  adniinistiations)  to  take  car^that  thn  mP^n  ,         I 
their  .espective  cliu.ches  be  not  d.-liled  thceu'ith     that  so  s     1  t  Zll  ^'^n'  "* 

agSS!'"'"  ""^  ^'^^'"'^  ^''"'''''-'  -^^^  ^--^  «°^  anli'i;::.!^'^;:^/;^ 


In  the  Roxbury  church  records,  and  in  the  hand  uTifin-  of  th 
venerable  Jolm  Elliott,  I  find  th<.  following.  It  is  tl  ""scveml 
'proposition  about  apparel  and  fashions.' 


enth 


chril'tian '''whoM.p"J  ^f  ^  i""''' '"  ^'"'^M  '"'^"'"'^  '''''^'^  ^eads  and  opposite  to 
),pI  la    fc  '       a-        ""'  ■^"'■^  ^'''"'^  ^"  °f  •'^  IPn^he  and  therefore  called  round 

llley  tKtft?;:,;°  ""^^^  °"'''  ^'"^'""'  ^"'  ''^^^^'"^^  ^^^  '^  knot  13' 


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HISTORT    OF    NEWBURY. 


The  first  tanner  in   Newbury,  of  whom  we  have  any  acconnf, 
was  Mr,  Nicholas  Easton,  who  was  afterward  governor  of  Rhode 
Island.     He  is  called  by  Winlhrop,  '  one  Easton,  a  tanner.'     The 
remains  of  an  old  tan-yard  arc  still  visible,  on  land  once  owned  by 
him,  and  which   some   years  after  cai       into  possession  of   Mr. 
Richard  Dole,  who,  as  we  learn  from  his  will,  carried  on,  among 
his  other  occupations,  the  business  of  tanning.     The  site  of  the 
yard,  which  is  still  owned  by  his  descendants,  is  a  few  rods  north 
from  Parker  river  bridge,  and  a  few  rods  east  from  the  main  road 
leading  to  the  bridge.     John  Bartlett  was  also  a  tanner.     His  place 
of  business  was  a  short  distance  from  the  banks  of  the  Merrimao, 
near  the  road  leading  to  Amesbury  ferry.     In  what  year  he  com- 
menced the  business,  it  is  impossible  to  say.     Descendants  of  the 
same  name  are  still  engaged  in  the  same  business,  on  the  same  spot. 
On  the  nineteenth  of  April,  this  year,  the  'freemen '  granted  to  .Tob 
Clements,  from  Haverhill,  a  freehold  'conditionally  yt"  he  live  with 
us  heere  in  Newbury  exercising  his  trade  four  years  or  as  long  as 
he  shall  live  within  that  tearme  and  also  let  the  shoemakers  of  this 
towne  have  the  lirst  proffer  or  the  forsaking  of  his  leather,  malting 
him  as  good  pay  as  others.'  ^ 

This  attempt  to  secure  the  services  of  Job  Clement,  as  tanner, 
tailed,  he  '  not  performing  the  conditions  above  specifyed.' 

September.  Newbury  was  presented  for  want  of  a  pound,  and 
their  constable  presented  for  not  providing  weights  and  measures 
accordmg  to  order  of  court,  but  afterward  the  fine  was  remitted,  f 

'Newbury  was  presented  for  want  of  a  sufficient  pound  ond  is 
to  pay  forty  shillings,  unless  it  is  completed  by  the  first  of  May 
next.'  f  J  J 

The  following  curious  sentence  of  the  court,  on  a  citizen  of 
Ipswich,  is  found  on  the  county  records. 

'  Thomas  Scott  upon  his  presentment  is  fyned  ten  shillin<^ 
unless  he  learn  Mr.  Norton's  chatachise  by  next  court.'  "^ 

The  records  of  the  court  do  not  state  the  nature  of  the  offence 
which  induced  the  court  to  inflict  the  '  chatachise '  on  the  offendin^^ 
brother,  or  its  value  in  money.  It  appears,  however,  that  he  chose 
rather  to  lose  the  money  than  to  take  the  '  chatachise,'  as  the  records 
of  the  'next  court'  inform  us,  that '  Thomas  Scott  not  appearing  to 
make  known  that  he  hath  learned  Mr.  Norton's  chatachise  his  fyne 
is  to  be  taken.' 

In  September,  '  there  was  a  general  visitation  by  the  small-pox.'  | 

1650. 

The  first  notice  we  have,  on  the  town  records,  of  any  Indians  liv- 
ing in  Newbury,  is  in  January,  1644,  where  lot  sLxly-one  in  the  new 
town  is  granted  to  'John,  Indian.'  The  next  is  in  April  sixteenth 
of  this  year,  where  the  town,  through  their  selectmen,  William  Ger- 

*  Town  records.  f  County  records.  J  Roxbury  church  records. 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


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and 


rish,  Abmham  Toppan,  and  Anthony  Somcrby,  purcliano  a  tract  of 
land  of  '  Great  Toin,  Indian.'     It  commences 'thus  : 

'Witness  by  these  presents  that  I  Great  Tom,  Indian,  foranr!  in  consideration 
of  Ihree  pounds  in  hand  paid  by,  and  received  of,  tlie  towi.smon  of  Newbu.v 
have  -iveu,  jrianted,  covenanted  and  fully  baiHained,  and  for  and  bv  these 
presents  do  irive,  giant,  convt;;-,  eonfinne,  barijain  and  sell  all  that  niv"  th*** 
acres  ot  plantin-  and  as  it  is  fenced  in  one  entire  fence  in  Newbnry  hh,^  nccre 
LuhanM  ^v>th  al  my  n^rht,  title  and  interest  in  all  tlie  woods,  commons  and 
hinds  that  I  have  in  the  to^^;nship  of  Newbnry  to  have  and  to  hold,  and  so  fo"th 
an.l  so  forth  In  witness  whereof  I,  the  said  Great  Tom,  Indian  have  se  To 
my  hand  and  seale  April  sixteenth,  1(550.  ' 

The  mark  «  of 
Great  Tom,  Indian.' 

JVovembermh.  The  town  '  granted  to  John  Poorc  twentv.t^vo 
acres  of  upknd'  in  consequence  of  'hi.s  being  so  remote  from 
saZT^-  '"^     ''''^^"•♦y  i"   co"""g   over    the    ferry    and    for   his 

September  llh.    Mr.  Jolm  Spencer,  nephew  of  Mr.  John  Spencer 
deceased,  sold  to  Henry  Sewall,  the  mill  lot,  being  fifty  acres  of 
upland  and  ten  acres  of  meadow,  for  sixteen  pounds  sterlinff 

In  this  year,  December  nineteenth,  '  the  townsmen  at  a  mectin.^' 
voted  to  pay  out  of  the  '  towne  rate  one  shilling  for  every  dozen  of 
black  btrds,  two  shillings  for  every  dozen  of  wood-pecl<ers'  and 
jays^  heads  and  three  shillings  for  'every  dozen  of  crowes,  and  o 
proportionable  lor  any  lesser  number.'  ' 

'John  Tiliotson  was  presented  for  scandalous  and  reproachful 

r  :t:rdTda7.'^i^  -''''''  ^"^  ^^-^  -  ^  ^^-^^^^  ^^^^..4 

'John  Perry  of  Newbm-y  is  ordered  to  sit  in  the  stocks  one  house 
enx   l;;cture  day  for  abusive  carriage  to  his  wife  and  child.'  * 

John  rillotson  on  his  many  offences  is  fined  twcntv  pounds 
bo  uid  to  his  good  behaviour,  and  fined  twenty-seven  pound  fo^ 
killing  a  mare  belongmg  to  Mr.  James  Noyes '  #  1'""""^  ipr 

In  an  old  manuscript,  once  owned  by  tht>  reverend  James  Noves 
and  now  by  one  of  his  descendants,  Mr.  Silas  Noyes,  is  an  accoum 
o    the  testimony  taken  in  the  ease  of  John  Tiliotson  and  some  of 
'his  many  offences '  which  induced  the  court  to  lay  s^  he^vv Tfine 

elder  s  mure,  great  with  foal,  and  a  special  good  beast  she  was 
rovoked  with  her  at  ye  instant,  he  killed  her  with  a  long  pike  tS 
through  both  her  .Ides,'  and  so  forth,  and  so  forth,  and  '^he  mon?nt 
alter  this  transaction  he  made  a  deed  to  convay  all  his  estate  aw"? 
irom  himsclfe  offering  it  to  goodman  *#*/#  whereby  our  elder 
would  have  been  wholly  defrauded  of  his  marc  ,''"'''*'''y  ^""^  '^^^'^'^ 


*  County  records. 


^ 


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HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


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1651. 

From  Johnson's  Wondor- working  Providonce,  published  this  year, 
I  make  the  following  extract : 

'  This  towi  [Newbury]  i.s  situated  about  twelve  miles  from  Ipswitch  neero 
upon  the  wulc!  venting  .streams  of  Meiriiuiick  river,  wtioso  stron^r  current  is  such 
that  It  hiith  lorred  its  passage  Ihrou'^'h  tiie  mighty  rocks,  which  causeth  some 
sudden  lulls  and  hmders  slapping  from  having  any  accesse  far  into  the  laud. 
This  towne  is  stored  with  meaihnvs  and  upland.  Their  houses  are  built  very 
scattering,  which- hath  caused  some  contention  about  removal  of  their  place  for 
sabbath  assemblies.  It  consists  of  about  seventy  families.  The  soules  in 
church  fellowship  are  about  an  hundred.  The  teaching  elders  in  this  placo 
have  carried  it  very  lovingly  toward  their  people,  ■permitting  'hem  to  assist  in 
admitting  of  persons  into  church  society,  and  in  church  censures,  to  long  as  they 
act  regularly,  but  in  case  of  maladministration  they  assume  the  power  wholly  to 
themselves.'  "' 

The  preceding  lines  of  Johnson  very  well  express  the  principles 
of  church  discipline,  held  by  Messrs.  Parker  and  Noyes,  and  which 
occasioned  the  long  and  bitter  controversy,  which  vv^as  not  finally 
settled  till  a  short  time  before  the  death  of'  JVIr.  Parker  in  1C77.  A 
majority  of  the  church  demanded  as  a  right,  what  Messrs.  Parker 
and  Noyes,  in  the  language  of  Johnson,  '  lovingly  permitted '  as  a 
favor,  and  believiaig  that  the  church  in  its  corporate  capacity  had  a 
right,  and  were  th(>refore  under  a  sacred  obligation,  to  manage  its 
own  affairs,  they  contended  most  slreimously,  and  with  untiring 
pertinacity,  agaijist  their  '  elders'  assuming,'  under  any  pretext,  '  the 
power  wholly  to  themselves.'  Full  proof  of  this  will  be  hereafter 
exhibited. 

In  consequence  of  '  divers  complaints,  having  been  made  from 
time  to  time  of  disorder  in  the  meeting  house,'  and  believing  that 
'  the  abuses  in  the  youth  cannot  be  so  easily  reformed,  unlesse  every 
house-holder  knows  his  seat  in  the  meeting-house,'  the  selectmen, 
the  twenty-fourth  of  January,  1651,  '  hereby  order  that  every  house- 
holder both  men  and  women  shall  sit  'in  those  seats,  'that  are 
appointed  for  them  during  their  lives,  and  not  to  presse  into  seats 
where  they  are  full  already.'  They  also  declare  that  they  'have 
drawne  a  list  of  the  names 'of  the  inhabitants  and  appointed  them 
their  places  in  the  meeting-house  and  have  set  their  names  in  eaeii 
particular  seat  where  they  shall  sit  and  the  young  men  are  appointed 
to  sit  in  the  four  backer  seats  in  the  gallery  and  in  the  two  lower 
seats  at  the  west  door.' 

This  was  called  'sealing  the  meeting-house,'  and  occasioned,  as 
will  be  hereafter  seen,  much  diliiculty.  At  this  time  pews  were  not 
known.  The  foregoing  extract  was  taken  from  the  quarterly  court 
files  in  Salem.  It  was  a  copy  from  the  'towne  booke,'  which 
cannot  now  be  found. 

As  a  specimen  of  some  of  the  cases  tried  at  Salem  court,  I  give 
the  foUowing  testimony.      'T junior  of  Newbury  came 


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^^.Pn"'^""^".  .^'''"^'-•■'''  ^^'■"e  and  with  a  great  swiiij?ell  did  strike 
VVilliam  Eichcrson  athnrf  the  bake  and  ho  run  awav.'=**= 
_    The  town  frranted  to  Richard  Pettinsell,  fourteen' acres  of  mar'<h 
in  consideration  of  his  'yielding  up  into  the  towne's  haiids  a  way 
'our  rods  w.de  through  his  land.' f      That  way  is   now  Green 
street,  formerly  called  Rolie  s  lane. 

3M  5th.  Henry  Short,  agent  for  Mr.  Stephen  Dummer,  sold 
to  Ihomas  Brown  and  Ceorge  Little,  his  'jiirm  at  the  Birchen 
meadows  (•ontainiiig  three  hundred  acres  lor  twenty-one  pounds' 

October  iAth  The  court  made  another  abortive  attempt"  to 
regulate  the  fashions  of  the  people,  to  prescribe  what  certain  classes 
ol  persons  should  not  wear,  and  what  exceptions  ought  to  be  made 
to  the  general  rule.  They  declare  that  'intolerable  excesse  and 
bravery  hath  crept  in  upon  us  and  especially  among  people  of  mean 
condition  and  their  utter  detestation  and  dislike  that  men  of  mean 
conditions  and  callings  should  take  upon  them  the  garb  of  gentle- 
men  by  wearing  gold  or  silver  lace,  or  buttons,  or  points  at  their 
knees,  to  walk  in  great  boots,  or  women  of  the  same  ranke,  to  wear 
silk  or  tiffany  hoods  or  scarfs,  which  though  allowable  to  persons  of 
.greater  estates,  or  more  liberal  education,  they  judge  it  intolerable 
m  persons  of  such  like  condition.' 

They  then  order,  that,  with  die  exception  of  'magistrates  or  any 
pnbhck  officer  of  this  jurisdiction,  their  wives  and  children,  military 
olhcers  or  soldiers,  or  any  other,  whose  education  or  employment 
have  been  above  the  ordinary  degree,  or  whose  estates  have  been 
considerable,  though  now  decayed,  or  who  were  not  worth  two 
hundred  pounds,  no  person  should  trangress  this  law  under  penalty 


1652. 

On  the  court  records  at  Salem,  I  find  the  following: 

I  'II  plp(lq;e  my  friends, 
And  for  my  foes, 
A  plasiie  for  their  heels, 
And  a  poxe  for  their  toes.' 

William  Thomas, 
'March  12   ifi'ii  o       ah  „,i,-  i    t       i         ,    ,  Th(imas  Milwaro. 

GULIELAIUS    SnelLINO. 

nei^hef'exnlarirV'^''  '^"l  '""'^^^^  "^  ^'^«  ^«^^"r'^  ^^'^'<^^  that 
neither  explanaUon,  nor  apology,  was  of  any  avail,  as  the  record 


*  County  records. 


t  Town  records. 


1 

1 

' 

1 
1 

li 

^ 

06 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


informs  us  that '  William  Snolling  in  his  presentment  for  cursing  is 
fined  ten  shillings  and  the  fees  of  court.'  * 

After  this  specimen  of  their  abhorrence  of  profanity,  we  have  a 
right  to  presume  that  doctor  Snelling  was  especially  careful  of  what 
he  said  concerning  his  neighbors'  heels  or  toes. 

This  year  a  mint  was  established  at  Boston,  for  coining  shillings, 
sixpences,  and  threepences.  The  pieces  at  first,  had  N.  E.  on  one 
side,  and  XII.  VI.  or  III.  on  the  other.  It  was  afterward  ordered, 
that  all  pieces  should  have  a  double  ring,  with  the  word  Massa- 
chusetts, and  a  tree  in  the  centre,  on  one  side,  and  Ninv  England 
and  1652  on  the  other.  The  same  date  was  continued  for  thirty 
years  after.  *  The  mint  master  was  John  Hull,  who  raised  a  large 
fortune  from  it,'  his  perquisites  being  fifteen  pence  for  every  twenty 
shillings  coined.  Judge  Samuel  Sewali  married  his  only  daughter, 
and,  it  is  said,  received  with  her  thirty  thousand  pounds  in  New 
England  shillings. 

This  year,  Hugli  Parsons,  of  Springfield,  was  tried  for  witchcraft, 
but  the  jury  and  the  magistrates  not  agreeing,  the  general  court 
acquitted  him.f 

This  year  a  prison  was  built  in  Ipswich,  being  the  second  in  the 
IMassachusetts  colonv. 

'  Stephen  Kent  formerly  of  Newbury  was  fined  ten  pounds  for 
suffering  five  Indians  to  be  drunk  in  his  house  in  Haverhill  and 
one  wounded,  shall  pay  the  fine  and  satisfy  for  the  cure  of  the 
wounded  Indian.' 

We  present  *  E.'izabeth  RandaU  of  Nuberrie  for  useing  reproach- 
ful language  unto  joody  Silver  base  lieing  divel',  base  lieing  tode, 
base  lying  sow,  base  lying  iade.'* 

In  December,  '  there  appeared  a  comet  in  Orion,  which  continued 
its  course  toward  ihe  zenith  for  the  space  of  a  fortnight  till  [the  rever- 
end] Mr.  Cotton  died:  % 

It  is  thus  mentioned  in  the  records  of  the  first  church  in  Boston : 
'  December  ninth,  a  large  star  with  a  long  blaze  appeared.  It  grew 
less  and  less  till  the  twenty-second,  when  it  disappeared.'  The 
reverend  John  Cotton  died  the  twenty-third  of  December. 

November  29l/i,  1052.  '  There  was  voted  by  the  major  part  of 
the  towne  that  there  should  be  a  convenient  house  built  for  a 
schoole.' 

'  There  was  also  voted  that  there  should  be  twenty  pounds  a 
yeare  allowed  for  to  maintaine  a  school  master  out  of  the  towne 
rate. 

'  There  was  also  voted  that  IMr.  Woodman,  Richard  Kent,  junior, 
lieutenant  Pike  and  Nicholas  Noyes  should  be  a  committee  for  the 
managing  the  business  of  the  schoole.'  § 

These  votes,  with  the  exception  of  the  grant  of  ten  acres  of  land 
to   Anthony    Somcrby  in   1G39,  'for  his  encouragement  to  keep 


*  County  records. 

t  Roxbury  church  records. 


t  Hutchinson. 
^  Town  records. 


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irsiTiff  IS 

have  a 
of  what 

hillings, 
on  one 
ordered, 

Massa- 

NGI.AND 

)r  thirty 

a  large 

twenty 

lughter, 

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i 

in  the 

nds  for 
lill  and 
:  of  the 

proach- 
g  tode, 

iitinued 
?  /ever- 

ioston : 
It  grew 
'     The 

part  of 
I  for  a 

nnds  a 
towne 

junior, 
for  the 

if  land 
J  keep 


schoole  for  one  year,'  contaui  the  first  notice  on  record  of  the  town's 
inU«ntion  to  bu.kl  a  .sc hool-houHc  and  lo  support  a  master  at  their 
expense.  This  was,  doubtless,  in  obe.lienee  to  the  law  passed  bv 
the,  sta,e  ,n  May  1047,  as  may  be  seen  in  Ancient  Sters,  pag? 
IHO,^  though  a  school  had  lor  many  years  been  taught  in  the  meeting 

The  following  ,.xtract  from  the  first  see.ion  of  the  act  of  May, 
instrled.  '"''^^  ^^        ''""^'"''''^  renu-mbrance,  and  is  therefore  here 

'It  being  one  chit-f  project  of  Satan  to  koop  men  from  the  knowlpH™  nf  i^.^ 
f,  ,„(  .^V,  '    .       .  ^"'' ''"It  li'ainin-  may  not  bo  buric-c   in  the  "raves  of  our 


1653. 

♦  At  a  general  meeting  of  the  towne,  the  Amrlecnth  of  May,  1653. 

..T(=  was  ordered  tluu  the  towne  should  by  an  ecjual  pro^  orUon 

.cording  to  men's  estate  by  way  of  rate  pay  twenly-four  ^oZds 

y   he  yeare  to  nuuutame  a  fire  schoole  to 'be  kept  at  the  meeting 

se  tT     "  '"'''"■ "  '^.r'^;^  '^^  ^"^'''  ">''^^Wtanti'  children,  as  shaU 

>W  ^i,   ,  '  T?v  T  '^'y  ^T""  '^''''  '^^"^'^^  ^"d  begin  to  read.'  # 

'dc^^^hvd   1    !,Ui       ''';""'"'  "^^^"^''}  '-'  ^^^'^o»^ -vemeen  persons 

dcsiH  (1  to  have  their  dissents  recorded,'  all  of  whom,  it  appears 

resided  so   ar  from  the  meeting-house  that  their  children  couW  not 

beTrved';^^  """f  '"•'^''"^'-     '"^''^y  ^^-«  ^'--f«-  unwilhng  to 
c  taxed  to  support  an  institution,  which,  however  advantageous  to 
the  whole  town,  was  not  directly  benefi.Mal  to  them.         "'^^^"^' 

September.  '  Tristmm  C^otlyn's  wife  Bionis  was  presented  for 
selhng  beer,  at  his  ordinary  in  Newbury,  '  for  three  pcmee  a  nu  J^' 
Having  proved  'upon  the  testimony  of  Samuel  Moore s  thiThP 

inl^X5^X"n'f';r'^"'"''^'r''^^"  ^^^^«  violated,  was  paLed 
in  io4fj,  ana  is  as  lollows,  nam(>ly  • 

'  Every  person  licensed  to  keep  an  ordinary,  shall  always  be  pro- 
vided  with  good  wholesome  beer  of  four  bushels  of  mnh  tn^fl?» 
hogshead  which  he  shall  not  sell  „/.«..  two  no  ice   he  ale  tulrt  on 

(Joodwife  Collyii  probably  reasoned  thus- 
As  ioiir  is  to  two,  so  is  six  to  three.     I'll  have  better  beer  il.nn 
my  neighbours  and  be  paid  lor  it.     A  fig  for  lire  hv '^  " 

Other  presentments  lor  violaUons  of  the  law  of  more  consequence 


>i  i 


*  Town  records. 

8 


t  County  records. 


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ffl! 


1!       ■•i:!:t 


than  selling  beer  were  multiplied.  Many  of  these  were  for  not 
regarding  the  sumptnary  law  of  1G51, 

For  instance,  *  Nicholas  Noycs'  wife,  Hugh  March's  wife,  and 
William  Chandler's  wife  were  each  presented  for  wearing  a  silk 
hood  and  scarfe,'  but  were  discharged  on  proof  that  their  husbands 
were  w^orth  two  hundred  pounds  eiich.  John  Ilutchins'  wife  was 
also  discharged  'upon  testimony  of  her  being  brought  up  above  the 
ordinary  ranke.' 

Joseph  Swett's  wife  for  the  same  oflence  was  fined  ten  shillings. 
Agnes,  the  wife  of  deacoji  Richard  Knight,  was  also  presented. 
This  troitbled  the  good  deacon  exceedingly,  and  induced  him  to 
solicit  Mr.  Rawson  to  send  the  following  letter  to  one  of  the  inagis- 
txates  at  Salem. 

'  HONORAELE    Sin, 

All  lioiiest  S"'")'  man,  a  fiiond  of  mine  in  Newbury,  whose  name  is 
Richard  Knight,  whether  of  ignorance  or  wilfuhiess  by  some  i\eighhour  is  pre- 
sented for  liis  wife's  wearing  of  a  ailit  hood,  supposing  ho  has  not  been  wortli 
two  hundred  pounds.  It  being  a  grievance  to  him,  who  is  advanced  [in  years]  to 
be  summoned  to  a  court,  tliat  never  useth  to  trouble  any,  at  his  request  I  thought 
fit  to  inform  you  on  my  owne  knowledge  his  estate  is  better  worth  than  three 
hundred,  and  therefore  I  desire  yon  would,  as  you  may,  forbeare,  in  your  war- 
rant to  insert  his  name  in  it,  it  may  be ;  if  not,  at  least  that  you  would  take 
private  satisfaction  of  him  in  your  chamber,  which  he  can  easily  give  you,  or 
any,  in  a  moment.  Not  else  at  present  but  my  service  to  you  and  Mr.  Symon 
Bradsu^et. 

Your  friend  and  servant, 

Edward  Rawson. 
Now  at  Newbury,  the  fourteenth  of  August,  1653.' 

'  This  letter,  as  it  will  be  seen,  was  of  no  avail,  though  the  woman 
was  acquitted.' 

This  year,  the  road  was  laid  out  from  Andover  to  Newbury, 
'leaving  Rowley  way  at  the  beginning  of  a  plain  by  a  little  swamp 
called  Barberry  swamp,  thence  the  old  way  to  Falls  river,  thence 
over  the  head  of  Cart  creek,  thence  to  Hull's  bridge  over  Hull's  plain 
to  the  mill  bridge,'  and  so  forth. 

This  year  Newbury  gave  fifteen  pounds  to  Harvard  college. 

September  llh.  '  The  court,  on  hearing  that  lieutenant  Robert 
Pike  declared  that  'such  persons  as  did  act  in  making  that  law 
restraining  unlit  persons  from  constant  preaching  did  break  their 
oath  to  the  country,  for,  said  he,  it  is  against  the  liberty  of  the 
country,  both  civil  and  ecclesiastical,'  detdared  that  lit;  had  been 
guilty  of  defaming  the  general  court,  and  order  that  he  shall  be 
disfranchised,  disabled  from  holding  any  publiek  ollice,  bound  to 
his  good  behaviour,  and  fined  twenty  marks,'  equal  to  thirteen 
pounds,  six  shillings,  and  eight-pence. 

The  law  alluded  to  above  was  made  to  restrain  Joseph  Peasley  and 
Thomas  Maey,  formerly  of  Newbury,  then  of  Salisbury,  new  town, 
from  exhorting  the  people  on  the  sabbath  in  the  absence  of  a  minister. 
This  order  had  no  effect  on  Joseph  Peasley,  who  still  continu(!d  his 
preaching  in  defianco  of  the  law,  as  we  find,  in  the  year  1659. 


HISTORY   OP   NE>VBURY. 


09 


The  punislimont  innicfml  on  li(  at' nnnt  Pike  caused  a  great 
m-nsation  iii  fhe  nci-lihoriii^r  towns.  IVtilions  ^vvrv.  presented  to  the 
genc-al  court,  containing?  the  names  of  nearly  all  (he  citizens  of 
N.'wbury,  An.Iover,  Hampton,  Halisla.ry,  „nd  8o  forth,  earnestiv 
enlreatiiifr  the  u.agislralcs  to  remit  the  punishment  and  the  fine 
impo.st'd  on  lieutenant  Pik.-.  The  whole  ease  is  a  very  inHlri.rtive 
one.  It  exhil>itH,  ,.n  the  one  hand,  the  watchful  jealousy  of  the 
people,  n.  consequence  of  any  supposed  or  real  Jnc  roacinuents  on 
their  civil  or  ecclesiastical  ri<rli1s,  »nd  on  IIk;  other  hand  the  d<'ter- 
nunatioii  of  the  magistrates  not  to  have  their  authority  li<ditlv  called 
111  question.  J     o     j  v^uucu 

They  immediately  chose  a  committee  to  call  the  petitioners  of  the 
several  towns  together,  ascertain  their  reasons  for  signing  the  netition 
and  make  return  This  was  done  in  1654,  and  eight  Newbiiry  men 
wen;  bound  to  their  good  behavior  in  a  bond  of  ten  pounds  eac^  for 
signing  the  petition,  the  remainder  having  acknowledged  thcirollence 

October  2m.     There  was  a  smiUl  shock  of  an  earthquake 


1G54. 

Kent's  island,  with  sixteen  cows  and  four  oxen  on  it,  was  let  this 
year,  for  seven  years,  by  Richard  Kent,  to  Launcelot  Granger,  for 
forty-six  pounds  a  ycju-.  ^    ' 

'On  the  ninth  of  June  this  year  there  was  a  storme  of  thunder 
and  hade  such  as  hath  not  been  heard  of  in  New  England  since 
the  firs   p  anting  thcrcol,  which  haile  fell  in  the  bounds  of  Hampt^i 
the  hade  being  to  admiration  for  the  multitude  thereof,  so  th  it  in 
sonxc  places  it  remained  after  the  storm  was  over  twelve  inches    n 
thickness  and  was  not  all  dissolved  iu  two  days,  many  of  which 
hade  were  said  to  be  three  or  four  inches  in  leno'th  '# 
^  J' f  ember  21st     '  Liberty  was  granted  to  the  inhabitants  of  the 
'old  towne    to  make  a  fence  and  lumg  a  gate  acrosse  the  way  about 
Anthony  bhor  's  or  .John   Knight's  j.rovided  they  hinder  noi  1 1  le 
cattell  from  going  into  the  commons  there  '  f 

Many  such  fences  and  gates  were  erected  in  various  parts  of  the 
town.     There  were  two  on  the  south  side  of  '  the  river  Parker/  oe 
a  few  rods  north  ol  the  present  first  parisii  meeting-house,  aiot  l.er' 

nrac  r     r^^^''  T'?  "'  '^'"^'^^^  '^'"'  "-^-  "-ny  other' 
piace^.     At  this  time,  and   for   many   years   after,   travelers   who 

usually  went  on  horseback,  were  obliged  .iery  few  miles  to    ismount 
t^;.^^  ^^^"'^  *''^  ^«^^"  -'-^^  -  ^^'  -^^«  to  open  and 

'John  Emery  was  chosen  to  answer  at  the  next  court  at  Ipswich 
concerning  the  presentment  about  the  way  to  Andover '  f 

The  selectmen  were  ordered  to  examine  and  require  'an  account 
of  the  money  or  goods,  that  hath  been  gathered  toVurchase  a  be"] 
m  whose  hands  it  is,  and  to  make  report  to  the  towne '  f 


*  Hampton  records. 


t  Town  records. 


••^Tj"  s 


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HISTORY    OF    NEWBURY. 


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The  bell,  wo  linvo  rfiison  to  Hnppnso,  wns  obtninrd  al)ont  iIiIh 
lime,  iiH  we  liiul  in  Doccmhcr,  l()(i'"j,  that  Anthony  Mor?<(!  was  i-luwu 
*to  liccp  the  meeling-liousc!  sind  rin<i'  the  hill.^ 

'J'liirt  year  the  general  coin't  deehire  that  '  Richard  1'liorlay  haviiij^ 
built  a  bridge  over  Newi)ury  river,  at  his  owne  cost  hath  liberty  to 
take  toll  for  cattle,  sheep,  and  so  lorth,  ho  long  as  he  shall  maintain 
and  repair  the  same,  passengers  iree.' 

1055. 

April  25fh.  '  The  towne  granted  to  captain  Paul  White  a  pnr- 
cell  of  land,  not  exceeding  lialf  an  acre,  about  Watts  his  cellar'* 
for  to  make  a  dock,  a  wharf,  and  a  warehouse,  provided  he  do 
build  a  dock,  and  warehouse  as  aforesaid;  but  th(!  town  granlelh 
no  liberty  of  freehold  or  coinmonage  hereby  and  if  he  shall  here- 
after sell  it,  when  he  hath  built  upon  il,  the  town  shall  have  the 
forsaking  of  it.'  f 

This  is  the  first  record  of  a  grant  to  any  person,  for  permission 
to  build  a  wharf,  and  so  forth,  on  the  Merrimack.  The  grantee, 
captain  Paul  VV'hite,  was  a  merciiant,  who  had  been  engaged  in 
trade  for  some  years  at  Peniaciuid,  now  Bristol,  Maine,  and  had 
been  in  Newbury  about  two  years. 

Mai/  25///,  Ki'jV).  Joseph  Swett  petitions  the  honorable  court  to 
confirm  to  him  the  grant  of  '  Deer  island,  which  the  selectmen  of 
Newbury  have  granted  him,  which  is  not  abov(>  six  acres  of  land, 
and  is  not  above  six  or  eight  rods  from  Ncwl)ury  shore,'  and  ao  forth. 

This  year,  in  July,  an  c|)idemieal  disease,  like  that  in  1G47, 
pervaded  New  Pingland,  'wiiereof  many  died.' 

June.  George  Carrmade'a  floating  1)ridge  five  feet  wide  with 
rails  on  each  side,'  from  his  island  lo  Salisbury  shore.  '  The  lloate 
bridge,'  says  George  Carr,  'is  above  two  hundred  and  seventy  feel 
long  with  ye  faule.' 

The  people  of  Hampton,  New  Hampshire,  proposed  to  join  with 
Rowley,  in  petitioning  the  general  court  for  a  country  way,  from 
Carr's  ferry  to  [doctor]  Cl.u-k's  farm,  [near  Tlunriirs  ])ridge,]  and  so 
'  as  direct  from  ihcnce  as  may  be  lo  Rowley  line.' :{: 


1656. 

Mai/  1th.  On  this  day, '  the  half  acre  of  land,'  granted  last  year 
to  captain  Paul  White,  was  laid  out  '  at  the  end  of  Fish  street  [now 
State  street]  joyneing  to  Merrimack  river  on  the  northwest,  and  from 
the  river  by  the  great  rocks  upon  a  strait  lyne  lo  a  slake  by  the  way, 

♦  'Watts  his  cellar,'  which  is  frequently  menlioncd  in  the  town  records,  and  in  deeds 
of  land,  was  on,  or  just  below,  the  spot  where  the  niarket-iiouse  in  Newhiiryporl  now 
Stands.  This  Watts  was,  uiidouhtedly,  tlic  lirst  person  who  ihv^  a  cellar  within  the 
limits  of  'ould  Newberry.'  He-was  probably  engaged  in  fishing  and  trading  with  the 
Indians. 

t  Town  records.  \  Hampton  records. 


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and  from  that  Btako  to  another  Htake  wostorly  by  another  preat 
r(.cke,*  aiuJ  Irotn  a  slalio  running  over  part  of  tlic  nuk  upon  a 
Btriiight  lync  woHtward  to  another  Htake  by  the  dock  '  f 

With  the  eonditioriH  of  the  grant  he  coinpli.il,  and  l)uilt  a  wharf, 
warehouse,  and  '  stillhouHe,'  an<l  made  a  dock,  lie  was  extensivelv 
engaged  in  huwinesH  till  his  death,  July  twentieth,  1()79. 

Jn  June,  of  thin  year,  Mrs.  Ann  Hil)bens  was  executed  in  Boston 
lor  the  supposed  crime  of  witchcraft.      'This,'  says  Hutchinson' 
was  the  second  mstance  on  record  of  any  iicrson's  being  exccut(<d' 
for  witchcraft  in  New  England.     Her  husliand,  who  died  10o4.  had 
been  a  magistrate,  and  a  merchant  of  noti-.' 

'  IVfr.  Noise,  the  blessed  light  at  Ne^wbury  died.'  t  This  was  the 
reverend  James  Noyes,  who  died  October  twenry-seeond,  Um 
Jb'  had  been  teacher  of  the  church  in  Newbury  from  its  first 
iormalioii.  "^ 


PI 

ft 


n 
from 


1G57. 

^vJnJ''^"'°"*'^?''  ^^'"■'''''  ^'"'''"  ^"^^^^'y-  ^fr.  Henry  Scwall, 
whose  only  sr.n  Henry,  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Newbury 
lie  came  to  Newbury  soon  after  his  father,  and  after  the  removal  of 

stands  nlbU),  he  crossed  the  river  to  Rowley,  and  there  resided 

,rrSh  I'lir'T"-"'"' "I  ''';:  "^""'I'^y  P"^^i'"=^«*'-     During  the  latter 

J  .   t  o   h.s  hie  he  ,s  said  to  have  been  occasionally  a  little  deranged. 

J  Ins  was  probably  the  cause  of  his   b.-ing   two   or   three  times 

presentcHl  by  the  grand  jury  for  various  otrcnc^.s.     The  firrinsta  ce 

was  in  December,  1050.     The  testimony  was  as  follows,  namely : 

'Mr  Showell  was  walkin£r  in  tho  foremost  seat  in  the  meolin'r.lmn^n  n^nr^ 
the  pulpit  and  Mr.  Kogers  boin^^  present  and  ready  to  "l.Ti  10^^,14  o 
I  ..^in  prayer,  said,  Mr.  Showell,  cea.se  your  walking..  M,^^  S  answered  yoS 
shoul.l  have  come  sooner,  willi  more  vvor.Is  to  that  pnrno.e,  but  he  no"ceislH" 
hswalkn,n:    presently  our  pastour  a<lded  these  vvorcfs,    «mn\.ber"vhe7e  v  n 

Sen  liJ  waT  Z  S''s'*'^ith  ""'T  '^'''  ^^™'^''''  ^  ^^^  m1^  Sho.'e     in 
sa    rhewnnll!  I  S.  with  a  stearne  countenance  and  tlireatnimr  manner 

_    October.     General  court  ordered,  that  « the  penalty  for  entertain- 
mg  quakers  should  be  forty  shillings.'  ^         ^        eniertam- 

*  'The  great  rocko,'  mentioned  in  the  erant  stood  wlioro  \w  r„         r.  , 

now  stands,  and  was  at  least  twenty  fcetS'  *'°''^°  Granger's  store 

t  Town  records.  ^  ' 

t  Roxbury  church  records. 


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I 


'.'    M 


1658. 

This  year,  it  appears,  incidentally,  that  the  town  contemplated 
building  a  new  mecfing-house,  as  a  committee  w(!rc  appointed  to 
sell  Edward  Woodman  twelve  acres  of  marsh,  for  which  he 
'  engages  to  pay  either  in  boards  or  nayles  or  both  for  the  meeting- 
house.' # 

At  what  time,  precisely,  the  <  nev/  meeting-house '  was  built,  no 
record  informs  us.  It  was,  however,  erected  prior  to  1661,  as  will 
be  seen  under  that  year. 

'  Newbury  upon  their  presentment  for  want  of  a  lattin  scoole  is 
to  pay  five  pounds  to  Ipswich  lattin  scool,  unles  they  by  the  next 
court  provyde  a  lattin  scoole  master  according  to  law.'  f 

This  year,  in  JMay  and  October,  there  was  great  dilHculty  among 
the  military  companies  of  Newbury,  which  was  finally  settled  by 
the  general  court,  wlio  ordered  four  persons  '  to  be  severally  admon- 
ished and  pay  the  yrveral  charges  of  their  neighbours'  the  last 
court,  namely,  four  pounds,  eight  shillings.' 

In  this  year,  Salem  paid  fifty-three  pounds,  Ipswich  seventy-two 
pornds,  and  Newbury  thirty-four  pounds,  of  the  province  rate. 


1650. 

'  William  Trotter  for  slanderous  speeches,  to  make  publick 
acknowledgement  next  lecture  day.'  f 

October.  Sixteen  inhabitants  of  Newbury,  and  six  of  Dover, 
petition  the  general  court  to  grant  them  '  a  tract  of  twelve  miles 
square,' in  a  ' place  called  Permecookc,'  and  'crave  the  liberty  of 
three  years  to  give  in  their  resoiulion,'  and,  in  case  they  determine 
to  settle  '  a  plantation  soe  far  remote,'  '  to  have  ye  grant  of  their 
freedom  from  publicjuc  charge  for  ye  space  of  seven  years,'  and  so 
forth.  TliC  court  granted  them  eiglit  miles  square,  on  certain  con- 
ditions, with  which  they  did  not  comply.  '  Pennecooke,'  now 
Concord,  was  not  settled  till  1730,  though  the  first  white  family 
moved  there  in  1737. 

'April  thirtieth,  old  style,  there  was  a  great  storme  of  snowe, 
which  lay  three  or  four  inches  thick  upon  May-day  in  the  morning.'J 

This  year  several  persons  were  prosecuted  and' fined  for  violating 
the  law  of  1657,  which  prohibited  'enfcj-taining  quakers.'  Among 
them  was  Thomas  Macy,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Newbury,  but 
at  this  time  a  resident  in  Salisbury.  Complaint  having  been  made 
against  him,  he  was  summoned  to  appear  before  the  general  court, 
to  answer  the  charges  preferred  against  him.  Instead  of  complying 
with  the  requisition,  he  sent  a  letter,  of  which  the  following  is  a 
copy. 


♦  Proprietors'  records. 


t  Countj'  records. 


X  Hampton  records. 


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Tins  IS  to  entreat  the  honored  court  not  to  bo  ofTonded  because  of  my  non 
appearance,     It  is  not  from  any  slij^hting  the  authority  of  thw  honored  court 
nor  from  feare  to  answer  tlie  case,  but  I  have  bin  for  some  weeks  past  very  ill' 
and  ain  so  at  pn^sont,  and  notwithstanding  my  illness,  yet  I,  desirous  to  annear' 
have  done  ray  utmost  endeavour  to  hire  a  horse,  but  cannot  procure  one  at 
present.     I  being  at  ])resent  destitut'    have  endeavoured  to  nurciiase    but'  nf 
present  cannot  attame  it,  but  I  shall  re,ate  the  truth  of  the  case  as  my  answer 
should  be  to  ye  honored  court,  and  more  cannot  bo  proved,  nor  so  much      On  -i 
ramy  mornmg  there  came  to  my  house  Edward  Wharton  and  three  men  more 
the  said  Wharton  spoke  to  me  saying  that  they  were  traveling  eastward    and 
desired  me  to  direct  them  in  the  way  to  Hampton,  and  asked  me  how  far  it  wia 
to  Casco  bay.     I  never  saw  any  of  ye  men  afore  except  Wharton,  neither  did  T 
require  their  names,  or  who  they  were,  but  by  their  carriage   I  thought  they 
might  be  quakers  and  told  them  so,  and  therefore  desired  them  to  passe  oS 
their  way,  saying  to  them  I  might  possibly  give  offence  in  entertaining  them 
and  as  soone  as  the  violence  of  the  rain  ceased  (for  it  rained  very  haid)  thS^ 
went  away,  and  I  never  saw  them  since.     The  time  that  they  stayed    n  the 
house  was  about  three  quarters  of  an  hour,  but  I  can  safely  athrme  it  was  not 
ZtZta.  ,?^"VPf «  ""^r"^  ^^'""''^  "'  "^''  t'"^'^'  neither  was  I  at  lelure  to 
nhll  "'^//''^''^"'''•r''''^'"  >■"  '^'''  immediately  afore  they  came 

1^?  ^T'^U  ^";^.I  f""";!  ™y  ^v>fe  sick  in  bed.  If  this  satishe  not  the  iLor^d 
iv,ut,  I  shall  subject  to  their  sentence:  I  have  not  willingly  offended  Tarn 
ready  to  serve  and  obey  you  in  the  Lord.'  ^uueu.     i  am 

Tho.  Macy.* 
Notwithstanding  ihis  explanation  and  apolocry,  he  r/as  fined 
thirty  shillings,  and  was  ordered  to  be  admonished  by  the  governor 
ior  'entertaining  quakers,'  two  of  whom,  William  Robinson  and 
Marmaduke  Stephenson,  were  hung  in  Boston,  December  twenty- 
seventh,  1659.  -^ 

Tradition  informs  us,  that  Thomas  Macy,  immediately  after  his 
sentence,  took  an  open  boat,  and  with  his  wife  and  children,  went 
to  Nantuclvet,  was  one  ot  the  first  English  settlers  in  that  island, 
and  there  resided  the  remainder  of  his  life.     An  amusing  ballad 
\""r^d  on  the  above-mentioned  incidents,  was  written  by  the  poet 

anLrilTkpi"e'X'"^'^'  ^^"^^  ''''''  ^^'^  '^  ^  ™^^^^Ph- 

1660. 

3Iarch  im,  old  st,,le.  There  was  a  very  severe  '  storm  of  drivin- 
snow,  which  drove  up  in  drifts  four  feet  deep.'  + 

Tho  winter  of  1659-60  was  '  a  very  hard  winter.'  f 

Tins  year  the  county  court '  order  a  road  from  Rowley  to  Newbury 
by  Ru-hard  Thurrell's  bridge.'  ^         cwuury 

In  September,  a  return  was  made  of  the  road,  which  was  laid 
out  from  the  northern!  of  Rowley  to  Thorla's  bridge,  and  so  on 
Ihrough  the   arms  of  Edmund  Moore's  and  Robert  Adams,  then  to 

way  is'kid  oS"'  1        '"^         ""''^"^  ^'^"'^  "^  ^•'^^^'^"^y  ^^  ^"d°^«r 

Nowhnr^'''''  the  general  court  granted  to  several  inhabitants  of 
Newbury,  on  their  petition,  a  tract  of  land  on  Saeo  river,  '  provided 
they  have  twenty  famihes  and  a  minister  settled  within  foii  years.' 

*  General  court  files.  t  Hampton  records.         .  t  County  records. 


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H'        !       :!l 


sU 


1661. 

January  28th.  The  selectmen  agreed  with  Henry  Jaques  to 
'  build  a  gallery  in  the  new  meeting  house  at  both  ends  and  all  along 
on  the  west  side  with  three  substantial!  seats  all  along  both  sides 
and  ends,  the  said  Henry  Jaques  shall  fell  the  timber  and  provide 
all  the  stuff  both  planks,  boards,  rayles,  and  juyces  and  nayles  and  to 
bring  the  stuff  all  in  place  and  make  for  it  three  payre  of  stayres  and 
whatever  else  is^quisite  to  compleate  the  said  gallery,  for  which 
he  is  to  have  '  thirty  pounds  in  good  current  pay  or  provisions.' 
Also  the  said  Henry  Jaques  shall  have  all  the  old  stuffe  of  the  old 
gallery  in  the  old  meeting  house.  The  said  Henry  Jaques  is  also  to 
lay  a  fioore  all  over  the  meeting  house  from  beamc  to  beame  and 
the  towne  doth  engage  to  provide  juyces,  boards  and  nayles,'  and 
so  forth,  and  so  forth. 

From  this  it  is  evident  that  both  houses  were  standing  at  the 
same  time.     The  old  house  stood  north  of  the  new  one. 

June  22(1.  The  selectmen  discharged  the  lot  layers, '  as  there  is 
no  more  land  to  be  granted  by  the  towne.' 

The  same  month, '  thu  meeting  house  was  seated,'  as  it  was  called. 
Every  man  and  woman  had  his  or  her  seat  designated,  the  men  and 
women  in  separate  seats.  The  galleries  were,  as  now,  on  the  north, 
west,  and  south  sides  of  the  !iouse,  and  were  then  considered  as 
the  most  desirable  parts  of  the  house.  In  the  foreseat  of  the  west 
gallery,  were  thirteen  men,  'whicli,'  say  the  selectmen, '  are  as  many 
as  can  comfortably  set  in  it,  and  no  more  may  be  imposed  or 
intruded  into  it.' 

September  22d.  Plum  island  was  divided,  to  'every  one  his 
just  right,'  '  beginning  at  the  upland  neere  IMerrimack  barre  and  so 
extending  to  Sandy  beach.' 

September  25th.  Another  division  was  made,  'beginning  at 
Rowley  bounds  and  reaching  to  Sandy  beach.' 

March  9th.     General  court  repeal  the  laws  against  quakers. 

Charles  second  proclaimed  king,  the  eighth  of  August. 

The  following  singular  order  is^  found  in  the  Hampton  records. 
It  is  a  curious  illustration  of  the  state  of  society  at  that  period. 

May  16th  166\.  '  It  is  ordered  yt  if  any  person  shall  discharce  a  gunn  in 
the  meeting  house,  or  any  other  house  without  leave  of  the  owner  or  hou'^e 
holder,  hee  or  they  shall  forfeit  five  shillin-s  for  every  such  offence  nor  shall 
any  person  ride  or  lead  a  horse  into  the  meeting  house  under  the  like  penalty.' 


N         i| 


1662. 

This  year  another  physician,  doctor  Henry  Greenland,  with  his 
wife  Mary,  came  lo  Newbtiry.  He  appears  to  have  to  iiave  been  a 
man  of  good  education,  but  passionate,  unprincipl(>d,  and  grossly 
immoral.     He  of  course  soon  became  involved  iii  difliculties  with 


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1  is  neighbors,  anfU-anspd  great  oxciternenf  among  the  sober  citizens 
o^  the  town,  who  uu  not  been  accmstoniecl  to  such  specimens  of 
nnmorahty,  as  he  hatl  disi)hiyed  ])efore  them. 

'It  pleased  the  Lord,'  sa>s  the  apostle  Elliot,  'to  exercise  the 
country  wi  h  a  very  severe  drought,  which  some  were  .o  rash  as  to 
impute  to  the  sitting  of  the  synod,  but  the  Lord  was  pleased  to  bear 
witne^^s  agiunst  their  rashness,  Cor  no  sooner  was  the  synod  met  June 
tenth,  but  they  agreed  to  set  the  next  day  apart  to  sei  his  favorable 

presence    a.,d  to  ask  raine,  and  ye  day  following  the   Lord  sent 

showers  froui  heaven,  and  visited  the  land  with  seasonable  showers 

ol  rain,  week  alter  week  until  the  harvest.'  * 

Mu-ch  Sd    '  The  marsh  lands  in  the  neck  over  the  great  river  were 

divided  as  the  lands  were  in   Plum  island,  b.-ginning  at  the  west 

l-liis  year  the  liigluvay  from  Newbury  to  Haverhill  was  laid  out. 

'John  Atkinson  [hatter]  had  half  an  acre  of  land  by  the  spring 

near  Anthony  Morse,  junior's,  house.'  f  ^  ^   ^ 

onnr7\y  '"^""^f  "''^  'T  ''*"""^'^,  ^""^  ""^  '"'''^'^^'S  ^  deputy  to  general 
court.     It  was  afterward  remitted.  f    j       & 

Captain  Paul  White  was  licensed  by  general  court '  to  still  stron.^ 
waters  lor  a  yeare  and  sell  by  the  quart.'  J 

The  county  court  or.!(.'red"the  road  by  Thorla's  brid<re  to  be  made 
passable  by  the  twelfth  of  October,  10(32,^nKler  penalty'=o?tSi  po^ds! 
..1    *;  t^\^^'"'y-"'"th  ol   March,  an  event  occurred  in  Ipswich, 

winch  caused  great  (^^cltement  in  Essex  county.     On  that  day,  one 

« i't  hp-'^'''''"'T'"'''''''^  i"-  ^J'''"^^'"'''  '"'^^  '  '^''"^  that  night  break  prison,' 
'It  being,'  as  the  record  informs  us,  '  the  first  offenc^.,  of  this  nature 
committed  m  this  country.'  "auirc 

The  jailer,  Theophilu"s  Wilson,  deposes,  that,  on  that  day, 'he, 
accoi-ding  to  order  ol  court,  put  him  into  prison,  and  lockt  the^  dore 
fast,  and  pui  the  hasp  on  to  the  staple  on  the  onts„de  of  the  dore 

^t  ^Zm't"  '"  '"'"'''  '"^  ^"^'  "'  '"'^^'^^  ormeans  of  S 
It  was  afterward  discovered  that  some  of  J.  P.'s  jieighbors,  not 
hking  his  confinement,  went  to  Ipswich  in  the  night,  ^unhasped  the 
dore  on  the  ..Asy^V  and  so  forth,  and  let  him  return  home!  ^ 
In  the  quarterly  court  records,  I  find  the  followin<r- 

'  Wo,  .Tame.  Ordway,  John  Woolcot.  Peter  Godfrey  and  Joshua  Woodman 
do  acknowl.-dcje  that  we  are    ustly  to  he  hlamed  to  come  into  the  seats  of  S 
men  .■ontrnry  to  the  order  of  the  selectmen  and  liereb^L  presets  we  do 
en^a,.e  ourselves  that  we  w  11  keep  to  our  own  .seats  and  L  distmb  any  it 
June  1665.'  ^  """'''       ^ '"'  <'"^'-S«nent  was  unto  the  selectmen  the  \S  of 

The  cause  of  their  ofl-ence  was  an  apprehension  that  the  select- 
seats  m  the  gallery  and  assigneil  them  to  some  individuals.     They 


*  Roxbury  clui 


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HISTORY    OF    MEWUUlir. 


therefore  took  possession  of  these  seats,  to  which  the  selectmen  had 
not  given  them  any  right.  Hence  there  was  a  contention  in  the 
meeting-house,  a  summons  for  them  to  appear  at  court,  and  a  set- 
tlement by  their  promise  to  behave  better  in  time  to  come. 

'  Tlie  winter  was  very  moderate.     No  Irost  in  t!ic  giouiul  till  the 
twentieth  of  December.'  * 


1663. 

^Januan/2Gfh.  There  was  an  earthquake,  at  the  shutting  in  of 
the  evening,'  one  of  the  greatest  in  New  England,  and  on  February 
fifth,  another.  The  first  shock  continued  above  half  an  hour.  On 
the  same  day,  at  evening,  another,  and  did  not  cease  till  July 
following. 

On  the  records  of  the  court  at  Salem,  I  find  the  following,  namely : 

'  3Iaij  5th,  1663.  Lydia  Waiilwell  on  her  presontmont  for  cominc^  naked  into 
Newbiiry  meeting  lionwe.  The  sentence  of  the  court  is,  that  she  shall  be 
severely  whipt  ami  ]):iy  tlie  costs  and  fees  to  the  inarHhall  of  Ilfimpton  for 
bringing  hei.     Costs,  ton  shillings,  fees  two  shillings  and  Sixpence. 

The  maiden  name  of  the  person,  who  was  induced  to  make  such 
an  exhibition  in  Newbury  meeting-house,  in  the  time  of  worship, 
was  Lydia  Perkins,  but  at  this  tiiiu^  the  wift.'  of  Eliakim  Wardweli 
of  Hampton.  The  story  is  thus  told  liy  O'eorge  Bishop,  in  his 
*  New  England  Judged.'  It  is  proper  to  stati',  that,  so  I'ar  as  I 
know,  he  is,  with  one  {>xcci)tioii,  the  only  writer,  who  attempts  to 
justify  conduct  so  strange  and  fanatical. 

'  His  wife  Lydia,  lieing  a  young  and  tender  cliaste  woman,  seeing  the  wick- 
edness of  your  priests  aini  rulers  to  her  husband,  was  not  at  all  oll'ended  with 
the  truth,  but  as  your  wickedness  abounded,  so  she  withdrew  and  separated 
from  \ our  church  at  Newbury,  of  which  she  was  sometimes  a  member,  and 
hcin^  given  vp  to  the  huulintr  of  the  Loril.  after  she  had  been  often  sent  for  to 
come  thither,  to  uive  a  reason  ot  such  a  si^paration,  it  being  at  length  upon  iier 
in  the  consideration  of  ttieir  miserable  condition,  who  were  thus  blinded  with 
ignorance  and  persf^cuticju,  to  go  to  them,  and  as  a  sign  to  th(>m  she  went  in 
(though  it  was  exceeding  hard  to  her  modest  and  sliamefacf'd  disposition,) 
naked  amongst  them,  which  put  them  into  such  a  rage,  iusti^ad  of  consideration, 
they  soon  laid  hands  on  her.  a ud  to  the  lunt  court  at  I|)swich  liad  her,  where 
without  law  they  coudenmed  her  to  be  tved  to  the  feuce-])0st  of  the  tavern 
where  they  sat  —  and  there  sorely  lashed  her  with  twenty  or  thirty  cruel  stripes. 
And  this  is  tiie  discipline  of  the  church  of  Newbury  iu  \ew  England,  and  this 
is  their  religion,  and  their  usage  ol  tin-  liaudmaid  o(  the  J^ord.  who  in  a  great 
cross  to  her  natural  temper,  came  thus  among  lliem,  a  si^'u  indeed,  siirniticatory 
enough  to  them,  and  suitable  to  their  slate,  who  under  the  visor  of  religion, 
were  thu.s  blinded  into  cruel  persecution.' 

In  the  same  year  I  fuid  the  following,  namely: 

'  Elizabeth  Webster  for  faking  a  fanlse  oath.  The  sentence  of  the  court  i.s  that 
she  shall  stand  at  the  meeting  hou«e  dore  at   Newbury  the  next  lecture  day 

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from  tlie  imping  tlio  first  bt-ll^  until  the  minister  be  ready  to  begin  praver 
with  a  paper  on  her  head,  written  in  capifall  letters,  (for  taking  a  false  oath 
IN  roL-RT.)  the  constabh.  to  see  It  done  o,-  el«e  ,o  paye  a  fine  of  five  ponnds  to 
he  treasurer  and  to  be  .hsabird  Iron,  )ak,„j.  an  oath,  and  to  pay  cost  rnd  fees ' 
'  She  made  choiee  to  stand  at  the  doore.  *  i   J    "=>'  »ot-8- 

At  the  same  court,  *  John  Emery  was  fined  four  poutitls  for  enter- 
taiiiiiig  (luakers.' 

His  offbnce  consisted  in  granting  food  and  lodging  to  two  men 
and  two  women,  who  wi-re  traveling  farther  east.      One  of  the 
witnesses  '  testified  that  he  [John  Emeryj  took  them  by  the  hand 
and  bid  them  welcome.'    I  shall  make  no  comments  on  these  extracts 
nor  any  apology  for  inserting  them.     The  duty  of  an  historian  is  to 
Jmd  iacts,  and  not  to  make  tliem.     An  accurate  picture  of  the  sun 
should  exhibit  its  spots  as  well  as  its  brightness.     To  veil  the  one 
or  omil  the  other,  woidd  be  a  caricature,  and  not  a  likeness,  and! 
should  the  features  I  have  attempted  to  delineate,  heu  or  elsewhere 
be  deemed  harsh  and  repulsive,  the  blame  should  be  cast,  not  on  the 
accui-icy  of  the  painter,  but  the  inherent  ugliness  of  the  subject. 
Ihe  first  settlers  of  New  England  were  a  noble  race  of  men,  and 
the  wo.ider  is,  not  that  they  had  iaults,  but  that  they  were  so  feW  in 
comparison  with  all  other  sects  and  people  of  tlie  age  in  which  thev 
lived.    In  the  language  of  Bancroft, '  they,  of  all  contemporary  sects 
were  the  most  free  from  credulity,  and  in  their  ;^eal  for  reform  pushed 
their  regulations  to  what  some  would  consider  a  skeptical  extreme 
too  many  superstitions  had  been  bundled  up  with  every  venerable 
institution  oi  Europe,  that  ages  have  not  yet  dislodged  them  all. 
Ihe  puritans  at  once  emancijjaled  themselves  from  a  crowd  of 
observances.     They  established   a  worship   purely   spiritual.     To 
IJiem  the  elements  remained  but  bread  and  wine ;  they  invoked  no 
saints  ;  they  raised  no  altar;  they  adored  no  crucifix;  they  kissed 
no  book ;  they  asked  no  absolution  ;  tliey  paid  no  tithes ;  they  saw 
in  the  priest  nothing  more  than  a  mtm.     The  church,  as  a  place  of 
worship  was  to  them  but  a  meeting  house;  they  dug  no  gt-aves  in 
consecrated  earth.     Unlike  their  posterity,  they  raaWied  without  a 
minister,  and  buried  the  di!ad  without  a  prayer.' 

On  March  thirty-first,  doctor  Henry  Greenland  was  found  guilty 
of  the  charge  preferred  against  him  by  Mary  Rolfe.  The  court 
sentenced  him  '  to  be  imprisoned  till  next  sessions  of  the  court,  then 
to  be  whipt  or  pay  a  fine  of  thirty  pounds  and  be  bound  to  good 
behaviour.'  ° 

One  of  die  vdtnesses  in  his  behalf,  testified,  that  'he  had  been  a 
soldier,  and  was  a  gentleman,  and  they  must  have  their  libertyes ' 
Another  asserted,  that,  as  he  was  a  stranger,  and  a  '  great  man,  it 

Trivatel    '  """^  ^'^  "'         ""'  "^''"'''  ^"*  ^"^  ^''^  him  goe  away 

r.n^.?in^w'h"**Vf  T'^  ^^  September,  1664,  he  was  convicted,  with 
captain  Walter  Bai-efoote,  of  an  assault  on  William  Thomas,  and 

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Richard  Dole,  He  was  again  finod  and  bound  to  kc(>p  the  peace. 
He  appealed  to  the  general  court,  who  eonlirined  his  sentence,  and 
ordered  him  'to  depart  the  jnrisdielion  and  not  to  practice  physic  or 
surgery.'  From  KiGG  to  li}72  he  was  living  in  Kiltery,  where,  for 
the  i)resent,  Wd  will  leave  him. 

June  ISt/i.  John  and  R(!becca  Bishop  sold  to  Peter  Cheney  <  all 
the  mill  and  mill  house  lately  erectcKl  in  Newbury  on  the  little  river 
with  the  stone,  wheel,  and  so  forth,  and  so  forth,  for  two  hundred  and 
fifty  pounds  sterling.' 

Juli/  2Qth.  This  day  the  reverend  John  Woodbridge  returned 
from  England,  where  he  had  resided  about  sixteen  years. 

He  was  immediately  engaged  to  assist  his  uncle  Parker  in 
preaching.  The  town  voted  him  thirty  pounds  for  the  first  half  year, 
beginning  the  twenty-fifth  of  September,  '  for  his  encouragement  in 
the  ministry.' 

November  10th.  '  The  country  way  according  to  ordcT  of  court 
was  laid  out  from  Mill  bridge  to'Rowley  bounds,'  notwithstanding 
the  town's  remonstrance. 

As  this  'countiy  way'  was  laid  out  in  a  new  place,  causing  the 
town  much  expense,  the  inhabitants  had  remonstrated  in  a  petition 
sent  to  the  general  court  the  preceding  June.  Among  other  thing's, 
they  state,  '  wee  have  already  for  many  yeares  made  and  njaintained 
an  ancient  country  roau  according  to  the  order  of  the  general  court, 
according  to  which  our  towne  hu\h  been  rnodelk'd  and  men  have 
built  and  fenced,  and  also  our  ferry  constituted,  whereas  our  towne 
might  otherwise  have  been  modelfed  with  gre;>t  convenience,  had  it 
not  been  for  the  country  high  way.  All  which  notwithstanding,  the 
honorable  county  court  is  pleased  to  impose  upon  us  this  new  coun- 
try high  way,  and  have  enjoined  us  under  a  fine  to  make  a  way 
over  a  great  marsh  of  about  a  hundred  rotl  l)y  the  end  of  June, 
which  the  towne  are  in  no  wise  comfortably  capable  to  perform ' 
Alter  speaking  of  'the  extreme  charge,  which  the  towne  necessarily 
would  be  put  to,'  '  in  purchasing  huul  llirough  men's  proprietyes  near 
three  mile,'  which  must  be  fenced,  and  bridges  buiU  over  several  con- 
siderable swamps  and  small  brooks,  and  so  forth, '  beside  the  rairy- 
nesse  of  the  said  waye  and  unevenness  of  it  by  n-ason  of  the  rocky 
and  low  lande,  through  which  the  way  is  to  gt)e,'  tlu-y  then  pefition 
the  general  court, '  that  so  great  a  burthen 'may  not  be  imijosed 
upon  us  but  that  the  country  may  be  satisfied  with  the  old  antient 
country  roade,  which  we  have  from  the  beginninge  of  our  towne 
maintained,'  or  '  that  their  fine  may  be  remitted,  and  that  the  said 
new  Witye  may  be  purchased,  made  and  maintained  at  the  charo-e 
of  the  coun'jy  or  county,  or  by  those  that  have  occasion  to  make 
use  thtu-eof.'     June  second,  1GG3. 

Jocelyn,  who  was  in  New  FiUgland  this  year,  thus  writes : 
'  On  the  south  side  of  INTerrimack  river, Vnd  nciu  upon  the  wide 
venting  streams  thereof,  is  sifuat(>d  Newberrie.     The  houses  are 
scattering,  well  stored  with  meadow,  upland,  and  arable,  an.d  about 
four  hundred  head  of  cattle.' 


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March.     On  petition  of  lieutenant  John  Piiie,  an  acre  of  'land 
eight  rods  broad  and  twenty-two  long  was  laid  out  to  his  brother 
Thomas  Turvill,  beginning  at  a    stake  near  the    spring   between 
Henry  Jaques'  and  (reorgei  Littles'  for  to  set  up  tanning  of  leather 
provided  he  follow  his  trade  of  tanning.'  ^  ' 

Mai/  Gth.  '  All  horses  and  dry  cattle  to  i)e  cleared  out  of  Plurn 
island,  and  all  fences  to  be  made  up  by  the  tiiirteenth  of  May.'  * 

Jvljj  6th.  '  Giles  Cromwell  is  to  keep  the  boys  in  order  in  the 
meeting  house,  and  to  give  notice  to  selectmen  oY  such  as  are  out 
of  ordi'r,  and  to  have  six  shillings  for  his  payiu-s.'* 

October  2m.  '  ]Major  part  of  the  towne  voted  that  Mr.  Parker 
should  have  but  sixty  ])ounds  per  year.'  *= 

Here  we  have  indirectly  the  lirst  inlimation  of  any  dilTiculty 
between  the  reverend  ]Mr.  Parker  and  a  portion  of  the  church.  It 
had  been  of  long  standin-,  and  originated,  as  we  shall  see  hereafter, 
not  from  any  dillen^nce  in  point  of  doctrine,  or  want  of  personal 
respect  and  esteem,  but  solely  from  his  change  of  views  respecting 
church  government.  Their  first  recorded  manifestation  of  their 
disapproval  of  tiiis  change  was  the  reduction  of  his  salary,  but  the 
next  June,  their  sense  of  justice  induced  tii(;m  to  raise  it 'again  to 
eighty  pounds,  per  aimum,  which,  notwithstanding  all  the  subse- 
quent didiculties,  in  which  he  was  involved  in  consequence  of  his 
change  of  opinion  respecting  church  government  and  discipline, 
was  regularly  paid  to  him  through  life. 

/wrtc  26th.  'About  this  time  bega  the  blasting  of  the  wheat  to  be 
perceived.'  f  This  was  construed  by  the  quakers  as  a  judgment 
from  God,  an  evident  token  of  his  displeasure  against  the  people 
of  Massachusetts  for  the  cruel  persecutions,  which  had  been  inflicted 
on  many  of  that  persuasion  in  the  state  some  years  before.  Similar 
opinions  were  at  this  time  entertained  by  all  denominations  of 
christians.  If  any  calamity  should  fall  upon  their  opponents,  it  was 
a  judgment ;  if  on  themselves,  it  was  a  trial. 


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1665. 

'Town  voted  to  pay  forty  shillings  for  every  wolf  that  is  killed 
wilhiii  the  towne.'  ^ 

June  'S(l.  Town  voted  that  Mr.  Parker '  shall  have  eighty  pounds 
a  year,  and  Mi-.  Woodbridge  sixty  jiounds.' 

November  Isf.  '  It  was  voted  whether  Mr.  Woodbridge  should 
be  chosen  by  papers  to  preach  to  the  towne  for  one  year.  There 
W(>re  four  votes  in  the  allirmalivi!  and  thirty-one  blanks'.'  * 

December  25fh.  Anthony  Morse,  senior,  is  to  keep  the  meeting- 
house  and  ring  tlie  i)ell, '  see  that  the  house  be  cleane  swept,  and  the 


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glasse  of  the  windows  to  be  carefully  look't  unto,  if  any  should 
happen  to  he  loosed  with  the  wind,  to  he  utiilnl  r/osr  (ii>mri.'  ^ 

'  Th(>  winler  of  l()(3l-(j"j  was  mild  and  niodcinle  till  the  middle  of 
the  month.  On  llu^  fourth  of  February  a  comet  disapix^ared,  whieh 
had  l)een  visible  from  the  sevent(>enth  of  Noveml)er  KiOl.' 

'  Winter  and  sunmi(>r  wheat  ai^ain  struck  wilh  mildew.'  f 

At  the  close  of  this  summer,  Philip  Carteret,  haviiif^;  been  appointed 
governor  of  Nt.-w  Jersey,  settled  at  Elizabclhtown,  which  he  made 
the  seat  of  his  government,  and  despniched  agents  into  New  Eng- 
land to  pul)lisli  the  constitulion  and  invito  cmigTanls.  In  conse- 
quence of  this  invitation,  several  persons  went  from  Newbury  and 
settled  in  a  township,  which,  in  honor  of  the  reverend  John  Wood- 
bridge,  of  Newbury,  Mas  called  Woodbridge,  whieh  name  it  still 
retains.  Of  these  emigrants  from  Newbury  some  returned,  while 
others  remained,  and  became  distinguished  both  in  civil  and  military 
life.  Among  them  may  be  mentioned  the  names  of  captain  John 
Pike,  the  ancestor  of  general  Zebulon  Montgomery  Pike,  who  was 
killed  at  the  ])altle  of  (^.tieenstown  in  1812,  Thomas  Blooinfield,  the 
ancestor  of  Joseph  Blooinfield,  for  some  years  governor  of  New 
Jersey,  John  Bisho]i,  senior  and  junior,  Jonathan  Haynes,  Henry 
Jaqnes,  (xeorgc  March,  Stephen  K(>iit,  Al)raham  Toppan,  junior, 
Elisha  Ilsley,  Hugh  March,  John  Bloomfield,  Samuel  Moore, 
Nathaniel  Webster,  John  Ilsley,  and  others. 

Daniel  Pierce  bought  a  tract  of  land  in  New  Jersey  of  Mr.  Ogden 
Luke  Watson,  and  sold  it  1o  Henry  Jatpxes. 

This  year  Thomas  Thorlay  killed  seven  wolves  in  Newbury. 


1666. 

'  March  Stk.  Liberty  was  granted  to  such  as  would  build  a 
shelter  for  horses,  by  goodman  [Abraham]  Toppan's  fence, provided 
they  do  not  make  it  above  twelve  loot  high.'  =* 

March  12th.  The  town  ordered  that  a  small '  house  shall  be  built 
for  shelter  of  the  herdsmen,  and  a  large  pen  for  the  cattle,  and  two 
herdsmen  shall  attend  the  cattle  all  suuuner  to  keep  them  from 
coming  to  the  lower  commons  [below  Artichoke  river]  and  pen 
them  every  night.'  =^ 

April  25th.  '  Voted  that  Mr.  Parker's  eighty  pounds  by  the  yeare 
shoiild  be  paid  him  yearly  and  Mr.  Woodbrid  .•  to  have  sixty  pounds 
a  year  till  further  order.'  ^ 

'  An  army  of  caterpillars  came  this  season,  and  a  severe  drought.' 
*  Wheat  mildewed  again.'  f  '  The  canker  worm  first  appeared  in 
New  England  this  year.' 


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1007. 

'  At  a  general  meeting  of  llu;  town,  March  first,  Mr.  Woodlmdge 
was  voted  (man  by  man  called  over,)  to  have  sixty  pounds  a  year 
for  preaching.'  * 

'  Winter  very  moderate,  little  snow  or  bad  weather.' 


1008. 

In  June  the  selectmon  and  other  inhabitants  of  Newbury  petitioned 
the  court  at  Salem  that  'caj)tain  Paul  White  be  licensed  to  sell 
wine  out  of  dores  by  retaile  tor  the  necessary  relief  of  some  sick  or 
oflier  indigent  persons  by  whom  the  churt;hes  exigencies  have  sundry 
times  been  supplied,  who  also  may  the  more  conveniently  accom- 
modate  the  churches  occasions  from  lime  to  time,  until  some  man 
be  licensed  to  keep  ordinary  iiere.' 

By  lliis  it  appears,  that,  at  this  time,  there  was  no  '  ordinary,'  or,  in 
other  words,  no  tavern  in  Ncnvbiiry.  From  ()lh(>r  documents  in  the 
general  court  records  we  learn  tiial  it  was  dillicult,  and  for  a  timi; 
impossible,  to  induce  any  person  to  open  a  public  iiouse  for  the 
accommodation  of  travelers,  and  so  forth.  At  last  Hugh  March 
consent(!d  to  leave  his  farm  and  conunence  the  tav(.'rn  keeping  on  a 
large  scale  in  the  year  J()7().  His  expenses,  as  he  himself  informs 
us,  for  htting  up  his  house,  stables,  and  so  forth,  were  more  than 
five  hundred  pounds  — a  large  sum  for  those  days.  His  stand, 
which  was,  for  many  years,  a  noted  place,  was  nv.nv  the  head  of 
Marlborough  street,  on  the  spot  where  Messrs.  John  and  St(!pheu 
Ilsley  now  reside.  In  UiTo  he  petitioned  'against  Paul  White's 
selling  wine,'  stating  that  'so  it  is  that  captain  White  under  colour 
ot  providing  \\w  sacranieiit  wines,  doth  frequently  retaile  wines  unto 
the  inhai)itaMts  and  others  to  the  damage  and  disabiingyour])etitioner,' 

The  quantity  of  wine  used  on  sacramental  occasions  during  the 
year,  was,  as  w(;  shall  h(>reafler  see,  very  gresit. 

'Mnrc/i.  2'1.  Town  voted  counting  man  bv  man,  that  IMr.  Wood- 
bridge  shall  have  sixty  pounds  a  yean;  for  hi:,  preatrhing.'  *  This 
was  conlinued  till  IMay  twenly-first,  1G70,  when  the  town  voted  that 
'  the  order  should  be  void.'  * 

In  this  year  the  meeting-house  was  again  'seated,'  and  a  watch- 
house  built  on  the  east  side  of  the  upper  green. 

3I(irr/i.  '  The  town  ordered  that  no  horses  shall  be  lyed  loWiln 
side  or  ?/v7//f)?/^  side  the  fence 'by  the  meeting-house  gate,  'under 
penalty  ***^*  for  each  oflenee.'  # 

Tradition  informs  us  that  the  meeting-house  was  surronnded  with 
'pales,'  through  which,  by  a  gate  or  gates,  tli(>  meeliug-house  was 
entered.  Near  these  gates  the  horses  were  tied,  and'  they  would 
frequently  get  across  the  path,  often  to   the  great  inconvenience  of 

*  Town  I'prords, 


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those,  who  wished  to  ^o  \o  '  inecliiif^.'  This  iiiduci-d  the  seU-ofmcn 
to  prohibit  all  porsouH  I'rom  tyinf»  lh(!ir  horses  outside  ol"  the  fence. 
To  their  great  surprise,  however,  they  ioiiiid  on  liie  next  pnbUc 
meeting,  several  horses  '  tyed  '  itisitfr  the  I'enee.  This  eaused  them 
to  make  the  order  above-mentioned,  forbidding  all  persons  hereafter 
to  tie  their  horses  any  where,  either  inside  the  fence  or  otif.  Thus 
inueh  tradition,  whieh  dori't,.  ome  <  inhrmation  from  the  onU-r 
just  mentioned,  a  great  part  of  wliich  on  the  origininal  record,  is 
entirely  illegil)le. 

December  lid.  '  Tiu'  selectmen  granted  liberty  to  five  persons  to 
build  a  pew  for  their  wives  at  the  east  end  of  the  south  gallery  to 
the  pulpit.'  *  'I'his  was  probably  the  first  pew  ever  buUt  in  the 
'  meeting  house.' 

Deeemher  2lst.  A  road  was  laid  out '  from  Goodwin's  ferry  to 
Amesbury  mill,'  and  '  one  from  Newbury  to  Rowley  village,'  now 
Bradford. 

Aprd.  Salisbury  new  town  was  called  Amesbury,  and  a  ferry 
established  there.f 

1G09. 

The  ecclesiastical  diinenlties,  with  which,  in  a  greater  or  less 
degree,  the  whole  town  had  been  agitated  for  the  last  twenty-lour 
years,  had  at  this  time  arisen  to  such  a  height,  that  an  appeal  to  the 
civil  authority  was  deemed  ne(H'ssary  in  order  to  adjust  thcnr  ditl't-r- 
ences  and  restore  harmony  among  them.  The  primary  cause  of 
the  disturbances,  was  a  change  of  sentiment,  which  Messrs.  Parker 
and  Noyes  manifested,  respecting  church  government  and  discipline, 
as  early  as  1040,  as  may  bi;  setm  in  th(!  former  part  of  this  book. 
In  1647  Mr.  Noyes  ])ublished  in  London  a  large  quarto  work  of 
ninety-live  pages,  entitled  the  '  Temple  measunxl  or  a  brief  survey 
of  the  Temple  mystical,  which  is  the  instituted  church  of  Christ.' 
Of  the  author,  the  preface,  written  by  another  hand,  thus  speaks:  'he 
is  altogether  iVee  from  a  spirit  of  faction,  seeking  only  truth  and 
satisfaction;  and  therefore  he  hath  ingeniously  laid  down  his 
judgment,  which  is  in  some  things  coincident  with  the  judgment 
of  the  reverend  presbvtcrs  of  New  England  :  in  soin.'  things  con- 
senting with  our  reverend  assembly  herein  Knghmd  and  in  some 
things  distant  from  them  both  ;  being  neither  for  Aristotle,  nor  for 
Plato,  I)ut  for  trutli;  neither  for  Paul  nor  for  Apollos  but  for  t'hrist.' 

The  sentiments  of  Mr.  Noyes  may  be  l(!arned  from  the  following 
extracts  from  the  work  abov(>  mentioned. 

'  The  church  is  to  be  carried,  not  to  carry;  to  obey,  not  to  com- 
mand; to  be  subject,  not  to  govern.'  In  another  place  he  thus 
writes:  'if  all  nK^mbers,  young  and  old,  children  and  men,  if  thou- 
sands together  nmst  judgu  and  govern  upon  conscience  together 
with  the  presbytery,  first,  it  must  needs  interrupt  the  work.     Second, 


*  Town  records. 


t  Colonial  records. 


HISTORY    OF   NEWnURy. 


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it  is  work  enough,  a  doii))lR  labour  for  the  elders  (o  inslruet  the 
church  how  to  judge.  Tlu-re  is  more  time  .spcut  in  informing  the 
ehurefi,  than  m  determining  the  case.  Must  eld-rs  hold  the  hands 
ot  the  common  meml)ers  (us  the  master  teaclieiii  sehohirs  to  write) 
und  act  only  by  them  ?  Third,  pride  is  an  epidemical  disease  in  a  dem- 
ocralical  government.  Who  is  sulhcient  lo  hold  tlu-  reins  of  author- 
ity ?  Where  there  are  no  standing  magistrates  in  the  commonwealth, 
and  in  the  church,  no  governors  at  all,  the  oH'spring  is  like  to  be 
an  Ichabod.  P'ourth,  confusion  and  disonh^r  are  inevitable.  Tarba 
riiunt.  I'he  church  ought  to  bi-  a  pattern  of  punctual  order.  A 
democracie  is  called  by  Plato,  nundines  populares.  Fifth,  as  a 
church  must  needs  be  too  long  a  doing  by  so  many,  when  it  is  easy, 
so  It  must  needs  be  done  too  soon  by  such  as  are  precipitant,  when 
it  is  diflicult.  Some  are  i onscientrous  and  scrupulous,  others 
unreasonable,  ignorant,  youthful.  This  is  a  paidocracy  as  well  as  a 
democracy.     The  seat  of  government  is  the  seat  of  wisdom.' 

Similar  sentii.ients  were  embraced,  we  have  reason  to  believe,  bv 
Messrs.    Parker  and   Woodl)ridge.     Of  the   former,  the  reverena 
Nicholas  Noyes,  in  his  letter  in  the  Magnalia,  expressly  says:  «  he 
no  ways  approved  of  a  gorerniiig'  vote  in  the  fraternity,  but  took 
their  consent  in  a  silential  way.'     Of  his  uncle,  Mr.  Jarnes   Noyes, 
he  thus  \vTites :  'they  who  differed  from  him  in  smaller  matters  as 
to  discipline,  held  a  most  amical)le  corresj)ondence  with  him,'  and  that 
during  the  time  of  his  ministry,  which  ended  by  his  death  in  16-56 
there  was  not '  any  considcrnble  trouble  in  the  church.'     That  occa- 
sional difficulties  had  arisen  between  the  ministers  and  the  people, 
we  have  sulFicient  testimony.     Differing  as  they  did  on  the  question 
mto  whose  hands  the  power  of  church  discipline  was  committed, 
occasions  of  disagreement  must  of  necessity  have  arisen,  especially 
among  a  people  so  tenacious   of  their   supposed  rights,  and  so 
exceedingly  jealous  of  every   real  or  apparent  encroachment  on 
their  power.     After  the  return  of  Mr.  John  Woodbridge  from  P::ng- 
land,  in  1663,  he  was  employed  by  the  town  to  assist  his  uncle 
Parker  in  preaching.     We  find  no  recortl  of  any  difficulty  between 
thein  and  the  j)eople,  till   November  first,  1665,  when  "the  record 
informs  us,  that  thirty-five  votes  '  by  papers,'  were  cast,  of  which 
four  votes  were  for  him,  and  thirty-five  were  blaiiK  .     Mr.   Wood- 
bridge  continued  to  preach  to  the'people,  by  an  annual  vote  of  the 
town,  with  a  salary  of  sixty  pounds  a  year,  till  November  twenty, 
first,^  1670,  when  the  town  agreed  to  employ  him  no  longer.     From 
166-5  to  1669,  there  is  great  reason  to  believe,  that  the  whole  church 
and  town  were  •     a  very  excited  and  unbrothcrly  state,  not  from  any 
dislike  to  the  doctrine,  or  objection  to  the  character,  of  either  Mr. 
Parker  or  Mr.  Woodbridge,  for  they  were   both  highly  esteemed,' 
and  honored,  but  from  a  real  or  supposed  infringement  of  their 
rights  and  privileges  as  men  and  christians.    The  church  was  divided 
into  two  nearly  equal  parties,  the  one  was  called  Mr.  Parker's  party, 
and  the  other,  Mr.  Woodman's  party,  so  called  from  Mr.  Edwai-d 
Woodman,  a  man  of  talents,  influence,  firmness,  and  decision.    As 
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HISTORY    OF    NKWBUny. 


our  chnr(;h  n^oorda  prior  to  1074  hrx'vr.  hvm  lost  or  dostroyrd,  \\l^ 
extract  tlie  lollow  iii^drmilcd  uctouiiI  IVorn  tlur  records  of  iIr-  qimrtcrly 
(!Oiirt  ul  Sulcm,  whore  tlicy  may  be  I'ound  on  lilt;. 

'To  the  honored  roint  now  .siltiiiyr  lit  Ipswich,  Miirc}i  tliiiticth,  t<;nn.' 

'  VVt'  « liosc  niiiufs  are  iiniUMwrittcii,  lor  oiirMclvf-  aiul  olhcrs  ihe  iiiluibi- 
ttvntH  of  \('\\  Imry,  doo  liumltly  prcsciil,  lhoii;,'li  to  our  irreat  fff'*'*-  l''''t  ^^f- 
Kdwnrtl  Woodman  npakc  in  a  town  asHcnilily  tielbrf)  8trnni;t>rH  nnl)li(|ut'ly  on 
Marcli  lirMt,  Hitiit.  lluit  Mr.  John  VVoodhridno  was  an  intruder,  hron^'lil  in  by 
cratt  and  f*nl)tilty.  and  wo  ke[)t  in,  notwillistandinff  he  was  voatetl  out  twieo, 
whieh  wo  l«now  to  he  untrue,  ami  look  U|)ou  as  scandalous.  Also  he  said  to  Mr. 
Parker  tluit  he  was  an  apostate  and  l)ackslider  from  the  truth,  that  he  would  set 
up  a  iirelacy.  and  have  more  [)ower  than  the  pope,  for  the  popi-  had  his  council 
of  cardinals,  that  liis  practice  or  actinias  di<l  not  tenil  to  |)eace  or  salvation,  that 
lie  was  the  cau,-io  of  all  our  contention  and  misery.  That  you  are  un  apostuto 
and  backslider.' 

'  Also  he  said  to  captain  Gerrish  thnt  he  was  no  lover  of  the  truth,  that  his 
gray  hairs  would  stand  wliere  captain  (ierrish  his  bald  pate  would,  all  which  we 
liumbly  conceive  tends  not  only  to  the  re|)roach  of  the  parties  concerned,  l)Ut 
to  the  creat  ilisturbaneo  of  our  peace  both  civil  ami  ecclesiastical,  ami  thereforH 
l(!ave  it  to  the  serious  eonsideraliou  of  this  honored  court  for  some  suitable 
redress  as  they  shall  think  me<'t. 

RtcirAnn  Kbnt. 
Witnesses.  Hknry   Shoht. 

Nicholas  Noyf.s.  Anthony  iSoMiiHDY. 

Ensijifn  John    Knight. 

TmSTKAM    COKFIN. 

Tho.mas  Hale,  senior. 

JosKI'll    Mr/./KY. 

Nathaniel  C'lauki:.' 

The  following  dt-po.fiiions  wore  also  taken  and  pnt  on  file  : 

'The  denosition  of  James  Ordway,  Abraham  Merrill,  and  John  Bftyley.' 
'  These  deponents  say  that  when  Mr.  Woodman  sailh  that  Mr.  Parker  was 
the  occasion  of  these  contentions  by  Iris  apostacy  and  declensiou  (he  added) 
from  the  principle.s  that  you  have  picached  and  practised,  and  also  proved  by 
the  wonl  of  God,  that  men's  consciences  were  engaged  in  it  that  they  cannot 
depart  froui  it  unto  this  day.' 

'  Sworn  in  court,  the  thiilieth  of  March,  16(J9.' 

'  "Richard  Bartlef,  JaTnef5  Ordway.  and  Jolni  F-mery.' 

'  We  testily  that  Mi.  Parker  in  a  ]iublic  meeting  said  thai  for  the  time  to  come 
I  am  resolved  uothinij  shall  be  brougiit  into  the  Chinch,  but  it  .shall  be  brought 
lirst  to  nu>,  and  if  1  approve  of  it,  it  shall  be  biought  in 
it,  it  shall  not  be  brought  in.' 


1,  if  I  do  not  approvo 
Sworn  as  above. 


'The  depositions  of  John  Emery,  .senior,  John  Emery,  junior,  Abraham 
Merrill,  and  John  Uayley.' 

'  These  deponents  say  that  as  Mr.  AVooduum  was  speaking  in  the  meeting', 
March  first,  KjfiO.  captain  Gerrisli  stood  up  and  interrupted  him.  nu'utioning 
his  gray  hairs.  Mr.  Woodnuin  said,  captain  Gerrish,  my  gi'ay  hairs  will  stand 
ill  any  place  v.lieie  your  bald  head  will  stand.' 

Sworn  as  above. 

'  The  deposition  of  William  Titcomb,  John  Emery,  Rtil)ert  Coker  and  Thomas 
Browne.' 

'  These  deponents  say  that  upon  the  Lord'.-^  day,  the  twenty-first  of  March, 
Ititi'J,  after  the  exercise   was  ended,  Mr.  Parker  put   this   to   the   member*. 


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That  tho«o  thiit  nw  for  tli.>  .iiMconliniiaiu-.!  of  mvponsin  Wrm.lhii.lirn  in  thn  wiiv 
ol  pii'iu-lm.-,',  iu*lonii..||yholiulli<lom)  until  luVtlicr  oidi-r  hv  takrn,  lot  llu-ni 
upeak.  ' 

'  Aft.MwarJ.  ^I^.  I'arkflr  exi)r..».i.il  thim,  tho«e  ihat  nrn  I,,,-  it.„  ..nntinimnce  of 
rnyoouMi.  Woo.ll.ruljr,,  ui  th.<  uuy  ..I  punching  an  lormorly  he  hulh  done  let 
tJiL'm  express  tlu'ni.>(elvL'.i  by  their  siloaco.' 

Sworn,  and  ho  forth. 

Sro  also  tli<«  fcstiniony  of  Pike,  Brown,  Emrry,  and  others,  in  tho 
lirHt  part  ol  tins  book-,  pa^cs  .sixtrcii  and  hcvcnlcVn. 

To  tlic  complaint  made  aj^ainst  him  to  ihu  court  at  Iprtwich,  Mr 
Woodman  r.>plicd.  This  occasioned  the  lollowinL'  answer  Ironi  Mr' 
Parker's  friends. 


'Whon.a.s  Mr  E.Uyar,!  Won.hnan  in  his  pl.-a  or  a.iswer  to  tho  charges 
exh.lMl.'d  against  hiin  liath  lal.our.'.l  to  provt.  Mr.  \Voo<ll)ii,ltr,.  to  be  voted  from 
piea.-hin- by  a  Umn  .•...•Old  dated  Alar.di  (ir.t,  Ki.W,  the  honoured  court  may 
}»l|.as.Mo  eoiiKuler,  lirst,  it  doth  not  upp.^ar  that  any  notice  was  «iven  to  tlio 
mhab.  ants  „|  that  pailn-nlar  re^p.-rting  Mr.  VVoodb.ldge's  preaching  and  «o  tho 
vote,  it  nnanitnouM,  had  been  invalid.  «       i  o 

J  '^'m'".' V''  ''',*'  ",''f  ;'■'  "'I'^  ''''"  ''  ''""*''^^''  "'■  '"■"  P"''''^  First,  whether  Mr. 
\\o...lbrulgo  should  be  .•hos,.n  to  pn-a.-h  to  ll...  town  for  f>ne  year.  S..<-ond. 
wheth.'r  he  shou  d  be  ehoscn  by  papers,  In  whirl,  it  may  be  ..bservd  that  tho 
vo  .,  was  not  understood  for  u.-ar  half  of  ll.,.  companv  sto.nl  oil  f.o.n  both  as  not 
willing  to  have  It  .)uesti.me<l  about  silencing  or  calling  Mr.  Woodbridge  from 
nreacliing  namely  to  tl...  number  of  thirl v-one  perso.is.  and  of  them  that  did  vote 
liy  papers  the  re..oi.  sa.th,  and  Mr.  Woodbridge  ack.mwle.l-eth,  that  four  of  them 
were  tor  Mr.  Wo.j. Ibr.,  g.Vs  p.-eat-hin-  which,  if  it  Ix-  taken  for  a  leiral  vote,  tho 
vote  was  for  Mr.  Woodbr..lg,.\s  pr.'achin-.  These  things  consideied  we  humblv 
eon....ive  there  will  be  no  looting  found  for  what  Mr.  Woodman  and  others  labour 
to  cloud  the  matter  withal.' 

After  hearing  tho  evidence  on  both  sidea,  the  court  pronounced 
the  following  sentence : 

'March  3011,  l(l(i!».  Having  heard  the  complaint  presented  to  thi.s  court 
a-a.nst  M.-.  Kdward  A\  oodman  we  ilo  judge  som.-  passag.-s  relating  to  Mr. 
larker  and  Mr,  Woodman  to  be  false  and  scandalous,  and  that  concerning 
captain  U-msb  r.'p.-oacd.lul  an.l  piovoking,  and  tl...  whol..  greatly  oli.msive,  and 
have  the...fo,.!  ord.-r...!  that  the  said  Mr.  \Voo,linan  shall  bti  seriously  and 
soltjinnly  a.lmonished  and  enjoined  to  mak.-  a  publiciue  confessi.m  at  tho  ne.xt 
publKpie  town  and  church  meeting  at  Newbury  of  lii.s  sinful  exp,,.s,sion.s  and 
just  olienee  that  ho  hath  given,  or  else  to  pay  five  pounds  costs  and  fees. 

'  I  dissent  from  this  sentence,  Samuel  Symoads. 

'  And  I  dissent,  William  Hathorne. 

Mr.  Woodman  appealed  from  this  judgment,  to  the  next  court  of 
assizes  at  Boston. 

From  this  it  appears  that  tlic  court  were  not  unanimous  in  their 
seiitcncc  against  Mr.  Woodman.  This  is  larther  evident  from  the 
lollowing  communication. 

'This  court  having  heard  the  complaint  made  unto  us  bv  certavne  members 
01  ttie  church  of  Newbury  auainst  Mr.  Edwaid  Woodman  (a  mVmber  of  the 
same  cliin.'h)  ot  several  ollensive  words  spok.'u  by  tho  said  Woo.lnuin  in  a 
town  meeting  against  the  reverend  I\lr.  Parker  then  pastor,  and  IHr.  Woodbridge, 


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HISTORY    OP   NEWBURY. 


who  hath  for  divers  years  exercised  his  gifts  amonj^st  them,  and  having  also 
heard  the  answer  of  the  said  Woodman  unto  the  particulars  e;»pressed  in  the 
complaint,  and  weii,'hing  the  testimonies  on  hotn  sides  sworn  in  the  case,  we 
apprehend  and  judge  as  followeth  namely.  That  several  words  and  passages 
in  the  wri'ing  or  complaint  presented  to  the  court  and  owned  by  himself  or 
proved  by  others,  especially  taken  merely  in  themselves  without  his  answer  and 
the  testimony  of  o'.hers  then  present,  are  highly  oif'ensive  and  scandalous.  But 
considering  his  answers  and  the  testimony  together  with  the  same,  we  find  the 
matter  t(/  be  much  alteredPfrom  what  the  naked  words  as  they  are  expressed  in 
the  writing  do  hold  forth.  We  perceive  that  a  great  part  (if  not  a  greater  part) 
of  that  churcii  doe  stand  for  the  congregational  way  of  church  government  and 
discipline  to  be  exercised  amongst  them  (which  is  the  way  the  churches  here 
doe  professe  to  the  whole  world  to  be  thf  way  and  only  way  according  to 
the  gospel  of  Christ,)  and  that  it  is  and  hath  been  for  a  long  time  a  very  great 
burthen  and  grievance  to  them,  that  they  have  not  freedom  in  that  respect, 
(where  there  is  occasion  of  actings)  as  by  the  word  of  God  they  ought  to  have, 
and  other  churches  have  in  this  country,  and  at  the  beginning  their  own  church 
also  cjuietly  did  enjoy  for  some  space  of  time,  and  that  the  alteration  hath 
occasioned  much  differences  and  unquiefiules  amongst  them.  The  whole  case 
thus  considered  and  weighed  together  the  court  doth  desire  and  require  that  all 
persons  concerned  on  both  sides,  for  the  future  doe  their  utmost  endeavour  to 
seUJe  truth  and  peace  amongst  them  and  freely  to  blame  themselves  at  a  con- 
veirent  church  meeting  for  their  errors  and  miscarriages  and  actings  or 
unbecoming  wo'-ls  in  their  publique  agitations,  and  that  Mr.  Woodman  in 
particular  should  soe  doe.' 

'  This  was  presented  to  this  court  as  a  suitable  determination  of  the  whole 
case,  heard  in  open  court  holden  at  Ipswich  March  thirtieth,  1669,  to  which  we 
subscribe 

Samuel  Symonds, 
Willi  A. M  Hatiiobne.* 


"M 


f  ',1 


This  '  (lelermination  of  the  whole  case,*  by  Messrs.  Symonds 
and  Hathorne,  did  not,  as  will  be  readily  supposed,  give  satisfaction 
to  either  parly,  especially  to  the  friends  of  Mr.  Parker.  On  the 
contrary,  those  who  had  connplained  to  the  court,  against  Mr. 
Woodman,  soon  after  sent  in  the  following  paper. 

*To  the  honored  court  now  sitting  at  Ipswich  this  twenty-eighth  of 
April  16b9. 

'  Whereas  upon  searching  the  court  records  we  find  a  paper  in  tlie  court 
beginning  [this  court  having  heard  the  complaynt  and  so  forth]  subscribed 
Samuel  Symonds,  William  Hathorne,  wherein  are  several  things  charged,  as 
we  apprehend  illegally,  on  sundry  among  us,  to  our  just  grief,  we  desire  the 
favour  of  the  court  to  accept  this  our  paper,  as  a  short  vindication  of  ourselves, 
till  the  opportunity  shall  be  offered  for  our  farther  clearing. 

'  First,  we  look  not  on  the  paper  as  the  determination  or  sentence  of  the 
court,  which,  had  it  been,  we  durst  not  in  any  measure  have  replyed,  or  contra- 
dicted. 

'  Second,  nor  did  we  think  it  any  legal  evidence  towards  the  issue  of  the 
case,  in  which  Mr.  Woodman  was  presented  for  his  miscarriage. 

'  Third,  nor  can  we  think  it  any  legal  charge  to  answer  whereunto  any 

fersons  were  summoned,  or  made  any  answer  to ;  or  if  it  were  a  censure  we 
now  not  that  ever  it  was  first  examined,  and  indeed  we  know  not  what  to 
make  of  it,  but  think  it  very  hard  to  be  in  such  a  matter  taxed  before  we  were 
examined. 

'  Whether  the  said  gentlemen  were  the  authors  of  it  or  no  we  cannot  tell, 
neither  dare  we  affirm,  yet  finding  such  a  paper  wherein  there  is  so  great 
reproof  by  false  accusation  insinuated  against  divers  amongst  us,  we  intreat  the 
court  to  accept  our  complaint,  that  we  suppose  ourselves  illegally  dealt  with, 


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77 


seeing  that  our  law  assures  us  of  this  liberty  amonfr  other,  that  no  man's  name 
shall  be  blasted,  bui  by  virtue  or  equity  of  some  law  established  among  us. 

'  We  acknowledge  that  no  man  is  mentioned  by  name  ;  yet  when  any  man 
is  so  decyphered,  that  any  man,  who  reads  it,  rnav  easily  ghesse  guess]  who  is 
intended  there  is  lawful  cognisance  in  law  of  such  infamyes,  unless  the  person 
shall  publickly  disown  it,  else  how  shall  men  be  righted  against  infamous 
libels  ? 

'  These  things  being  premised  we  desire  the  liberty  of  freemen  to  put  in  our 
plea  agamst  such  a  paper  of  accusation  as  we  find,  with  all  due  submission  to 
the  court. 

'First,  we  judge  our  ease  exceedingly  prejudiced,  that  it  is  insinuated  in 
the  preamble,  that  the  complaynt  is  betwixt  some  members  of  the  church 
il  the  cause  were  merely  ecclesiastical.     We  -riant  the  persons      ♦erfsted 


as 
on 


giant  itie  persons 
twin  siues  lo  ue  sucn.  yet  me  cause  presented  is  civil  and  crimina,  ,  't  arisin"- 
Irom  some  difference  of  opniion  about  discipline,  but  a  publick  br.  'h  of  the 
peace  against  the  plain  words,  as  well  as  the  intention,  of  the  laws,  which 
breach  ol  the  peace  and  violation  of  the  law,  as  freemen  of  this  jurisdiction  we 
present  to  the  cognizance  of  authority,  desiring  the  redress  of  so  great  an  evil 
which  authority  in  other  like  cases  hath  taken  notice  of  with  just  indi-rnation     ' 

'Second,  we  humbly  conceive,  that  if  the  words  taken  in  themselves  are 
highly  otiensive  and  scandalous  the  defendants'  answer  hath  not  made  them  to 
be  good,  though  he  may  pretend  they  may  arise  from  diflerence  of  opinion 
lor  as  we  must  not  he,  neither  must  we  slander,  for  God  and  his  cause  His 
puttmg  of  a  fayr  glosse  will  never  make  good  by  words,  [that]  which  is  evil 
by  ileeds,  no  more  than  a  (juaker  pretending  conscience  for  revilin"-. 

'Third,  we  humbly  present  this  to  consideration  that  whereas  the  presenters 
of  the  said  Mr.  Woodman  did  out  of  duty  to  God,  his  ministers  and  the  law 
bring  the  case  to  the  trial  of  justice,  that  for  the  time  to  come  such  irregulari- 
ties, which  tendeil  to  mutiny,  and  tumult  might  be  prevented.  We  humbly 
conceive  the  sentence  of  the  said  paper  is  such  as  that  it  takes  off  the  blame 
from  the  person  presented,  is  a  fact  evident  enough,  else  we  know  not  the 
meaning  ot  those  words,  'we  find  the  matter  much  altered,'  and  loads  the 
plaintiffs  and  others  of  the  church,  ministers,  and  people  with  far  greater  crimes 
than  either  Mr.  Woodbridge  hath  done  or  ever  justly  could  doe,  yet  can  we 
not  find  m  any  of  the  testimonies  any  one  that  proves  in  matter  of  fact  any  of 
the  conclusions,  on  which  such  a  censure  should  be  grounded.  Somewhat  it 
may  be  there  fell  from  Mr.  Woodman  in  his  speech,  which  among  other  false- 
hoods by  him  charged  on  us,  might  give  a  hint  of  such  a  thing,  yet  we  suppose 
such  a  speech  is  far  too  weak  to  infer  such  conclusions,  as  the  paper  seems  to 
brand  us  with.     Such  as  these. 

'  First,  it  intimates  that  though  a  great  or  greater  part  of  the  church  stand 
for  the  congregational  way  of  church  government  and  discipline,  yet  according 
as  other  churches  doe  enjoy  it,  as  the  way  of  God,  they  cannot,  which  in  point 
01  fact  IS  utterly  denied. 


scandal,  as  justly  deserved  reproof  and  censure,  for  that  tliey  who  do  it  would 
be  accounted  sacrilrnrious  robbers  of  the  churches,  yet  we  assure  ourselves  that 
none  of  the  opposites  dare  affirm  it,  it  being  so  notoriously  and  evidently  false. 
vT^V*!!"^  ^^^  vvithin  twenty  years  or  upwards  be  produced  of  this  nature,  that 
hath  been  carried  on  without  the  churches'  consent  or  the  major  part  thereof. 
We  can  evidence  that  Mr.  Parker  hath  been  blamed  for  bringing  things  of  too 
rneane  a  nature  to  the  churches  examination,  and  strangers  have  taken  notice  of 
the  over  much  liberty  of  some  in  church  actings. 

'  Third,  we  hope  we  have  not  deserved  to  be  noted  as  a  singular  people 
contrary  to  the  professed  persuasion  and  practice  of  all  the  churches  which  we 
know  not  what  the  intimation  of  such  a  charge  should  aim  at,  but  to  raise  an 
odium  on  us  in  the  country  when  we  are  innocent  of  any  such  thing. 

Fourth,  then  the  alteration  hath  caused  much  difference  and  unquietness 
among  those,  which  by  the  intimation  lights  on  the  plaintitfs,  or  ministers,  who 


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have  made  the  alteration,  which  is  as  false  as  the  rest,  yet  the  difTerence  in 
this  case  to  be  considored  arises  only  from  the  manner  of  testifying  the  assent 
or  dissent  of  the  church,  not  from  any  substantial  disa<?reement.  Near  thirty 
years  si.ice  at  a  synod  at  Cambridge  it  was  proposed,  and  it  was  consented 
unto  by  them,  that  if  the  ministers  thought  it  most  convenient  to  vote  by  speech 
and  silence,  rather  than  by  lifting  up  the  hand,  they  had  nothing  against  it, 
seeing  the  one  was  a  testimony  of  consent  as  well  as  the  other,  so  this  kind  of 
voting  began  and  continued  in  practice  without  dill'erence  or  interruption  for  a 
good  season.  Afterwards  when  some  diflereuce  arose  at  Newbury  that  there 
was  need  of  a  council,  tliis  among  other  things  was  put  in.  and  in  line  it  was 
concluded  and  consented  to  by  the  people  that  things  should  be  carried  on  in 
this  nianner  without  disturbance.  A  third  time  near  six  years  since  there  being 
occasion  of  a  council  at  Newbury  (in  all  which  transactions  Mr.  Woodman  was 
the  chief  instrument  to  oppose  the  minister)  this  among  other  dill'erences  came 
into  discourse.  The  same  conclusion  was  as  before  that  things  should  be  car- 
ried on  in  this  way  with  love  and  peace,  yet  several  times  since  and  more 
strongly  now  at  last,  Mr.  Woodman  by  violence  of  opposition  hath  made  open 
protestation  and  resistance  against  it ;  and  no  disturbance  or  alteration  hath 
been  made  but  by  them  airainst  a  thing  so  long  used  and  approved,  and  so  we 
leave  it  to  any  impartial  judgment  to  determine  who  is  the  cause  of  that  altera- 
tion, which  hath  occasiomnl  so  much  difference  and  unqnietness,  which  though 
it  be  imputed  to  the  plaintili's,  yet  we  suppose  it  rather  to  be  to  the  unquiet  and 
turbulent  spirits  of  the  opposites,  and  let  any  man  judge  whether  this  course 
only  (for  there  is  no  other)  be  a  sulhcient  cause  of  complaining  of  so  great  a 
burthen. 

William  Gerrish.      Richard  Kent. 
RicHAKD  Dole.  Henry   Short. 

Tristram  Coffin.        Anthomy  Somerby.' 

From  subsequent  events  it  is  evident,  that  the  action  of  the  court 
on  the  complaint  exliibited  again.st  Mr.  Woodman  by  the  friends  of 
Mr.  Parker,  was  not  attended  by  any  beneficial  results.  This,  without 
doubt,  was  partly  o\»  ing  to  tl-.e  fact  iiat  the  magistrates  who  had 
cognizance  of  ihi)  case  were  divide  :.  a  opinion.  So  far  from  resting 
satisfied  with  the  decision,  or  decisions,  of  the  court,  as  the  case 
might  be^  each  party  returned  home,  confident  of  the  rectitude  and 
justice  of  their  cause,  and  determined  not  to  submit  to  the  other. 
Each  party  claimed  to  be  the  church,  as  each  claimed  to  have  a 
majority  of  the  members. 

'  So  sit  two  kino-s  of  Brentford  on  one  throne, 
United,  yet  ilivided;  twain  in  one.' 

On  the  third  of  November,  a  council  was  called,  who  thus  report : 

'November  5ih,  1669.  We,  the  elders  and  messengers  of  our  respective 
churches,  (who  in  answer  to  your  dtsires  expros.-ied  in  your  letter  to  them  have 
sent  us  hither  where  accordingly  we  have  convened,)  in  the  deep  sense  of  your 
soul  alllicted  state,  the  ditiiculty  and  intricacv  of  the  niatters  before  us  our 
own  insudicieiicy  to  reach  tlie  narrows  coii.prehendcd  in  your  questions  and 
case,  as  it  is  circumstanced  in  the  momentousness  both  of  the  nature  of  your 
proposals  and  the  issues  of  our  answers  in  way  of  advice  and  delerminatiou 
therein,  have  earnestly  sought  -he  face  of  ihe  gr.-at  Counsellor  of  his  j)fople, 
and  implored  the  mei-y  of  the  nearer  of  prayers  in  these  fo  weighty  concerns 
to  Ins  name,  the  order  of  his  ho  .se,  the  peace  and  welfare  both  of  this  and  of 
tae  rest  of  your  churches.    And  in  the  awful  apprehension  of  the  uil-seeing  eye 


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upon  us,  as  in  all  our  transactions  about  the  case  presented  to  us  and  of  the 
solemn  account,  which  we  must  or.  day  give  thereof  to  the  highest  Lord  and 
Judge  of  quick  and  dead,   ailer  solemn  and  serious  considerations  had,  a 
dis,,uiH.tions  and  searches  made,  of  an.l  into  the  particulars  presented  to  us  w 
have  been  move.l,  and,  as  we  trust  by  the  Holy  Ghost  to  accord  and   is^'e  in 
nameTy !'"  ^  "^  °"''  ""'^^''  /"J^-'n^-'nt^  and  hearts  therein  as  fdloweti" 

'First,  that  the  particulars  respecting  their  dissenting  brethren,  declared  to 
us  by  the  pas  or  ofth.M  church  of  Newberry  and  the  brethren  ^ith  him  ^s 
grievances  to  them  being  proved  before  us  as  true,  we  judge  they  were  maUer, 
of  JUS   offence  to  theni,  as  being  publiqne  and  deviations  fmm  the  rules  of  the 
gospel  order,  presented  m  the  holy  scriptures,  and  the  answerable  p  inciples  of 
the  churches  here  established  and  declared  in'the  platform  of  disciplin  "apmoved 
for  the  substance  by  our  general  court  to  be  and  accordingly  practise/by  the 
congregational  churches  amongst  ns,  namely,  that  in  an  orinFc  church  where 
the  pastor  stands  in  a  state  of  right  administration,  anv  brother  or  brethren  less 
or  more  m  number  should  openly  and  frec,u(,-ntly  refuse  to  obsc-i-ve  their  pastor's 
counsels  or  charges,  to  attend  order  of  speech  or  silence  and  peaceably  demean^ 
nig  themselves  in  any  church  assemblies  and  matters  there  acted,  or^haMhev 
should  chec-k,  curb    oppose,  contradict  or  molest  him   in   the  discharge  of  K 
pastoral  othce,  work  or  duty  or  secondly,  that  Mr.  Woo.lman  with  n  -^r  J  'al 
ot  the  members  of  the  church  instead  of  giving  due  satisfaction,  oft  tir^4  caHed 
for  from  him  and  sundry  of  them  unto  their  pastor,  and   the  b  ethreiTadlie   n 
o  him,  should  pubh.juelv  without,  yea  against,  the'  consent  and  prohibition   ol 
heir  pas  or,  meet  ir  a  c  u.rch  assembly,  act  as  a  church  bv  then^dves   votin.; 
lese  or  those  church  orders  of  theirs,  send  messengers  to  call  any  otl  e    mem    "r 
efore  them  to  give  satisfaction  to  the  church  for  matters  otfensive  to  th^  as  if 
they  were  the  church  which  besides  that  it  is  cross  to  religion  and  re  S  that 
an  organic  body  which  is  but  one  entire  ecclesiastical  Vhole,  consiXg  of 
he  othcer  and  al    the  rest  of  the  members  of  that  church,  that  there  shou  d  be 
any  regular  orderly  c  lurch,  consisting  of  the  major  part  of  the  brethren  severed 

X,u;u".hn.^"'".'r''"r'^""  °'""'^  P^:^'"-'"^  persons  without  ami  nol 
\MtJini  tlie  church,  and  such  a  company  so  actin-  as  a  cliurch  bein-  no  re-nil-ir 

church,  all  their  actings  as  a  church  a.e  to  be  ac -unntcd  irregula   "  We  hi    fe 

ha  such  practices  are  breaches  of  church  order,  unity  and  peace,  repioachW 

to  the  way  of  our  churches  here,  highly  dishonorable  to  Chrisi  and'  thr^Cel 

and  tend  to  confusion,  umlermining  and  destruction  of  irospel  order  and^peace 

in  congregational  churdies  amongst  us,  and   that  all  these  fornier  hTelS 

done  by  them  as  church  acts  are  null,  and  it  will  b..  more  otfensive  in  the 

dissenting  brethr.>n  to  act  in  any  such  way  for  time  to  come. 

f>econdly  that  yet  considering  the  time  as  an  hour  of  churche'?'  tnmr>fnf;n„ 

the  envy  and  subtlety  of  the  conTmou  enemy  of  the  chmcht,  atf  his'Z  S 

mtluence  ,m„n  the  spirits  ev.-n  of  go,lly  min.kvl  ones  also/to-^ether  waHhe 

remnants  n    the  powers  and  deceits  of  the  old  man  in  the  best.^n  1  con.  ler  i^ 

ow  most  desnal,le,  amial>le,  and  every  way  most  profitable  it  is  fV.r  bret    en  tS 

.h^e  1  toge  her  m  unity,  ami  m,,st  dearly  .  ,  love  an.l  tender  one  another  in  tie 

f^.rd,  an.l  therefore  to  stu,ly  to  be  muet,  to  follow  after  thin.ns,  which  make   for 

eace  and  wlierew,  h  they  may  edily  one  another,  we  advis^  Mr.  Parb-r  and 

he  bretmen  with  him  to  use  all  gaining  and  winning  means,  that  mav  be  th" 

hey  with  then-  d.ssentn.g  bretlnvn  may  become  one  in  the  Lord  as   in  hirmer 

times,    meekly   yet   convincingly   by   arguments    from   scripture   an<]    re^sm  s 

grounded  th.Mcupon,   whether  spoken  to  them,  if  opportunity  of  peacahl    doin  ' 

thereof,  or  else  by  writing  to  them)  to  c.onviiu-e  them  of  their  ine«ulari  le    ai  3 

duly  to  acknowlclge  the  same,  improving:  also  anv  other  helps  for  that  end  ad 

mean'Sile."  '^  '"  '  =""'^  '''''"  "^  ^'"  "''''''  "^"^'^  '^"'^  ^"^^'^'^""S  »hem  ^ii  love 
'  Finally  iu  hope  and  expectation  of  an  amicable  compliance  ve  have  .«nsponded 
any  urther  counsel,  which,  if  necessitated  tliereto,\ve  shall  advi  e  ifs  God 
sha  1  guide  according  to  the  rules  of  the  gospel.  Au'd  now  revere  fm  dear 
I.  e  I  ren,  we  commend  you  to  God  an.l  the  word  of  his  grace,  which  is  abhMo 
build  you  up  and  give  you  an  inheritance  among  them;  which  are  sanctified 


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And  the  Lord  of  peace  himself  give  you  peace  always  by  all  means.    The 
Lord  be  with  you  all. 

Thomas  Cobbet, 
In  the  name,  and  with  the  consent,  of  tho 
November  fifth,  1669.  rest  of  the  members  of  the  council.' 

The  above  advice,  so  laboriously  written,  does  not,  as  might  be 
supposed,  appear  to  have  done  any  good,  or  to  have  '  reached  the 
narrows  comprehended  in  the  questions.'  On  the  contrary  the  year 
ended,  leaving  both  parties  less  willing  '  to  love  and  tender  one 
another,'  than  ihey  were  at  its  commencement.  So  completely  were 
not  only  the  church,  but  the  people  absorbed  in  this  subject,  and  so 
important  was  the  issue  of  the  contest  deemed  in  point  of  principle, 
that  it  affected  all  other  matters.  Even  the  military  company  was 
in  such  a  state  as  to  require  attention  from  the  general  court.  From 
their  records  is  copied  the  following  : 

'  May  I9th.  In  consideration  of  the  distractions  of  the  military  company  in 
Newbury,  for  the  better  composure  and  prevention  of  the  increase  thereof, 
major  general  Leverett,  and  major  Dennison  are  impowered  to  inquire  into  the 
grounds  thereof  on  the  spot,  and  settle  it  if  possible' 

As  a  curious  illustration  of  the  predominant  influence,  which,  at 
this  time,  and  for  many  years  before  and  after,  ecclesiastical  matters 
in  Massachusetts  had  in  almost  all  transactions,  the  following  letter 
from  the  general  court  files  is  copied.  The  signers,  it  will  be  recol- 
lected, were  the  two  ministers  of  Rowley. 

'Rowley,  July  liih,  1689. 
'  May  it  please  your  honors, 

The  occasion  of  these  lines  is  to  inform  you  that 
whereas  our  military  company  have  nominated  Abel  Plaits  for  ensign,  we  con- 
ceive that  it  is  our  duty  to  declare  that  we  cannot  approve  of  their  choice  in  that 
he  is  corrupt  in  his  judgment  with  reference  to  the  Lord's  supper,  declaring 
against  Christ's  words  of  justification,  and  hereupon  hath  withdrawn  himself 
from  communion  with  the  church  in  that  holy  ordinance  some  years,  besides 
some  other  things  wherein  he  hath  shown  no  little  vanity  ii.  his  conversation  and 
hath  demeaned  himself  unbecomLigly  towards  the  word  and  towards  the  dis- 
pensers of  it. 

'  Having  given  yon  this  intimation,  we  leave  the  matter  with  your  honors  to  do 
as  you  sec  meet.  Thus  presenting  our  service  to  you  and  begging  God's  pres- 
ence with  you,  rest  your  nonors'  servants  for  Jesus'  sake. 

Samitel  Phillips. 
Edward  Paison.' 

In  the  midst  of  these  difficulties,  ecclesiastical,  military,  and  so 
forth,  Mr.  Parker  continued  his  labors,  and  the  people  of  both  par- 
ties regularly  '  went  to  meeting,'  On  the  twenty-fifth  of  February, 
the  selectmen,  in  consequence  of  'complaints  of  considerable 
persons  for  want  of  seats  in  the  meeting  house,'  ordered  three  new 
seats  to  be  built,  and  fifty  or  sixty  persons  placed  in  them  by  the 
selectmen,  on  certain  conditions.     For  instance : 

*  In  the  second  seat  of  the  men's  side  below  in  the  meeting  house 
is  placed  Daniel   Lunt,  James  Smith  and  .Toseph  Coker,  and  if 


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Thomas  Hale  junior,  refuse  to  pay  his  share  to  the  new  gallery  seat 
as  others  do,  then  James  Smith  is  placed  in  the  new  gallery  seaf 
provided  he  pay  his  share,  and  Thomas  Hale  is  to  return  to  his  own 
place  agam.  And  if  Stephen  Greenleaf  refuse  also  to  pay  his 
share  accordingly,  then  he  is  to  return  to  his  own  place  affaine?  and 
so  forth,  and  so  forth.  *  *  o        > 

From  the  Salem  court  record  it  appears,  that  some  of  the  people 
were  not  satisfied  with  tha  seats  assigned  to  them  by  the  selectmen 
but  took  tin  liberty  of  choosing  for  themselves.  Of  tw  o  of  them' 
the  court  records  thus  speak :  '  John  Woolcot  and  Peter  Toppan  for 
disorderly  going  and  setting  on  a  seat  belonging  to  others  are 
fined  twenty-seven  pounds  and  four  shillings.' 

On  the  seventeenth  of  November,  there  was  a  'thanksgiving  for 
relief  from  drought  and  lengthening  out  the  harvest.'  f 


1670. 

In  the  early  part  of  this  year,  John  Webster  was  presented  to  the 
court,  *  for  reading  a  paper  libel  against  Thomas  Parker  on  a  Lord's 
day  m  February,  a  scandalous  and  reproachful  libel.'  The  follow- 
ing is  a  copy  of  the  '  paper  libel.'  It  is  entitled,  '  the  answer  of  Mr. 
Woodman  and  the  brethren  adhering  to  him  and  so  forth.' 

'Whereas  Mr.  Porker  and  the  brethren  adhering  to  him,  as  he  saith   have 
lately  read,  or  caused  to  be  read,  ni  the  public  congrejration  before  the  church 
and  towiie  a  writui-,'  wherein  is  contained  divers  charges   (some  implicit  and 
some  explicit)  upon  the  brethren,  which  they  say  are  opposed  unto  them    a  id 
that  they  say  arc  justly  ollended  with  them  "for  sundry  scandalous  practices  by 
them  committed,  who  by  their  disorderly  carria<re  have   demeaned  themselves 
nnsuitable  to  the  order  of  the  crospel,  and  irreverently  towards  their  pastor  in 
that  they  have  not  attended  his  counsel  and  declaration  of  the  will  of  Christ  to 
the  irequeut  breach  of  order  in  public  meetin-s  and  for  acting  as  a  divicied 
body  froni  their  pastor  and  the  rest  of  the  brethren,  voting  their  acts  as  church 
acts,  and  publishiu'4  them  with  other  particulars  presented  to  the  cou.icil  lately 
assembled,  who  detennined,  and  we  with  them  do  judge,  that  such  practices 
are  breaches  of  church  order,  peace  and  unity,  also  you  seem  to  lay  the  major 
part  of  the  church  under  a  censure  and  to  deny  any  further  treating  with  them 
until  thev  have  reconciled  themselves  to  their  otferided  brethren  by  confessin<T 
such  faults  as  you  have  charged  upon  them.     To  these  things  thus  charged 
upon  us,  the  major  part  of  the  brethren  adhering  to  Jesus  Christ  and  his  \voTd 
do  answer,   tliat  we  do  not  judge  ourselves  guilty  of  those  sins  as  you  have 
publiquely  charged  upon  us,  having  duly  examined  our  consciences  and  actions 
by  the  word  of  God.  and  therefore  cannot  approve  of  your  proceedin£rs  therein 
but  do  conceive  that  you  have  proceeded  therein  beside  the  rule  t1iat  Christ 
hath  giv-n  his  church  to  walk  by,  and  have  exercised  lordship  over  God's  heri- 
tage bv  charging  the  major  part  of  the  brethren  of  the  church,  as  we  conceive 
unjustly,  with  many  nins,  which  you  lio  not  so  much  as  name  nor  specilV  in 
any  such  way  as  whereby  we  may  know  what  tiiey  are.  much  less  to  be  con- 
victed that  we  are  guilf  i-'      -h  sins,  but  under  general  heads  of  sins,  as  that 
we  k.iow  not  what  they  Me  ■..-  .he  general  of  them,  nor  who  are  aetnallv  guilty 
of  them,  if  any  huch  sl-iulo   Ue  committed  by  any  of  the  brethren.     Therefore 
It  cannot  tend  to  conviction  -ji  reformation  of  sin,  "but  rather  as  we  conceive  it 


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must  proceed  from  some  distemper  of  Bpirits,  and  so  to  be  accounted  to  cast  an 
odium  upon  us  and  upon  the  cause  we  maintain.  We  therefore  conceive  that 
that  writing  is  not  reguhir,  nor  that  which  will  stand  with  the  rulo  of  the  gospel, 
to  proclaim  before  the  church  and  the  town  that  we  are  sinners  and  that  you  are 
justly  offended  with  us  before  you  have  used  any  due  or  regular  means  to  con- 
vict us,  or  made  any  duo  proof'^  agair  't  us  that  we  arc  such  as  you  have  pro- 
claimed us  to  be,  therefore  we  take  it  to  be  a  sentence  before  judgment,  the 
coarsest  proceeding  amonj  men.  We  do  therefore  hereby  testify  that  we  are 
justly  oflended  with  your  irregular  proceeding  in  casting  such  public  scandals 
upon  us  without  due  cause  and  besides  due  order,  and  we  cannot  satisfy  our 
consciences,  otherwise  tlwn  to  declare  our  dissatisfaction  with  your  proceedings 
and  shall  take  into  duo  consideration  what  God  doth  farther  call  for  at  our 
hands  to  bear  farther  witness  against  such  doings  and  for  the  reformation  thereof. 

'Also  wz  do  bear  witness  against  your  two  sermons  out  of  Matthew  18:  17 
the  one  presented  January  thirtieth,  aiid  the  other  February  second.  We  con- 
ceive you  have  not  followed  the  mmd  of  Christ  in  several  things  contained  in 
the  same  sennons,  but  contrary  ihoreunto,  and  contrary  to  the  order  of  the 
churches  established  by  the  general  court,  contrary  to  the  synod  booke,  contrary 
to  the  practice  of  all  the  churches  in  this  jurisdiction,  tending  to  the  1  reach  of 
peace  civill  and  ecclesiastical,  and  has  its  tendency  to  the  undermining  and 
destroying  of  all  church  order  allowed  in  this  jurisdiction. 

'  This  we  read  as  a  complaint  to  the  church.' 

The  court  records  proceed  to  stfite,  that '  John  Webster  is  charged 
with  publishing  llij  contents  of  this  paper  annexed  in  the  open 
congregation  at  Newbury  on  the  Sabbath  day  after  meeting  without 
leave  obtained  from  tlie  elder  which  was  done  at  or  about  the 
thirteenth  of  February,  lc70.  Question.  Guilty  or  not  guilty?' 
To  which  the  jury  reply,  '  \.  ■■;  find  according  to  evidence  given  that 
John  Webster  read  the  contents  of  tliis  paper  annexed  in  Newbury 
meeting  house.' 

The  next  account  I  find  of  the  proceedings  of  the  brethren,  is  the 
following  from  the  quarterly  court  files  in  Salem.  It  will  be  recol- 
lected that  each  party  claimed  to  be  the  church,  and  to  have  a 
majority  of  the  members.  It  is  a  copy  of  a  paper  sent  to  Mr. 
Parker  by  Mr.  Woodman  and  his  party.     It  is  as  follows : 

'  The  church  having  seriously  considered  of  the  complaint  brought  to  us  by 
Mr.  Woodman  against  our  reverend  pastor,  master  Parker  and  do  judge  it 
clearly  proved  by  suthcient  evidences,  and  much  of  it  known  to  our  selves  to 
be  true,  do  judge  that  yoxj  have  been  instrumental  of  the  divisions  and  troubles, 
that  have  a  long  time  [beeii]  and  still  are,  continued  in  this  church,  partly  by 
your  change  of  opinion  and  practice  and  several  times  breaking  promises  and 
covenants  or  agreements  with  the  church,  and  other  things  contained  in  iho 
complaint,  therefore  we  cannot  but  judge  you  worthy  of  blame,  and  do  hereby 
blame  you,  and  for  the  rotoring  of  peace  to  the  church  we  aro  enforced,  though 
V,  ith  great  grief  of  hoari,  to  suspend  you  from  acting  any  thing  that  doth  apper- 
tain to  your  office,  in  administiing  seals  and  sacraments,  or  mattens  of  govern- 
ment as  an  officer,  until  you  have  given  the  church  satisfaction  therewith.  We 
do  desire  and  admoni'^h  you  in  the  name  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  speedily  to 
endeavour  that  God  may  hn\e  his  glory  by  it  and  the  hearts  of  your  grieved 
brethren  in  the  cliurch  may  be  comforted  and  in  the  mean  time  as  a  gifted 
brother  you  may  preach  for  the  edification  of  the  church  if  yoa  }dease.  Your 
loving  but  atHioted  brethren  of  the  ciiurch  of  Newbury.  Signed  by  us  in 
behalf  of  the  church. 

Richard  Dummeh. 

'  March  sixteenth,  1670.  ,         Richakd  Thohla.' 


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•This  was  broii-ht  to  Mr.  Parker  by  Archelaus  Woodman,  William  Titcomb. 
Ricliard  liartlot  and  Samuol  Plumer,  and   Samuel  Pluraor  read  it' 
Witnesses. 
Richard  Knight.        Anthony  Somerby. 
Nicholas  Noyes.         Samuel  Lowle. 

nvd  R*lHl'!rnn'/r^J"rM'^'/''°"'^'  ^tephen  Titcomb,  Stephen  Greenleaf,  Rich- 
anl  Baitlot  and  Caleb  Moody  came  with  a  messa-e  to  Mr.  Parker  and  told  him 
hey  were  sent  Irom  the  church  to  give  him  notice  that  the  church  had  chosen 
two  rulin-  elders,  naniely,  Mr.  Dummer  and  Mr.  Woodman,  and  they  were  to 
send  to  the  two  neighbournig  churches  to  join  with  them  to  ordain  them  upon 
this  day  «?vennighl.  Witnesses  to  the  message  of  the  church,  captain  Gerrish, 
Anthon    Somelb    '  ^^'^^'  '^"^''  ^"'^'^'*'  ^^'""'■'  ^'-  Wo<)dbridge  and 

'  We  whose  nanies  are  here  underwritten  do  consent  to  the  writing,  which  do 
declare  an  act  of  the  church  laying  Mr.  Parker  under  blame,  and  suspending 
him  Irom  all  olhcial  acts  in  the  church.     Dated  sixteenth  of  March,  1670. 


Mr.  Richard  DirMMEn, 
Mr.  Euwaiu)  Woodman. 

AuCHELAUS    WoODilAN. 

William  Moody. 
William  Ilsley. 
Francis  Plumer. 
William  Titcomh. 
John   Emery,  senior. 
•ToHN  Fmeiiy,  junior. 
Richard  Tiiorla. 
John  jMerrill. 
Francis  Tiiorla. 
Edmund  Moohes. 
Stephen  Greenleaf. 
Thomas  Browne. 
AiuiAHAM  Merrill. 
Benjamin  Lowle. 
Richard  Bartlet. 
Samuel  Plumeh. 
Joseph  Plumek. 
Thomas  Hale,  junior. 


John  Bailey. 
Job  PiLSBURY. 
Stevei-'  Swett. 
Benjamin  Rolp. 
John  Wells. 
Nicholas  Batt. 

Adraham    Torl'AN. 

Anthony  Mors,  senior. 
William  Sawyer. 
Edward  Woodman, junior. 
William  PiLsnimy. 
Caleb  Moody. 
John  Poore,  senior. 
John  Poore,  junior. 
John  Wehster. 
Robert  Coker. 
John   Bartlet,  senior. 
John   Bartlet,  junior. 
Edward  Richardson. 
James  Okdway. 
41.' 


Mr.  Parker  tlien  sent  the  following  letter  to  Mr.  Woodman  and 
his  company. 


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^  I 


Matxh  lath,  1670.  Having  so  frenueiitly  and  seriously  testifyed  ao-ainst 
your  irregular  actings  (determined  to  be  such  oy  the  council)  it  cannot  be 
expected  that  I  should  concur  with  you  to  promoJe  auy  disorder  and  consent  to 
the  erecting  of  any  new  form  of  government  contrary  to  the  received  profession 
and  constant  practice  of  the  churches  here  amongst  us. 

Your  carriages  have  been  such  in  these  transactings,  as  have  reflected  great  in- 
famy and  reproach  on  me.  I  cannot  consent  to  agree  with  you  to promote-you  in 
your  way,  till  by  some  publick  audience  I  shall  have  vindicated  myseli  from  any 
unjust  aspersion  you  have  cast  upon  me.  My  compliance  with  you  may  by  others 
be  interpreted  a  judging  of  myself  guiity,  and  that  therefore  I  am  willing  by  com- 
position to  make  up  my  ovra  eiTors  and  miscarriages.  Four  of  the  brethren  have 
been  publickl>  compiauied  of  and  brought  before  the  church  to  answer  for  their 
publick  offences,  their  answer  through  your  meanes  and  their  open  refusal  hath 
been  interrupted.  I  shall  not  willingly  consent  to  any  motions  from  you  »hat 
■may  hinder  their  just  conviction,  nor  do  I  think  that  any  of  your  designes  are 
to  be  attended  to  till  this  be  duly  examined  and  judged.  Once  more  I  earnestly 
desire  you  to  consider  yourselves,  and  not  go  on  in  snch  irregular  courses,  which 
Uiough  you  seem  to  justify  yourselves  in,  yet  assuredly  will  prove  evil  in  the 
end.    Do  not  thmkrt  it  a  light  matter  to  break  the  unity  and  peace  of  the  church, 


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HISTORY    OP   NEWBURY. 


r»ij, 


hinder  the  edification  of  the  church,  cast  contempt  on  the  ministry,  grieve  your 
pastor  anil  bretliren,  give  ofl'ence  to  otiier  churches,  and  bring  up  an  evil  report 
arul  cast  reproach  upon  the  government  of  the  churdies  liere,  ami  once  rnoro  I 
entreat  you  to  thinlt  of  some  way  of  reconciling  our  di(ror<!nce«,  which  we  think 
will  only  bo  by  consenting  with  us  to  call  a  regular  council,  resolving  to  submit 
to  their  advice.  If  we  cannot  provail  with  you  by  thi«  motion,  we  shall  bo  forced 
to  consider  what  courses  slial!  be  taken  to  defend  ourselves,  and  blame  us  not 
for  using  any  lawful  meanes  whereby  we  redress  your  sin  and  our  distractions. 

Thomas  Pahker. 

'  The  preceding  paper  Mr.  Parker  sent  to  Mr.  Woodman  and  his  company  by 
Beven  of  th(>  brethren,  who  when  they  had  road  it  to  them  were  desired  to  ab- 
sent themselves  from  them,  and  towards  night  they  sent  the  ensuing  paper,' 
namely. 

'  Reverend  sir. 

'  Mr.  Thomas  Parker, 

'  Hearing  a  bniite  about  ye  towne  of  an  intention  of  some 
of  vour  party  to  complain  at  Ipswich  court  of  several  brethren  of  tiu-ir  personal 
and  common  weakness,  we  thought  good  to  put  you  in  minde  liow  far  it  is  from 
the  rule  of  christian  love  so  to  practice  one  against  another  before  court  iunl 
county,  which  might  be  healed  at  home  with  a  word  of  reproof  from  one  brotiier 
to  another  according  to  the  mind  of  God.  which  saith,  tiiou  sluilt  not  hate  thy 
brother  in  thv  heart,  neither  shalt  thou  sufl'er  sin  upon  him.  We  would  desire 
you  to  consider  that  yourselves  are  men  of  inlimiity  as  well  as  wo  are.  and  in  case 
your  practice  in  this  kind  should  provoke  us  to  do  the  like,  what  appearance  of 
revengeful  doings  would  there  be  in  the  face  of  the  country,  and  no  end  could 
appear  hut  to  vent  corruption  towards  one  another,  and  nothing  attained  thereby 
of  that  concernment,  to  which  we  pretend  ourselves  conscientiously  engagedf, 
but  to  vent  our  .stomachs  one  at  another  to  the  great  dishonor  of  God,  reproach 
of  religion,  and  to  put  advantage  into  the  hands  of  wicked  men  to  speak  re- 
proachfully of  religion  in  general.  More  rather  wo  desire  that  we  may  be  of 
one  mind  so  far  as  to  cover  the  shame  of  each  other,  when  no  good  end  can  bo 
obtained  in  opening  of  the  same,  and  commit  our  case  as  it  is  conscientious  to 
us  to  the  determination  of  the  general  court,  to  which  we  must  sit  down,  either 
active  or  passive,  without  which  we  see  no  hope  of  issiu*,  and  for  the  avoiding 
of  offence,  what  may  be,  we  will  state  our  complaint  at  home,  and  you  shall 
have  a  copy  of  it  in  case  you  will  agree  there  to  answer  to  it  wliicli  will  bee 
the  most  likely  way  to  issue  our  endless  and  boundless  confusions,  that  wo 
do  knnw  nf> 


Edward  Woodman 
in  the  name  of  the  ohurch.' 


'  Received  the  above  the  twenty-third  of  March  1670,  read  by  Samuel  Piumer, 
ferryman,  and  brought  by  John  Webster.' 

The  following  by  Mr.  Parker  and  his  friends  needs  no  explanation. 

'March  I9th,  1670.  It  is  too  wofully  known  what  great  and  how  many  conten- 
tions have  troubled  this  church  for  sundry  years,  what  means  have  been  used 
from  time  to  time  for  reconciling  of  them.  We  have  the  testimony  of  a  council 
of  nine  churches  concurring  with  us  that  Mr.  Woodman  and  those  that  have  ad- 
hered to  him  have  been  the  causes  of  a  disturbance.  What  patience  have 
been  used  towards  them,  vet  what  opposition  have  been  made  by  them,  how  irrev- 
erently they  have  carried  themselves  in  presence  of  God  in  sundry  church  meet- 
ings, what  impediments  they  have  cast  in  our  way,  whereby  church  adminis- 
trations have  not  only  wanted  their  solemnity,  but  also  have  been  hindred  so  as 
Uiat  just  discipUne  could  not  be  executed.  The.se  things  are  all  pidilickly  known. 
But  especially  their  actings  on  the  Lord's  day  January  twenty-ninth,  1670  which 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


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liave  since  bin  in  several  meetings  continued  by  them.  We  have  often  minded 
them  and  eameHtiy  desired  that  tliey  would  consent  with  us  to  call  a  council  as 
an  ordinance  of  God,  commonly  practised  by  the  churches  of  tliis  country  as  a 
hopelul  rneanes  of  a  reconcdialion,  which  motion  of  ours  hath  b('en  as  often  l)y 
them  refused  as  by  us  proposed.  In  conclusion  they  have  so  far  proceeded  in 
tlu'ir  irre^'uhirilies  and  miscarriages  as  that  March  sixteenth  they  have  sent  a 
writirij,'  to  Mr.  Parker  their  pastor  whereby  they  do  signify  that  they  do  suspend 


him  from  acting  any  duty  of  his  ofHce. 


fy  that  they 

They  have  chosen  two  ruling  elders 


imposnig  them  on  the  pastor  and  tlic  church  contrary  to  their  consent,  wliereby 
they  would  not  only  deprive  tliis  church  of  the  holy  ordinances,  wliich  Christ 
hath  given  them,  but  have  hereby  cut  themselves  otf  from  the  communion  of 
the  church. 

'  In  consideration  of  which  premises  (to  mention  no  more)  we  the  pastor  and 
brethren  of  the  church  of  Newbury,  in  the  name  and  fear  of  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  in  way  of  defence  of  his  poor  Hock  here  that  they  may  not  be  left  as 
sheep  without  a  shepherd,  and  in  vindicating  tlie  honor  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
and  his  ordinances,  not  knowing  any  otlier  regular  way  left  according  to  the  rule 
of  the  scripture,  tlian  to  withdraw  from  them,  who  walk  inordinately  and  causo 
division;  we  do  hereby  declare  that  for  the  future  we  do  renounce  communion 
with  all  those  brethren  that  have  so  deeply  violated  the  communion  of  Christ's 
church,  nor  shall  we  accept  them  as  regular  members  of  the  church  of  Christ 
among  us  till  God  shall  give  them  a  mind  to  see  and  heart  to  acknowledge  and 
confess  their  great  ollences,  which  we  earnestly  desire  of  him  to  grant  throu'di 
Jesus  Christ.  ^ 

'At  a  church  mooting  March  twenty-second  1670. 

'  Agreed  that  this  paper  should  bo  annexed  to  the  vote  that  was  passed  the 
Lord's  day  March  nineteenth  1670  that  those  brethren  that  have  acted  in  the 
paper  sent  the  sixteenth  of  March  lfi7()  to  the  pastor,  wherein  they  suspend  the 
pastor  from  his  ofhce,  we  do  renounce  c(nnmunion  with  them  in  the  communion 
of  the  Lord's  supper  and  in  the  administration  of  discipline  until  they  cive  us 
satisfaction.' 

Thomas  Pakker. 

The  next  day,  March  twenty-third,  Mr.  Parlter  and  some  brethren 
with  him,  .sent  the  following  paper  to  Mr.  Woodman's  party. 

'  That  there  may  be  nothing  wanting  in  us  to  evidence  that  love  and  respect 
unto  you,  which  brethren  ought  to  have  one  towards  another,  and  the  duty  we 
owe  to  God  binds  us  to,  understanding  by  your  messengers  that  you  intend  to 
ordain  two  ruling  elders,  we  cannot  but  once  more  motion  to  you,  that  though 
^?"r,    1  V^^'''^  'Jie  olience  and  grief  of  your  p.astor,  brethren  and  the  churches 

0  God  abroad,  which  we  suppose  you  ought  to  do,  and  if  you  have  any  bowels 

01  love  left,  we  hope  you  may  do,  yet  we  earnestly  intreat  you  not  to  de8i)ise 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  by  making  his  ordinances  contemptible.  Do  you  not 
know  how  distasteful  it  will  be  to  him  to  profane  his  holy  things  ?  Do  you  think 
he  will  own  them  for  his  ordinances,  which  you  make  use  of  to  advance  your 
owne  humours  and  divisions  I  Do  not  despise  the  civil  authority  above  us,  we 
have  cause  abundantly  to  thank  God  that  they  will  countenance  and  protect  us 
m  the  enjoying  what  Christ  allows  us,  but  you  know  that  the  nile  of  the  scrip- 
tures and  theirs  concurring  with  it  is  that  elders  should  be  blameless,  nor  do 
they  allow  any  to  be  ordained  that  are  scandalous,  and  you  know  that  Mr 
Woodman,  one  of  them  that  you  have  chosen  stands  pubhckly  charged  with 
several  scandals,  nor  hath  he  to  this  day  endeavoured  to  satisfy  his  brethren.  If 
you  should  still  persist  and  go  on  after  "this  our  advice,  which  in  love  and  affec- 
tion we  give  unto  you,  wo  hope  we  have  discharged  our  duty  and  leave  you  to 
his  judgment,  that  will  in  his  time  judge  every  thing  in  truth.  In  the  mean 
while  this  shall  stand  as  an  evidence  for  us  that  we  have  done  our  endeavour  to 
prevent  your  sinne.' 

Thomas  Parkbr. 


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HFSTORY    OP   NEWnt  RY. 


'  Names  of  those,  who  iKlliered  to  Mr.  Parker  and  did  not  act  in  Mr.  Parker's 


sontuncd. 


RioHAnn  Dole. 
John   Kent. 
Thomas   HAr.K,  senior. 
John   KNiuitr,  gunior. 
Jamks  Jaokman. 
Danief,  Pierce,  junior. 
Nicholas  Noves. 
Thomas  Tijuvilt,. 
Cuptaiti  Wir.LiAM  GEiittiSH, 

TurSTRAM    CoKl-IN. 
NaTHANIEI,    Cr.AllK. 

Captiiiii  pAtji.   VVniTK. 
William  Morse. 
Jonathan  Mouse. 

AUKL    Hi'SE. 

JoH.N  Davis. 

Tliirty-two  regular  members, 
Mr.  .lossrn  Hills. 
Daniel  Pierce,  senior. 
James  Smixu. 


Jamks  Kent. 
RiciiARn  Kent. 
RioHARo  Knioht. 
John    Kelly. 

RollERT    LoNO. 

IIe.nuy  Short,  senior. 
Samitel  Moody. 

HkNIIY    .TAlil'ES. 
RiiDKUT    AllAMS. 

Joseph   Mi;zzey. 
WiLLiA.M   Cuanuleh. 

Mr.  RlCHAKD    LoWLE. 

Anthony  Somerby. 

AlllEL    SoMKIiriV, 

Mr.  Hi  nry  SiiWALu 
Georue  Little. 


Mr.  .ToHN   WooDnRiDOE. 
Richard   Pkttingkll, 
John  S.Mnn. 

Thouj,'!   no  members.' 


On  the  nlnotcenlh  of  April,  the  ex-parte  council,  whu  h  had  assem- 
bled  November  fifth,  IfiGi),  met  again  at  Newbury.  The  following 
is  'a  copy  of  the  request  presented  by  Mi-.  Woodman  and  the 
brethren  with  him  to  the  council.' 

'  The  major  part  of  the  brethren  of  this  conjrrenration  doth  in  all  humble  wise 
desire  this  honored  and  reverend  assembly  to  take  into  their  serious  considera- 
tion our  sad  and  dislnicted  eoiidilion,  who  have  spent  twenty-live  years  and 
more  m  uncomfortable  and  unprolitable  contention  and  division,  whereby  God 
hath  been  much  dishonoretl,  relijjfion  much  disadvantaged,  our  souls  much 
impoverished  and  our  credit  as  a  cliurch  much  impaired,  defamed  throu"-hout 
the  country  for  an  unquiet  people  and  unreconeilable  by  the  long  continuance 
of  our  dillerenco  and  dissension,  and  now  of  late  the  cry  hereof  hath  been 
more  loud  in  the  ears  of  the  churches  than  in  former  times,  which  produced 
this  effect.  The  messengers  of  nine  churches  are  come  to  see  whether  things 
are  amongst  us  according  to  the  cry  tliat  their  ears  are  filled  withal,  whom  \vo 
do  heartily  wish  that  God  would  make  instruments  for  the  settlement  of  peace 
and  truth  amongst  us,  and  so  throw  down  the  strong  hold  that  Satan  has 
erected  against  us  for  the  obtaining  of  which  end  our  impartial  request  to  this 
reverend  assembly  is  that  the  ground  and  causes  of  our  long  dissensions  may 
be  thoroughly  inquired  into.  Among  physicians  it  is  a  maxim  that  when  it  is 
known  what  the  disease  is  and  where  it  is  settled,  it  is  half  cured.  Our  earnest 
desire  is  that  you  would  grant  us  three  things.  First,  that  you  would  cancel  any 
hand  writing  signed  by  yourselves  against  us,  our  case  not  being  hearcl. 
becond,  that  you  will  be  pleased  to  hear  our  case  and  give  us  your  advice  not 
as  a  council,  (we  having  had  no  hand  in  your  call,  but  in  an  orderly  way  the 
hands  of  two  thirds  of  the  church  lifted  up  against  it)  but  as  honored  and 
reverend  brethren,  giving  your  advice  tending  our  sad  and  solemn  estate. 

Third,  that  you  will  lay  aside  all  prejudice  against  us,  which  you  may 
receive  by  so  many  pnvalo  informations  and  instigations  against  us  and  now 
begin  to  hear  what  both  parties  can  say  for  themselves  as  tothe  case  in  hand 
as  if  you  had  heard  nothing  concerning  the  same. 

'  It  is  no  small  trouble  upon  our  spirits  that  we  should  be  so  ill  resented  in 
the  hearts,  and  so  ill  spoken  of  amongst  many  godly  and  reverend  persons  fas 
we  conceive)  without  any  just  cause  at  all  as  unto  man,  especially  when  we 
consider  the  pretended  cause,  which  is  some  iritind  defect  in  matter  of  religion 
as  a  people  declined  and  fallen  from  someUiing  Uierein,  which  raaketh"our 


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persons  oircnsivc  and  out  of  favour  »  wh  many.  If  ihew  be  any  thiriir  of  that 
nature,  ot  wluch  we  are  guilty,  it  must  b.,  in  niatt.T  of  luith  n,  „,  diurch  (mlur 
As  for  inattem  ot  faith,  we  kuow  not  wiiercia  wo  diller  Irora  the  aoUlv  iii 
general  wlini  order  soever  iht'y  mv  iiiid.'r.  "     ^ 

'  As  .  icornimr  church  ord.T  or  disciolino  we  know  not  what  may  be  aminHt 
ii>  for  wo  wholly  own  tha  ,  which  the  Now  Teslamcut  .lotii  d.-arfy  hold  forth 
a.  ihommdot  Chrmttnlws  church,  that  whioii  tim  troncral  court  lath  e^tal.- 
JiHlM'd  for  the  syriod  book,  xve  hold  th-  subntaiice  of  it.  We  own  Afr.  Hook.-r's 
fh^'u)  'h??*'';;''  ,''»«T^"""«>  ^.''  Cotton's  Keys,  for  the  substance  of  it 
That  which  the  chuivhcs  have  practised  in  genera!  with  a  joint  consent  as  far 
as  wc  know.     \ea  that,  uhich  hath  been  New  Enirland's  ;,dory,  in  which  r„n\ 

♦tfi  om"''  'T7'  '°  t'""  '^''"  '  "y  "'*""■  I^^"l''»-  And  the'way,  in  wh.ch 
the  Old  and  New  Testaineul  .1.  prove  to  be  th(.  institute!  way  of  God's 
appoinUn.-Mt  lor  his  churches  to  walk  in.  But  iiut..,.d  we  have  cause  to  doubt 
hat  the  oltonce  hern  afiamst  us  hero  at  home  is  because  we  abide  constant  to 
taose  principles  and  will  not  turn  presbvt.rianH.  As  for  our  .ontroversy  it  is 
uhether  (,o,l  hath  .      rd  the  power  in  the  elder,  or  in  the  whole  church,  to 

hinj?s  of  fhurch  concernment.  It  is  denied  that  the  frafmitv  have  any  thin<r 
o  do  with  It,  but  the  minister  only,  and  it  his  deferminalion  be  not  approved  oF 
the  Persons  a-irneved  may  appeal  to  all  the  minist.us  in  the  coundV.  And  i 
iH  cume  to  that  passe  that  such  as  do  not  consent  hereto  are  Corathites,  and  like 
the  sons  of  Eli  that  make  the  holy  thin-s  of  God  to  bo  despised,  and  upon  this 
pound  IS  <,ur  division  and  contention.  Principles  preached  and  en.l.-livoured 
to  be  practised,  one  contrary  to  ai  r,  have  made  two  sorts  of  i.,ole8sions 
contrary  one  to  anc.ther,  wher.'by  we  diller  almost  in  all  thin-s  in  church  and 
towi  aliairs.  And  yet  we  that  to  this  day  have  stood  uiirnoveable  to  tliose 
principles  proved  by  the  scriptures  in  books  of  controversy,  ui  catechisms  bv 
the  synod,  by  the  ecclesiastical  laws  eontitm.Hl,  and  approved  of  by  the 
practice  of  all  churches  in  «eneral,  are  tost  up  and  down  by  the  mouths  of 
some  unworthy  persons  as  decliners  to  levelism,  to  AloreUianism  and  are  a 
people  that  nolliiiig  will  satisfy. 

'Thus  haviiii,' opened  to  this  honored  and  revennd  assembly  in  general  the 
state  and  condition  ol  this  pooro  distracted  coni^reiration,  our  earnest  desire  is 
that  you  will  l)e  pleased  to  apply  your  wisdom  to  the  utteiinost  for  our  healin'r, 
and  not  conceit  that  a  shuht  plaster  will  heal  us,  for  our  wound  is  festered,  our 
(lis,;ase  is  rootei  .  God  did  once  complain  that  the  wound  of  the  daughter  of 
his  people  was  I.  ,dcd  sliglitly,  an.!  so  it  brake  ontagain.  Consider  we  beseech 
yon  that  to  heal  breaches  and  repair  desohitions  in  churches  is  not  a  work  of  an 
inlerior  nature,  for  if  peacemakers  shall  he  called  the  children  of  God  it  doth 
greatly  concern  yon  1..  iinprov(,  tlu-  opportniiity  God  hath  put  in  your  hands  to 
make  peace  and  truth  dwell  to-ellun-  in  this  poor  distracted  con!m>t;ation.  The 
which  that  you  may  do,  tli.^  God  of  pence  guide  both  your  hearts  and  lips  to 
create  peace  for  us,  so  shall  we  record  ,11  our  h.-arts  n.u'l  ackiiouI,>d.re  with  our 
lips  to  the  praise  ot  God  that  under  hiuisidt  he  hath  deliirh;,  d  to  make  vou 
inslmments  ot  our  ])eact^  and  repairers  of  the  breach  in  this  con-negation 

Ihese  things  we  desire  of  the  honored  and  reverend  assembly,  not  as  of  a 
council,  but  as  above  premised,  as  honored  friends  and  brethren.' 

(Before  the  conncil  returned  their  answer,  the  followhii?  scrint 
was  sent  in,  namely : )  01 

_  '  Honored  ami  reverend  friends,  tliis  is  as  an  adilition  to  our  first  request,  that 
111  case  you  will  not  be  please.l  to  cancel  what  you  have  signed  against  us  that 
you  give  us  hberty  to  speak  to  that  case  before  any  otlior  thing  be  brou-dit  in 
agitation.'  "^  °  ""o"v 

'the  answer  from  tiik  council.' 
'  To  Mr.  Woodman  and  the  brethren  with  him. 

f  '  Though  wo  do,  and  cannot  but,  assort  ourselves  as  a  conncil, 
consistmg  of  eiders  luid  messengers  of  churches,  yet  for  the  present  waving 


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that  confiideration,  having  weighed  your  affectionate  motion,  we  shall  be  ready 
to  hear  your  case,  provided  that  you  will  engage  to  submit  actively  or  passively 
to  such  advice  as  we  shall  commend  unto  you  therein  according  to  the  word  of 
God.  Thomas  Cobbet 

In  the  name  and  with  the  consent  of  the  elders  and 
messengers  of  the  churches  assembled.' 

ANSWER. 

'We  thankfully  acknowledge  your  condescending  to  hear  our  case,  and  do 
seriously  profess  that  our  aim  and  end  is  to  hear  the  advice  of  yourselves 
therein  in  order  unto  practice  and  do  solemnly  engage  to  the  utmost  of  our 
ability  to  receive  with  all  readiness,  and  attencl  with  all  diligence  whatsoever 
scripture  light  you  may  impart  unto  us  according  to  the  best  of  our  understand- 
ing and  consciences. 

Ed.vard   WoOliMAN, 
William  Titcomb, 
Archelaus  Woodman, 

April  nineteenth,  1670.  Caleb  Moody, 

In  the  name  of  the  rest. 

'  On  the  nineteenth  day  in  the  afternoon  Mr.  Parker  and  the  brethren  with 
him  their  grievances  were  read  in  publick. 

'  On  the  twentieth  day  Mr,  Woodman's  twenty-six  giievances  were  read. 

'  On  the  twenty-first  day  another  grievance  was  sent  in  by  Mr.  Woodman's 
partie,  signed  by  William  Titcomb  and  Caleb  Moody  in  the  name  of  the  rest.' 

'  On  the  twenty-second  of  April  1670  the  council  came  to  the  followins 
result.'  .  ^ 

'covenant.' 

'  We  whose  names  are  underwritten  do  hereby  testify  and  declare  that  we  do 
fully  consent  and  agi-ee  unto  the  covenant  and  agreement  contracted  and  made 
betwixt  Mr.  Parker,  our  reverend  pastor,  and  Mr.  Woodman  and  the  brethren 
that  are  with  him.  that  is  to  say  that  the  synod  book  called  the  platform  of 
discipline  with  the  other  four  articles  shall  be  our  rule  in  the  church  of 
Newbury  for  our  practice  in  all  administrations,  because  we  take  it  to  be  an 
explanation  of  the  scriptures,  and  a  rule  agreed  upon  as  a  means  to  avoid  all 
future  divisions  and  contentions,  we  meanlhe  agreement  made  before  and  by 
the  help  of  the  messengers  of  nine  churches,  contained  under  five  hea^^s,  signed 
under  the  hand  of  the  modprator  and  scribe  of  the  assembly,  in  witness  where- 
unto  and  in  witness  whereof  we  the  assembly  set  our  hands.' 

'  Articles  of  accommodation  betwixt  Mr.  Parker  of  Newbury,  Mr.  Woodman 
and  the  brethren  with  him  mutually  agreed  upon  before  the  council  at  New- 
bury April  twenty-second,  1670. 

'  First,  that  the  platform  of  discipline,  established  by  the  general  court,  prac- 
tised by  the  churches  of  New  England,  shall  be  the  rule  or  standard  of  the 
congregational  way  according  to  which  the  church  of  Newbury  do  resolve  both 
pastor  and  brethren  to  act  in  all  church  administrations. 

'  Second,  that  all  matters  of  controversy  being  considerable  and  of  moment, 
t  issued  before  the  pastor  or  elders  to  niutual  satisfaction  of  parties  concerned. 


parties  concerned. 


not 

shall  be  brought  to  the  church  according  to  the  .said  platfoiTn.' 

'  Third,  that  they,  who  are  propounded  for  admission  into  the  church  shall 
stand  some  considerable  time  at  least  a  fortnight,  and  public  warning  given  on 
the  Lord's  day,  when  they  are  to  be  admitted. 

'  Fourth,  that  no  difference  shall  be  made  in  admission  of  members  into  the 
church  upon  account  of  their  ditference  of  judgment  as  to  the  congregational 
way  pro  or  con,  the  persons  being  orthodox  and  of  good  conversation. 

'  Fifth,  that,  when  the  providence  of  God  shall  give  an  opportunity  of  regular 
call  of  any  other  officer,  it  shall  be  attended  by  the  church  according  to  what 
is  laid  down  in  the  said  platfomi  of  discipline,  chapter  the  eighth. 

Thomas  Cobbet,  Moderator. 

Signed  by  Mr.  Woodman,    )  Antipas  Newman,  Scribe. 

Mr.  Dummeh  and  38  others,  j 


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This  second  attempt  of  the  council,  to  reconcile  the  conflicting 
opinions,  and  harmonize  the  discordant  feelings,  of  both  parties, 
Avas  of  no  avail.  The  truce  was  of  short  duration.  Before  the 
close  of  the  year,  the  « articles  of  accommodation '  appear  to  have 
been  entirely  forgotten,  and  the  storm,  which  had  apparently  sub- 
sided, again  raged  more  fiercely  than  ever;  and  it  was  not  until  the 
lapse  of  several  years  that  peace  was  finally  restored.  The  '  distrac- 
tions in  the  military  company '  still  continued. 

'On  May  eleventh,  the  court,  having  left  it  to  the  care  of  the 
major  general  to  make  temporary  provision  for  military  officers  at 
Newbury,  who  did  appoint  Archelaus  Woodman  lieutenant,  and 
Stephen  Grcenleaf  ensign,  confirms  their  appointment.'  Both  of 
these  officers  were  of  Mr.  Woodman's  party. 

On  March  seventh,  '  Peter  Cheney  proposed  to  the  town  for  half 
an  acre  of  land  on  or  about  the  little  hill  this  side  the  mil],  to  build 
a  wind  mill  upon  to  grind  corn  for  the  town,  when  the  water  mill 
fails.'  This  was  granted  by  the  town,  « upon  condition  that  he  do 
build  a  good  mill  to  answer  the  end  proposed  for  and  so  long  as  the 
rnili^  is  made  and  maintained  for  the  said  service  and  no  longer.' 

This  mill  stood  on  the  '  little  hill,'  near  the  mill  bridge,  or  <  four 
rock,'  as  it  is  sometimes  called,  and  remained  there  till  IVIr.  Cheney 
removed  to  Byfield,  in  the  year  1687. 

May  2lst.  '  It  was  voted  that  the  order  in  the  town  book,  that 
gives  ]Mr.  Woodbridge  sixty  pounds  a  year  for  his  preachinff  is 
made  void.'  *  r  o 

September  19th.  *  It  was  voted  that  the  selectmen  shall  take  care 
that  ****•*#  ***#*#  fence  in  no  more  [land]  than  his  due.'  * 

'  The  town  granted  to  William  Titcomb  and  Amos  Stickney  the 
httle  pine  swamp  to  be  their  propriety,  with  skirls  of  the  common, 
provided  they  make  and  maintain  a  sufficient  fence  about  the  hole 
for  the  safety  of  the  cattle  from  time  to  time.'  =* 

The  '  pine  swamp '  mentioned  above,  is  the  tract  of  land  on  the 
south  side  of  Oak-hill  cemetery,  and  was,  it  appears,  surrounded  by 
the  common.  The  town  also  voted,  'that  the  selectmen  should 
order  Thomas  Turvill  to  his  kinsman's,  also  to  be  helpful  to  the 
poore.'  # 

This  is  the  first  intimation,  except  the  case  of  John  Eels,  the 
bee-hive  maker,  that  the  town  had  any  occasion  to  make  pro- 
vision for  the  poor.  Turvill  went  to  reside  with  his  'kinsman,' 
Henry  Short,  in  whose  old  account  book  I  find  the  following 
inventory.  It  was  taken  May  twenty-second,  1673,  when  he  had 
made  an  agreement  with  the  town,  to  keep  Thomas  Turvill  for 
three  shillings  per  week. 


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'The  following  is  an  account  of  what  clothes  he  had  and  their  value, 
appraised  by  three  of  the  neighbours. 


♦  Town  record*. 


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'3faty  22rf,  1673. 
An  old  worne  out  coat  and  briches  with  an  old  lining, 
A  thread  bare,  the  iudifFerent  close  coat  and  doublet  with  an  old 

wast  coat, 
Two  shirts  and  a  band  lis.,  a  pair  of  shoes,  4s., 
Ad  old  greasy  hatt,  6rf.,  a  pair  of  stockings,  \s., 
An  old  doublet,  an  old  wast  cole  and  a  pair  of  old  sheep  skin 

briches, 

In  1 675  his  clothes  were  appraised  again  by  three  neighbours  and 
the  amount  was 

'  There  was  a  great  drought  this  summer.'  * 


£0  6s.  Od. 


£1  0 
15 

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4    0 


£2  6s.  6d. 
£2  12s.  5d: 


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1671. 

At  the  April  term  of  the  court  at  Ipswich,  the  following  complaint 
was  entered.  It  needs  no  explanation,  as  it  is  sufficiently  clear  and 
explicit. 

'  To  the  honored  court  at  Ipswich. 

*  Having  tried  all  private  means  and  pnblick  ecclesiastical  by  councils  accord- 
ing as  we  were  directed  by  our  honored  magistrates,  all  which  since  they  piove 
unsuccessful,  nor  can  we  see  any  hope  of  silencing,  much  less  of  curing,  our 
difficulties  and  fearing  lest  such  miscarriages  may  have  an  influence,  not  only  to 
breed  public  disturbance  in  other  churches,  some  sparks  whereof  already  "ap- 
pear, but  may  break  forth  into  open  factions  and  mutinies,  having  no  other  rem- 
edy we  humbly  conceive  it  our  duty,  as  being  necessitated  to  it,  to  present  our 
case  to  civil  authority  intreating  them  at  least  to  redress  such  miscarriages  as 
are  contrary  to  the  known  laws  of  the  countiy,  and  so,  contrary  to  the  public 
peace.  Title  ecclesiastical  section  fourteen  is  forbidden  contemptuous  behav- 
iour toward  the  word  of  God  preached,  or  the  messengers  of  the  same,  or  cast- 
ing any  reproach  on  their  doctrine  and  persons,  to  the  dishonour  of  our  Lord 
Jesus,  disparagement  of  his  holy  ordinances,  and  making  God's  ways  contemp- 
tible and  ridiculous,  as  sect,  chapter  heresies  n.  seven.  Every  person,  that 
shall  revile  the  person  or  office  of  magistrates,  or  ministers,  such  person,  or  per- 
sons shall  be  severely  whipt  or  pc,y  the  fine  of  five  pounds.  Likewise  it  is  pro- 
vided, chapter  first,  that  no  man's  honour  or  good  name  shall  be  stained. 

'  First,  as  offenders  against  these  laws  we  humbly  present  to  this  honored  court, 
■whether  all  those,  that  call  themselves  the  church  and  brethren  of  the  church 
of  Newbury,  who  have  irregularly  convened,  have  publickly  read  and  debated 
certain  article?  presented  to  them  by  Mr.  Edward  Woodman  against  our  pastor, 
Mr.  Parker  (whose  inolfensiveness  is  generally  known)  tending  to  his  great  re- 
proach and  infamy,  and  have  as  appears  by  their  publick  writing  judged  and 
determined  the  said  Mr.  Parker  to  oe  the  cause  of  their  divisions  and  troubles 
to  have  broken  several  covenants  and  agreements  with  the  church  (as  may  more 
fully  appear  by  the  articles  exhibited  by  the  said  Mr.  Woodman  against  him) 
and  therefore  do  publickly  blame  him,  yea  so  deeply  that  they  take  upon  them 
to  suspend  him  from  his  office,  which  a'ticles  upon  due  examination,'we  doubt 
not  but  will  appear  vanities,  yet  their  publick  actings  being  bruited  over  the 
country  must  need  tend  to  the  great  reproach  of  Mr.  Parker  when  they  shall 
hear  so  many  articles  and  such  a  censure,  and  in  particular  we  present  to  you 
Mr.  Woodman,  the  plaintiff,  and  Mr.  Richard  Dunimer,  whom  they  termed  the 
president,  Archelaus  Woodman,  and  William  Titcomb,  moderators,  and  Samuel 
Plumer  and  Richard  Bartlet,  messengers,  who  i:re  able  to  mform  of  the  rest. 

*  Roxbury  church  recoids. 


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Second,  whether  Mr.  Edward  Woodman,  who  was  formerly  convicted  of  liis 
scandalous  reviling  Mr.  Parker,  besides  frequent  contemptible  speeches  and 
threatenings  of  him  be  not  fallen  into  the  same  otfence  by  publickiy  adirmin" 
that  Mr.  Parker  hath  broken  covenant  three  times  already,  and  no  covenant  will 
stand  before  him.  Likewise  in  the  same  law  underneath  whosoever  shall  go 
about  to  destroy  or  disturb  the  order  or  peace  of  the  churches  established  in  this 
jurisdiction  on  groundless  conceits  and  so  forth.     Now  as  contrary  to  this 

'  First,  whether  if  be  not  factious  for  a  part  of  the  church  without  the  knowl- 
edge and  privity  of  the  pastor  and  brethion  to  meet  together  and  carry  on  church 
affairs  in  a  way  of  complaint  against  their  pastor,  and  whether  this  may  not  be 
accounted  an  act  of  conspiracy  against  their  pastor  and  the  church,  yet  this  has 
been  done  by  them  at  Stephen  Greenleaf's  house,  where  were  present  Mr. 
Woodman,  Mr.  Dummer  and  many  ethers  as  we  are  informed. 

'  Second,  whether  it  be  not  a  disturbance  to  the  order  of  the  churches  for  Mr 
Woodman  at  most  but  a  deacon,  on  a  Load's  day  immediately  after  the  mornin-^ 

^Tu^Ti  !!^^^®'^^^'^'*^'''''^'*'^y  ^^^  P'*^*'"'  to  forbear,  and  not  profane  the 
sabbath  day  by  open  disturbance  and  so  forbad  him  to  proceed)  to  desire  the 
church  to  stay ;  and  when  Mr.  Parker  told  him  he  had  broken  the  agreement, 
Mr.  Woodman  replied  to  him,  T  speak  not  to  you,  but  to  the  church,  for  I  have 
divers  complaints  against  you,  and  when  Mr.  Paiker  was  gone,  to  tell  them  that 
he  had  several  complaints  against  Mr.  Parker,  and  desired  them  to  appoint  a 
church  meeting  to  hear  them  (though  Mr.  Parker  immediately  before  had  warned 
a  clvurch  meeting)  many  of  them  consented  to  it,  and  so  upward  of  thirty  voted  it. 
Third,  whether  it  be  not  a  like  breach  of  the  public  order  and  peace  of  the 
churches  for  the  said  persons  solemnly  to  cause  the  bell  to  be  rung  and  repair 
unto,  and  observe,  such  an  irregular  meeting,  to  term  themselves  the  church 
(though  not  the  majoi  part  of  the  church)  and  m  the  name  of  the  church  to  send 
for  the  pastor  to  answer  the  charges  laid  against  him  by  Mr.  Woodman.  And 
here  particularly  Mr.  Dummer,  Archelaus  Woodman  and  William  Titcorab 
were  moderators,  the  rest  witness    ■-  md  judges. 

'  Fourth,  whether  it  be  not  a  lik(  lireach  of  Ihe  order  and  peace  of  the  churches 
when  any  of  the  members  being  publickiy  warned  by  the  pastor  and  the  per- 
sons duly  summoned,  the  said  persons  shall  publickiy  contest  against  their  pas- 
tor, and  will  not  agree  so  much  as  to  have  their  charges  read,  unless  their  pastor 
will  first  put  It  to  vote  whether  it  were  the  mind  of  the  church  that  it  should  be 
read,  and  wh  :her  after  such  debate  taken,  the  -said  charges  shall  be^in  to  be 
read  there  is  an  uproar  and  hubbub  raised  that  the  church  might  not  hear  what 
was  read,  and  when  they  are  read,  they  being  oarticularly  read  and  desired  to 
answer,  they  shall  directly  refuse  to  do,  yet  guifty  of  such  things  are  Mr.  Wood- 
man, Archelaus  Woodman,  William  Titcomb,  William  Piisbury. 
■  v^u'^i^  whether  Mr.  Richard  Dummer,  and  Richard  Thorla  signing  a  paper 
in  behalf  of  the  church,  which  contained  (in  thejr  apprehension)  an  act  for  the 
suspension  of  the  pastor  from  his  office,  and  thereby  what  in  them  is,  depriving 
the  whole  church  of  the  ordinances  of  Christ,  which  he  hath  given  to  his  church 
and  this  without  the  advice  and  direction  of  any  other  church,  are  not  ^uilty  as 
leaders  in  the  disturbance  of  the  church  but  also  of  falsehood,  when  It  is  not 
the  church,  nor  the  major  part  of  the  church  acting  in  any  lawful  meeting,  that 
gives  them  authority  so  to  do,  and  whether  Archelaus  Woodman,  William  Tit- 
comb,  Richard  Partlet  and  Samuel  Plumer  in  bringing  and  delivering  it,  be  not 
alike  guilty  of  promoting  the  disturbance  of  the  church. 

'  Sixth,  whether  it  be  nrt  a  disturbance  of  the  publick  peace  and  order  in  an 
organic  church  for  private  n."mbers  contrary  to  the  mind  and  privity  of  their 
pastor  and  brethren,  to  elect  ruling  elders,  imposinur  them  on  the  pastor  and 
brethren  without  their  consent,  Mr.  Woodman  one  of  Ihem  beinir  known  to  be 
scandalous  in  his  conversation,  and  this  not  by  the  major  part  of  the  brethren 
either,  yet  this,  William  Titcomb,  Richard  Bartlet,  Stephen  Greenleaf,  and  Ca- 
leb Moody  brought  as  a  message  to  Mr.  Parker  from  them,  whom  they  called 
the  church,  and  they  are  able  to  give  an  accounl  who  they  were  that  set  them 
to  work. 

'  Seventh,  lastly  whether  in  these  things  (to  omit  many  others  that  may  be 
mentioned)  Mr.  V/oodman  and  those  who  adhere  to  him,  be  not  guilty  as  niuch 


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as  in  them  lies,  of  erecting  a  new  form  of  government  in  the  church  with  a 
great  deal  of  strife  and  contention  contrary  to  the  .platform  of  discipline  allowed 
by  the  general  court  and  the  received  practice  of  all  the  congregational  churches 
in  this  country,  and  whether  this  be  not  to  the  breach  of  the  peace  both  civil 
and  ecclesiastical  (n.  11.)  Civil  authority  here  established  hath  powe:  and 
liberty  to  see  the  peace,  ordinances  and  rules  of  Christ  to  be  obaerved  in  every 
church  according  to  his  word  ;  and  our  honored  magistrates  in  their  letters  direct- 
ed to  us,  do  account  themselves  bound  bv  all  due  means  to  countenance  and 
protect  the  observers  of  the  congregational  government.  We  present  then  these 
things  to  your  wisdoms.  At  our  reqi-est  you  would  be  pleased  to  encourage 
those  who  desire  to  bo  faithful  to  God  and  lovers  of  truth  and  peace. 

Presented  by  us,  RtcHARD  Kbnt, 

Damel  Pierce,  senior.' 

To  the  preceding  communication  the  following  reply  was  made. 

'To  the  honored  court  at  Ipswich  April  eighteenth,  1671. 
'  Concerning  the  seven  queries  put  to  the  consideration  of  this  court,  they  do 
involve  so  many  within  them  that  they  are  from  us  uncanable  of  an  answer, 
neither  do  we  know  what  use  the  court  will  make  of  them  against  us,  seeing 
they  come  in  as  queries  and  not  as  charges.  We  ourselves  '  uld  trouble  the 
court  with  many  queries,  but  at  this  time  we  shall  forbear.  In  brief  we  would 
humbly  desire  you  to  consider  that  most  if  not  all,  the  particulars  mentioned,  are 
such,  as  will  prove  good  or  evil,  as  we  shall  appear  to  be  a  church  regularly 
acting  or  not,  for  if  we  be  a  church  of  Christ  according  to  order  then  it  is  lawful 
for  a  brother  to  complain  to  the  church  against  any  brother  that  doth  offend. 
Then  secondly  it  is  lawful  for  the  church  to  hear  and  judge.  Thirdly,  then  it 
is  lawful  for  two  brethren  also  to  sign  an  act  of  the  church  as  witnesses. 
Fourth,  then  it  is  lawful  for  them  to  send  messengers  to  Mr.  Park  t,  or  whom  it 
may  concerne.  Fifth,  then  it  is  lawful  for  them  to  meet  as  a  church  together. 
Sixth,  then  it  is  lawful  for  them  to  elect  a  ruling  elder  or  elders.  But  we  hope 
your  honored  court  will  convict  us  that  we  have  broken  some  standing  law  or 
laws,  that  were  made  by  the  general  court  before  they  blame  us,  for  we  do 
not  account  ourselves  well  dealt  withal  by  the  authors  of  those  queries  and 
declaration,  whom  we  leave  to  the  Lord. 

'  Lastly  we  do  profess  ourselves  to  be  servants. of  God  and  faithful  subjects 
to  the  commonwealth,  lovers  of  magistrates  and  ministers,  and  all  the  churches 
and  people  of  the  Lord,  and  do  not  willingly  err  from  any  rule  of  God,  nor  of 
the  commonwealth,  but  we  trust  such,  as  shall  be  found  faithful. 

'  We  do  therefore  desire  this  court  to  consider  whether  it  be  not  against  all 
order,  law  or  custom  that  complaint  should  be  brought  to  a  court  against  breth- 
ren,vvhich  from  conscience  of  the  rule  of  Christ  do  complain  to  a  church 
against  an  offending  brothei',  merely  because  they  have  complained,  when  the 
church  hath  heard  the  complaint  and  acquit  the  complainer,  by  owning  the 
complaint  to  be  duly  proved,  and  sentenced  the  person  c.  plained  against.  So 
leaving  what  have  been  said  to  your  wisdoms  to  be  cons  ared,  and  yourselves 
to  the  God  of  all  wisdom  to  be  directed,  with  our  hearty  prayers  for  you,  we 
rest  in  the  Lord  to  be  commanded. 

William  Titcomb. 

Caleb  Moody. 

Samuel  Pldmer. 

Stephen  Grenlefi:. 

Richard  Bartlet.' 

'  A  declaration  of  the  pasior,  and  several  brethren  of  the  church  of  Newbury 
presented  to  this  court  at  Ipswich,' 

<  The  manifold  contentions,  that  have  been  among  us  for  sundry  years  have 
been  matter  of  continual  grief,  and  ought  to  be  of  continual  humiliation,  that 
such  things  should  arise  among  a  people,  whose  beauty  consists  in  their  uaion 
to  Christ  and  unity  one  with  another. 


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'  To  omit  all  former  transactions  (which  we  cjinnot  reflect  upon  but  with 
grief)  90  high  were  the  opposites  that  according  to  the  direction  of  our  honored 
magistrates,  who  pitied  our  distractions,  we  were  forced  to  desiring  help  of  our 
neighbouring  elders,  and  churches,  who  at  a  council  convened  November  third 
1669,  whom  our  brethren  would  by  no  means  own,  or  subject  unto  as  a  council, 
though  there  was  as  much  reason  to  respect  them  and  accept  their  advice  aa 
most  in  the  country. 

'The  council  hereupon  was  forced  to  proceed  according  to  the  allegations  and 
proofs  presented  to  them,  »rhereby  they  found  and  judged  the  actings  of  our 
brethren  to  be  very  irregular,  contrary  to  the  peace  and  unity,  which  ought  to 
be  in  the  church,  tending  to  confusion,  and  that  which  casts  reproach  on  the 
order  of  the  congregational  churches  among  us,  and  therefore  were  offensive,  and 
if  they  should  piUceed  after  such  testimony  of  theirs  ac-ainst  their  ways  it  would 
be  much  more  offensive,  sufficiently  evidencing  to  them  that  there  was  just 
cause  of  complaint  against  them,  as  more  fully  may  appear  by  their  testimony 
left  in  writing,  which  was  publickly  read  the  next  Lord  s  day  after  their 
departure. 

'  The  council  having  adjourned  till  the  nineteenth  of  April  following,  we  en- 
deavoured in  the  mean  time  to  see  what  composition  we  could  bring  our  breth- 
ren to,  and  accordingly  by  publick  and  private  agitations  wo  laboured  to  reduce 
our  brethren  to  a  right  and  sober  mind,  that  our  contentions  might  ceaae,  and 
they  might  be  brought  to  a  right  understanding  of  the  congregational  way  as  it 
was  commonly  practised  by  the  churches  according  to  the  direction  of  the 
council,  which,  if  our  brethren  had  consented  to,  there  might  have  been  hopes 
to  have  proceeded  peaceably,  but  instead  of  any  composition  with  us  there  ap- 
pears farther  "round  of  distraction,  as  may  be  seen  by  their  paper  disorderly 
published  in  the  congregation,  the  copy  whereof  stands  in  record  m  the  court. 

'  The  council  returning  according  to  their  adjournment  found  as  little  accept- 
ance by  our  brethren  as  formerly,  who  though  they  made  their  appearance,  yet 
it  was  with  such  a  spirit  and  carriage,  as  did  ill  hefit  them  before  such  a  rever- 
end assembly,  nor  would  they  comply  to  do  any  thing  till  the  council  agreeing 
to  hear  them  as  friends  and  not  as  a  council  instead  of  answering  the  allegations 
first  or  last  objected  against  them  (which  in  reason  they  ought  to  have  done  if 
they  could  have  cleared  themselves)  they  brought  in  such  exceptions  as  they 
could  against  Mr.  Parker  their  pastor,  all  which  we  fully  heard  and  answeredf, 
nor  was  there  any  thing  (of  twenty-five  articles)  of  moment  alleged  or  proved 
against  Mr.  Parker,  their  pastor,  who  was  sufficiently  vindicated  by  the  council, 
but  sufficient  on  this  point  to  show  what  spirit  they  were  of 

'On  the  last  day  of  their  setting,  about  sunset  Mr.  Woodman  with  several 
others  with  him  came  into  the  council,  speaking  to  this  purpose  (Mr.  W.  affirm- 
ing that  he  was  appointed  to  speak  in  the  name  of  the  brethren,  and  called  for 
witness  to  attest  it)  that  now  they  were  convinced  by  the  word  of  God  that  they 
had  acted  irregularly  and  came  there  to  acknowledge  their  ofTencos,  which 
accordingly  they  did  to  the  great  satisfaction  of  the  hearers,  sundry  of  th.  m 
speaking  to  the  same  purpose  that  they  had  done  ill.  The  council  seeing  such 
a  compliance  which  in  all  the  former  part  they  saw  so  little  ground  to  expect, 
readily  embraced  the  appearance  of  such  a  temper,  and  more  willing  to  bring 
things  to  a  full  agreement,  they  left  off  what  they  intended  as  a  council  and 
fell  upon  the  consideration  of  some  articles  of  accommodation  whereby  both 
parties  for  the  future  might  act  peaceably,  which  articles  were  agreed  unto  by 
Mr.  Woodman  and  many  of  his  party  there  present  who  also  promised  their 
endeavours  to  bring  the  rest  to  a  compliance  with  them. 

'  Mr.  Woodman  notwithstanding  such  an  appearance  of  a  cordial  agreement, 
yet  refuses  the  communion  of  the  church  from  that  day,  and  within  a  little 
while  finds  occasion  to  make  as  much  disturbance  as  ever.  We  could  scarcely 
have  any  publick  occasions  (as  for  discipline  of  members  and  so  forth)  but  there 
was  some  publick  opposition  from  some  or  another,  and  nothing  couid  b« 
managed  with  peace,  tliough  (as  we  suppose)  there  was  never  any  just  cause 
of  disturbance. 

'  Sundry  private  agitations  there  were,  wherein  propositions  were  made  by  them 
tending  to  a  farther  ground  of  difference  than  any  settlement.    Some  things  [wera 


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80  statedl  that  Mr.  Parker  professed  he  could  not  in  conscience  agree  to  them, 
yet  Mr.  Woodman  threatened  him  that  he  would  bring  him  before  authority, 
before  the  highest  judicature  of  the  country,  and  aaain  revive  the  twenty-five 
articles,  which  were  brought  before  the  council,  which  they  had  the  hearing  of 
and  acquitted  Mr.  Parker. 

'After  many  debates,  and  little  likelihood  and  appearance  of  agreement, 
there  still  continuing  great  murmuiings  and  private  surmises  cast  up  and  down 
to  Mr.  Parker's  prejudice  through  false  suggestions,  Mr.  Parker  to  testify  what 
things  he  might,  warns  a  publick  church  meeting,  which  convened  December 
eighth,  when  by  reason  of  the  tumultuous  carriage  of  things  there  was  little 
likelihood  of  bringing  any  thing  to  a  fair  issue.  Omitting  manv  unworthy  and 
disorderly  carriages  exceeding  unsuitable  to  the  solemnity  that  "ought  to  be  in 
God's  presence,  towards  the  end  of  the  meeting  Mr.  Woodmatrwas  charged  by 
one  of  the  brethren  for  publick  offences,  one  in  almost  totally  absenting  himself 
from  the  publick  worship  on  the  lord's  days,  though  it  was  known  sufficiently  that 
he  was  able  enough  to  attend  on  other  occasions,  therefore  abstaining  from  the 
communion  of  the  church.  H-j  instead  of  answering  for  these  olfences  pub- 
hckly  professed  he  is  offended  with  Mr.  Parker  for  some  miscarriages,  and 
desires  the  church  to  appoint  a  meelin,"  to  hear  him.     Mr.  Parker  bids  him 

E reduce  his  charges,  and  he  was  ready  there  to  answer  them  before  the  church, 
ut  this  Mr.  Woodman  refused  to  do. 

'  Not  long  after  he  comes  accompanied  with  two  brethren,  and  tells  Mr. 
Parker  he  comes  with  two  others  to  deal  with  him  according  to  the  rule  in  order 
to  bring  him  to  the  church,  if  he  refused  to  hear  him. 

'Mr.  Parker  replied  to  him  that  his  accusations  being  only  such  points 
wherein  they  dill'ered  in  their  opinions  it  was  not  reasonable  to  tliink  they  were 
meet  judges,  or  that  he  was  likely  to  satisfy  them.  But  if  Mr.  Woodman  would 
choose  three  or  four  elders,  whom  he  would,  of  the  neighbouring  churches,  he 
was  readv  to  answer  before  them  whatsoever  they  could  allege  against  him,  and 
besides  that  himself  standing  charged  with  several  scandals,  he  was  not  a  meet 
person  to  come  to  deal  with  him  in  such  a  manner  till  he  had  answered  for  his 
own  offences.  Mr.  Woodman  professed  he  would  never  call  in  the  help  of  any 
elders  as  long  as  he  lived,  but  if  Mr.  Parker  refused  to  hear  him  he  would  bring 
It  to  the  church  in  order  to  depose  him,  and  then  they  would  desire  the  advice 
of  other  churches  what  they  were  to  do  in  point  of  farther  censure,  and  this  was 
the  issue  of  that  meeting. 

'Shortly  after  (under  the  notion  of  a  fast,  though  no  such  things  were 
observed)  most  of  the  opposite  brethren  convened,  but  (as  we  are  informed) 
toe  substance  of  their  airitation  was  how  to  prosecute  their  design  against  Mr. 
Parker,  which  was  ordered  to  bo  done  the  next  sabbath  day,  which  Mr.  Wood- 
man accordingly  though  irregularly  set  on  foot.  There  they  (though  not  the 
major  part  by  several  persons)  voted  a  church  meeting  though  Mr.  Parker  just 
before  warned  a  meeting  for  the  whole  church.  Mr.  Parker  warned  his  at  one 
of  the  clock  in  the  afternoon,  they  anticipated  him  by  designing  theirs  at  eight 
o'clock  in  the  morning  of  the  same  day.  Mr.  Parker  desiring  to  prevent  their 
irregular  motions,  on  the  lecture  day  being  Wednesday  (the  meeting  being 
warned  (o  be  on  the  Monday  following)  publickly  appoints  another  meeting  two 
days  after  namely,  the  Friday  before  the  meeting  formerly  warned,  and  withal 
order  was  taken  that  four  of  the  brethren  should  have  notice  that  they  were  then 
toappear  to  answer  what  should  be  alleged  against  them  for  the  irregularities 
of  the  last  sabbath  and  other  things.  The  persons  were  Mr.  Woodman, 
Archelaus  Woodman  William  Titcomb  and  William  Pilsbury.  The  church 
appeared  at  the  time,  and  the  persons  warned,  but  instead  of  answering,  they 
fell  to  contradicting  their  pastor,  endeavouring  what  they  could  that  then- 
charges,  which  were  in  writing,  might  not  bo  read  or  heard.  But  when  the 
resolution  was  they  should  be  read,  instead  of  hearkening  to  them,  whereby 
they  might  understand  what  they  were  charged  with,  that  they  might  give 
satisfaction  they  raised  an  hubbub,  knocking,  .stamping,  hemming,  gaping,  to 
drown  the  reading.  Aiterwards  being  demanded  whether  they  would  answer 
to  their  charges,  they  all  of  them  (uncivilly  enough)  refused  so  to  do.  Mr. 
Parker  finding  little  good  to  be  done,  but  much  dishonor  to  God,  dissolved  the 


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meeting,  and  seeing  all  our  endeavours  were  in  vain,  on  the  sabbath  day  follow- 
ing dissolved  the  meeting  formerly  warned  ulso.  Yet  our  brethren  kept  their 
motion,  and  though  they  fell  short  of  flie  major  part,  yet  in  the  name  of  the 
church  Ihev  sent  to  Mr.  Parker,  desirmg  him  to  come  to  answer  to  the  church 
what  Mr.  Woodman  had  against  iiim.  Mr.  Parker,  te.stifyitig  their  irregularitieii 
refu,ses  to  attend  them.  Thev  in  the  meeting  house  having  chosen  their  mod- 
erator and  so  forth,  sit  formally  as  a  church.  Here  Mr.  Woodman's  complaints 
to  the  number  of  hfteen  or  sixteen  he  exhibit.s  and  reads  against  Mr.  Parker  and 
also  twenty-live  more,  which  formerly  he  had  presented  to  the  council  who 
found  httJe  cause  to  blame  Mr.  Parker,  but  saw  sutiiciently  what  temper'  they 
were  of,  to  rake  up  what  they  could  for  thirty  years,  yet  had  not  any  thin"  of 
value  to  fasten  on  him.  Some  of  the  brethren  there  present  undertook  (tho'u<»h 
not  by  Mr.  Parker's  motion)  if  they  might  have  liberty  presently  to  answer  them 
A  fair  promise  ihey  had  that  they  should  have  liberty,  but  could  get  no  perform- 
ance ot  it  either  at  that  or  the  next  meeting. 

*  The  first  meeting  then  adjourned  to  a  second,  the  second  to  a  third  and  the 
third  to  a  fourth.  Mr.  Parker  and  others  frequently  desired  them  that  they 
would  agree  to  call  a  lawful  and  regular  council  to  help  settle  our  distractions 
but  they  resolving  to  go  on  in  their  own  way  refused  all  such  motion.*.  It  is 
impossible  to  mention  all  particulars,  nor  is  it  to  be  thought  how  many  dis- 
courses have  been  to  bring  them  -o  a  right  understanding,  and  it  hath  been  past 
our  skill  by  any  thing  we  could  do  (without  injuring  truth  and  conscience)  to 
find  any  way  to  reclaim  them.  We  have  borne  their  contradictions  with 
patience.  Frequently,  as  we  had  opportunity  we  debated  with  Ihem.  The 
platform  of  discipline,  which  they  agreed  should  be  their  rule,  proves  nothin" 
to  them,  unless  they  may  be  the  judges  and  interpreters  of  it.  Wo  supposed 
(unless  they  deluded  the  council)  that  they  had  ingenuously  acknowledged 
their  irregularities,  yet  are  more  deeply  fallen  into  them  than  before.  The 
testimony  of  a  council  of  nine  churches  (which  we  called  and  maintained  at 
our  own  charge,  and  which  they  contributed  nothing  to,  but  contempt  and  con- 
tradiction to  linger  out  the  time)  i.s  despised  by  them  and  counted  as  an  empty 
paper.  The  received  and  approved  practice  of  all  the  churches  in  the  country 
is  not  regarded  by  them.  So  that  we  are  at  a  stand  and  could  not  imagine  what 
farther  course  to  take,  [with  them]  who  will  be  content  with  nothing  but  their 
ovi^n  will,  to  the  subduing  of  all  to  their  humours  and  the  ruin  of  the  church. 

'  In  the  issue  it  comes  to  this,  that  their  designs  bring  forth  a  monstrous  birth. 
The  members  cut  ofl'the  head.  Without  the  advice  of  any  church  or  churches, 
without  any  shew  of  any  just  ground  and  reason  (but  what  their  own  enra<^e(i 
fancies  and  violent  passions  suggest)  they  take  upon  them,  (and  this  by  a  lesser 
part  of  the  church  present,  and  som3  of  them  dissenting,  the  brethren  that  were 
not  of  their  persuasion,  were  desired  to  withdraw,)  to  depose  the  pastor,  to  choose 
two  ruling  elders,  imperiously  enough  imposin":  them  on  their  pastor  and 
brethren,  were  as  fit  to  be  respected  as  others.  Whereupon  at  last  for  our  own 
defence,  for  upholding  the  ordinances  of  God  among  us.  when  we  find  they 
despise  councils,  will  not  subject  themselves  to  church  dealing,  or  by  combina- 
tion vvill  prevent  it,  and  would  rob  us  of  our  sacred  enjoyments,  prostituting  all 
to  their  confusions,  being  enforced  to  it,  we  saw  no  remedy  but  according  to  the 
rule  of  the  scripture  to  withdraw  from  them  that  cause  divisions,  and  walk 
inordinately,  as  is  more  fully  expressed  in  our  paper,  and  publickly  communi- 
cated to  them  when  they  were  assembled  together  March  twenty-third,  1671.' 

The  above  was  written  by  John  Woodbridge. 

The  next  paper,  is  an  answer  to  the  foregoing,  and  is  entitled  a 
'  defence  of  the  persons  accused.' 

'  To  the  honored  court  now  sitting  at  Ipswich  we  humbly  present  these  lines 
m  way  of  apology  to  declare  the  grounds  of  our  late  actings  as  a  church  to  be 
regular,  both  by  our  ecclesiastical  liberties,  secondly  by  our  late  covenant  and 
thirdly  correspondent  to  scripture  rule  and  example. 


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HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


'  April  eia;hteenth,  \67l. 
'  First,  that  a  church  hath  liberty  to  proceod  agairiHt  an  eliTor,  or  nldors,  not 
only  to  an  act  of  suApunHion,  but  also  to  (-xpulsion  upon  due  cause.  It  is  with- 
out controversy  and  clear  as  in  law  book  page  twenty-live,  cection  five,  every 
church  hath  also  free  liberty  of  admiRsion,  recommendation,  dismission,  ex- 
pulsion or  deposal,  of  their  officers  and  raumbors  upon  due  cause  with  free  ex- 
ercias  of  the  discipline  and  censures  of  Christ  according  to  the  rules  of  the 
word.     Second,  by  our  late  covenant  contained  under  live  articles. 

'  The  first  is  that  the  platform  of  discipline  shall  bo  a  rule  for  practice  in  the 
church  of  Newbury  in  all  our  administration.H,  which  saith  that  it  is  a  preroga- 
tive that  Christ  hath  given  to  the  brotherhood.  Chapter  ton,  sections  nvo,  six, 
seven.     Chapter  hve,  section  two.     Chapter  eight,  section  seven. 

'  Second,  where  it  is  said  chapter  tenth,  other  churches  directing  thereunto 
where  they  may  be  had,  we  answer  first,  that  advice  is  not  laid  down  in  the 
platform  as  of  necessity  to  be  a  rule,  but  where  as  they  may  bo  had.  Second, 
It  relates  not  to  the  suspension  of  elders,  but  to  the  deposal  of  them.  Third,  we 
have  earnestly  called  upon  two  chiirches  to  have  their  advice,  but  one  of  them 
refused  to  come,  the  other  that  did  come  refused  to  give  their  advice  to  the  case 
we  had  in  hand.  Fourth,  we  then  sent  three  questions  to  the  church  of  Salis- 
bury for  their  resolution,  but  they  gave  us  no  answer.  Then  we  were  forced  to 
take  liberty  aa  God  hath  given  us  to  proceed  ourselves  as  the  rule  of  the  word 
doth  lead  us.  Matthew  18:  17.  Colossians  4:  17.  Romans  16:  17.  Platfonn 
chapter  ten,  sections  five,  six,  seven.  Chapter  five,  section  two.  Chapter  eight, 
section  seven.     Law  book  page  twenty-live,  section  five. 

'  Third,  where  a  church  hath  I  jerty  not  only  to  the  suspending,  but  also  to 
the  expulsion  and  deposal,  of  their  ofhcers  upon  due  cause,  as  i.  proved  before, 
for  the  lesser  is  included  in  the  greater,  then  also  to  appoint  a  church  meeting 
to  examine  whether  be  due  cause,  although  the  elder  offending  doth  not  consent 
thereunto,  for  we  humbly  conceive  that  no  otfender  is  to  be  active  in  his  own 
censure,  but  passive  under  which  he  is  subject.  The  contrary  seemeth  to  us  to 
be  contrary  to  law  and  reason. 

'  Fourth,  the  church  according  to  rule  may  deal  with  an  officer,  as  is  proved 
already,  then  a  brother  that  is  oifended  with  an  officer  may  deal  with  him  ac- 
cording to  rule  as  Matthew  16:  17.  Platform  chapter  ten,  section  five,  six, 
seven,  chapter  eight,  section  seven,  where  it  is  said  to  be  a  power  and  preroga- 
tive given  to  a  brother  to  deal  with  any  brother,  with  whom  he  is  oirended,  and 
in  case  he  hear  him  not,  to  tell  it  to  the  church. 

'  Fifth,  if  it  be  the  duty  of  a  brother  offended  after  private  means  used,  and  he 
is  not  satisfied,  to  tell  it  to  the  church,  then  it  is  the  duty  of  the  church  to  hear 
that  brother's  complaint,  and  get  their  judgment  upon  it  in  obedience  to  the 
rule  of  Christ  Matthew  18:17.     1  Corinthians,  verse  4. 

'  Sixth,  if  this  brother  offended  in  a  lawful  publick  meeting  upon  tue  Lord's 
day,  doth  speak  to  the  whole  church  to  stay  and  hear  him  a  few  words  of  com- 
plaint against  a  brother,  with  whom  he  is  offended,  and  some  wilfully  go  away 
and  do  not  their  duty,  but  by  neglect  thereof  lose  the  power  and  privilege  of 
judgment  in  what  was  presented  to  the  church,  their  refusing  their  duty  is  not 
an  obstruction  to  the  major  part  of  the  church,  that  doth  stay  to  do  their  duty,  as 
they  are  obliged  by  the  rule  Matthew  18  :  17. 

'  Seventh,  Mr.  Parker,  Mr.  Woodbridge  and  the  brethren  with  him  which  are 
forty-five  have  made  a  solemn  written  explicit  covenant  by  the  advice  of  the 
messengers  of  nine  churches,  who  as  witne.sses  have  subscribed  it  by  the  mod- 
erator and  scribe,  that  those  articles  then  agreed  on  should  be  the  rule  for  prac- 
tice in  the  church  of  Newbury  in  all  their  administrations.  The  which  cove- 
nant Mr.  Parker  did  refuse  to  put  to  the  vote  of  the  church,  giving  the  reason 
that  then  his  party  would  be  engaged  to  practice  it,  although  himself  had  cove- 
nanted that  it  should  be  the  rule  for  practice  in  the  church  in  all  our  adminis- 
trations. 

'  Eighth,  we  do  conceive  that  those  brethren  that  consent  not  unto  the  cove- 
nant made  by  the  pastor  and  the  major  part  of  the  brethren,  are  not  in  a  capac- 
ity to  act  in  matters  of  discipline,  in  which  wa  shall  refer  ourselves  to  the 
advice  of  better  understanding,  the  reason  of  our  referring  is  because  our  church 


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covpnant  is  lost  or  bumod,  ami  the  oontcntd  not  known,  and  so  unJer  no  church 
covenant  until  the  last  covenant  uiade  whereby  as  a  noni^rojjational  church  we 
havn  no  power  one  over  another,  bnl  by  virtue  of  this  lately  made,  as  is  evident 
.  by  our  rule  ujfreed  upon,  cliapttir  t.  section  1,  3,  platlorm. 

'  Ninth,  it  hath  been  the  custom  ol'  this  church  from  the  boginnina  not  to 
take  notice  of  the  number  of  brethren,  that  come  to  church  meetinif,  but  in  case 
the  meeting  is  lawfidly  warned,  if  but  half  the  church  come  toirJther  to  carry 
and  en<l  all  thinfjs  by  the  major  part  of  them  that  did  come,  be  th(>y  ft-w  or 
many,  and  as  far  as  we  know  this  is  the  pructico  of  all  churches,  but  notwith- 
standms  we  have  acted  by  a  major  part  of  the  brethrtm. 

'  Timth,  we  would  put  it  to  your  serious  considerations,  whether  if  none  but 
the  brethren,  that  are  m  covenant  with  Mr.  Parker,  have  been  desired  to  stay 
seeing  the  rest  own  not  the  covenant  by  any  publick  manifestation,  our  meeting 
had  not  been  an  authentic  church  meeting,  and  what  we  had  acted  by  the  major 
part  ol  them  be  authentic,  yet  the  whole  church  was  desired  to  stay  witliout 
any  distinction,  therefore  no  appearance  of  exception  on  that  account. 

'  Eleventh,  wo  conceive  that  every  church  have  an  ecclesiastical  judiciary 
amongst  themselves  to  judge  of,  and  give  sentence  upon,  any  olbmces,  or  upon 
any  persons  that  are  of  their  combination  or  society,  allowed  to  every  particular 
church  by  Christ,  Matthew  18,  17,  confirmed  by  our  laws,  piigo  25,  section  5, 
by  an  aiL'reement  or  covenant  as  in  platform,  chapter  10,  sections  5.  fi,  7.  This 
jurisdiction  or  judicatory  being  distinct  from  th(i  civil  power,  except  we  break 
their  laws,  or  go  contrary  to  the  law  of  God  in  fundamentals  of  faith  and 
discipline. 

'  Twelfth,  lastly  we  would  humbly  desire  you  to  consider  that  the  major  part 
have  the  concluding  power  in  all  the  government  and  orders  of  this  common- 
wealth, in  our  highest  court,  in  the  court  of  assistants,  in  the  county  courts  in 
comniissioners'  courts,  among  freemen  in  their  nu'etings,  by  towns  in  tl'ieir 
meetings,  by  military  commissioners  in  their  societies,  so  in  choice  of  all  offi- 
cers from  the  governor  to  the  constable  and  way  wardens.  Also  in  synods  in 
councils,  in  all  churches  in  New  England  that  we  know,  and  how  it  is  come  to 
pass  that  the  poor  church  of  Newbury  among  the  thousands  in  New  En-'land 
should  be  opposed  in  their  lawful  liberties  we  cannot  but  a  little  wonder.  "  And 
that  It  should  bo  commended  to  this  court's  consid(<ration  whether  wo  are  not  a 
people  that  go  about  to  set  up  a  new  government,  because  we  act  or  allow  the 
act  of  the  major  part  of  the  church  to  be  authentic,  to  us  seemoth  to  be  an 
objection  new  coined  by  such  as  might  as  well  say  a  church  hath  no  power  or 
privilege  whether  they  be  major,  or  minor,  or  the  whole. 

William  Titcomb. 
Caleb  Moody. 
Samuel  Plumer. 
Stephen    Grenlefe. 
Richard  Bartlet.' 

In  addition  to  the  preceding  extracts,  there  is  on  file  a  large  num- 
ber of  testimonies,  taken  before  the  court  in  proof  of  the  statements 
made  by  the  friends  of  Mr.  Parlter,  in  their  complaint  to  the  court 
against  Mr.  Woodman  and  his  friends.  A  lew  of  these  are  here 
given  as  a  specimen. 

Testimony  or  Ariel  Somerbv.  ' Deccmhey  19,  1670.  In  the  school  house 
Mr.  Woodman  expressing  himself  highly,  Mr.  Parker  said,  soft,  sir,  your  ways 
are  ungodly,  you  neglect  publick  worship  and  withdraw  from  the  communion  of 
the  church.  Mr.  Woodman  said  Mr.  P.'s  %<-ays  were  ungodly.  After  further 
discourse  Mr.  Woodman  began  to  call  for  witness  of  wliat  Mr.  Parker  said  I 
said,  Mr.  Woodman,  you  said  Mr  P.'s  ways  were  ungodh-,  and  therefore  it  is 
but  quid  pro  quo.  Who  is  that  that  saith  so,  Biel  ?  I  answered,  you,  sir  He 
broke  forth  with  a  strange  expression,  the  Lord  help  us,  or  the  Lord  have  mercy 
on  us.     A  man  had  need  to  have  a  care  what  he  speaks  before  such  men. 

Sworn  to  March  twenty-eighth,  1671. 


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'  I  Abifl  Somorby  wan  pronont  whon  my  father  in  law  Rlfhard  Knight  wked 
Mr.  VVooilnian  for  Uw  <'hiirfh  hook.  Mr,  Woodman  Haid  that  \w  would  not  Itit 
it  j?o  till  tl'"  I'hurch  si-iuIh  for  it.  My  futlior  Knight  Naid  that  Mr.  I'arkHr  and 
the  cliurch  had  votod  that  lio  whould  conn'  to  fetch  it.  Mr.  Woodman  anHwiTcd 
I  do  utterly  dinown  wiii-h  a  rhiirch.  My  father  Kniuht  .-^aid,  is  this  your  answer ! 
Mr.  Wooilman  said  yen,  'hat  is  my  auMWor,  only  I  think  yon  do  very  ninfully  to 


hold  with  Huch  a  church. 


Sworn  to  April  eighteenth,  1671. 


'  Henry  Jaquos  allimieth  that  on  January  twenty-ninth,  lfl7l  when  Mr.  Wood- 
man doNired  the  church  to  Htay,  that  ho  Btayed,  but  it  was  nut  to  joyno  with 
them,  and  ispeakin^  to  Mr.  Woodman  ho  Haid  hu  thought  it  unreimonablu  that 
Mr.  Woodman  should  denire  a  church  mootinj^  to  deal  with  Mr.  I'arkor,  when 
thoro  WBM  more  need  for  him  to  be  dealt  withal  for  IiIh  odonccH.  He  nUu  aliirm- 
olh  that  ho  heard  Mr.  Woodman  publickly  atlirm  that  Mr.  Parker  had  brokun 
throo  covenants  already,  and  that  no  covenant  would  Mtand  before  him. 

Sworn  to,  April  eighteenth,  1671. 


'  Deposition  of  Tristram  Cojfm  and  John  Knight. 
'  On  the  Hixth  of  February  in  a  publick  meeting 


Bting  in  the  meeting  house  Mr, 
Woodman  ntlirmed  that  when  ho  went  to  deal  with  Mr,  Parker  according  to 
ruio  and  two  brethren  with  him,  that  Mr.  Parker  refused  to  hear  him,  and  told 
him  his  ways  were  ungodly,  Tristram  ColHn  said,  sir,  you  delude  tlie  people 
for  those  words  were  spoken  the  nineteenth  of  December  on  another  account 
and  it  was  that  day  forln'  •  that  Mr.  Woodman  with  others  went  to  deal  with 
Mr.  Parker.  Sworn  March  twenty-eighth  1671,' 

As  Mr.  Woodman's  party  claimed  to  be  the  church,  end  to  Have 
a  majority  of  the  members,  it  was  deemed  of  consequence  on  one 
side  to  establish  that  claim,  and  on  the  other  to  prove  the  contrary. 

'There  are,'  says  Mr.  John  Woodbridge,  'according  to  just  computation, 
reckoned  as  members  of  our  church,  if  Mr.  Dummer  bo  left  out,  seventy-nine, 
if  he  be  reckoned,  eighty.  Our  brethren  of  the  number  of  eighty  lay  claim  to 
forty-one  to  be  with  them,  if  Mr.  Dummer  be  reckoned  into  them. 

Steven  Swett.  one  of  their  immber  is  a  professed  anabaptist  and  hath  refused 
communion  with  this  church  several  years.  Thirty-four  only  voted  nith  them, 
which  is  far  from  the  major  part  of  the  church.  This  being  the  foundation  of 
all  their  meetings  and  actings  as  a  church,  if  the  foundation  be  tottering,  all 
their  meetings  being  continued  by  adjournnKMit  from  one  to  another,  the  errors 
of  the  foundation  must  needs  convey  irregularity  to  all  subsequent  motions.' 

'  John  Knight  and  Tristram  CofRn  testify  that  it  was  a  minor  part  of  the 
church  that  voted  (to  sit)  for  .appointing  a  meeting  to  hear  Mr.  Woodman's 
complaint  against  Mr.  Parker,  for  thirty-nine  have  not  joyned  with  them,  besides 
three  of  forty-one,  that  Mr.  Woodman  lays  claim  to  were  not  prebciit,  namely, 
Mr.  Dummer,  John  Merrill,  John  Wells,  and  Mr.  W^oodman  is  the  comphiiner. 
and  there  remains  but  thirty-seven,  Benjamin  Rolf  and  William  Moody  did 
not  vote,  and  Steven  Swett  ought  not  to  vote,  because  he  is  an  anabaptist  and 
liath  not  had  communion  with  this  church,  and  so  only  thirty-four  voted, 

'  I  Joseph  Hills  aged  sixty-nine  do  hereby  testify  that  on  the  day  of  the  church 
meeting  appointed  on  motion  of  Mr,  Woodinan,  I  being  in  conference  with  Mr. 
W.  about  forbearing  all  proceeding  till  it  might  be  cleared  up  by  help  of  counsel 
or  conference,  whether  tlie  power  of  church  discipline  was  in  the  majority  or 
elsewhere,  Mr.  Woodman  said  that  Mr.  Parker  liad  broken  covenant  with  the 
church  sundry  times  and  it  would  be  to  no  purpose  to  make  an  agreement  with 
Mr.  Parker.  Sworn  April  eighteenth  1671. 

'  The  deposition  of  Robert  Pike  aged  fifty-three  or  thereaboutg,  being  desired 
to  give  my  testimony  concerning  Mr.  Richard  Dummer  about  his  being  a 
member  of  Newbury  church,  this  is  that  I  do  testify,  that  at  a  meeting  many 
years  ago,  aa  I  remember  upon  a  sabbath  day,  there  was  some  thing  propounded 


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cnncominp;  Mr.  Dummor'n  trnnsmisnion  from  thn  churrli  at  Roxbnry  to  the 
tihurrh  in  Ntiwburv,  which  unomed  to  good  Bcreptiuu-o  with  tho  church, 
but  whether  it  waa  by  dismission  or  recominondation  I  undorHtiuid  not. 

_,  .       ,  UoBKUr    I'lKK.' 

'  Tlio  mooting  was  in  tho  open  ayr  under  a  tree.' 

After  heiirlug  all  the  testimony  in  the  case  the  court  came  to  the 
foHowing  dccirtion,  namely : 

'Compliiint  boini?  mado  unto  tliis  court  affninmt  Mr.  VVooilman,  Mr.  Dummor, 
Wiilinni  Tifcornb  and  a  party  adliorin};  to  them  an  doth  ai)pi>ar  in  throo  papers 
prcscntcl  by  Daniel  I'ioreo  and  Richard  Kent,  tho  said  Woodman  and  div.-rs 
others  complained  of,  worn  summoned  at  the  spssion.^  of  thi.i  court  in  March 
last,  whoro  the  several  complaint.^  and  charires  were  read  to  the  said  parties 
then  appearing,  and  their  answers  re(piired  thereunto,  when  th«  said  Mr.  Wood- 
man  among  other  things  allecrinR  that  their  aceusation.s  were  many  and  heavy 
and  that  tliey  had  many  matters  to  charge  U|)on  Mr.  Parker  and  those  adhering 
lo  him,  whi<'h  they  had  neither  time  nor  opportunity  on  the  sudden  to  prepare, 
tho  court  not  willing  to  mirprizo  them  and  desiring  fully  lo  understand  tho 
\yhole  state  of  a  case  so  extraordinary  and  of  so  Idgh  a  nature,  adjourned  to  tho 
eighteenth  of  April,  allowing  them  copies  of  the  charges  exhibited  against 
them,  and  advising  them  to  pronaro  th.ir  objections  against  Mr.  Parker  and 
those  with  him,  and  to  ac(]iiaint  nim  with  the  same  that  they  also  might  bo  in 
readnu'.ss  to  make  their  defence  at  tho  adjournment,  and  tho  court  might  then 
clearly  unilerstand  upon  hearing  the  whclo  case  and  according  to  the  merit 
thereof  give  judgment.  Tho  court  meeting  at  tho  day  aforesaid,  afi  a  full 
hearing  it  did  apiiear  that  Mr.  Woodman,  Mr.  Dummer,  William  Titcomb  and 
others  adhering  to  them  (not  appearing  to  bo  tho  major  part  of  tho  church  at 
Newbury,  although  tho  major  part  of  such  as  met  together)  have  proceeded  to 
admonish  their  pastor,  Mr.  Parker,  and  to  suspend  him  from  the  exercise  of  his 
oliice.  as  appeareth  by  their  act  sent  unto  him  the  said  Mr  Parker  as  signed  by 
Mr.  Dummer  and  Richard  Thorlay. 

'  Second,  that  the  said  Mr.  Woodman  and  party  as  above  said  did  proceed  to 
eli'ct  two  rulinir  elders,  namely  Mr.  Woodman  himself  and  Mr.  Dummer,  ap- 
pointing a  day  for  their  ordination.  Third,  that  this  answer  was  pa.ssed  against 
tlieir  iiastor  upon  tho  complaint  and  solicitation  of  Mr.  Woodman,  and  that  the 
said  Woodman  had  openly  published  several  falsolioods  to  animate  his  party 
(which  lay  under  some  di.scourageinent  by  the  judgment  of  a  council  declared 
against  such  irregular  actiuir)  and  to  exasperate  them  against  Mr.  Parker,  who 
before  and  at  that  time  of  meeting,  wherein  they  suspended  him,  to  prevent  so 
great  an  evil  and  scandal,  did  advise  them  as  became  his  place,  and  otlered  and 
intreated  them  to  joyne  with  him  to  call  a  council  to  hear  their  difTerences, 
eiigaging  himself  to  bo  concluded  thereby,  which  was  not  attended  by  said 
\Voodinan  and  parties,  but  they  proceeded  to  act  as  abovcsaid,  for  the  defence 
of  which  high  and  irregular  practices  unheard  of  in  this  country,  exceedingly 
scandalous  and  reproachful  to  the  way  of  tho  churches  here  establisheil, 
destructive  to  the  peace  and  order  of  the  gospel,  threatening  tho  ruin  and  deso- 
lation of  all  order.  They  have  alleged  nothing  but  that  they  were  the  major 
part  of  the  chu'.ch,  not  charging,  much  less  provins,  any  otfence  given  by  their 
reverend  pastor,  Mr.  Parker,  who  for  any  thing,  that  doth  appear  is  altogether 
innocent,  though  so  exceedingly  scandalized,  reproached  and  wronssd  by  Mr. 
Woodman  his  party.  All  which  clearly  and  undeniably  appearing  by  the 
papers,  pleas  and  evidences  that  are  on  tile,  tho  court  as  in  duty  bound  "being 
sensible  of  the  dishonor  to  the  name  of  Go'l,  to  reli-rion  here  established  and 
iilso  the  disturbance  of  the  peace,  tho  scandalizing  ol  a  venerable,  loving  and 
pious  pastor  and  an  aged  father  can  not  but  judge  the  said  Woodman,  Mr. 
Dummer,  and  William  Titcomb,  tht  parties  juyning  with  them  guilty  of  very 
great  misdemeanors,  though  in  different  degrees,  deserving  severe  pniiishmeiit, 
yet  bein-r  willing  to  exercise  as  much  lenity  as  tho  case  is  capable  of,  or  may 
stand  with  a  meet  testimony  against  such  an  ofl-nce,  which  we  are  bound  in 


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ff 


duty  to  God  and  our  consciences  to  bear  testimony  against,  do  hereby  adjudge 
the  said  Mr.  Woodman  and  party  adhering  to  hini  to  pay  the  several  fines  under 
written  with  the  charge  of  the  witnesses  and  fees  of  court,  and  that  they  all 
stand  committed  till  the  said  fines,  charges  and  fees  be  satisfied  and  paid.' 

The  sentence  of  the  "'^urt  was  passed  May  twenty-ninth,  1671. 
The  following  is  a  complete  list  of  Mr.  Woodman's  party,  with 
the  amount  of  tbe  fines  affixed  to  their  names. 

'  Mr.  Edward  Woodman,  twenty  nobles.*  Mr.  Hichard  Dummer,  Richard 
Thorlay,  Stephen  Greenleaf,  Richard  Bartlet  and  William  Titcomb  four  nobles 
each.  Francis  Plumer,  John  Emery  senior,  John  Emery  junior,  John  Merrdl 
and  Thomas  Browne  a  mark  each.f  Nicholas  Batt,  Anthony  Morse  senior, 
Abraham  Toppan,  William  Sawyer,  Edward  Woodman  junior,  William  Pds- 
bury,  Caleb  Moody,  John  Poor  senior,  John  Poor  junior,  John  Webster,  John 
Bartlet  senior,  John  Bartlet  junior,  Joseph  Plumer,  Edward  Richardson,  Thom- 
;.s  Halo  iunior,  Edmund  Moores,  Benjamin  Lowle,  Job  Pilsbury,  John  Wells, 
William "ll.siev,  James  Ordway,  Francis  Thorla,  Abraham  Merrill,  John  Br\dey, 
Benjamin  Rolf,  Steven  Swett,  and  Samuel  Plumer.  a  noble  each.'  Robert 
Coker  and  William  Moody  were  not  fined.     The  whole  number  is  forty-one,' 

The  following  are  the  names  of  Mr.  Parker's  party. 


Mr.  John  Woodbeidge. 
Captain  Paui.  White. 
Mr.  Henry  Sewall. 
Richard  Kent. 
John  Kent. 
Henry  Short. 
Daniel  Pierce,  senior. 
Richard  Kntgh'^. 
Anthonv  Short. 
Richard  Knight. 
John  Kelly. 
John  Knight. 
Henry  Jaques. 
Thomas  Hale,  senior. 
Robert  Adam*. 
Abel  Huse. 
George  Little. 
Samuel  Moody. 
William  Chandler. 
Mr.  Nicholas  Noyes. 
Nicholas  Wallington. 


Captain  William  Gerrish. 
Mr.  Percival  Lowi-e. 
James  Kent. 
Robert  Long. 
Richard  Pettingell. 
William  Morse. 
Jonathan  Morse. 
John  Davis. 
John  Smith. 
James  Smith. 
James  Jackman. 
Joseph  Muzzey. 
Richard  Dole. 
Anthony  Somerby. 
Nathaniel  Cl..rke. 
Tristrm  Coffin. 
Nicholas  'Noyes,  senior. 
Thomas,  Turvill. 
Nicholas  Wallington. 
Mr.  John  Gerrish. 

Whole  number  41 . 


The  foregoing  completes  the  transcript  from  the  county  court 
records  of  all  that  is  deemed  necessary  to  a  right  understanding  of  the 
case,  which  is  in  some  respects  peculiar,  and  must  be  deeply  interest- 
ing, not  only  to  the  descendants  of  those  engaged  in  su  h  a  contest, 
but  to  all  wlio  wish  to  ascertain  the  feelings,  the  views,  opinions,  and 
principles,  of  the  early  settlers  of  New  England,  respecting  that 
vital  question  in  church  and  state :  in  whose  hands  is  the  power  of 
government  rightly  lodged?  Ought  or  ought  not  the  majority  to 
govern  ?  On  this  question,  which  agitated  the  church  in  Newbury 
W  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century,  I  make  no  comments,  and 

'■*  A  nohle  is  six  shillings  and  eight-pence, 
t  A  mark  is  thirteen  shillings  and  fourpence. 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


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inder 

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71. 

with 


offer  no  opinion.  The  facts  are  before  the  reader.  He  must  draw 
his  own  conclusions.  Should  he,  however,  suppose,  that  the  action 
of  the  county  court  was  a  final  settlement  of  the  whole  affair,  and 
that  peace  and  quietness  was  once  more  re-established  in  the  church 
and  among  the  people  of  Newbury,  he  will  find  his  supposition 
erroneous,  as  the  following  extracts  from  the  general  court  records 
will  show. 


jhavd 
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[errill 
snior, 
Pils- 
Johu 
hom- 
Velb, 
f\iley, 
Robert 


'May  31,  1671.  The  present  distressed  and  labourinij  state  of  the  church  of 
Christ  at  Newbury  beinj^  represented  to  this  court,  whereof  they  are  deeply 
sensible,  this  court  doth  judge  it  expedient  that  some  help  be  sent  unto  the  said 
church  in  a  way  of  communion  of  churches,  and  therefore  do  order  and  appoint 
that  the  secretary  doe  in  the  name  of  this  court  write  unto  these  several  churches 
of  Charlestown,  the  first  church  of  Boston,  the  church  of  Dedham,  the  church 
of  Roxbury,  desiring  them  to  send  their  elders  and  messengers  to  the  church  of 
Newbury,  that  they  may  enquire  into  their  state  and  offer  them  their  best  advice, 
according  to  the  word  of  God,  for  their  composure  and  healing  and  to  make  a 
return  of  what  they  shall  judge  and  doc  in  this  matter,  unto  this  court  or  the 
council  of  this  commonwealth,  and  that  the  secretary  doe  signify  this  order  unto 
the  reverend  Mr.  Thomas  Parker  to  be  communicated  unto  both  parties  there  at 
variance  in  that  church  of  Newbury ;  and  that  Mr.  William  Stoughton  be 
desired  to  join  with  the  secretary  in  writing  their  letters.' 


'II 


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On  June  twenty-third,  1671,  Mr.  William  Stoughton  addressed 
the  following  letter  to  the  reverend  Thomas  Parker. 

'  The  present  state  of  your  church  being  so  uncomfortable  and  so  publickly 
known,  it  hatn  occasioned  many  and  sad  thoughts  of  heart  in  all  that  tenderly 
love  the  name  and  interest  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  and  seek  the  good  and 
welfare  of  these  churches  with  their  whole  hearts.  A  solemn  grief  it  is  that 
after  such  pains  and  labour  heretofore  taken  by  the  reverend  elders  and  messen- 
gers of  several  churches  that  were  with  you  and  some  hopes  of  a  good  success 
thereof,  yet  matters  in  conclusion  should  come  to  no  better  an  issue  than  what 
of  iRte  hath  fallen  out  amongst  yoy.  What  in  this  case  is  incumbent  on 
authority  to  doe  that  your  divisions  may  be  healed  and  the  scandal  of  them 
removed  hath  been  (though  under  some  straits  of  time)  a  serious  disquisition 
amongst  us.  You  may  please  therefore  to  understand  that  we  have  written  unto 
these  four  churches,  namely,  of  Boston,  Charlestown,  Roxbury  and  Dedham, 
exhorting  and  desiring  them  (according  to  the  known  and  approved  practice  of 
communion  of  churches  amongst  us)  joyntly  to  send  their  elders  and  other  meet 
messengers  unto  you  that  they  may  in  such  a  way  of  God  take  knowledge  of 
your  present  case,  and  beinir  fully  informed  give  you  their  best  advice  p.n  coun- 
sel therein  as  the  rules  and  appointments  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  his  word 
shall  direct.  And  what  these  reverend  elders  and  messengers  shall  find  and  doe 
in  this  your  weighty  concern  they  are  requested  to  make  a  return  thereof  either  to 
the  next  general  court,  that  shall  be  held  or  to  the  council  of  this  commonwealth. 
The  messengers  of  the  churches  when  chosen  will  give  you  seasonable  notice 
of  the  time,  which  they  shall  have  agreed  on,  of  coming  to  you. 

'  And,  that  there  may  be  that  readynesse  and  preparednesse  in  you  all  to 
receive  their  coming  upon  so  solemn  an  errand,  as  you  ought  in  the  Lord,  we 
desire  and  expect  that  what  we  now  write  unto  you  may  be  communicated  and 
read  unto  your  whole  church,  if  it  may  be  assembled  together,  or  at  least  unto 
both  the  parties  at  variance  therein  severally.  Now,  reverend  sir  and  dear 
brethren  we  expect  and  warn  you  all,  and  with  all  earnestness  call  on  you  that 
you  would  thoroughly  and  solemnly  as  in  the  sight  of  God  reflect  upon  your 
doleful  and  deplorable  condition,  considering  both  whence  such  distractions  and 
disorders  spring,  and  vvhereunto  they  tend,  none  being  gainers  by  them  but 
Satan  and  his  instruments,  whilst  in  the  mean  time  your  own  souls,  and  the  glory 


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if-    , 


of  God  and  the  common  interest  of  these  churches  are  great  losers.   We  beseech 

StirblrSe  Lord  To  h""  ,?.^"^  i"d?e  himself,  to  humble  yoursXes 
greatly  Duore  the  Lord,  to  beg  that  pardon  of  God  and  reconciliation  with  him 
without  which  there  can  never  be  any  healing  among  yoSves  Thauhis  Z,' 
may  do  and  that  there  may  be  a  sov^ereign  and  plentiful  effusion  oKce  lo^ve 
peace  and  a  sound  mind  whereby  you  may  be  in  every  respect  fmmedui^^o  a 
""'itarErfn  th5  ""'"«"^'  'f"^''''^  ^°  such^ouSsT^eace  ^d 
Saf'sincSLire  of '  "'^  P'"'"''  ^"''^ '°  ^'^'^  P^^^^^*^  "P"-^  A^  -  the 

William  Stoughton.' 

On  the  second  of  July,  the  first  church  in  Boston  chose  deputy 
governor  John  Leverett  and  five  other  messengers,  « to  go  to  the 
church  at  Newbury  to  hear  the  differences  that  be  there  to  be  a 
means  of  heahng,  if  God  please.'# 

The  council  assembled  at  Newbury  according  to  the  direction  of 

Th^^""?.    rf'-^fu^^  what  precise  time  we  are  not  informed. 

Ihe  result  of  the.r  labors  was  presented  to  the  court,  who  made  a 

report  thereon  at  the  May  session,  1672,  as  the  reader  will  see  in  its 

proper  place.  ^  " 

'  Reverend  and  beloved  in  the  Lord, 
i^.■  u      1.        '^^^^  ^^^  portion  that  the  God  of  all  wisdom  hath  allottpd 

n2r/^"-'^'*°r'°^^''-'^''^^«^t««tP«rt  «f  her  time  in  tL  wilderness 
m  great  divisions  and  contentions  which  tr^not  but  occasion  much  peTturbaS 
of  spirit  among  ourselves  and  many  thoughts  of  hear*  in  orstter  churcS 
round  about  us,  that  we  above  all  others  should  thus  un.idetly  pasTthe  davs  of 
our  pilgnniage  here,  having  no  other  time  but  the  presSLmen    that  pass 

pZtn'',  'f  ""^^n^^  "^'["•'^  °""'  ^"'^  the  voice  of  God  stiinSin^  L^ou? 
ears  to  day  if  ye  will  hear  his  voice  then  harden  not  vour  hearts  And  we^Ph,^ 
couscous  that  a  state  of  di_vision  and  contention  in  t^e  chuTch  of  Ghr  It  ll 

MoV:dZte7^cLrrVT''T'''  ""^  '^^'  «"^^  customs  are  nJt  to  be 
fi  1  f  •        *    .u  °^  ^^™h  ^""^  y^t  we  are  commanded  to  contend  for  the 

faith  once  given  to  the  saints  whereby  we  doe  confess  that  CDntentions  a^ains^ 
tnith  and  against  rule  are  only  forbidden  by  the  Lord.  We  therefore  cSLSfm 
the  an  ness  that  is  m  m..n  to  think  well  of  their  own  jud^rnSsanT  actions' 
doe  ttiink  It  expedient,  and  that,  which  doth  stand  wiJh^hT^JJ'of  "chrS  aS 
thinlVwl"'  *•  ""^'"rr  h^^«,h^t«ly  ^eed,  and  must  have  ™cou?se  th"reto"n 
W«"r    i"-     f  "^^  '''^^''  °  ?"."P°n  neighbouring  churches  for  help  and  advice 

bl  mosVc1nlhl«  ir'-^'  ^'''''  l^^'  y?"  "'"  «''"J  "^  themesseTgertsucK 
De  most  capable  of  giving  us  advice  from  scriptuie,  or  from  ruFe  therenntn 
agreeing,  fo.  if  it  be  the  good  pleasure  of  the  LorS  we 'wou  dTnce  h  Je  an"  nd 
of  trouble  arid  contention  in  his  way  and  according  to  his  will  wnL^"  call 
mforourhelpheremat  this  time  only  our  next  two  neighbourh^^  churches 

co™7nt'tosen7'^ThS^^"r^^^  ^""^''^^^  "^^^  number  rnVtmos't 
convenient  to  send.     The  time  we  desire  your  presence  is  the  last  dav  of  Febru- 

ary  being  Tuesday  seven  night  after  the  date  hereof  at  nine  o'cbck  in  the 
TTF,-  ^^^^Hfl  Jesire  you  to  repair  to  the  ordinary,  where  some  of  us 
of  rhr  rrl  ?  ''''Tr/T  ^"""  ™°^«  ^« ''°  ^^'•"^^'•V  deSre  you  in  the  bowe"s 
./atSv  clu  fo^hTln  a^^^  ^''  our  condition  itsLf  doth  unrrtt 

iiateiy  cau  lor  help  and  advice,  in  a  case,  in  which  the  glory  of  God  and  the 
peace  of  this  church  is  soe  nearly  concerned  and  the  rule^we^are  ajreed  upon 

*  Boston  first  church  r«jcord8. 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


1(J3 


doth  direct  us  to  your  advice  as  yourselves  are  our  witness  ;  not  doubting  but 
by  vour  advice  through  God's  presence  and  blessing  his  name  shall  have  glory 
an:l  ourselves  a  benerit.  And  that  it  might  see  be  we  commend  you  to  his 
grace  and  direction,  and  rest  in  love  yours  to  serve  you  in  what  we  rnay. 

By  us  signed,  whose  names  are  underwritten  in  the 
name  of  the  brethren  of  the  church. 
Archelaus  Woodman.        William  Titcomb. 
Stkven  Grenlefe.  Caleb  Moody. 

Richard  Bartlet.  Samuel  Plumer.' 


kV 


ANSWER. 

<  To  Mr.  Woodman  and  the  rest  of  our  beloved  brethren  with  him  at  Newbu- 
ry,  members  of  the  church  of  Christ  there,  grace  and  peace  be  with  you. 

,„  ,       ,,      ,  '  Rowley,  February  20lh,  1671. 

'  Beloved  brethren,  '         ' 

'  Your  letter,  (wherein  you  desire  of  this  church  of  Christ  at  Rowley 
that  we  would  send  messengers  to  give  advice  tending  to  the  healing  of  your 
long  and  uncomfortable  differences)  hath  been  read  before  them  the  nineteenth 
of  this  instant.  Their  answer  is  that  though  they  are  sensible  of  your  uncom- 
fortable condition  as  things  now  stand  with  you  and  are  willing  to  send  the  best 
help  God  hath  given  us,  yet  at  present  we  judge  it  not  seasonable  because  we 
are  informed  by  brother  Titcomb  your  messenger  to  us  and  by  others  that  you 

•  u  ?^  ^^  ^"^  publick  act  agree  to  desire  your  reverend  pastor  and  the  brethren 
with  him  to  joyne  with  you  in  calling  a  council.  We  conceive  it  most  agreea- 
ble to  the  rule  the  fourteenth  of  Romans  seventeen  that  you  desire  his  concur- 
rence with  you  in  calling  a  council,  and  we  know  noe  'instance  wherein  this 
method  has  not  been  attended  of  such  brethren  ***********  as  have  at  any 
time  called  in  council  in  any  of  these  churches.  If  it  be  said  he  will  not  joyne 
in  calling  a  council  we  answer,  it  may  be  soe,  yet  your  way  is  then  the  clearer 
to  call  in  help  without  him.     Thus  far  the  whole  church. 

'Only  several  of  this  church  do  conceive  that  it  were  more  suitable  to  your 
affairs  if  your  church  call  in  some  more  help  than  what  you  mention  in  your 
letter,  three  at  least,  if  not  four  churches.  A  covenant  breaker  is  very  hardly 
set,  and  if  nine  churches  could  hardly  be  instrumental  of  your  peace,  "how  you 
think  two  should  set  you  at  rights  we  cannot  easily  imagine.  But  we  hope  if 
you  are  willing  to  call  in  four  or  five  churches  Mr.  Parker  and  the  brethren 
would  concur  with  you  therein,  whereas  if  you  only  mention  Salisbury  and 
Rowley  to  him,  we  doubt  whether  he  will  concur,  for  he  cannot  be  ignorant 
that  there  is  not  suitable  help  to  be  sure  of  at  Rowley  as  there  is  in  others  that 
you  might  call  in  help  from.  Besides  consider  that  word  the  eleventh  of  Prov- 
erbs fourteen  in  the  multitude  of  counsellors  there  is  safety.  When  are  many 
counsellors  needful  but  in  difficult  cases,  and  if  yours  are  not  such  we  cannot 
readily  think  of  any  that  are.  No  more  but  our  prayers  to  God  for  you  that  he 
would  grant  you  peace  by  all  means.     Soe  pray  your  loving  brethren, 

Samuel  Philips, 
Maximilian  Jewett, 
In  the  name  of  the  whole  church  at  Rowley.' 

'  Newbury,  March  17,  1671. 

'  The  church  of  Christ  which  is  at  Rowley  both  elder  and  brethren  grace  and 
peace  be  with  you  from  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

'Reverend  and  dearly  beloved  in  the  Lord.  After  our  long  and  troublesome 
differences  in  the  church,  it  is  well  known  unto  yourselves  that  in  April  die 
twenty-second  last  by  the  help  and  advice  of  the  assembly  of  the  elders  and 
brethren  of  nine  churches  we  made  an  agreement  or  covenant  that  the  church  of 
Newbury  should  be  governed  by  a  rule  then  agreed  upon  in  all  the  administrations 
contained  m  five  articles.  Notwithstanding  our  troubles  being  still  continued 
and  lengthened  out  without  all  hope  of  remedy  in  that  estate  the  church  stood 


104 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


in  having  but  one  elder,  and  himself  so  contrary  to  the  church  with  whom  ha 
hath  entered  into  the  late  covenant  or  agreement.     Insomuch  that  we  are  with- 
out all  orderly  proceedings  in  any  church  matters,  no  members  admitted,  noe 
censure  can  pass  on  offenders,  but  our  condition  attended  with  many  evil  occur- 
rences to  the  dishonor  of  God,  to  the  reproach  of  congregational  churches  and 
especially  to  this  church  as  not  beinsj  capable  of  healing  our  distempers.     In 
consideration  whereof  a  brother  of  this  congregation  hath  lately  attempted  to 
deal  with  Mr.  Parker  as  concerning  the  cause  of  all  our  troubles  and  contentions 
have  proceeded  from  himself  but  Mr.  Parker  refused  to  hear  him  saying  that 
none  but  elders  had  to  doe  with  him,  whereupon  this  brother  made  this'^com- 
plaint  to  the  whole  church  one  Lord's  day  and  desired  the  church  to  appoint  a 
time  to  hear  him  in  his  complaints^  but  Mr.  Parker  forbad  the  brother  to  com- 
plam  to  the  church  and  forbad  the  church  to  hear  him ;  notwithstanding  the 
church  did  stay  and  appointed  a  time  to  hear  the  complaint  and  have  met  and 
heard  a.     Then  con.sidering  the  weight  of  the  cause  in  respect  to  the  person 
concerned  in  the  complaint,  agreed  to  call  in  two  neighbouring  churches  for 
advice,  but  there  came  to  onr  help  but  the  messengers  from   Salisbury  only 
whose  advice  was  that  the  choice  of  officers  either  teaching  or  ruling  elders' 
such  as  the  church  should  most  unanimously  agree  upon  would  most  "conduce 
to  our  peace  and  quiet.     Whereupon  three  or  four  of  the  brethren  being  sent  to 
Mr.  Parker  to  desire  his  consent  to  this  advice  but  he  did  deny  it.     The  church 
having  adjourned  their  former  meeting,  when  they  heard  the  complaint,  met 
again  at  a  time  appointed  and  passed  their  judafment  upon  it,  and  beiu"'  forced 
thereunto  to  the  great  grief  and  trouble  of  our  hearts  and  by  an  act  faid  Mr. 
Parker  under  blame,  suspending  him  from  all  oflicial  acts  until  he  gave  the 
church  satisfaction,  only  to  preach  as  a  gifted  brother  if  he  please,  and  havin" 
soe  done  they  elected  two  ruling  elders  Mr.  Richard  Dummer  and  Mr.  Edward 
U  oodman,  and  have  appointed  Thursday  next  for  their  ordination.     This  is 
therefore  to  request  that  you  would  be  pleased  to  send  your  messenirers  to  give 
their  approbation  to  the  work  intended,  and  what  help  you  can  to  the  furtherance 
of  the  work.     If  your  reverend  pastor  would  be  pleased  to  preach  us  a  sermon 
we  shall  be  much  obliged  unto  him.     Thus  we  thought  good  to  lay  open  to  your 
understanding  the  order  of  our  proceedings,  as  not  desiring  to  walk  "in  the  dark,  or 
any  way  to  beguile  your  apprehensions.     In  case  the  Lord  should  stirr  up  vour 
hearts  to  send  us  your  help  in  a  work  that  soe  much  concerns  the  glory  of  God 
the  peace  of  the  church,  we  hope  you  shall  have  no  cause  to  repent  of  your  la- 
bour, but  to  praise  the  God  of  peace  with  ourselves  hoping  that  by  such  means 
he  will  be  pleased  to  create  peace  for  us.    Soe  commending  you  to  his  gracious 
direction  in  this  and  all  your  concernments  we  rest  in  him  to  .serve  you  in  what 
we  may.  Signed  by  us,  whose  name?  are  undenvritten 

In  the  name  and  by  the  consent  of  the  church. 

Archel.^us  Woodman.         William  Titcomb. 

Stephen  Grenlefe.  Richard  Bartlet. 

Samuel  Plumek.  Caleb  Moody.' 

ANSWER. 

,^      ,    , 'Rowley,  March  20,  1671. 

'  Dearly  beloved  m  the  Lord  Jesus, 

*  The  lecture  this  week  calls  for  my  attendance  so  that  I 
cannot  enlarge,  but  in  brief  you  may  by  these  understand  that  your  letter  hath 
been  read  before  the  church,  and  their  answer  is  that  they  judge  not  meet  to 
send  any  messengers  to  encourage  or  countenance  you  in  what  you  have  done 
in  reference  to  you  reverend  pastor,  nor  in  what  you  are  farther  about  to  do  in 
respect  to  your  ordination  of  elders,  as  being  doubtful  of  such  proceedinss,  yet 
neither  do  they  think  meet  by  messengers  or  by  writing  to  bear  testimony 
against  your  actings  or  absolutely  to  condemn  them. 

'  But  for  myself  as  one  that  you  were  pleased  to  direct  your  letters  unto,  I 
must  needs  say  that  I  conceive  you  are  far  out  of  God's  way,  and  therefore  doe 
most  earnestly  beseech  you  to  desist  from  such  irregular  proceedings  and  un- 
heard of  in  any  church  wi  New  England  that  I  know  of.  The  reasons  why  I 
conceive  your  late  transactions  to  be  irregular  are  these. 


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'First,  in  that  you  have  not  called  in  counsell  in  an  orderly  way  bv  desirin- 
.your  pa..U.;r  and  the  brotluen  with  hi.n  to  jovne  with  you  in^alliJg  L  adWcl 
Adw  It  stH!ins  to  me  inalioual  as  we  as  unbrotlipilv  tU^i  K..,»i  ^  auyioe. 
nastor  should  not  have  libortv  as  well  ;r£&'(tt  bc^f  0^^ a^t^ 
Iiiin  )  to  chu.se  such  as  may  hear  the  matter  between  them  " 

hecond,  m  thai  he  hath  oll'ered  you  to  iovne  with  i-nn  i,,  ^oir        •         i   • 

c;H..ch  to  enconraj^e  you  therein,  nor  <loe  I  believe  anTcSrin  the  nnln""^ 
u  .1   ..and  by  you  in  ft.     You  know  what  the  iud-nncSf  the  ch    cJe^  is 1 1"^ 
'  "i'^'  ^"M^-e^sed  in  the  platform.     It  must  he  for  scandalous  ev^I     not  mat 
ters  conlrovor.sia!.     And   tfie  whole  brotherhood  a-reein-r  tlmt  ca  led  1  im   t^ 

1  uuu  ne.s  ine  callmir  m  oi  which  you  have  neither  referred  to  vour  msfnrn«7 

I  rest  your  frrieved  brother 
Samuel  Phillips.' 

P\I\uV''7f  ^^""Y'"^  ^"^r  "^^'^  r """  ^y  ^he  reverend  Samuel 
1  lull.p>  of  Rowley.  They  are  also  transcribed  from  the  Rowley 
church  records  and  commence  thus :  ^ 

'January  IGth,  1672. 
'A  reply  to  a  letter  sent  to  S.  P.  from  Mr.  John  Woodbrid-e  in  justification  of 
amonllThem'  "  '°""'' '°  '^'  ^"""^'^  ^^^^  notwithstanding  thi  .sad  d^JSLs 

'  Reverend  and  dear  sir, 
.„  1      "r^"^'*!  I  have  noe  great  list  nor  leisure  for  writino-g  of  ihi«  nn 

the  Lords  supper  in  such  a  time  ohlivisionT  I  knownot^what  reports  you  ha^f 
den  nn7t  T  "'''"'"'  ""'  °"r'"''=^'  '^'"""'^  >°»  ^^'^"^«  t'^^m.  notwhhstandin J^ 
/w  nof  "P"""':-^''""^^"''^^  °^>'°"^  '"'^t  council's  mind  in  th  s  Ser 
V  lo  advised  a  cessation  at  present  till  your  spirits  were  healed  and  .sweeTened 
^^  ith  love  one  towards  another)  and  have  expressed  noe  less  to  Mr.  Parkir  before 

Wm 'to  Hki  Tr  T-    K^"'  '^  'l^'  }^'  ^^'^>'  °f  ^^'-  W""'''"-"  -"d  the  rest  wih 
him  to  take  adv^ntaire  by  any  hint  (as  you  say)  though  never  so  frivnlmt,  Tn!. 

..■eded  not  to  take  such  noti-^e  of  tke  Lking^incour4ment  from  su  "Ks 
nor  take  so  much  pains  to  confute  them.  ' 

'  Concerninir  the  (juestion  as  yourself  have  stated  it,  it  is  easily  answered 
for  yourselt  confess  that  i  there  were  any  thing  chargeable  in  tie  reverend 
pastor  and  brethren  wliv  tliey  should  abstain  from  the  use  of  the  sacrlment 
that  then  you  would  acknowledge  that  the  case  M-ere  somewhat  altered  if  J 
were  soe^    But  that  I  conceive  is  the  case,  for  the  pa.stor  ami  the  brethren  stand 

m;^ind'i;;rent.'' '"  '-'^'^  ^*^^"'  ^"''"^"'^'•'^  ^"   ''''^'^'  ^h"^^-     Th^rare^' 

'First,  that  Mr,  Pu'er  contrary  to  the  agreement  in  the  former  council  did 

rom  h  ms'pl?"  r™'  "   ; '*^"°^^--*iP'  because  they  were  of  diiferent  pSions 

admiis   '  '  persuasions  on  eitlier  side  was  to  be  noe  lett  ?o 

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'  Second,  that  the  articles  of  agreement  (of  which  the  forementioned  was  one) 
to  which  Mr.  Parker  coiisfinted  and  .several  principal  bri'tliron,  yet  that  he  should 
refuse  to  publish  them  and  to  endeavonr  a  consont  to  them,  was  an  omission  that 
had  sad  consecpienced  followini?  amon^fst  yoiirselvcs,  not  to  speak  how  much 
the  former  council'.s  pains  was  made  thereby  inelh-ctual  and  God's  name  taken 
in  vain  whilst  solemn  thanks  were  given  to  God  in  the  churches  tliat  he  had 
blessed  endeavours  and  inclined  their  hearts  to  such  articles  of  agreement. 

'  Third,  that  the  pastor  and  brethren  did  pass  a  sentence  against  Mr.  Wood- 
man's party  before  calling  them  to  repentance,  or  advising  in  soe  weighty  a 
matter  with  other  churches,  and  though  you  once  expressed  yourself  that  these 
circumstantial  omissions  (tho'  Mr.  Parker  did  not  grant  so  farre)  I  conceive;  that 
they  were,  especially  the  former,  a  substantial  omission  of  attendance  to  the 
article  that  calls  upon  us  to  have  patience  with  an  heretic,  and  not  reject  hirii 

Erosently  without  using  means  once  and  again  to  convince  and  reduce  him.  for  it 
ecomes  us  much  more  to  use  means  with  our  brethren  to  convince  and  reduce 
them  from  the  errors  of  their  ways,  James  5  :  20,  and  Timothy  2  :  24  and  25.  In 
a  word  I  do  conceive  that  if  the  council's  determination  when  they  left  you,  and 
the  reply  to  your  objections  be  well  considered,  there  will  appear  something 
chargeable  on  the  pastor  and  brethren,  which  ought  to  be  ackuowledued,  (that 
thereby  the  hearts  of  the  brethren  grieved  and  offended  may  b(!  eased)  before 
you  came  in  order  to  the  Lord's  table.  And  besides  it  may  be  feared  that  your- 
selves not  beginning  in  this  work  is  the  cause  why  the  opposite  jiarty  are  not 
more  forward  to  attend  their  duty  herein,  which  duty  how  mncli  it  is  incumbent 
on  both,  methinks  those  scriptures  the  fifth  Matthew  23,  24  and  James  5:  16 
doe  evince.  It  is  true  God  will  have  have  his  holy  ordinances  attended,  which 
you  strongly  plead,  but  you  know  that  he  will  have  them  attended  after  the  due 
order,  otherwise  we  may  expect  a  breach  rather  than  a  blessing  1  Chronicles  5  : 
12.  God  loves  his  worship  and  desires  it  much  hut  ho  ****  more  upon  peace 
and  union  amongst  his  peopU;  than  upon  attendance  upon  him  in  this  or  that 
part  of  substituted  worship,  which  are  means  to  further  us  in  moral  duties  and 
therefore  tells  us  that  he  is  willing  to  stay  for  his  service  till  we  be  reconcili?d 
one  to  another.  If  the  gift  must  be  left  at  the  altar  till  personal  reconciliation  be 
made,  much  more  when  the  distance  is  between  so  many,  not  healed  by  per- 
soucal  acknowledgements.  And  as  to  this  you  should  do  as  you  would  be  done 
by.  You  will  not  admit  the  brethren  to  that  ordinance  without  confession  of 
their  faults,  and  why  should  you  goe  to  it  without  attendance  to  the  duty  you 
call  for  from  them,  being  there  are  failings  with  you  as  well  as  greater  evils 
with  them.  As  for  your  pleading  therefore  not  guilty,  it  is  not  unuseful  to  con- 
sider what  Mr.  Burroughs  speaks  in  his  Iienicon,  who  tolls  us  when  our  spirits 
are  hot  with  displeasure  one  against  another,  we  are  apt  to  be  hardened 
from  seeing  what  is  amiss  in  ourselves  as  it  was  with  Jonah  when  his  spirit  was 
hot  and  angry  he  would  hardly  be  convinced  by  God  himself  that  he  did  or 
spoke  any  thing  amiss. 

'  Concerning  your  judgment  that  no  cessation  in  your  case  can  be  grounded 
on  1  Corinthians,  11,  I  desire  you  would  a  little  consider  the  eighteenth, 
twentieth,  and  thirty-third  verses.  He  tells  them  that  whilst  there  were  divisions 
and  other  evils  amongst  them,  this  was  not  to  eat  the  Lord's  supper,  hence  it 
necessarily  follows,  that  those  things,  which  made  it  to  be  noe  participation  in 
the  Lord's  supper,  if  not  amended,  ought  to  be;  reformed  before  they  came, 
otherwise  why  does  God  set  the  sword's  point  at  tlunr  breast  verses  twenty- 
seven  and  twenty-nine,  yea  [threaten]  them  not  only  with  sickness  but  with  death, 
if  they  might  still  meet  at  tnat  ordinance  though  those  divisions  and  other  evils 
are  not  removed.  He  that  says  examine,  prepare  and  soe  come,  does  therein 
say  come  not  otherwise  ;  and  church  reformation,  not  onlv  persona!  examination 
is  recpiired  in  that  chapter  before  they  might  partake  of  that  ordinance,  othiu- 
wise  they  might  expect  to  hear  from  God  this  is  not  to  eat  the  Lord's  supper 
verse  twentieth  yea  and  might  expect  to  feel  more  of  his  displeasure  besides 
what  what  they  had  felt.  1  need  not  tell  you,  sir,  what  (iod  required  of  the 
Jews  as  to  searching  out  of  leaven  before  they  cat  the  passover.  or  what  it  sig- 
nified. The  apostle  expounds  the  1  Corinthians  9  purge  out  ihe  old  leaven 
that  you  may  keep  the  feast.    The  least  sin  is  worse  than  a  cartload  of  leaven. 


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Those  foi-cmnntioned  failings  the  scriptures  doe  condemn  as  well  as  the  council. 
Thd  1,01(1  enable  you  to  purge  them  out  bv  repentance,  that  soe  you  may  come 
together  to  that  ordmance  of  love,  joy  and  prayse  purely  for  the  better  and  not 
for  tuo  worse.     Soe  prays  your  unworthy  brother, 

Samuel  Phillips.' 


'  Reverend  and  cood  sir, 


'Rowley  April  3 J,  1672. 

'  It  was  in  niy  purpose,  (as  it  seems  it  was  in  yours),  not  to  have 
troubled  you  nor  myself  with  any  more  writing,  and  therefore  having  perused 
your  reply  to  my  letter,  though  I  got  not  satisfaction  by  it,  yet  I  attempted  noe 
return,  judgmg  it  meet  that  yourself  should  have  the  last  word,  but  having 
received  another  writing  from  you  intimating  that  I  have  to  great  offence  admit^ 
ted  one  of  Newbury  church,  or  more  to  the  Lord's  table  with  us,  though  under 
scandal,  and  having  given  satisfaction,  tiiis  does  necessitate  me  to  write  once 
more  and  upon  this  occasion  I  shall  make  a  brief  mply  unto  your  former  large 
letter.     The  fifth  of  Matthew  you  wave  as  conceiving  it  touches  not  yoitr  case, 
but  condemns  moral  evils,  covered  with  a  cloak  of  devotion  towards  (iod,  such 
as  open  violence,  devouring  widows'  houses  and  for  a  pretence  making  long 
prayers,  but  the  text  saith,  if  thou  rememberest  that  thy  brother  hath  aught  against 
thee  if  it  be  a  lesser  fault,  such  as  you  mention,  yet  if  it  bo  a  breach  of  rule, 
whereby  I  have  offended  my  brother  in  word  or  deed,  I  ought  to  acknowledge 
my  fault  and  be  reconciled  unto  him.    It  is  true  as  you  say  a  man  must  remem- 
ber that  his  brother  hath  something  against  him  and  if  you  vourselves  can  re- 
member nought  of  that  nature,  who  can  help  it  but  onlv  God  !  whereas  you  say 
in  your  first  writing  and  also  in  your  second  that  all  duties,  (if  God's  worship 
may),  both  publick  and  private  must  be  omitted,  I  know  noe  such  consequence 
as  that  can  rationally  be  gathered  from  any  thing  I  have  exprest.     You  say 
that  all  God's  ordinances  are  of  the  same  nature  and  alike  holy.     Though  that 
bo  granted,  yet  I  conceive  a  man  may  and  ought  to  attend  upon  God  in  duties  of 
his  worship  daily  in  his  family  and  weekly  in  hearing  the  word  I'nd  so  forth, 
Ihouuh  in  his  sins,  loving  aiul  allowing  himself  in  them,  as  suppose  a  pott  com- 
panion, arid  one-  that  has  offended  many  by  his  ungodly  words  and  ways,  and 
though  it  is  his  sin  to  come  with  the  stumbling  block  of  his  inquity  before  his 
face  yet  he  may  not  abstain  from  the  service  of  God  in  family  and  in  publick, 
but  for  him  to  come  to  the  Lord's  supper  in  such  a  condition  were  a  high  provo- 
cation to  God,  very  sinful  in  them  that  suffer  it  and  very  dangerous  tolils  own 
fsoul.]     The  reason  is  because  some  duties  of  God's  worship  as  reading,  hear- 
ing, prayer  and  so  forth  are  means  appointed  for  converting  and  working  grace, 
and  therefore  to  be  attended  by  such  as  are  impenitent  offenders,  but  the  sacra- 
lueiit  is  appointed  for  comforting  the  weak  brethren,  and  for  strengthening  and 
increasing  of  grace  ;  my  meanin^  is  not  in  the  least  to  reflect  in  all  this,  but 
to  show  the  inyaiidity  of  such  an  assertion  that  if  we  must  abstain  from  the 
Lord's  supper  till  we  liave  acknowledged  our  faults,  whereby  we  have  offended 
our  brethren  (especially  all  that  are  more  publick)  then  by  the  same  reason  we 
must  .ibstain  from  all  duties  of  God's  worship  both  publick  and  private.     Be- 
sides family  worship  daily  and  publick  worship  weekly  are  stated  as  to  time  of 
attending  such  duties,  but  the  Lord's  supper  is  not  so,  but  we  may  come  to  it 
seldoiner  or  oftener  as  we  are  in  capacity  for  such  an  ordinance.    Old  Mr.  Shep- 
ard  administered  it  onci^  in  ten  weeks  and  truly  better  not  once  in  a  year  than 
to  come  with  any  allowed  leaven  (publickly  taken  notice  of)  but  not  removed 
by  re|)entaniHi.      Vou  farther  add  that  the  innocent  are  not  be  judged  with  the 
guilty.     I  answer, 

'  First,  it  is  hard  to  conceive  that  in  a  church  contending  and  divided  there 
will  be  many  innocent,  though  some  are  usually  farre  more  guilty  than  others. 
1  Corinthians  1 1  :  ,10  we  read  not  of  many  clear. 

'  Secoiully,  if  there  be  particular  persons  men  and  women  innocent  yet  till  the 
church  be  in  peace  and  offences  healed  in  some  measure,  they  are  to  submit  to 
th(!  aflliction  to  want  the  Lords  supper.  At  Ipswich  there  was  hot  contentions 
about  ]\Ir.  Norton's  leaviim  them,  some  sadly  clasht  with  th(;  reverend  Mr.  Rogers, 
and  one  with  another,  and  though  there  were  divers  good  men  and  women  that 


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never  meddied  in  that  business,  but  sat  silent,  yet  the  sacrament  was  not 
adrriinistcred.  And  was  it  not  the  duty  (think  yon)  of  these  innocent  ones  to 
submit  to  it  (though  for  a  time  they  wanted  that  ordinance),  the  chinch  not 
being  in  a  capacity  to  ceiehrat(!  it  till  matters  were  composed. 

'  As  to  the  three  particulars  I  mentioned  I  conceived  yon  ha 
to  blame  yourselves  herein.  Time  pemiits  not  to  arffuo 
about  them,  only  a  few  words  as  to  the  third  about  your  censure  upon  the 
olfendins  brother.  I  will  not  now  discourse  upon  the  nullity  of  that  sentence 
nor  how  farr  ye  saying  clavis  ****  non  lij^at  is  applicable  to  your  act,  yet  two 
thinjjs  I  formerly  mentioned  were  omissions,  which  I  still  think  cannot  be  justified. 

'  First,  the  not  callinif  upon  them  to  see  their  sin  in  such  an  unheard  of  act, 
you  tell  me  you  had  often  warned  them  to  desist  from  their  irre^rular  proce(!il- 
nigs  and  actings,  but  not  a  word  of  any  endeavour  to  brinir  them  to  the  sense 
of  that  sin,  or  those  sins  you  censured  them  for,  and  therefore  they  could  not 
be  looked  upon  as  such  as  would  not  hear  the  church,  when  th(!  church  had 
not  itdmonished  them,  nor  called  upon  them  for  repentance,  and  a.s  only  such 
as  refuse  to  hear  the  church  are  to  be  censured,  or  withdrawn  from,  by  the  church. 
And  forasmuch  as  you  say  what  good  success  could  have  been  exiiected,  if  von 
had  endeavoured  to  bring  them  to  a  sight  of  these  evils  !  I  answer  whether 
they  would  hear  or  forbear,  yet  God's  rule  Is  to  be  attended  and  therefore  your 
third  ingredient  to  right  sentence  is  namely,  to  seek  a  law  of  God,  tluit  will  allow 
them  you  mention  to  withdraw  from  you.  obstinate  ollenders  to  be  censured.  1 
answer  not  to  be  withdrawn  from  till  all  due  means  be  used  for  their  conviction 
and  bringing  them  to  repentance,  neither  could  they  be  called  obstinate 
ollenders  when  you  had  not  endeavoured  to  bring  them  to  a  sight  of  their  evils, 
especially  the  scandalous  one  of  deposing  Mr.  Parker. 

'  It  is  true  \yhat  you  sav  it  is  easier  to  find  faults  than  to  mend  them  ;  it  is 
also  as  tnie  it  is  easier  to  make  faults  than  to  sec  them,  as  appears  by  your 
calling  this  '->.  omission  of  you  know  not  what,  and  let  what  I  have  said 
formerly  and  now  as  to  this  matter  be  accounted  a  private  fancy,  I  am  willing 
to  bear  it  having  a  council  to  bear  it  with  me  and  what  is  more  the  rule  will 
stand  by  mc  to  my  best  understanding. 

'  Second,  touching  the  other  omission  of  calling  in  council  your  own  words 
doe  evince  that  it  was  an  unjustifiable  omission,  in  that  you  once  and  again 
say  (I  think  truly)  that  it  was  a  ca.-e  the  like  was  never  heard  of,  that  you 
know  of  'u  the  christian  world,  the  more  necessity  of  serious  deliberation  and 
good  advice,  and  you  may  be  sure  noe  council  in  the  country  woiild  havo 
advised  you  to  pass  any  sentence  against  them  or  [them  to]  withdraw  from  you 
till  due  means  had  been  used  by  yourselves  together  with  thi;  body  of  other 
churches,  if  need  were  to  bring  them  to  repentance.  By  this  you  may  perceive 
that  I  am  farre  from  that  [opinion]  that  particular  churches  have  absolute  i)ower 
to  carry  all  matters  among.st  themselves.  If  some  of  our  church  has  lisped  out 
something  that  way,  we  own  it  not  for  a  congi-egational  principle,  only  they  say, 
I  own  that  every  particular  church  organic  has  power  to  carry  on  all  alfairs  and 
administration  in  God's  house,  excepting  when  they  cannot  proceed  for  want  of 
light  in  difficult  cases,  or  for  want  of  peace  and  accord. 

'  As  for  that  passage  you  mention  out  of  the  platform  that  the  power  of 
regular  g-ovemment  is  in  the  pastor  and  the  brethren  walking  in  conunnniou, 
they  can't  be  thought  to  intend  it  of  a  divided  and  rent  church  as  yours  is. 
Concerning  your  last  writing  as  to  the  satisfaction  the  brethren  avnerally 
rendered,  I  judge  as  yon  do  that  it  is  farre  from  what  the  Lord  and  his  people 
do  expect  from  them.  As  for  the  matter  of  blame  you  allege  against  me  **** 
******  n,s  receiving  to  the  sacrament  one  or  more  of  your  olfending  brethren 
scandalous  and  impenitent,  I  answer  that  it  is  easy  to  conceive  a  grievous  fault 
and  then  to  ngsravate  and  lay  a  load  of  blame  upon  it.  I  am  not  of  that 
opinion  as  you  intimate,  nor  has  there  been  any  such  practice  amongst  us  as 
yet  that  we  kno\y  of.  The  person  tliat  communicated  with  us  was  yoodmaii 
[Thomas]  Hale  junior.  You  say  our  practice  therein  is  episcopal,  I  wish  there 
were  nothing  in  Newbury  that  looks  of  a  more  episcopal  countenance,  but  to 
let  that  pass. 

'  First,  the  censure  put  upon  him,  namely,  goodman  Hale  and  the  rest  was 


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understood  by  tho  council  to  be  null,  I  answer  it  was  irregular  though  its  true 
the  t'luill  was  grout. 

'  Second,  he  wiis  one  that  Mr.  Parker  was  willing  to  accept  to  the  Lord's 
snpiKjr  with  hirn.s(;lf  as  being  satisfied  with  his  acknowledgement  (wherein  ho 
comes  up  I'nlly  to  own  his  fault  according  to  the  sentence  ol'  the  council  in 
tenninis)  provided  ho  would  come  to  the  sacrament. 

'  Tiiird,  we  have  it  attested  by  two  witnesses  that  Mr.  Parker  told  them  (going 
to  him  to  acknowledire  their  faults  according  to  the  sentence  of  the  council") 
tluit  let  tlii'in  go  iis  far  as  th(!y  woidd  in  acknowledgement  except  tlwy  would 
come  and  joiu  with  him  at  llie  Lord's  table,  it  would  not  be  taken  tor  satisfaction. 

'  Fomth,  I  pmi)ourul(Hl  his  desire  of  partaking  to  our  church,  that  if  any  had 
any  tUiuii  to  o])ject.     There  was  not  one  that  nuuiifested  tiie  least  dissent. 

'  1  asked  the  week  before  advice  of  Mr.  Cobbet  in  reference  to  Mr.  Dummer 
anil  goothnan  Hale  their  desire  of  partaking  with  us  that  in  case  they  came  up 
to  full  acknowledgement  of  their  evil  to  Mr.  Parker  and  tho  brethren  that  they 
might  be  atlmitled,  if  Mr.  Parker  do  not  own  that  he  have  submitted  to  tho 
council's  senton(ro  (I  mean  goodman  Hale)  to  take  blame  upon  him,  which  they 
lay  upon  him,  and  was  unwilling  or  refused  to  own  as  much  publickly  as  ho 
presented  to  Mr.  Parker  more  privately,  then  I  acknowledge  there  was  a  wilful 
nregularity  in  admitting  him  to  communion  in  that  ordinance  with  us  for  the 
witnesses  I  spoke  of  were  not  present  when  goodman  Hide  olfered  such  full 
satisfaction  to  Mr.  i'arker,  whicdi  I  understood  not  till  a  day  or  two  after  tho 
sacrament,  but  the  testimony  is  that  they  there  olfered  up  like  full  satisfaction, 
but  it  was  not  accepted  e.vcept  they  would  come  to  the  sacrament.  1  shall  not 
for  tlie  future  admit  him  nor  any  more  of  yours  till  they  make  it  evident  bv  full 
proof  that  tliev  have  attended  their  duty  in  what  is  bef"ore  mentioneil,  and"  then 
though  they  should  essay  to  join  with  that  part  of  thi;  church  with  you,  which 
do  partake,  I  do  not  see  how  they  can  be  rejected  of  other  churches,  yet  not- 
withstanding I  sliall  not  be  very  forward  to  admit  any  more  of  yours  till"  God  be 
pleased  to  lind  out  some  way  for  issuing  the  diderenee  amongst  you,  wliich 
mi>rht  have  been  obtained  before  this  day,  had  both  parties  arrknowledLred  to 
each  other  what  was  amiss.  I  would  not  l)e  nnderstood  as  if  I  looked  upon  the 
oU'ences  as  e(iually  I'vil,  yet  the  mote  in  our  eyes  should  trouble  us  (if  the 
humble  soul  may  call  his  sin  a  mote)  as  well  as  in  aiu)ther"s,  for  a  less  fault  is 
more  hurtful  to  j/\,  if  not  repented  of,  than  the  greatest  crimes  of  others  can  be. 
'  For  my  intenneddlinur  as  a  busy-body  in  other  men's  matters,  for  that  is  the 
apostles'  expression  that  you  seem  to  refer  to,  you  cannot  be  ignorant  that  I  can 
easily  answer  it,  but  I  desire  not  to  aggravates,  but  to  love  you  and  deliirlit  in 
you,  notwithstanding  all  rellections,  for  I  cannot  but  say  that  you  have  b.-en  and 
are  dear  to  me  and  reverend  Mr.  Parker  also,  though  it"  may  be  neither  of  you 
are  very  ready  to  believe  it  at  present.  I  do  not  intend  to  trouble  you  with  iniy 
more  writing  (but  hope  we  may  have  opportunity  to  discourse  the  rnatler  lo\  inivly 
together.)  In  the  meanwhile  while  the  God  of'love  and  ptact;  direct  us  in  tiie 
way  thereof.  Pray  for  your  unworthy  lirother, 

SaMUKL    PlIILLII'S.' 

The  difficullios  in  the  ehiirch  in  Newbury  had,  it  seems,  excited 
a  deep  interest  in  almost  all  parts  of  the  state,  and,  as  usual  in  limes 
of  exeitement,  a  vast  deal  of  falsehood  was  eireulated  respecting 
Mr.  Parker.  One  of  these  stories  was  deemed  of  so  much  impor- 
tance by  the  grand  jury,  that  they  sent  the  following  to  the  counly 
court : 

'  We  present  Edward  Lumas  of  Ipswich  for  publishing  these  following  words, 
namely,  '  that  Mr.  Parker  of  Newbury  had  sent  a  letliM-  to  the  lord  arch  bishop 
of  Canterbury  for  iiel]i  and  relief  about  their  troubles  at  N(!wbury  and  that  he 
xdw  n  aijyij  of  the  letter.' 

'  For  this  olFence,'  the  court  records  Inform  us,  May  first,  1672, 


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'  Edward  Lnmas  and  Robert  Adams  sliall  audibly  make  public  ac- 
knowlcdgenicnt  next  lecture  day.' 


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1672. 

From  the  general  court  records  I  make  the  following  extracts: 

'May  I9tli,  1672.  Tho  court  having  noriised  the  return  of  tiio  mossonifors  of 
tlio  pliurcli(>.s  choMoii  by  order  of  trio  ocrlcxiastical  court  to  inHjicct  ttio 
(lilicri'Mci'H  iti  the  clnuch  of  Ne\vl)ury  an<l  to  oiler  tlieir  l)e.st  ailvico  .'UM-ordiui?  to 
tlie  word  of  Ood  for  tlieir  coinposuri;  and  healiuL;  anil  to  make  return  of  what 
tiiey  .shall  lind  and  do  in  this  mailer  unto  this  court  or  council  of  the  coinmon- 
wcalth  and  upon  our  consideration  jud^e  meet  to  declare!  their  approliation  of 
the  same  and  desire  it  may  Ik;  attended  to  accordingly  by  idl  persons  respect- 
ively concerned,  the  jjarticnlars  whereof  aro  as  followelh. 

'  First,  concc^rniui^  Mr.  Woodman  and  his  conii)any  we  do  judi;o  their  actings 
in  withdrawinu;  from  tho  rest  of  the  church,  to  set  up  meetings  among  tlu'm- 
selyes  in  the  name  of  the  church  and  to  act  the  power  of  the  church  in  admon- 
ishing anil  .suspending  their  ri^vereud  pastor  ami  cho(jsiiig  elders,  appointin;,'  a 
time  of  ordination,  although  they  bo  the  major  nart  of  the  brethren  and,  iiot- 
willistaiuling  olienees  auil  jiidvocations  given  tliem  wo  cannot  but  bear  duo 
Avituess  ai;iiiusl  (heiu,  as  a  violation  of  chinch  oriler  in  the  gospel  and  usurpa- 
tion Ujion  tbe  liberties  of  their  brethren,  for  although  tlirt  whole  church  airroe- 
iug  nuiy  censure  an  ollicer  for  gros.s  and  scandalous  csvils  in  di'alini:  or  conver- 
sation, impenitently  persisted  in  according  to  I'olossians  1 :  17,  Romans  Hi :  17, 
as  is  alleged  in  the  platform  of  discipline,  yet  in  a  diviiled  stale  of  the  church 
for  the  major  part  and  that  by  a  very  few,  and  that  in  a  matter  doubtful  and 
disputable,  to  act  as  is  aforesaid  is  a  matter  of  great  disorder  and  scandalous 
and  contrary  to  1  Tliessalonians  5  :  13,  Gallatian.s  4  :  13,  1  Corinthians  13:4, 
and  tlu'refore  is  a  nullity. 

'  Second,  concerning  "the  act  of  tho  reverend  pastor  and  those  with  him  su.s- 
pendinu-  Mr.  Woodman  and  tho  brethren  with  him  nolwillistaiulinir  the  oli'ence 
given  them,  yet  to  pass  .s;ich  an  act  or  censure  suddenly  and  thereby  increasing 
the  rent  and  occasioning  greater  divisions  and  themselves  being  the  minor  part 
of  the  church  and  not  seekiui:  after  healing  nn-ans  and  .so  foiih  or  taking  counsel 
is  irregular  ami  null  1  Corinthians  14:  40,  2  Coriuthiaus  13:  10.  Thus  far  wo 
have  in  faithfulness  declared  our  jndirmiMits  concerning  oll'ences  and  failiuu's 
each  parly  is  guilty  of.  8ome  other  things  that  are  more  dubious  in  the  agita- 
tions before  us,  we  shall  only  give  our  advice  about  to  avoid  unnecessary  dis- 
putes about  them  for  the  future. 

'  First,  whereas  our  Lord  Jesus  Chri.st  hath  given  liberty  of  voting  in  all  their 
own  concerns  to  the  whole  church  it  necessarily  follows  tiiat  the  judixment  of 
the  w'hole  church  should  be  clearly  manifested  and  forasmuch  tlu;  scri|)lure 
mpnlion(-th  the  liftiuu'  up  of  hands  Acts  14  :  23,  we  jud^e  that  the  most  clear  way 
and  rather  to  be  chosen,  and  that  a  sullicient  number  .should  appear  to  discover 
a  major  part,  the  rest  beinir  silent. 

'  Second,  we  advise  Mr.  Woodman  accordinir  to  the  fourth  commandment  to 
attend  diliiicnlly  on  the  publick  worship  of  (Jod  on  the  Lord's  days  avoiding 
ollence  and  evil  example  in  the  contrary  .so  far  as  bodily  inlirmitie.s' will  suffer 
him  so  to  do. 

'  Third,  in  reference  to  the  reverend  Mr.  Woodliriil^e  we  advi.se  and  entreat 
that  whereas  the  peace  and  edilication  of  the  cliurch  of  Christ  is  much  promo- 
ted and  depends  upon  the  amicable  close  of  spirit  and  united  jndirmeut,  between 
the  oflicers  and  brethren,  the  speaker  and  hearers,  the  eneniy  b(>ing  \  iiiilant  to 
take  all  advantaijes  to  hinder  the  irracious  operation  of  ihe  holy  word  of  God  in 
the  publick  ministry  thi'reof.  and  whereas  there  doth  appear  not  oidy  some 
hesitations,  but  distance  in  jndirment  in  refertMu-e  to  disciplint!  and  of  ali'eclions 
and  some  other  provokiny  words  passed  in  publick  in  our  hearing,  wo  desire, 


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request  nnd  nilvi.so  the  rovoreiul  Mr.  Wooilbriilirc,  luit  to  impoHf!  himself  or  his 
niiiiislry  (howevctr  otlicrwimi  (lcsiml>lc)  iipoti  tins  church.  Imi  thiit  (hey  havo  tho 
Jih.Mfythiit.F.'sn.s  Christ,  j,'..si„.|  ruh-,  iin.l  iippnivcd  church  order,  doth  allow 
them,  to  clioose  their  own  imiiir'ter,  tliiit  nil  ohstriictioii  to  edilicatioii  niul  "round 
to  teuinlation  may  be  removed,  an  was  intimated  was  the  mind  of  the  %rmer 
c-onncil,  l>nt  to  wait  to  see  the  iiind  of  (Jo.l  in  the  issue  of  tho  reconciliation  of 
tiie  chmrli,  it  <,od  shall  i,Miide  their  hearts  to  dosiiifr  with  him. 

'  Fourth,  we  advise  that  hereafter  ecclesiastical  oliences  be  not  too  suddenly 
broiiKht  to  civil  courts  without  con.sultiiig  with  ehurche.s  beinir  contrnrv  as  wo 
jud-re  to  2  Colossians  Tj,  fi,  7.  s  j- 

'  Consideriii;,'  the  };reat  aije  and  weakness  ot  reverend  Mr.  Paiker  and  tlu-rebv 
his  unliliiess  to  manaye  church  discipline,  we  advise  it  as  very  suitable  and 
seasonable  to  this  church's  case  to  choose  a  ruliiiir  elder  or  two,  provided  thev 
be  without  just  ollence  to  either  party,  for  the  healin-;  this  -reat  breach  and 
oliences,  tliat  have  bioii-,'ht  ,so  much  dishonor  to  Co,!,  and  the  profession  of  tho 
gospel,  ami  been  so  destructive  of  tlie  edilicatioii  of  this  ch  rcli  ami  the  people 
ot  this  plantation.  Wo  do  advise  and  most  seriously  exhor^  in  th..  naim-  of  our 
Lord  .lesus  Christ  unto  these  duties,  which  the  Lord  requires  of  this  church  in 
such  a  case. 

'  First,  that  this  cliurcli  be  sincerely  ami  deeply  humbled  bef(.r<!  the  Lonl  as 
lor  their  divisions,  distances  and  want  of  love  in  jreneral,  so  also  in  paiticiilar 
for  such  lailiiii.s  and  evils  as  we  have  before  mentioned  and  that  accortliu"'  to 
the  nature  and  scaiiihiloiisness  of  the  evils  anv  of  them  have  fallen  into  then 
that  every  one  may  know  and  acknowlediro  the  plamie  of  their  own  heait  bo- 
lore  the  Lord  accordimr  to  the  rules  of  Christ  Matthew  8 :  3,  RevelatioiiM  ')  •  S 
repent  and  do  the  lirst  works  and  as  (Jod  shall  open  tlu'ir  hearts,  shall  confess 
to  one  auolher  accordin^r  to  James  5  :  Hi. 

'  Second,  we  advise  and  exhort   after  due  humiliation,   tliere  be  a  mutual 
li(>arty  and  Iree  forgiveness  of  each  other  accordim;  to  tiu>  rules  of  Christ   if  thy 
brother   repent,    ioii-ive   him  even  to  .seventy  times   seven.     Matthew's-  22 
Colossians:):  13  forbearinji  one  another  as  Ood  for  Christ's  sake  for-rave  you 
JViatlhew  IH :  15.  <=        J 

'Third,  we  advise  and  exhort  that  this  repentance  may  be  manifested  by  all 
such  acts  of  retormation  and  love  as  is  suitable  to  the  irrace  of  true  repentance 
Matthew  3;  8,  briu^'  tlierefore  fruits  meet  for  leiientance.  and  that  hereafter  the 
whole  church  walk  according  to  the  rule  of  faith,  love  and  thi'  order  of  tho 
Rospel.  whereimto  you  latterly  had  a  seasonable  exhortation  that  soe  peace  and 
mercy  may  bo  upon  you  with  tho  whole  Israel  of  (iod.' 

'  The  court  also  ordered  tho  following  letter  to  be  sent  to  the  church  of 
I\(;wt)iiry. 

'  Jleverend  and  beloved  in  our  and  your  Lord. 

...  '  J^y  these  we  sii,mify  to  you  that  we  have  received  the 

return  ot  the  within  messeiitrers  of  churches,  elders  and  brethren  of  their  trav- 
ail and  pains  with  yon  in  pursuance  of  their  churches'  call  upon  our  desire 
I'lioii  readin^i  and  consideriim  their  result,  we  have  passed  our  approbation  of 
the  counsel  therein  ;^'iven  unto  you,  as  suitable  to  your  case,  which  we  remit  to 
you  with  these.  And  althouirh  we  might  enjoin  you.  yet  for  love's  sake  we 
beseech  you  and  every  one  of  you  as  you  are  concerned  therein,  iiastor  and 
people,  preacher  and  hearers,  however  before  divided,  that  you  jointly  attend  to 
lh(!  counsel  so  ijiyen  you,  that  we  may  say  of  yon  that  tlioii^rh  for  some  time  you 
hav('  been  nnprolitable  one  to  another,  yet  now  you  are  become  prolitable  a-'ain 
as  in  lormer  times,  and  that  the  churches  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  which  have 
been  saddened  by  your  divisions  and  contentions,  may  have  cause  to  rejoice  in 
an(l  liefore  the  Lord  on  your  behalf,  ami  the  name  of  "the  Lord,  that  hath  been 
dishonored  may  be  honored  by  your  mutual  putting  forth  such  acts  of  faith  and 
reiK'iitance  as  may  reach  to  the  recovering  of  your  peace  with  the  Lord  and  with 
one  another  that  so  you  may  be  found  in  the  more  excellent  way  of  charity  mani- 
lesting  yourselves  unto  all  men  that  you  are  Christ's  di.sciplesby  loviiiir  one  an- 
other. Oiir  just  expectation  is  that  you  delay  not  in  this  great  concern^  but  that 
you  apply  every  one  in  your  respective  places  unto  the  furtherance  thereof 


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'• 


Slioiiltl  tliorn  bo  a  fiiihim  ai'  you  or  luiy  of  yoii  llicrciii  (wliich  tho  Lord  torliiil) 
}(iii  iiiiiy  iiiit  tliiiik  liiit  tt>ul  wi)  tliiill  bit  iii'i  .  .irtit;ili'il  to  ailvisit  what  liiithir 
CdiiiHc  in  to  III'  liiki'ii  iii'c.onliiiii  to  (imi  lliiit  coutiMitioii-t  iriay  bo  roiuovi'd  iiinl 
poiKiu  roMtoioil  aiuoiiy  you.  ThuM  wo  coiumoml  you  to  tlio  I.011.I  uiul  to  tho 
wurd  of  hin  grucu.' 

Hy  tho  court, 

EowAKi)  Rawhon,  Sccietttry. 
'  To  tho  rovcrond  Thomas  Piiikor, 
pastor  of  tho  chiiroli  in  Nowlnny.  to  bo  com- 
muiiicatud  to  tho  cliuri'h  tlioro.' 

1  shall  licri!  ^ivo  oiu;  mort;  cxtninl  froin  the  ^ciicnil  rourl  rccttrds, 
and  relieve  the  psilieiice  of  the  reiuier.  It  is  the  lust  notice  timt  1 
liiive  been  !il)lt!  to  tintl  on  the  subject  in  any  record  whiitever. 

^(kli)lwr  Sill,  ll'il'i,  Wliorciis  llioro  liath  been  11  cotripliiiiit  t'\hil)ilod  to  tliis 
court  by  iriiiiiy  of  Nowbiiry,  whcifby  it  is  ovidoiit  that  tho  comioil  a;,Moi'(i  to  and 
Mi'iit  ill  May  hist  to  lio  atliMuii'd  to  by  ihi'iii  liath  not  boni  so  attondod  as  tho 
court  ox[)i'('tcd,  aiui  lor  that  the  persons  inoro  »'sj)(>cialiy  inforiiioii  against,  as  ob- 
«tiiictin;t  tlif  saini'  have  not,  appcaiod  )ii'isoiially  bi'foro  tlu'  court  that  they 
ini:;lit  answer  for  thi'insojvcs,  this  coint  doth  fiiithor  ronniu'iid  tho  said  advico 
inilo  tlifin  to  bo  altondi'd  by  both  parties,  proli'ssiny;  their  readiness  there  toiiu  I 
that  the  distemper  of  ihoir  conlontions  may  not  obstrnet  in  the;  manner  of  their 
rorniiii;  to  the  iinderstanelini;  of  tliemselves  aiul  one  aiiotlior  therein  this  court 
ilolh  appoint  Mr.  'I'homas  Dan!'  th,  Mr.  William  Stou;,'iilon,  Mr.  Urian  Oakes, 
doctor  LiMMiaid  lioar,  captaii  ornas  Clarke,  Mr.  Henry  Harlhoiomew,  Mr. 
John  Klliot  and  Mr.  Joshua  f.  ,  as  a  connnitleo  and  that  tho  major  part  of 
the  whole  meeting,'  there  shall  lio  a  (piornin,  who  are  to  repair  to  Newbury  and 
call  both  parties  toifetlu-r  and  persuatio  with  them  to  altond  tho  same  in  lovo  and 
christian  submission  one  to  another  i'ccordintt  to  (lod  and  in  case  there  shall  appear 
any  refractoriness  in  any  amontrst  them  that  tho  persons  so  sent  cannot  prev;iil 
with  them  that  ihey  then  make  return  to  tho  next  court  of  election  wliat  they 
lind  and  do  therein.' 

To  sonic  of  my  readers  the  followinfr  transcrii)t  from  the  county 
court  files  in  Salem,  may  be  interesting. 

'  I  Ann  Hills,  sometimo  servant  to  Abraham  Toppan,  testify  that  Abraham 
Top)ian  did  make  sundry  voyai;es  to  the  Hartiadoes,  of  which  one  or  two  woro 
prolitable,  tho  produce  beinij  brought  homo  in  Hugars,  cotton  wool  and  molasses, 
which  wiMo  then  commodities,  rendering  great  prolil,  wool  being  then  at  twelve 
pence,  sugar  at  six  or  eight  pence  per  pound  profit,  of  which  ho  brought  great 
quantities. 

'Jacob  Toppan  tcstifleththat  tho  last  voyage  from  Barbadocs  above  mentioned 
he  brought  home  eight  barrels  and  one  hogshead  of  sugar  and  two  or  three  tliou- 
sand  pounds  of  cotton  wool.' 

y  Testimonies  taken  in  t(>71. 

^ April  1st,  1672,  [old  sf/fle.]  A  great  stornic  of  driving  snow 
camo  out  of  the  north  west  and  drove  up  in  drifl-  .ihiiit  six  feci 
deep.  For  the  space  of  fonrlccn  days  [alter]  [•  vvt-  a  ^ad  lime  of 
rain,  not  one  whole  fair  day  in  fourteen  and  much  damage  done  to 
mills  and  other  things  by  the  flood,  which  followed.'  =* 

*  Hampton  records. 


j 


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113 


1073. 

^ March  2C)fh.  The  fowj\  was  finwl  fivo  pounds  f(»r  nc^'Ioot  about 
Tliorliiy'rt  Itridgc  ami  onlrrcd  to  make  it  nasHuhlc  for  Hale  travcliiiK, 
on  pt'iialtv  t)f  ten  pouiidH  more.  Joliti  IVarsoii  of  Rowlny  to  !-<•(•  it 
niado  Hullicii'iillv  and  to  ho  done  l)y  inidsummcr,'  and  xoVortli.* 

'  llii'hard  Kci.i  i^  Irccd  from  Iraytiin^'  l)y  payinj,'  four  1)u»Ih'1s  of 
good  uiaull  to  tJK!  UH('  of  the  troop.'  * 

Seiitnnhcr  2Uli.  '  Tlunu;  waH  a  wtorine  of  raine  and  snow  so  that 
lh<'  pound  waM  covered  with  snow  and  Honie  of  it  (tontinued  till  iht! 
twenty-sixth.' f 

Janmrfi  \\\M.  A  oominittee  was  chosen  for  l)ui!dinj»  a  house  '  for 
the  niini.stry  of  the  .sauu;  diiiiensioiiH  every  way  aw  Nathaniel  dark's 
is  with  the  addition  of  a  porch.'  \  '  It  was  also  voted  to  lay  out 
six  acres  of  huid  heliind  cajXain  (Jerrish's  liouse  towards  Trotter's 
bridge  for  the  ministry.' J 

April  !()//(.  '  Th(!  town  voted  that  the  minister's  rate  sliould  be 
made  every  year  in  October,  one  half  to  !)(•  paid  in  Kii,i,dish  grain 
as  wheat,  barley,  rye;  and  pease,  th(;  other  half  in  Indian  corn.'  J 

Jiihj  5th.  '  The  selectmen  ordered  that  .Tolin  Wel)stcr  shall  pay 
ten  shillings  and  l*eter  To|)|)an  live  shillings  for  cutting  down  trees 
on  the  land  that  is  called  th(!  burying  place.'  J 

When  the  town  of  Newbury  was  (irst  settled,  large  (piantilies  of 
sturgeon  w«'re  taken  from  the  rivers  IVIerrimac  and  (iuasc-acimqueu, 
which  were  not  only  used  and  highly  valued  as  an  arlicic'  of  diet, 
but  pickled  and  packed  in  kegs  for  trans[)ortalion. 

Frecpient  allusions  to  this  subject  are  made  in  the  county  and 
state  records,  old  account  books,  and  so  forth.  Thus  Wood',  who 
visited  America  in  HilW,  says,  '  that  much  [sturgeon]  is  taken  on  tin; 
banks  of  the  Merrimae,  twelve,  fourteen,  eighteen  I'ect  long,  pickled 
and  sent  to  England.' 

In  1606,  '  a  keg  of  sturgeon,  t(>n  shillings,'  was  among  the  charges 
for  entertaining  an  ecclesiastical  coiuicil  at  Salisbury.  In  1()()7,  Is- 
rael  Webster  tcstifi(<d, '  that  lie  carried  twenty-two  ierkins  and  kegs 
of  sturgeon  from  William  Thomas'  cellar  to  send  to  Bosfon.' 

In  1670,  Joseph  C'okcr  was  licensed  by  the  county  court  'to  make 
sturgeon  in  order  to  transport.'  In  IbSO',  Sept(<mber  twenfy-eighth, 
the  records  of  the  county  court  inform  us,  that  '  Thomas  Kogcrs  [of 
Newbury]  is  licensed  to  make  sturgeon,  jirovidi-d  he  shall  preseut 
the  court  with  a  bowie  of  good  sturgeon  every  Michaelmas  court.' 
In  1684,  '  Caleb  Moody  and  Daniel  Pierce  were  licensed  to  boil 
sturgeon  in  order  to  a  inarkct.'  In  17o;},  captain  Daniel  Lunt  of 
Newbury  was  ordered  to  sell  his  sturgeon  in  Boston  at  twelve  shil- 
lings per  keg,  '  if  he  could  get  no  more.'  In  the  same  year,  Mr. 
DiUiiel  Pierce  exchang(>d  tifuicn  kegs  of  sturgeon  for  a  sniall  cask 
of  rum,  and  a  liirke  cask  of  molasses. 


County  records. 


1-5 


t  Hampton  records. 


}  Town  records. 


114 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBUnY. 


The  following  petition  is  copied  from  the  original,  now  on  file 
among  the  papers  in  the  state  house,  Boston. 

'  To  the  honored  general  court  assembled  at  Boston  May  seventh,  1673. 

'  The  petition  of  \Vi  lliam  Thoma?*  humbly  shewing, 

'  That  your  petitiouci'  after  .-iuudry  experiments,  and  travels  into  foreign  coun- 
tries, upon  great  expence  of  his  estate,  hath  through  the  blessing  of  God  upon  his 
industry  herein,  attayned  unto  the  art  of  boyling  and  pickling  of  sturgeon,  by 
means  v;hereof  it  is  a  comuioditie,  not  only  in  this  countrie,  but  in  England  and 
other  parts  for  transportation  and  increase  of  tralfique  for  the  procuring  of  goods 
more  useful  aud  needful  for  this  countrie,  and  may  so  continue  and  increase,  if 
sundry  poisons,  of  other  catlings,  unskilful  in  that  mystery,  who  for  lucre  of 
monie  tuid  other  sinister  ends,  presume  to  deal  therein,  shall  not  cause  it  to  be 
debased  and  of  no  value  for  transportation,  as  indeed  by  that  moans  it  in  part 
already  is  (as  is  known  to  sundry  gentlemen  aud  merchants  of  Boston)  to  the 
defamation  of  your  aged  petitioner,  and  damage  of  the  countrie.  who  now  in  the 
seventy-fourth  year  of  his  pilgrimage,  hath  his  whole  dependaice  under  God 
for  the  subsistence  of  his  famdy  upon  that  employment,  who  J  he  were  not 
forestalled  and  circumvented  by  others  might  live  comfortably,  and  also  afford 
some  yearly  revenue  to  the  countrie,  but  some  there  are,  that  by  hooke  or  crooke, 
for  strong  liquors  or  otherwise,  that  finger  the  fish  taken  for  and  by  the  Indians 
procured  and  employed  by  youi  petitioner,  and  that  oft  times  upon  payments 
fore  made  for  the  same,  and  if  he  were  not  undermined  and  interrupted  therein 
by  interlopers  and  other  unskilful  persons,  it  might  be  beneficial  both  to  him 
and  the  countrie. 

'  His  humble  petition  therefore  is  that  henceforth  no  man  be  suiTered  to  pickle 
or  put  upp  any  sturgeon  foi  trade  or  traliique  diractly  or  indirectly  within  this 
jurisdiction  Lut  such  as  by  lawful  authoriti',;  shall  be  licensed  thereto  on  certain 
penalties,  as  title,  innkeepers  or  otherwise  and  that  there  may  be  some  skilful 
men  impowered  and  sworn  to  search  all  such  sturgeon  as  shall  be  packed  or 
putt  up  in  any  kind  of  vessels  whatsfoever,  and  to  refuse  all  such  as  they  shall  find 
defective  for  transportation  or  continuance  at  least  the  year  about.  And  such 
and  such  only  shall  be  sufficient  in  all  respects  for  tralfique  as  aforesaid  to  mark 
with  the  letters  of  their  and  the  sturgeon  boilers  names.  And  that  it  may  be 
lawful  for  any  man  knowin^x  of  any  sturgeon  put  upp  as  for  trade  or  tralfique, 
that  i.5  not  so  marked,  to  inform  any  searchers  or  constables,  and  that  they  may 
seize  upon  it  as  forfeited,  one  third  to  the  informer,  one  third  to  the  oliicer  seiz- 
ing, and  the  other  third  to  tiie  treasurer  of  the  county  where  it  shall  be  found. 

'  Ard  your  petitioni^r  farther  humbly  prayeth  that  he  may  be  licensed  for  the 
counties  of  Essex  and  Norfolk  during  his  own  and  his  wife's  life,  being  aged 
and  altogether  uncapable  of  any  other  way  of  subsistence  or  service  in  town  or 
countrie,  which  favour  being  granted  your  petitioner  will  cheerfully  pay  to  the 
treasury  or  otherwise  as  this  honored  court  shall  appoint  either  ten  kegs  of  stur- 
geon yearly  or  every  twentieth  keg  and  firken  by  him  iriade  from  time  to  time 
or  the  true  value  thereof  at  every  vear's  end  namely,  the  twenty-ninth  of  Sep- 
tember annually,  and  as  duty  binds  him  shall  daily  pray  and  so  forth. 

William  Thomas. 

Newbury,  May  seventh,  1673.' 


Mr' 

■■'I 


Of  the  result  of  this  petition  we  are  not  informed.  Probably  it 
was  not  granted,  as  we  find  in  1674  that  '  Peter  Toppan  was  li- 
censed to  make,  boyl  and  sell  sturgeon,'  and  William  Chandler  was 
appointed  searcher  and  sealer  of  sturgeon,  by  the  coimty  court. 

December  2d,  1673.  '  A  committee  was  chosen  for  tlie  building 
of  INIr.  [.lolin]  Richardson'.^  house  and  to  carry  it  on  to  the  finishing 
of  it.'  * 


*  Town  reeortis 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


se,  if 


115 


By  this  it  appears  that  the  town  had  determined  to  settle  Mr. 
Richardson  as  their  minister,  though  he  was  not  ordained  till  Octo- 
ber, 1675.  He  probably  commenced  preaching  early  in  this  year 
and  might  have  been  instrumental  in  settling  the  difficulties,  which 
had  agitated  the  church  and  town  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury, as  we  hear  of  no  difficulty  between  the  church  and  minister 
subsequent  to  the  autumn  of  1672.  The  situation  of  the  church 
and  people  of  Newbury,  at  the  time  of  his  arrival  here,  undoubtedlv 
occasioned  the  peculiarity  of  his  language  in  his  conditions  of  set- 
tlement, which  were :  'first,  so  long  as  the  people  of  God  here  do 
continue  in  the  profession  of  the  true  faith  and  peace  of  the  gospel 
as  in  Acts  11 :  42;  second,  so  long  as  I  may  have  the  liberty  of  mv 
ministry  among  them ;  and  third,  discharge  my  duty  to  my  family. 
Ihus  1  say  I  do  express  myself  willing  to  setUe  among  you  with  a 
true  mtention  and  a  true  affection.'  # 

,.  ,  -„        •    ^,„^,  'John  Richardson.' 

*  August  fifteentii,  1675.' 

'  The  liberty  of  the  ministry,'  says  the  reverend  doctor  Popkin,  'is 
an  expression  frecpiently  used  in  the  histories  of  the  puritans :  and 
appears  to  be  opposite  in  signification  to  that  restraint,  under  which 
they  were  held  by  ecclesiastical  authority.' 

'  Francis  Thorlay  was  presented  for  striking  his  brother  Thomas 
and  Hingmg  stones  at  him.'  He  was  fined  ten  shillings  and  costs 
ol  court,  f 


1674. 

'  March  2(1.  It  was  voted  that  the  finishing  of  the  house  for  the 
ministry  and  the  alteration  of  it  is  left  to  the  selectmen.'  t 

March  2Sth.  '  It  was  voted  that  captain  Gerrish,'  Mr.  Daniel 
Pierce  and  Tristram  Coffin  should  lay  out  the  six  acres  formerly 
granted  to  build  a  house  on  and  to  make  a  pasture  for  the  mainte- 
nance of  the  future  ministry,  that  part  for  the  building  of  the  house 
to  be  on  the  side  next  to  captain  Gerrish's  orchard  and  the  rest  of 
the  said  six  acres  to  be  laid  out  next  Richard  Brown's  pasture.'  t 

'December  Gth.  Reverend  John  Richardson  was  admitted  a 
memlier  of  the  church  in  Newbury.'  This  is  the  earliest  fact 
recorded  in  the  church  book,  all  the  preceding  transactions  i.avin"- 
been  destroyed  ajiparently  by  design.  Until  Uie  settlement  of  Mr! 
Richardson  the  records  are  in  the  handwriting  of  William  Chandler. 

In  the  latter  end  of  this  year,  a  converted  Indian,  named  Johii 
Sausaman,  acquainted  the  governor  of  Plymouth  that  the  profane 
Indians  were  plotting  mischief  againt  the  English,  and  expressed  his 
apprehension  that  they  would  murder  him.  This  apprehension  was 
reahzed,  as,  before  the  close  of  the  winter,  he  was  murdered  by 
three  Indians,  who  were  afterward  tried  and  executed. 


*  Church  recoiils. 


t  County  records. 


t  Town  rerortls. 


116 


HISTORY   OF  NEWBURY. 


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J.     i 


■SeAu 


1675. 

March  1st.  'A  commiltee  of  two  was  appointed  to  complete  the 
finishing  the  ministry  house  and  fencing  about  said  house.  Warn- 
ing was  also  given  by  the  selectmen  for  every  person  to  appear  with 
carts  and  oxen  and  hands,  and  tools  suitable  to  bring  stones  and  so 
forth  and  every  person  not  having  oxen  is  to  appear  in  person  to 
help  forward  llie  work  and  so  forth.'  * 

April  V3l/'.  '  It  was  voted  that  the  piece  of  meadow  above  Mr. 
Sewall's  farm,  the  meadow  at  Trotter's  bridge,  a  piece  at  Lob's 
pound  and  two  parcels  of  salt  marsh  about  three  acres  near  Pine 
island  should  be  laid  out  to  the  ministry  house  for  the  use  of  Mr. 
Richardson  while  he  contiimes  our  minister,  and  so  forth.'  ^ 

Mil/  1th.  '  There  was  laid  out  to  Richard  Dole  six  rods  and  a 
quarter  upon  the  point  of  land  that  lies  between  the  two  gutters, 
that  come  from  the  point  of  rocks  near  Watts'  his  cellar  about  two 
rods  in  breadth  bounded  by  the  river  on  the  north  to  about  a  foot 
upon  the  rock  that  is  there  on  the  south  and  three  rods  in  length  by 
the  water  side  and  so  forth  adjoyning  to  the  former  grant.'  * 

Tiiis  piece  of  land  was  between  the  market  house  in  Newburyport 
and  IMr.  George  T.  Granger's  store, 

June  18/A.  It  was  ordered  that  all  non-freeholders  should  '  pay 
for  every  horse  going  on  the  commons  five  shillings,  for  every  neat 
beast  two  shillings  and  sixpence,  for  every  score  of  sheep  five  shil- 
liiiffs,  for  every  swine  twelve  pence  and  for  every  load  of  wood  two 
shilhngs  and  sixpence  for  tiie  use  of  the  town.'  ^ 

October  ')th.  The  town  voted  that  they  would  not  fortify  '  the 
meeting  house,  but  voted  that  they  would  buy  a  couple  of  field  pie- 
ces about  seven  or  eight  hundred  apiece.'^ 

October  20th.  Reverend  John  Richardson  was  ordained.  His 
salary  was  to  be  one  hundred  pounds  a  year.  Each  person  was  to 
pay  '  his  jjroportion  as  foUoweth,  one  half  in  merchantable  barley, 
the  rest  in  merchantable  pork,  wheat,  butter  or  Indian  corn,  or  such 
pay  paid  unto  Mr.  Richardson  to  his  satisfaction,  as  every  person 
)nay  understand  upon  inciuiry  of  Tristram  Colfin,'  who  was  chosen 
in  April '  the  town's  attorney  to  gather  Mr.  Richardson's  rates  and 
ill  case  the  said  Tristi-am  Collin  shall  neglect  his  trust  herein,  he 
shall  pay  forty  shillings  fine  to  the  selectmen.'^ 

Novemluir  'i'2th.  Henry  Sliort  was  appointed  schoolmaster.  He 
is  to  have  five  pounds  for  the  first  half  year  and  to  have  sixpence 
a  week  for  every  scholar. 

In  the  month  of  June  this  year  the  three  Indians  were  executed, 
who  murdered  John  Sansaman.  On  the  twenty-fourth  of  June  was 
shed  the  first  English  blood,  in  what  was  afterward  called  Philip's 
war.  On  tliat  day,  nine  Englislmien  were  nmrdered  in  Swanzy,by 
the  Indians,  as  they  were  returning  from  the  meeting  house,  it  being 

*  Town  records. 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


117 


the  day  appointed  as  a  day  of  humiliation  and  prayer  throughout 
Plymouth  colony,  who  being  thus  unexpectedly  involved  in  trouble, 
sent  to  the  other  colonies  for  assistance.  On  June  twenty-sixth, 
soldiers  marched  from  Boston  to  Plymoulli.  On  the  twenty-ninth, 
a  day  of  humiliation  and  prayer  was  appointed  on  account  of  the 
war.     The  men  prest  from  Newbury,  were  as  follows,  namely : 

August  5lh.  Steven  Greenleaf,  Thomas  Smith,  John  Toppan, 
Caleb  Richardson,  Daniel  Rolf,  John  Hobbs,  Daniel  Button,  John 
Wheeler,  and  Henry  Bodwell,  nine  men  and  fourteen  days'  provis- 
ions. 

Avffttsi  6th.    Seven  more  were  prest  and  fourteen  days'  provisions. 

August  27th.  Seven  men  were  prest,  fourteen  days'  provisions, 
twenty-three  horses,  saddles,  and  bridles. 

iieptember  23d.     Two  men  and  two  days'  provisions. 

September  27th.  Five  men,  ten  days'  provisions,  and  twenty- 
three  horses,  saddles,  and  bridles,  were  pressed  for  the  country's 
service. 

September  29tlK     Richard  Kent's  man  was  pressed. 

December,  167o.  Twenty-four  men  were  pressed  for  the  coun- 
try's service,  being  in  all  forty-eight  men,  and  forty-six  horses,  for 
this  year. 

The  town  expenses  for  this  year  were  very  great. 

The  minister's  rate  was     103  pounds,  17  shillings,  1  penny. 

'J'he  expense's  for  the  war,  457       "         18         "        8  pence. 

The  town  debt  was  191       "  3         "        9      « 

Beside  other  expenses,  not  included  in  the  above. 

At  the  battle  fought  December  nineteenth,  at  the  Indians'  fort  in 
Narraganset,  'four  men  wen;  slayne,'  of  wdiom  Daniel  Rolfe  was 
from  Newbury,  and  eighteen  wountled,  of  whom  Daniel  Somerby, 
Isaac  Ilsley,  Jonathan  Emery,  William  Standley,  and  Jonathan 
Harvey  \v(;re  from  Newbury. 

Daniel  Somerby  was  the  only  son  of  Henry  Somerby.  Before 
he  marched  against  the  Inilians  he  made  his  \vill,  and  soon  after 
his  return  died  of  his  wounds. 


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.  m 


16  7  6. 

Jannart/  2d.     Thirteen  men  wen;  impressed. 

June  9tli.  Town  voted  to  purchase  a  barrel  of  powder  and  fif- 
teen lumthred  Hints. 

June  21st.  The  town  appointed  Henry  Short '  to  keep  school  for 
this  year,  from  the  first  of  iNIiiy  last,  to  the  first  of  INIay  next,  and 
the  selectmen  engage  to  pay  liim  Un\  pounds  out  of  the  next  town 
rate,  and  if  tlie  number  be  about  twenty  scholars,  he  is  to  teach 
them  at  the  watc^li  house.'^ 

Henry  Short  taught  the  gi-arnmar  school.     In  his  old  note  book 

*  Town  records. 


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118 


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'k 


I  find  the  following  account  of  scholars,  commencing  thus :  '  when 
I  kept  school  at  home  and  tlie  time  they  [the  scholars]  came.'  Here 
follow  the  names  of  seventeen  scholars,  from  May  tenth  to  Decem- 
ber twenty-tifth. 

The  following  extract  from  the  colonial  records  presents  to  the 
reader  as  lively  a  picture  of  the  anxiety  and  distress  among  the 
people  of  Massachusetts,  occasioned  by  the  bold  and  daring  deter- 
mination of  king  Philip  and  his  Indian  allies  to  extirpate  the  Eng- 
lish, as  can  well  be  imagined.  The  proposition  to  erect  a  fortifica- 
tion of  such  a  length  and  height,  shows  the  despc^ration,  to  which 
they  were  reduced,  and  the  dangers  to  which  they  felt  exposed. 

'At  a  court  held  in  Boston  March  twenty-third,  1676. 

'  Whereas  several  considerable  persons  have  made  application  to  us  and  pro- 
posed  it  as  a  necessary  expedient  for  the  publick  welfare  and  particularly  for 
the  security  of  the  whole  county  of  Essex  and  part  of  Middlesex  from  inroads  of 
the  common  enemy,  that  a  line  or  fence  of  stockades  or  stones  (as  the  matter 
best  suiteth)  be  made  about  ei!,'ht  feet  high  extending  from  Charles  river  where 
it  is  navigable  unto  Concord  river  from  George  Farley's  house,  in  Billerica,  which 
fence  the  council  is  informed  is  not  in  lenirth  above  twelve  miles,  a  good  part 
whereof  is  already  done  by  large  ponds  that  will  convenienllv  fall  into  the  line 
and  so  forth,  and  so  forth,  by  which  means  tlie  whole  tract  "will  be  environed 
for  the  security  and  safety  (under  God)  of  the  people,  their  houses,  goods  and 
cattel  from  the  rage  and  fury  of  the  enemy.' 

The  court  then  orders  one  able  and  fit  man  from  each  of  the 
included  towns  to  meet  at  Cambridge  on  March  thirty-first,  to  sur- 
vey the  ground,  estimate  the  expense,  and  so  forth,  and  so  forth,  and 
bring  their  report  in  writing  how  it  may  be  prosecuted  and  eflected, 
what  each  town  should  pay,  and  so  forth. 

Nearly  all  the  towns  made  a  report. 

That  from  Newbury  is  as  follows,  namely : 

'  At  a  meeting  of  the  selectmen  of  Newbury  March  1675-6. 
'  We  having  taken  it  into  consideration  what  the  honored  council  hath  pro- 
pounded unto  us  as  to  the  fortifying  from  Merrimack  river  and  so  to  Charlestown 
river,  we  conceive  it  not  feasible  nor  answering  the  end  propounded,  but  leave 
it  to  the  consideration  of  wiser  than  ourselves,  conceiving  this  to  be  didicult 
iU  doing  it  or  mpyntaining  it  when  done,  but  rather  think  it  will  most  conduce 
to  our  safety  to  have  a  suHicient  company  of  men  that  may  range  to  and  fro  as  our 
honored  council  judge  meet.  We  have"or(iereu  several  houses  to  be  garrisoned 
and  fortified  and  men  appointed  and  are  about  fortifying  with  a  mile  or  some- 
what more  from  river  to  river  most  of  our  plow  lands  and  houses,  if  men  will 
own  our  power  (as  we  hope  will  be)  with  their  own  and  our  endeavours  to  com- 
pleate  our  trust. 

William  Gkrrish,         Steven   Greenleaf, 
William  Titcomb,         Petkr  Chknev, 
Benjamin  Rolfe,  Francis  Plumer, 

Selectmen. 


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HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


1677. 


119 


March  ofh.  '  Captain  [Panl]  While  proposed  for  about  a  rod  of 
land  at  the  hanging  of  thr  hill  before  his  still  house  in  the  street.''*: 

'  Marchant  [Richard]  Dole  proposed  for  liberty  to  build  a  dock 
about  Watts  his  cellar,  and  as  many  of  the  town  as  were  willin'^  to 
help  him  about  it,  he  will  accept  of  their  helj).'  #  * 

March  27 fh  At  tiie  county  court  at  Salem,  'Joshua  Richardson, 
Caleb  Richardson,  and  Edward  Ordway  were  sentenced  to  be 
severely  whipt  or  pay  a  fine  of  ten  pounds  each,  for  breaking  into 
the  meeting  liouse,  demolishing  a  pew  chairs  and  so  forth.' 

It  appears  by  the  town  records  that  the  selectmen  had  granted 
permission  to  several  young  women  to  build  '  a  new  seat  in  the  south 
corner  of  the  women's  gallery.' 

This  pew  or  new  seal,  from  some  now  unknr>wn  cause,  excited 
the  indignation  or  anger  of  these  young  men,  who,  having  demol- 
ished tile  seat,  chairs,  and  so  ibrth,  were  ined,  convicted,  and 
sentenced. 

The  following  testimonies  in  the  case  are  copied  from  the  files  of 
the  county  court  in  Salem. 


'  Testimony  of 


•  aged  forty-five  years. 


'  I  dow  testify  consarniiiir  the  [mischief]  att  the  metin-r  hows  tliat  the  metin" 
hows  windowse  weare  brockcn  open  spverali  times  and  the  dore  was  dabid 
with  a  sarrowans  and  the  ceay  hoU  [key  hole]  dabid  allso.  There  was  a  sar- 
rowans  pute  ni  the  come,  which  was  pute  in  the  meting  hows  lowft  for  safety, 
which  was  111  a  cask  in  the  chambear.' 

'  I  (low  testify  that  I  saw  Joshua  Richardson  uppon  Wensdav  the  wery  next 
day  after  the  pue  or  new  seate  was  brocken  doim  the  last  of  January  last  past 
1  on  purpos  towck  wery  ^ood  notis  of  him  and  to  my  onderstandin-'he  did  "oo 
ass  weal!  att  that  time  ass  hee  youste  to  due  att  other  times,  without  any  limp- 
mg  or  a  going  lambe  tliat  I  could  perseaif.'  * 

Another  testimony  declares,  that  the  windoAv  was  fastened  with 
Mow  hapsis,'  and  that  the  'glass  was  broken  in  pessis.' 

April  22(L  Seventy-six  of  the  principal  inliabitants  of  Newbury 
petitioned  the  court  to  mitigate  their  fines. 

'  We  do  not  know,'  say  they,  '  that  any  of  the  young  men  have 
been  detected  of  open  crimes,  have  been  diligent  and  laborious  to 
promote  and  support  their  parents,  who  stand  in  need  of  their  help, 
they  have  endured  hardsliips  and  t  Ivcritured  their  lives  and  limbs 
for  their  country,  they  liave  openly,  ingenuoudy  and  solemnly  made 
acknowledgi)  >-nt  of  their  offence  before  maiiy  assembled  to  that 
end,'  and  so  forth,  and  so  fortli. 

April  2Ath.     Reverend  Thomas  Parker  died. 

Captain  William  Cerrish  was  ordered,  April  fifteenth,  l)y  major 
general  I).  Denison  to  march  to  Salisbury  with  forty  of  his  best 
men,  well  armed,  and  so  forth,  and  again,  "lAIay  first,  'with  twenty 
men  to  Portsmouth.     Expenses  were  five  hundred  pounds. 

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HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


Judge  Sowall,  in  his  diary,  under  date  of  July  eighth,  1 677,  has 
the  following.  'A  female  quaker  [Margaret  Brewster]  in  sennon 
time  came  in  a  canvass  frock,  her  hair  dishevelled,  loose  like  a  peri- 
wigg,  her  face  as  black  as  ink,  led  by  two  other  quakers,  and  two 
other  quakers  followed.  It  occtasioned  the  greatest  and  most  ama- 
zing uproar  that  ever  I  saw.'  She  had  previously  taken  off  her 
fc'ockings  and  slums,  and  left  them  in  the  porch  of  the  meeting-housc,=i<^ 
under  the  care  of  John  Easton,  son  of  Nicholas  Easton,  formerly 
of  Newbury.     John  was  afterward  governor  of  Rhode  Island. 

September  21sl.  The  town  desired  captain  Gcrrish  to  propose  to 
'Ipswich  court  that  Thomas  Thorla's  ordinary  maybe  put  down.'f 

The  town  chose  a  comiuiltee  '  1o  hire  a  sclioolmaster,'  and 
voted  to  give  him  twenty  pounds  a  year '  for  encouragement  besides 
what  they  shall  agTce  upon  for  the  children  that  shall  come  to  school 
to  him.'  f 

From  an  old  account  book  I  learn  that  this  year  turnips  and  ap- 
ples were  a  shilling  a  bushel,  a  day's  mowing,  two  shillings  and  two 
pence,  men's  wages  for  a  year  ten  pounds,  women's  wages  from 
four  to  five  pounds,  board  four  shillings  per  week,  and  labor  two 
shillings  a  day. 

Thanksgiving,  November  third,  on  account  of  a  plentiful  harvest 
and  a  cessation  of  the  wi'ath  and  rage  of  the  enemy. 


10  7  8. 

March  Alh.  '  Concerning  building  of  a  dock,  it  was  granted, 
provided  that  all  boats  that  belong  to  the  town  shall  have  free  liberty 
of  egresse  and  regress  to  lie  there  as  occasion  may  serve.'  f 

This  was  probably  the  dock  for  which  Richard  Dole  petitioned, 
as  in  September  '  a  committee  was  chosen  to  conclude  the  business 
between  marchaut  Dole  and  the  town  about  his  dock.' 

September  2{)th.  The  committee  appointed  for  that  purpose  laid 
out '  to  Richard  Dole  senior  a  parcel  of  land  lying  near  Watts  his 
cellar,  where  he  is  mno  bidldinsr  a  ivharf  and  dock''  three  rods  broad 
from  the  east  side  of  tiic  west  gutter  to  a  stake  nc^ar  to  the  great 
rock  with  the  flats  adjoining  thereto  excepting  two  rods  in  breadth 
upon  the  easterly  jioint  of  uj)land,  which  is  to  lit;  for  a  perpetual 
high  way  for  the  town's  use  to  the  docli  for  to  unlade  hay,  wood, 
timber,  boards,  or  any  thing  else,  which  is  produced  in  or  upon  the 
river,  it  not  being  imj)or1ed  from  or  exported  to  the  sea.  We  also 
do  grant  the  town's  title,  right  and  interest  to  the  point  of  land  on  the 
northerly  side  thereof,  which  is  commonly  known  by  the  name  of 
captain  White's  point  and  so  i'orth  and  the;  said  Dole  is  to  set  a 
wharf  against  the  two  rod  that  is  appointed  for  a  way  for  the  town's 
use.'  t 

November  22d.     Town  voted  to  continue  the  '  twenty  pounds  a 


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year  to  the  schoolmaster,'  and  'that  Mr.  Richardson,  so  lon<^  as  he 
carries  on  the  whole  work  of  the  ministry  among  us,  shall  have 
twenty  pounds  a  year  added  or  two  contributions,  which  he  pleases 
to  accept.  *  ^ 

December  22d.  Town  voted  that  «  Thorlay's  bridge  should  be 
built  at  the  town's  charge  as  the  court  gave  them  liberty '=* 

'Judith  Thorla  was  tuied  lor  selling  liquor  to  the  Indians  on  the 
Lord  8  day. 

In  this  year  a  new  brick  building  was  erected  at  Cambridge  as  a 
college  buildmg.     It  was  erected  by  subscription.     Newbury  eave 
thirty-three  pounds  and  tiiree  siiillings.     Rowley  forty-five  pounds 
and  Ipswich  eighty  pounds.  -  J  f  f 

November  im.  The  town  granted  to  John  Emery,  junior,  twelve 
acres  of  land,  beginning  at  Artichoke  river,  on  condition  that  he 
build  a  grist  mill.     . 

November  26f.L  In  answer  to  a  petition  of  the  selectmen,  New- 
bury  was  allowed  to  bnild  a  firm  and  safe  '  bridge.'  *  The  toll  '  a 
penny  for  a  man  and  three  pence  for  a  horse.' 

1    '  ? ^'^^i^^'l'^"  ^!  •^''''"  ^^'''"''^^  "''  ^y»"  ^v»^  presented  for  breakin^r  her 
husband  s  head  witii  a  (juart  pot  and  othcrwavs  abusing  him '  ° 

Ihis  year  all  persons  over  sixteen  years  of  age  were  required  to 
take  the  oath  of  allegiance.  A  list  of  their  names  from  every  town 
in  the  county  of  Essex  is  in  the  county  records.  That  of  Ne'wburv 
contains  the  ;mmes  of  two  hundred  and  thirty-six  persons,  with  their 
ages  alhxed  by  Mr.  John  Woodbridge,  who'administered  the  oath 
m  September.     In  no  other  list  are  the  a-jen  siven. 


1679. 

March  Sd.  'The  town  granted  to  John  Emery  junior  twelve 
acres  of  land  on  the  west  side  of  Artichoke  river  provided  he  build 
and  maintain  a  corn  mill  to  grind  the  toxvn's  corn  from  time  to  time 
and  to  bmld  it  within  one  year  and  a  half  after  the  date  hereof  and 
so  forth.'  * 

In  compliance  with  the  law  the  selectmen  chose  fourteen  tything 
men,  each  of  whom  had  a  specific  duty  to  do  respecting  a  desi-ma- 
ted  number  of  families,  generally  ten,  ill  living  in  the  same  ndgh- 
borhood,  and  classed  by  the  si^leclmen.  After  making  the  arrange- 
ment, they  sent  a  note  to  each  of  the  tything  men,  informing  them  of 
their  appointment,  and  of  the  families  committed  to  their  care.  A 
copy  of  one  of  these  notes,  found  among  the  papers  of  the  late 
deacon  Abraham  Men-ill,  is  here  subjoined. 

'  To  deacon  Abrahnm  Merrill. 

I  At  a  meetinjr  of  the  .selectmen  March  fJiirty-finst,  1679 
\ou  are  hereby  re(iiureil  to  take  notice  that  you  are  chosen  accordinn-  to 
court  order  by  the  selectmen  to  bee  a  tithing  man  to  have  inspection  into"knd 


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HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


"if 


h    I 


,'1  fi 


look  ovor  these  familes  that  they  attend  the  publirk  worship  of  God,  and  do  not 
break  the  sabbath,  and  further  you  are  to  attend  as  the  court  order  dechire.s. 

'  The  natnet*  of  th<'  fainihes  are  F-dward  Woodman  junior,  Samuel  Bartlet, 
Richard  Barth't,  Abel  Pilsbury,  John  Stevens,  Christopher  Bartlet,  Thomas 
Chase,  goodman  Bailey,  John  Chase. 

By  order  of  the  selectmen. 
Anthony  Somerby,  Recorder.' 

Mai/  31s/.  A  coTTimittcc  of  twelve  men  was  appointed, '  to  con- 
sult ot"  a  way  for  dividing  of  tlie  upper  commons  if  it  be  possible 
so  to  agree  that  the  town  may  like  of  it.'  '* 

Mail  2Sth.  The  selectmen  petitioned  to  the  general  court  respect- 
ing Plum  island,  in  which  tliey  say  that  tlie  inhal)itant8  'of  Rowley 
having  sold  tlieir  parts  to  several  of  Newbury  and  some;  of  Ipswich, 
so  that  the  whole  island  now  is  in  the  occupation  of  tlie  inhabitants 
of  Ipswich  and  Newbury,  who  make  improvement  by  cutting  the 
grass,  and  some  of  Ipswicli  by  planting  some  sitiiill  parcels  thereof, 
and  by  reason  of  the  impossibility  to  part  the  island  by  fencing,  and 
the  proprietors  of  Ipswich  by  reason  thereof  finding  themselves 
much  damnified  in  that  tiieir  marslies  were  trodden  to  dirt  and  al- 
most utterly  spoiled  by  a  miiHitude  of  liorscs  ami  other  cattle  put 
thervon  bi//lum;  of  Nt'whiirij  in  the  winter  to  lire  of  what  they  can 
get  ami  suffered  there  to  continue  till  the  middle  of  Mai/,  if  not  lon- 
ger which  will  unavoidably  (as  experience  hath  tanght  us)  be  the 
ruin  and  utter  destruction  of  the  wlioh^  island,  the  horses  and  cattle 
eating  up  the  grass,  that  grows  upon  the  sand  hills,  which  gives  a 
stop  to  the  running  of  the  sands  in  stormy  weather,  which  other- 
wise would  in  a  very  short  space  cover  all  the  marshes,  as  we  have 
found  at  Castle  ncek.  Wherefore  we  beseech  this  honored  court  to 
prohibit  the  putting  or  going  of  any  horses,  cattle  and  so  forth  upon 
the  said  island  and  so  forth  and  so  forth.' 

August  29th.  '  Town  voted  to  new  clapboard  and  repair  the 
minister's  house,  and  dig  a  well.'  =^ 

December  2\th.  Mr.  Daniel  Davison  proposed  to  have  'liberty  to 
make  a  building  dock  about  Watts  his  cellar.'^ 

This  year  is  rendered  memoral)le  by  the  commencement  of  the 
only  recorded  caic  of  sup|)osed  witchcraft,  in  Newbury,  that  was 
ever  subjected  to  a  legal  investigation.  The  principal  suHerer  in 
this  tragi-cotuedy,  for  so  it  might  well  be  called,  was  Elizabeth 
Morse,  who,  with  Iter  husband,  William  INIorse,  a  shoemaker,  resided 
in  a  house,  still  standing,  at  the  head  of  Market  street,  in  [now] 
Newburyport.  He  was  then  sixty-five  yearr  f  age,  and  is  said  to 
have  been  a  v(!rv  worthy,  but  credulous,  unsuspecting  man,  and 
consequently  a  very  easy  dupe  to  the  impositions  practiced  upon 
'  him.  Not  suspecting  any  deception,  the  good  man  readily  attributed 
all  his  troubles  and  allIi("tioiis  to  the  supernatural  agency  of  witch- 
craft, instead  of  watching  the  actions  of  those  around  him,  especially 
of  a  roguish  grandson,  who  lived  with  him.    At  that  time,  especially, 


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the 


a  belief  in  wifehemlt  was  almost  nniver.sal,  and  afforded  a  ready 
solution  of  every  tliiriii;  stranj^e  and  nnintellii,nble.  No  one  appears 
to  have  suspeeled  the  boy  a8  the  author  of  any  part  of  the  niisehief 
except  one  C^aleb  Powell.  JJeli.;vinf,'  from  what  he  had  seen,  that 
the  whole  alfair  was  the  result  of  human  agency,  with  ndthinrr 
supernatural  or  marvelous  about  it,  he  informed  j^'oodman  Morse 
that  he  believed  he  could  ascertain  the  cause  of  his  trouble  and 
develop  the  whole  mystery.  The  better  to  conceal  his  purpose,  he 
aliectcd,  as  will  be  her(>after  seen,  to  have  a  Knowledirc  of  astrology 
and  astronomy,  and  if  Ik^  only  had  another  learned  man,  and  saul 
Morse's  frraruLwmvith  him,  \hii  whole  truth  would  come  to  light. 
Ihe  conserpience  was,  that  suspicions  of  witchcraft,  and  of  dcalincr 
in  the  black  art,  fell  upon  him.  He  was  accused,  tried,  iuid  narrowly 
escaped  with  hi.s  life,  thus  all'ording  another  proof  of  the  dangcV 
ansing  to  any  person,  in  being,  or  pretending  to  be,  wiser  than  his 
neighbors. 

That  the  whole  affair  may  be  understood,  the  evidence,  and  so 
forth,  taken  from  the  court  records  in  Salem,  is  here  subjoined. 

December  M  1(579  'Caleb  Powell  bein-  complained  of  for  suspicion  of 
working  with  the  devill  to  tl>e  rnolestii.ir  of  William  Morse  and  his  farnilv  was 
by  warrant  directed  to  Ih.-  eonstalile.  broiiyfht  in  by  him,  the  accusations  and 
testimonies  were  read  and  the  complaint  respited  till  tlie  Monday  followin"' 

December  Hth,  Momlinj.  '■  Cali'h  l>ow..|l  appeur.^d  according'  to  order  and  fanher 
testimony  produced  anfainst  him  by  William  Morse,  which  bein-;  r(!ad  and  con- 
siuered,  it  was  determined  that  tlu;  said  William  Morse  should  present  the  case 
against  Caleb  Powell  at  the  county  court  to  be  held  at  Ipswich  the  last  Tuesday 
in  March  fol  owin<r  and  in  order  her.Minto  William  Morse  ackuowled-cth  him  • 
selt  indebted  to  the  treasurer  of  the  county  of  Essex  the  full  summo  of  twenty 
pounds.  •' 

'  The  condition  of  this  obliiration  is  that  the  sayd  William  Morse  shall  prose- 
cute his  complaint  against  Caleb  Powell  at  that  time. 

'Caleb  Powell  was  delivered  as  a  prisoner  to  the  constable  till  he  find  security 
ot  t\yenty  pounds  for  the  answering  of  the  sayd  complaint,  or  else  he  was  to  be 
cast  into  prison. 

Jon.v  WooDBRiDGE,  Commissioner.' 

The  followin^^'  is  a  specimen  of  the  testimony  against  him. 

<  John  Badser  affirmeth  that  Caleb  Powell  said  that  he  thon<rht  by  Astrolon-ie 
and  I  think  he  said  by  Astronomic  too  with  it  he  could  find  out  whether  or"nd 
there  were  diabohcall  tiieans  used  about  the  said  Morse  his  trouble,  and  that  the 
said  Caleb  said  hee  thought  to  try  to  find  it  out.' 

Anthony  Morsels  testimony. 

'  I  Anthony  Mors  ocationlly  being  att  my  brother  Morse's  hous,  my  brother 
showed  me  a  pece  of  a  biick.  which  had  several  tims  come  down  the  chimne 
I  siltniir  m  the  cornar  towck  the  pece  of  hrik  in  my  hand.  Within  a  littell  spas 
ol  tiem  the  pece  ot  brik  was  gou  from  me  I  know  not  by  what  meanes.  Quickly 
aftar,  the  pece  of  brik  came  down  thi;  chimne.  Also  in  the  cliimny  cornar  I 
saw  a  hamar  on  the  ground.  Their  being  no  person  near  the  hamar'it  was  sod- 
enly  gone  ;  by  what  meains  I  know  not,  but  uithiu  a  littell  spas  after,  the  hamar 
came  down  the  clunmy,  and  within  a  littell  spas  of  tiem  aftar  that.  I'ame  apece 


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of  woiiil,  about  a  fute  lounir,  and  within  a  littnli  after  that  came  down  a  flar 
breiul,  tin;  liar  boinij;  out.     Tliis  wnt*  about  tou  doays  agoo. 
Newbury  December  eighth,  1679. 

Taken  on  oath  Der ember  eiphtli,  1()79  before  mo 
John   VVoonuiuixiK,  Commissioner.' 

Derrmhcr  nth,  1079.  'The  testimony  of  William  Mors  and  his  wife,  which 
they  both  saw  one  last  Thursday  niyht  my  wife  and  I  beini;  in  bed  we  heard  a 
great  noies  against  the  ruf  with  sleke.s  and  stones  throwini;  ajrainst  the  hous 
with  great  vialanse  whereupon  I  myselfe  arose  and  my  wife  anil  saw  not  anny 
body,  but  was  forsed  to  retinue  into  the  hon.su  auaine,  the  stones  bein;;  thrown 
80  vilautly  a^fanst  us  we  ijooini;  to  bed  airaine  and  the  suiimj  noies  in  the  bus  we 
Lock  the  dore  aifaino  fast  and  about  midniirht  we  heard  a  i,'rete  uayes  of  A  hofje 
in  tho  house  and  I  aros  anil  ibund  a  ;.'rete  hog(!  in  the  liiise  and  the  dore  being 
phut.  I  opened  the  dore  tlie  hoyfe  runnini;  vileully  out.  Tho  n«;xt  mornini;  a 
Stek  of  Lenlces  haui^ing  in  tlu>  Chiiinnc .  ist  I  saw  Com  Down  vilintly  and  not 
anny  body  ner  to  tliem  and  Jiuuped  up  upon  A  C'liaire  before  tlie  lire  ;  I  hanged 
them  up  a'j;ain  and  they  Com  down  a^ain  into  tin*  lin>.  The  next  day  I  had  an 
Aule  iu  tho  window,  which  was  taken  away  I  know  not  liow  and  Com  Dune 
the  chinmey.  I  take  the  same  ale  and  put  into  a  Cuban!  and  fasened  the  Dore. 
The  same  ale  Com  Down  '.i  or  4  times.  We  had  a  basket  in  the  Chamber  Coin 
Doun  the  Chenuiey.  I  tooke  it  up  myselfe  and  laide  it  before  me,  it  was  Sud- 
inly  taken  away  I  know  not  how  ami  Com  dune  the  Chinmey  againe.  I  then 
took  a  brick  and  put  into  it  and  said  it  sholil  eary  tiiat  awuy,  if  it  iled  goo  up 
Lgaine.  It  was  taken  away  I  know  not  how  aiul  Com  dune  the  Chemiiey  and 
the  brick  a  Letel  after  it.  One  Saturday  next  Com  sti'kes  on  Light  lire  duno 
Chimney  and  stones,  and  then  my  awls  taken  away  from  me  4  times  an  I  used 
them  and  Com  Douen  the  Chemney  4  times.  INIy  nailes  in  a  cover  of  A  ferkin 
Com  douen  the  Chemney  againe.  The  dore  beiiiL'  Locked  I  heard  a  hoge  in 
the  house  I  let  alone  until  day  and  found  it  to  bee  one  of  my  owne,  willing  to 

ijoo  out.  The  next  day  being  Sabath  Stekes  and  suines  were  thrown  viliantly 
down]  the  Chemney.  One  Munday  next  Mr.  Ilicheson  and  annother  saw  many 
things.  I  sent  my  boy  to  se  if  nothing  was  amis  in  my  barne.  I  not  being 
abel  to  ley  my  Catel  up  to  niuhtes  but  f-ttl  being  untied  with  many  other  strange 
thinges,  the  frame  being  thrown  Dosvue  upon  the  boy :  We  all  run  out  to  help 
him  in. 

'  When  we  Com  in  we  saw  a  Coten  whele  turned  with  the  Leges  upward  and 
many  thinges  set  up  on  it  as  a  Stale  aiul  a  Spade  Lick  the  form  of  a  ship. 
Poles  hanging  over  tlie  lire  Dashing  one  against  the  other  I  being  forsed  to 
unhang  them.  We  saw  A  andiron  dance  up  and  dune  many  tiuu^s  and  into  a 
]iot  and  out  againe  up  atop  of  a  tabal,  the  pot  turning  over  and  Speling  all  iu  it. 
I  saw  a  tube  turn  over  with  the  hop  lling  of  it.  I  sending  my  boy  to  feeh  my 
toles,  which  I  doe  inak  Ropes  with,  so  soone  :is  the  dore  being  oi)ened  thay 
Com  viliantly  Donne  of  themselves.  Againe  a  tub  of  bred  Com  dime  from  a 
Shelufe  and  turned  over.  My  wife  went  to  make  the  bed  the  Clothes  Ded  ily  of 
many  times  of  themseU-es,  and  a  Chest  open  aiul  Siiiit  aiul  Dores  Mi  togetiier. 
]SIy  wife  going  into  tlie  Seler  thinges  tumbling  dune  and  the  dore  lling  together 
vialintly.  I  being  at  prayer  my  bed  being  Cnfred  with  A  Cloth  A  Chaire  did 
often  times  bow  to  me  and  then  Strike  me  on  the  side.  My  wife  Corn  out  of 
the  other  rome  A  wege  of  Iron  being  thrown  at  h(;r,  and  A  s])aile,  but  [did]  not 
rech  her,  and  A  stone,  which  hurt  her  much,  I  seting  by  the  tire  with  my  wife 
and  to  more  neighbours  with  us  A  stone  Struk  against  the  Lampe  and  struk  it 
out  many  times,  aud  a  shoo,  wliich  we  saw  in  Chamber  before  Com  doune  the 
Chemney  the  Dore  being  shut  and  struk  me  A  blow  one  the  he<l,  which  ded 
much  hurte.  A  mate  of  A  ship  Coming  often  to  me  and  said  he  mucli  grefed 
for  me  and  said  the  boye  was  the  case  of  all  my  truble  and  my  w  ife  was  much 
Ronged,  and  was  no  wich,  and  if  1  would  let  him  have  the  boye  but  one  day 
he  would  warrant  me  no  more  trnble.  I  being  persuaded  to  it  lie  Com  the  nex 
day  at  the  brek  of  day,  and  the  boy  was  with  him  unld  night  and  I  had  not  any 
truble  since.' 

The  preceding  testimotiy  is  m  tlic  handwriting  of  William  Morse. 


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1080. 

Janit(iri/^)lh.  <  Tlio  town  frraiitcd  lihcrly  to  ciiHigii  [Stc-plicii]  Grcu-ii- 
li'al'and  Mr.  [Daniel]  Davison  to  build  u  uliarl  at  tlic  point  of  rockn 
above  WatlH  liis  cellar,  to  be  tlireescore  jecl  in  front  at  liij^li  water  mark 
and  so  down  to  low  water  mark,  provided  the  inhabitants  of  tlu;  town 
shall  have  liberty  to  land  wood  or  hay  or  other  goods  so  that  the  said 
goods  be  noi  above  twenty-lbnr  hours,  neither  al  any  time  to  do  ihenx 
damage.'  ^ 

At  the  same  meeting  Nathaniel  Clarke,  doetor  John  Pole,  Rieh- 
ard  Dole,  Uenjamin  Rolf,  and  Robert  Coker  in  '  tlu!  behalf  of  hi.s 
son  Benjamin  Coker,  eaeli  proposed  for  a  place  to  make  a  wharfe.'* 

Fi'hnian/  iUk.  '  .Joseph  Pike  was  chosen  to  gather  tiic  rest  of  the 
contribution  for  the  college.'  * 

Mdirli  1st.  'J'he  town  granted  to  Nathatiiel  Clarke  a  parcel  of 
the  Hats  on  the  soulhciist  of  the  point  'of  rocks,  tluit  was  granted  to 
captain  While  proviih'd  it  be  dowv.  within  three  years.'* 

The  town  also  voted  to  grant  the  proposition  of  '  Benjamin  Rolf, 
doetor  .John  Dole  and  Richard  Dol(>  for  four  or  live  rods'on  the  Hats 
from  VV'atts  cellar  spring  to  ensign  (Jreenleaf's  for  a  place  to  build 
a  wliari  and  a  place  to  build  vessels  upon  provided  they  come  not 
within  ten  or  twelve  feel  of  the  spring  and  make  up  said  wharf 
within  three  years'  and  so  forth.=* 

Marrli  2-\th.     Sixteen  tithing  men  were  chosen.* 

At  the  JMarcli  term  at  Ipswich  court  the  following  additional  tcs- 
timojiy  was  produced  in  the  case  of  Caleb  Powell,  taken  February 
twenty-seventh,  IGSO. 

'Sarah  Halo  a^^cd  thirly-three  and  Joseph  Mirick  testifv  that  Joseph  Mooroa 
hath  often  said  m  their  hearing  that  if  there  were  any  "wizards,  he  was  sure 
Caleb  Powell  was  one.' 


Note.     Tliis  Josi-nii  Moores  was  tlie  boatswain  of  the  ship,  of  which  Caleb  Powell 
is  mate,  and  Joseph  Dole,  captain. 


was 


'  Deposition  of  Mary  Tucker  aged  about  twenty. 

'  She  romemhciclh  that  Caleb  Powell  came  into  tlieir  house  and  sayd  to  this 
pmpose  tiiat  he  eoniini,'  to  William  Morse  his  house  and  the  old  man"  bein"  at 
nraver  he  thonirht  not  lit  to  <ro  in,  but  looked  in  at  the  window  and  he  sayif  he 
had  broken  the  luehautment.  for  he  saw  the  boy  play  tricks  while  lie  was  at 
prayer  and  viiiitinned  some  and  (uho»^-  the  rest  that  lie  saw  him  to  Jliiie  the  shooe 
at  the  old  7nan's  head.'' 


The  ( 
against 


^  court,  after  n-.vding  all  the  testimony  that  could  be  produced 
5t  Caleb  Powell,  came  tcj  the  following  conclusion. 


'  I^pon  heariuL'- the  complaint  bronirhl  1o  this  court  airainst  Caleb  Powell  for 
suspicion  of  workin--  by  the  devill  to  the  molestin;;  of  the  family  of  William 
Morse  ot  Newbury,  though  this  court  cannot  tiud  anv  evident  eiouiul  of  pro- 
ceedmg  farther  against  the  sayd  Powell,  yett  we  determine  that  he  hath  iriven 


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such  uroiiml  of  suspicion  of  liis  so  dculin^  lliiit  \m»  ciiiinot  so  accpiit  him  but 
tlidt  he  )<i'<thj  dfsfrvt's  to  Inure  his  ou'iie  shiime  and  the  C(nti  of  iiivseniliun  of  the 
comnliniit.' 

'  It  in  rul'erreJ  tu  Mr.  Wuudbiiclge  to  liuur  uud  dcturrnino  tlic  churgoM.' 

Tli(!  court  iit  this  time  iniisf  liiiv«i  Ix'cii  men  of  profoiiiid  wisdom 
Jiiul  iu'curuti'  (liscriiniiiiilioii,  iis  tlu-y  appear  to  liavo  tli'lcriniiu'd,  tir.st, 
that  he  was  jiisl  miilly  ('iioiiji;li  to  pay  tlit-  «'X|)fiis('  of  bi'liig  suspect- 
ed, secondly,  that  he  oiiijht '  to  hear  liis  owiic  shame,'  and,  thirdly,  that 
iIk^V  iiad  IK)  reason  to  helicve  thai  lie  was  ^'uilty  at  all.  This  some- 
what resemhles  \\n'  case,  which  is  not  found  in  the  books,  whcro  A. 
sues  H.  for  i)reakini,' a  borrowed  kettle.  The  defence  was,  '  first  W(! 
never  had  the  kettle,  s(>c()ndly,  it  was  broken  when  we  borrowed  if, 
mid  thirdly,  it  was  whole  when  we  returned  it.' 

'I'he  people,  however,  were  not  so  lenient  as  the  judges.  If  Ca- 
\vh  Powell  was  innocent,  some  other  person  nmst  be  gnilly  of  '  be- 
ing instit,'ated  by  the  divil,'  for,  in  their  opinion,  no  agency  merely 
human  could  produce  cU'ects  so  strange  and  imaccoimtablo.  They 
accordingly  selected  I'ilizabcth  .Morse,  the  wife  of  William  iNIorsc, 
as  the  gnilty  person,  a><  we  shall  hereafler  see. 

A//rH  I'-ilh.  '  In  answer  to  the  proposition  of  Ipswich  inhabitant.4 
to  prohibit  all  sorts  of  cattle  from  going  any  more  on  l*lum  island 
winter  or  sunnner,  the  town's  conclusion  is  that  they  do  not  consent 
to  such  an  act.'  * 

31(11/  11  til.  '  The  town  granted  Mr.  Richardson  twenty  pounds  in 
money,  and  forty  pounds  in  other  pay,  to  build  an  addition  to  the 
ministry  house,  and  so  forth.'  * 

Mai/  \Wi.  On  petition  t)f  some  of  the  inhabitants  'of  Newbury 
the  selectmen  were  authorised  to  raise  by  way  of  rate  sixty  pounds 
per  annum  to  be  to  the  use  of  the  schoolmaster  there.' ^ 

June  "^St/i.  Governor  Kradstrcet  thus  writes  to  EngL.nd.  •  The 
principal  towncs  of  trade  within  our  government  are  Boston, 
Charlestown  and  Salem.  Some  little  trade  there  is  for  country 
people  at  Ipswich,  New  bury  and  so  forth. 

'  The  number  of  merchants  in  the  colony  is  nearly  forty,  and 
about  one  hundred  or  one  hundred  and  twenty  ships,  sloops,  ketches 
and  other  vessels.' 

'  At  a  court  of  assistants  on  adjournment  held  at  Boston  May  twentieth  1680. 

'  The  irnind  .luiy  pn\«entiuu'  Kli/abcth,  wife  of  Williiuri  Morse  senior.  She 
was  indicted  by  the  name  of  Kli/.abctli  Moisi-  for  that  she  not  having?  the  f(iar 
of  Ciod  before  her  (jyes,  beiiii;  iiislii^'iited  by  the  Divil  ;iuH  had  familiarity  with 
tlie  Divil  contrary  to  tlie  peace  of  our  sovereign  lord  the  kiiiir.  his  crown  and 
diyrnity,  the  laws  of  (Tod,  and  of  tliis  jurisdiction,  after  the  prisoner  was  at  the 
harr  and  ))leaded  not  iiuiity,  anil  put  herself  on  God  and  the  country  for  triall, 
tlie  evidences  bein;.'  produceil  were  read  and  committed  to  the  jury. 

'The  jury  brou^lit  in  their  venlict.  They  found  Elizabeth  Morse,  the 
prisoner  at  tlie  barr,  iruilty  accordinsT  to  indictment.  The  ifoveruor  on  the 
twenty-seventh  of  May  after  ye  lectui-e  pronounced  ye  sentence. 

'  Elizabeth  Morsse,  you  are  to  yoe  from  hence  to  the  place  from  whence  you 


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cnmo  nnil  tlicnrc  to  llin  pliirn  of  ovocntion  nnd  iIutp  to  bo  han^nd  by  the  neck 
till  V()n  !)♦'  ilt'iid,  anil  llu*  Lord  linvc  iiiKrcy  ok  your  soul.  ' 

''riio  coiirl  wim  iidjoMrin'(|  dii'tii  |)ci- dic'iii  iiiid  on  Idc  lir-*t  nf  Jmin  KINd  (ho 
urnvfinor  imd  niiiiiistratfs  voted  111..  i..|iric\iM«  ol  Kli/.iiboth  Morti«  fondfiniR'd 
to  tlu!  iu'\t  Mt'.Hsioii  ol  lUc  ciniit  in  October  ua  (itli'^t.-i. 

Kdward  Uawson,  Secretary.' 

It  nppoars  from  the  record,  thut  the  reprieve  wna  not  n^Teeable  to 
the  deputies,  wlio,  on  uHseiubling  in  Novj-inber,  thu»  eotnplain  : 

'Th<>  deputies  on  perusal  of  the  acts  of  the  lu)noral>Ie  court  of  assi.staiitH 
rt'laliiii,' to  the  woman  coudeuined  tor  witchcraft  ihie  not  uiulerstaiul  whvexe- 
cutioii  of  liu'  sentence  ^rjveu  airainM  her  by  .said  court  is  not  e\ecuted  and  that 
lier  second  repreevall  seems  to  ns  to  be  beyond  what  the  law  will  allow  imd 
doe  therefore  judire  meele  to  declare  oiirselVes  a^'aiust  it  with  reference  to  tlui 
concurrence  of  our  honored  maj-istrales  hereto. 

„         ,        ,  .   ,  VVm.  ToniiKY  Cleric. 

November  third,  ItiMO. 

Not  consented  to  by  tbo  magistrates. 
Edwahi)   Uawson,  Secretary.' 

No  record  f>;ive8  ua  any  farther  inforniation  concerning  Elizabeth 
Morse  thi.s  year. 

Aiiirmt  lS(/i.  '  The  scflectmcn  ordered  that  Anthony  Morse 
should  every  sabbath  day  go  or  send  liis  boy  to  Mr.  Riehard.son 
and  tell  him  when  h(>  is  going  to  ring  lli(>  last  bell  every  meeting 
and  for  that  service  is  to  have  ten  shillings  ii  year  added  to  his 
former  annuity.'  * 

October  '2-2(f.  '  It  was  agreed  that  Mr.  Burly  should  keep  school 
in  the  watch  house.'  * 

The  Esse.K  regiment  wiis  divided  into  two,  to  be  commanded  by 
major  N.  Saltonslall,  and  major  D.  Denlson.  Newbury  to  have 
two  com[)anies,  and  Ipswiili  tiirec. 

This  yeivr,  Thorlas  bridge  was,  on  the  petition  of  Rowley  people, 
made  a  couiUy  bridge. 

1  0  S  1  . 

The  ease  of  Elizabeth  Morse,  wiio  had  been  reprieved  by  the  gov- 
ernor, was  iigain  brought  before  the  general  court,  to  whom  Wiljiam 
Morse,  her  husband,  sent  two  petitions,  th(>  one  on  May  fourteenth, 
in  the  elegaiU  handwriling  of  William  Cliandler  of  Newbury,  the 
other  on  Mtiy  eighteenth,  in  the  handwriting  of  uiitjor  Robert  Pike 
of  Salisbury,  who  was  the  itex)  year  chosen  one  of  the  assistants. 

His  lirst  petition  is  as  follows." 

'  To  the  honored  frenerall  court  now  sittinjj  in  Boston. 

'The  humble  petition  of  \Villi;iin  Mors  in  bchalte  of  liis  wife.  Elizabeth 
Mors  your  distressed  Prisoner.  Iitiiid)ly  bcuiiinir  this  that  you  would  be  pleased 
to  jrive  y(uir  petitioner  leave  to  picsent  to  yoiu-  consideration  what  may  cltMc  up 
the  truth  in  those  evidences  wcli  hath  bin  presented  and  what  is  otherwise  as 
(irst.     To  Joseph  Bayley  lii.s  testimony.     Wee  arc  ignorant  of  any  such  thing. 

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Had  it  bin  then  spoken  of,  we  misht  have  cleared  ourselves.  Ho  mi;;ht  have 
observed  some  other  us  my  wile,  it  being  a  frequent  thing  i'or  Catle  to  be  at  a 
stand. 

'  To  Jonatlian  Haines.  A.s  to  hi.-^  C'ath',  or  hiinselfe,  not  making  good  work 
at  .such  a  time,  wlicn  Catle  are  liinii;led  ont,  to  pUn-e  it  en  sueli  account,  yt  his 
neirlect  in  not  hrinu'ing  us  a  bow  of  inauU  was  tlie  cause,  wiiich  luid  it  bin  spo- 
ken of  wee  niiuht  have  given  iull  satisfaction. 

'  To  Caleb  Ahjody.  As  to  what  befell  hiui  in  and  about  liis  not  seeing  my 
wife,  yt  his  cow  making  no  hast  to  hir  calle,  well  wee;  are  ignorant  of,  it  being 
so  long  since,  and  being  in  ciunch  communion  with  ns,  siioukl  have  spoken  of 
it  like  a  christian  and  yn  proeeeiled  so  as  wee  might  have  given  an  answer  in 
less  time  yn  teini  yeares.  Wee  are  iiinoranl  yt  hi;  had  a  shepe  so  dyed.  And 
his  wife  knowne  to  be  a  pvetions  ^odiy  wliomau,  yt  hath  ottne  spoken  to  hir 
husband  not  to  be  so  uncluiritabli,'  aud  have  and  doe  cairy  it  like  a  christian 
with  a  due  respect  in  hir  carridi,'(!  towards  my  wife  all  along. 

'  To  John  jMiiiiiill,  About  ye  loss  of  his  catle  was  yt  he  came  one  day  to 
worke,  and  woukl  have  had  him  come  another  day  to  lini.ih  it  because  ye  raine 
came  in  so  upon  us,  and  liis  not  coming,  juilues  my  wife  was  angry  and  yrfore 
had  such  loss,  wch  wee  never  knew  of.  This  being  twelve  yeares  agoe  did 
amaze  ns  now  to  here  of  it. 

'  To  Zachariah  Davis.  To  sensnre  my  wife  now  for  not  bringinir  cpnlls  aboute 
sixteen  yeares  agoe  yt  his  loss  of  calfes  was  for  that,  when  his  father  being  in 
communion  with  us  did  profess  it  to  us  yt  he  judged  it  a  hand  of  God  and  was 
farr  from  blaminir  ns  but  rather  troubled  his  soun  should  so  juiliie. 

'To  Joshua  Richardson  loosing  a  shepe  and  his  laUiug  it  forth  off  onr  yard, 
my  wife  should  say  ytnx  mitrht  have  askeil  leav(\  and  whether  overdriving  it  or 
what,  now  to  brinir  it  in  I  hojjo  will  he  considered. 

'  To  John  March  Test,  lie  heard  John  Wells  his  wife  say  she  .saw  imp  o'  God 
into  said  IMorss  howse.  She  being  prosecuted  would  not  owne  it  and  was  ad- 
judired  to  p  iV  damages,  and  now  this  is  brought  in. 

'  To  James  Browne  Test,  yt  one  day  (ieorge  ^Vheeler  going  forth,  my  wife 
should  say  for  a  trille  she  knew  he  should  not  come  in  a<;aine,  which  my  wife 
knowes  not  of  it,  nor  doth  some  of  ye  owners  ever  remember  such  a  thing  as  to 
judge  or  charge  it  on  hir.  but  now  is  brought  forth  sixteen  yeares  after  when  his 
wife  said  to  goody  Hale  yt  said  Browne  was  mistaken.  Hir  husband  did  come 
home  well  that  voyage:  and  that  James  browne  should  say  to  Roliert  Bedell  yt 
yt  I'owell,  whom  wee  sued  did  put  in  these  words  and  not  himselfe  in  the  test 
and  yt  said  Browne  did  oune  to  his  unkle  >L-.  Nicholas  Xoves  yt  he  could  not 
sware  to  such  a  lest ;  and  ilid  refuse  to  doe  it  before  Mr.  Jolin  Woodbrid^re,  and 
Mr.  Woodbridii'e  did  admire  he  had  sworne  to  it.  And  for  his  seeing  my  wife 
amongst  troopers.  What  couiiilion  he  .night  he  in  we(>  leave  it  to  consideration. 
Wee  are  ignorant  of  such  a  thing  till  now  brought  in  so  many  yeares  agoe  as 
he  saith. 

'Togoodwife  Ordway.  Hir  child  being  lono;  ill,  my  wife  coming  in  and 
looking'  on  it,  pittinir  ot  it,  did  feare  it  wotdd  dy,  and  when  it  dyed  Israeli  Web- 
ster o\n'  next  nei.'jhbonr  heard  not  a  word  of  it,  nor  spoken  of  by  others,  nor  any 
of  ye  lamilv.  but  hir  conceite,  and  now  brought  in. 

'As  for  William  ('hnndler"s  test,  aboute  his  wife's  loner  sickness  and  my 
wife's  visitinir  hir,  she  throuiih  hir  weakness  acted  uncivilly  and  yet  iu)W  to 
brinir  in  airain-<t  my  wife,  when  for  so  nnuiy  veares  beinu'  in  fidl  comnnnnon 
with  us  never  dealt  with  us  aboute  any  such  lliiinr,  but  had  as  loving  converse 
with  him  as  christiatis  ouL'ht.  and  knew  no  otherwise  till  now. 

'  To  widow  Goodwin  hir  haviiiir  hir  child  ^ick,  <su\e  forth  vt  it  was  bewitched 
by  my  wife,  as  she  thonsrht :  wee  hearing  of  it  dealt  with  hir  aboute  it,  and  the 
brake  forth  in  teares,  eravin;r  foiiriveness,  and  said  it  was  others  put  hir  upon  it 
to  say  as  she  did,  but  now  uraed  by  J'owell  to  say  as  she  now  saith. 

'  To  John  Chase  so  sayinir  yt  he  saw  my  wift>  in  the  ni^'ht  comirnr  in  at  a  little 
hole,  and  ye  like,  when  he  liimselfi>  hath  said  he  did  not  know  but  he  was  in  a 
dreame,  ami  yt  unto  several  persrjus  he  hath  so  said,  tlnnigh  now  as  he  test., 
when  my  wife  disowns  any  such  thiuLT. 

'  To  John  Glading  yt  saw  hall'e  of  my  wife  about  two  a  clocke  in  ye  day  time, 


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if  so,  might  then  have  spoken,  and  not  reserved  for  so  lonjr  a  time,  which  she 
utterlv  uenies  it,  nor  know  of  any  such  thing,  where  she  should  be  at  yt  time 
as  to  clere  hir  selfe.  •' 

'To  Williiun  Fanning  should  say  my  boy  said  the  devill  was  at  his  howse. 
Upon  Fanning  8  saynig  to  tlie  boy  ye  dovill  wa.  at  their  howse,  and  he 
would  have  ine  chido  ye  boy,  which  I  tould  said  Fanning  ye  bov  tni^ht  be 
instructed  to  know  ye  devil!  was  cvcrv  where  thou-h  not  as  at  our  howse  and 
should  not  lu  trne  of  alllietion  ujibraid  him  to  our  n-iiefe  ' 

'  To  Jonathan  VVoodman,  se,>i,ig  ji  ciHt,  anil  so  forth,  he  struck  at  it,  and 
3t  vanisht  away  and  1  senihug  for  doctor  Dole  to  see  a  bruise  my  wife  had  by 
the  tall  of  a  peece  rcching  do^^•ne  some  bacan  in  our  chimlv,  which  was  many 
days  betore  this  time,  as  doctor  Dol,.  affirms  it  was  no  green  wound,  ihougK 
neglected  to  send  tor  said  Dole  till  then.  '  " 

'  To  Benjamin  Lowlc  about  my  bov's  ketching  a  pidoin  ;  my  boy  desired  of 
me  to  see  to  k..lch  a  piduui,  by  tinowing  a  slon<>,  or  ye'like,  and  he  brought  a 
pidgin,  which  [  aliirm  was  woun(h>d.  thon"-h  alive.    " 

-To  goodwife  iAliricko  about  a  letter.  aIv  wife  telliuir  her  somewhat  of  ye 
letter,  which  she  judges  could  not  be  and  my  wife  heariuu  of  it  there  was  a 
discourse  nnd  ,so  forth  aboute  this  love  letter,  mialit  speake  somethin-  about  it  by 
^niess  and  not  by  any  such  way  as  she  judged,  and  many  have  spoken,  guess- 
ing at  thini!-.s.  which  inioht  be,  t  )  ■= 

'  As  to  our  troubles  ill  ye  howse  it  hath  bin  dreddfull,  and  alTlictive  and  to 
say  It  ceased  upon  hir  departure,  when  it  ceased  bi'fore  for  a  time  and  after  she 
was  gone  there  was  trouble  aaaiiie, 

'  As  to  rumors  of  some  ^reat  wickedness  committed  in  ye  house,  which  should 
cause  ye  divill  so  to  trouble  us,  our  conscience  is  clere  of  ye  knowled-rp  of  anv 
sucli  thmg  more  than  our  common  frailtves  and  I  reverence  the  holv  "sourainty 
01  Uod  in  laying  such  alllietion  on  us.  and  that  Gods  servants  mav  be  so  athic- 
ted  in  this  manner  as  hath  bin  knowne.  And  that  Air.  Wilson"  of  Ipswich 
where  she  hath  bin  twenty-eight  weekes,  did  declare  to  me  vt  my  wife's  con- 
versation was  christiau-like  as  far  as  he  observed.  Thus  prayin-^  for  you  in 
tins  and  all  other  your  concernes,  am  your  distressed  servant. 

ivT     ,         ,,      .  ,  William  Morse. 

IVewbury  May  fourteenth  KiSl.' 

From  the  preceding  petition  of  William  IMorpo,  and  his  allempted 
answers  to  the  aecusalions  and  charges  brought  against  his  wife 
J^hzaijeth,  and  sent  to  the  general  court,  it  appears  "that  seventeen 
persons  had  given  in  their  testimony  in  writin<j,  staling  their  reasons 
why  they  verily  believed  goody  Morse  was  really  a  witch,  and  ought 
to  be  hung,  according  to  the  old  Mosaic  law,  wl'iich  says,  'thou  shalt 
not  sutler  a  witch  to  live.'  Of  these  teslimonies  only'one  is  to  be 
lound  on  the  hies  oi  the  general  court.  If  this  one  Is  a  fair  speci 
men  of  the  whole,  the  loss  of  the  remainder  is  not  greatly  to  be 
regretted,  except  as  a  specimen  of  the  logic  of  that  day,  and  of  the 
manner  m  which  some;  of  our  iincestors  stated  their  premises,  and 
drew  thence  tlieir  most  profound  conclusions.  It  is  here  presented 
entire,  and  if  it  does  not  most  conclusivelv  prove  that  Elizabeth 
Morse  was  guilly  of  witchcraft,  and  ought  not  to  have  been  sud'.-red 
to  hye.  It  will  only  furnish  another  eviclence  that  belief  and  demon- 
stration are  not  identical,  an<l  that  what  is  sincerely  believed  is  not 
lor  that  reason  aKvtiys  true.  Zechariah  Davis  thus  testifies  verbatim 
and  literatim. 

'  Wlien  T  lived  at  Salisbury,  -William  Morses'  wife  ask.vl  of  me  whether  I 
could  let  her  have  a  small  passell  of  winges  and  I  told  lier  I  wood^    so  she 
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would  have  me  bring  them  over  for  her  the  next  time  I  came  over,  but  I  came 
over  and  did  not  think  of  the  wingys,  but  met  goody  Morse,  she  asked  nie 
whftln!i-  1  liiid  bionuht  over  lier  winues  and  I  ti;!  Ium'  no  I  did  not  tliinko  of  it, 
so  I  came  3  ore  4  times  and  had  liiem  in  my  minde  a  litel  before  I  came  over 
but  .stil  forirct  them  at  my  coming  away  so  nuHing  witli  lior  every  tinn;  that  I 
came  ovc^r  without  them  aftar  [  liad  proinised  lier  the  winges,  soe  slie  tel  me 
she  wonder  at  it  that  my  memory  sliould  be  soe  bad,  bnt  when  I  came  home  1 
went  to  tlie  barne  and  there  was  3  caies  in  a  pen.  One  of  them  fel  ;  danceinij 
and  roreinit  and  was  in  sucli  a  condition  as  I  n(!ver  saw  on  cafi;  in  hefore,  but 
being  almost  night  die  catth-  came  Jionic  and  we  put  him  to  liis  dam  and  ho 
sucke  and  was  well  3  or  4  dayes,  and  on  of  them  was  my  brothers  then  come 
over  to  Nubery,  but  we  did  not  thinke  to  send  the  wiuLres.  bnt  when  he  came 
home  aiul  went  to  the  liaine  this  cafe  fel  a  danceing  and  roreing  so  wee  put 
him  to  the  cowe,  but  he  would  not  sucke  but  ram;  a  roreingc;  away  soe  wee  gate 
him  airaine  with  much  ailoe  and  put  him  iiUo  the  barne  and  we  heard  him  roer 
several!  times  in  tlu>  niuht  and  in  the  moniiu:^  1  went  to  the  barne  and  there  he 
was  S(>tiuir  upon  his  taile  like  a  doue,  and  I  nm-er  see  no  cafe  set  aftar  that 
manner  before  and  so  he  remained  in  tliese  lits  while  he  died.' 

Taken  on  oath  June  seventh,  1679. 


From  the  date  of  ll)e  prerecling  testimony,  it  is  evident  it  was 
used  in  the  county  court  prior  to  llie  Iviinsl'er  of  the  case  to  the 
state  tribunals.  On  \hc.  ci^lileentli  of  IMay,  William  ]\Iorse  pre- 
sented the  following  petition. 


'To  the  honored  £rovernor,  deputv  crovernor,  magistrates  and  deputies  now 
assembled  in  court  ^lay  the  eiahteeuth  1()81. 

'The  most  humble  ]ietition  niul  re(|Ui'st  of  William  INhjrse  in  behalf  of  his 
■wif  (now  a  condcnnied  ])risoiu'r)  to  tiiis  honored  court  is  that  they  would  be 
pleased  so  far  to  hearken  to  the  cry  of  your  poor  ])ri-;oner.  who  am  a  condenmed 
person,  upon  the  charire  of  M-itchcratt  and  for  a  wich,  to  which  charge  your 
poor  prisoner  have  ])l('adod  not  iruilty.  and  by  the  mercy  of  God  and  the  good- 
ness of  the  honored  irovernor,  I  am  reprieved  ami  broniiht  to  this  honored  court, 
at  the  foot  of  which  tiibimal  I  now  stand  humbly  ])rayim!:  your  justis  in  hearing 
of  my  case  and  to  determine  therein  as  the  Lord  shall  direct.  I  do  not  under- 
stand law.  iK)r  do  I  know  how  to  lay  my  case  before  you  as  I  onuht,  for  want  of 
which  I  luunbly  beg  of  your  honors  that  my  recpiest  may  not  be  rejected,  but 
mav  tind  acceptance  with  yon  it  brinu  no  more  but  \our  senti'uce  upon  my 
triall  whether  i  shall  live  or  dy,  to  which  1  shall  humbly  submit  uiUo  the  Lord 
and  you. 

Willitim  IMorse  in  behaU  of  his  wife 
Emz.vbetu  IMouse.' 


For  reasons,  which  do  not  appear  on  the  records,  the  deputies 
had  changed  their  minds,  and,  uistead  of  being  dissatisfied  with  her 
res))ite,  were  willing  to  grant  another  hearing  of  the  case.  This 
the  magistrates  oppo,sed.     hi  the  court  record  it  is  thus  stated : 

'  The  deputyes  judge  meet  to  grant  the  petitioner  a  lu^aring  the  next  sixth 
day  ami  that  warrants  goe  forth  to  all  [)e:sous  conceuunl,  fr(nu  this  court  then 
to  appear  in  order  to  her  further  triall  our  honored  magistrates  hereto  con- 
senting. 

\V.M.  ToKREY,  Cleric. 
May  twenty-fourth,  1G81. 

Not  consented  to  by  the  magistrates. 
EuwAiU)  Rawson,  Secretary.' 


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The  following  additional  tcslimony,  taken  from  the  county  files, 
is  here  presented,  as  necessary  to  a  full  underslanding  of  the  whole 
case.  It  is  in  the  handwriliniif  of  .John  Woodl)ridge,  esquire,  and 
was  undoubtedly  copied  by  him  from  the  original,  written  by 
William  Morse  himself,  and  should  have  Ijeen  inserted  in  1679. 
The  curious  reader  will  be  nuich  anmsed  in  comi^aring  this,  and 
the  preceding  testinuuiy  of  William  Morse,  with  the  report  of  the 
same  case,  made  by  Increase  Mather  in  hia  '  Remarkables,'  and 
especially  that  made  by  Cotton  Malher,  in  volume  second,  pages  391 
and  S92  of  the  Magnalia.  In  that  'wondiM-ful'  book,  the  latter 
gentleman  perverts  and  amplilies  the  testimony  to  a  '  ])rodigious 
and  nefandous' extent.  If  his  'fourteen  astonishing  histories'  in 
his  '  Thaumatographia  Pn(Mimatiea,' have  been  as  much  indebted 
to  his  imagination  for  the  dress  ^\■llich  they  now  wear,  as  that  of 
William  Morse,  it  is  no  wonch-r  that  Mr.  Savage,  in  his  appendix 
to  Winthrop,  volume  first,  j)age  417,  says  of  him,  that  'instead  of 
weighing  evidence,  [he]  had  not  discretion  enough  to  be  trusted  to 
wipe  the  scales.' 

'The  testimony  of  William  Mnrso,  wliicli  siiitli  toartlinr  with  liis  wife  aued 
both_ about  ,si\ty-live  yoe'res.  that  Tlimv,(lav  nvM  bciiiii-  the  twciity-seveiitli  clay 
of  Noveniher,  we  heard  a  f,neat  iioyes  without  rouiul  tlie  house  of'  knocking  the 
boards  ot  the  house  and,  as  wo  eonceived,  throwing  of  stones  at  the  house, 
\yherenpon  myselfe  and  wife  lookt  out  and  saw  uo  bodv  and  the  boy  all  this 
time  witli  us.  but  we  had  stones  and  sticks  thrown  at  us  that  we  were  'forced  to 
retue  nito  the  liouse  itiraine,  after\var<is  we  wont  to  bed  vuid  the  bo\-  with  us 
and  then  the  like  noyos  was  upou  the  roof  of  the  house. 

'  Tlie  same  niL'lit  about  midni^lit  tiio  doore  beinu'  lockt  when  we  wont  to  bed, 
we  heard  a  irreat  hoiv  in  the  housi>  irrnut  and  make  a  noves.  as  we  thou'dit 
wdhngto  ij-ett  out,  and  llial  we  miuht  not  be  distiul'ed  in  onr'sleep  I  ms(>  to  let 
lum  out,  and  [  lound  a  liou  in  the  house  and  the  dooie  unlockt.  The  doore  was 
lirmly  lockt  wJieu  we  went  to  bed. 

'The  next  nioniin.ir  a  stick  of  links  hauaiuir  in  tlH>  cliimnev,  thev  were 
thrown  out  of  thiMr  place,  and  wo  hauuvd  them  up  a-^aine  and  they  wore 
thrown  downe  aL'aiu(>  aiui  come  into  Uie  lire;. 

'The  niuht  followimr  I  had  a  <r,TM  awle  Ivinsr  in  the  window,  the  which 
awle  we  saw  hdl  downe  out  of  tlio  clumnev  into  the  ashes  by  the  Ihv. 

'  After  this  1 1)id  the  boy  put  the  sarm>  awle  into  the  cuplio'ard.  which  we  saw 
done  and  the  doore  shut  to,  this  siuiii>  awi(>  came  preseutiv  downe  the  chimney 
airanio  m  our  siuht.  ami  1  took  it  up  mvselfe.  Airain.^  the  same  id-ht  w.>  saw 
a  httle  Indian  haskett,  that  was  in  ihi'  lofi  before,  came  downe  the  chimuov 
agamo  and  I  look  the  same  haskett.  put  a  pioc(>  of  brick  in  it,  and  the  haskett 
with  the  brick  was  none,  ami  c;ime  downe  auaiiio  the  third  time  with  the  brick 
m  It  and  went  up  airame  the  fourth  time  and  came  downe  airaiiio  without  the 
brick,  and  the  hrick  came  downe  a  little  after. 

'The  next  day  heim;-  Saturday,  .stones,  sticks  and  pieces  of  bricks  came 
dowiH>  so  that  we  could  not  ipiiotly  eat  our  breakfast,  and  sticks  of  lire  also 
came  downe  at  the  same  time. 

'  That  same  day  in  the  afternoou  my  thread  four  times  taken  away  and  came 
downe  the  chimney  auaiije  ;  my  awle  and  a  ijiinlctt  wanting-,  eame"  downe  the 
chimney.  Airame  my  leather  taken  awav  caiin'  downe  tin-  chimney.  Auaino 
my  nailes  hem-  iu  the  cover  of  a  fcrkin  taken  away,  came  downe  the  chinmey  , 

'  Iho  next  day  heimr  Sunday  many  stones  and  sticks  and  pieces  „f  bricks 
came  down  the  chimneye.  On  Monday  Mv.  Ri.'hardson  [the  ministorl  and  my 
brother  bem- th.-re,  lo  frame  of  my  cow  hou.-e  they  saw  ycMy  lirino,  I  sent  m'v 
boy  to  skare  the  ImwIos  from  my  hogs'  meat.     He  w'cnt  to  the' cow  house  and  it 


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fell  downe,  ray  boy  crying  with  the  hurt  of  the  fall.  In  the  afternoone  the  potts 
hanginir  over  the  tiro,  did  dash  so  vcliomcntly  one  against  the  other,  we  sett 
downe  one  that  they  might  not  dash  to  pieces,  I  sawthe  andiron  leap  in  to  the 
pott  and  dance,  and  hjaj)  nut,  and  againe  leap  inan<l  danee,  and  leap  out  againe, 
and  leap  on  a  table  and  there  abide,  and  my  wife  saw  the  andiron  on  the  table. 
Also  I  saw  the  pott  turn  itselfe  over  and  throw  down  all  the  water.  Againe  we 
saw  a  tray  with  wool  leap  up  and  downe  and  tlnow  the  wool  out  and  saw  no 
body  meddle  with  it.  Auaine  a  tub  his  hoop  tjy  oil',  of  itselte  and  the  tub  turne 
over  and  no  body  neere  it.  Againe  the  woolen  wheele  upside  downe  and  stood 
upon  its  end  and  a  spade  sett  on  it.  Stephen  i  Jreeideaf  saw  it  and  myselfe  and 
wife.  Againe  my  rope  tooles  fell  downe  in  the  ground  before  my  boy  could 
take  them  being  sent  for  them  and  the  same  thing  of  nailes  tumbled  downe 
from  the  loft  into  tlie  ground  and  no  body  neere.  Againe  my  wife  and  the  boy 
making  the  bed,  the  chest  did  op(>n  and  shutt,  the  bed  clothes  would  not  be 
made  to  ly  on  the  bed.  but  Hy  olf  againe. 

•  '  Thomas  Rogers  and  Georir(>  Hardy  being  at  William  Morse  hi.s  house 
afhrme  thnt  the  earth  in  the  chimney  corner  moved  and  scattered  on  them,  that 
Thomas  Roirers  wns  lilt  with  somewhat.  Hardy,  with  an  iron  ladle,  as  is  sup- 
posed. Somewhat  hitt  William  Morse  a  great  blow,  but  it  was  so  swift  that 
they  could  not  tell  what  it  was  but  looking  downe  after  they  heard  the  noyes 
they  saw  a  shoe.     The  boy  was  in  the  corner  at  lirst,  afterward  in  the  house 

'  Mr.  Richardson  on  Saturday  testifycth  that  a  board  (lew  against  iiis  chaire 
and  he  heard  a  noyes  in  another  roome,  wliich  he  supposed  in  al'  reason  to  be 
diabolicall. 

'John  Dole  saw  a  large  lire  stick  of  candle  wood  to  fall  downe,  a  stone,  a  fire 
brand,  and  these  things  he  saw  not  whenc(>  they  came,  till  they  fell  downe  by 
him. 

'  Elizabeth  Titcomb  afhrmeth  that  Powell  sayd  that  he  could  find  out  the 
witch  by  his  learnin      if  he  had  another  scholar  with  him. 

'  John  Emerson  aiinineth  that  Powell  snyd  he  was  hrouuht  up  under  Norwood 
and  it  was  judged  by  the  people  there  that  Norwood  studied  the  black  art.' 

Ill  anotlier  paper  entitled  '  a  farther  teslirnony  of  William  Morse 
and  his  wife,'  he  states  that  '  we  yaw  a  keelcr  of  bread  turn  over  — 
a  chair  did  often  bow  to  ine  and  rise  up  a;  line — the  <  hamber  door 
did  violently  fly  togetlier  and  the  bed  did  move  to  and  fro  and  not 
any  body  neer  them.' 

He  also  states  that  the  cellar  door  did  violently  fly  down  and  a 
dram  rolled  over  it  —  his  '  barn  door  was  unpinned  four  times,  a.id 
goin<r  to  shut  the  door(>,  Ihe  bo//  hcinir  vif/i  nir,  the  pin  (as  T  did 
judge)  coming  downe  out  of  the  aire  did  fall  down  neer  to  me.' 

'  Affiine  Caleb  Powell  came  in  as  before  and  seeing  our  spirits  very  low  by 
the  sense  of  our  :i:r(-at  afilictions,  bcijan  to  bemoane  our  condition  and  sayd  that 
he  was  troubled  for  our  alilictiou,  and  sayd  that  he  eyed  the  boy,  and  drawed 
neere  to  us  wiih  great  compassion,  iiooie  old  man,  poore  old  woman,  this  boy  is 
the  occasion  of  your  griefe.  for  he  does  these  things  and  hath  caused  his  good 
old  grandmother  to  be  counted  a  witch.  Then  sayd  I,  how  can  all  these  things 
be  done  by  him  '.  Then  sayd  he  although  he  may  not  have  done  nil.  yist  most 
of  them,  for  this  boy  is  a  youuLf  ro'.nu-.  a  vile  rogue.  I  have  watched  hiin  and 
see  him  do  things  as  to  come  up  and  downe. 

'  Caleb  Powell  also  said  h(>  had  understanding  in  Astrology  and  Astronomy 
and  knew  the  workinii  of  spirits,  sonu;  in  one  country  ami  some  in  another,  and 
looking  on  the  boy  said  you  youuir  ro:.vue  to  ]>("/\n  so  soone.  (ioodman  Morse, 
if  you  be  willing  to  let  mei'  have  the  hoy,  I  will  undertake  you  shall  be  freed 
from  any  trouble  of  this  kind  while  he  is  with  me.  I  was'  very  tuiwilling  at 
the  tirst,  and  my  wife,  hut  by  often  uririug  me  to.  and  when  he  told  me  whither 
and  in  what  employment  and  company  he  should  goe,  1  did  consent  to  it  and 


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we  havo  been  freod  from  any  trouble  of  this  kind  evur  sinrp  fbnt  ninmioo  rv.o^„ 
on  Monday  night  last  till  this  ti.n.  ben.g  Friday  al'ernoone'  ^  ^^^' 

After  enumerating  a  great  variety  of  marvellous  exploits,  such  as 
'heanng  a  great  noyes  in  the  other  roome,'-'  his  chahr  would  not 
stand  sti  I  but  ready  to  tln-ow  me  backward,'-'  my  eap  almost  taken 
oli  my  head  three  tinu^-Sa  great  blow  in  my  iJl/^'hrcat^ 
thrown  at  my  wtfe  and  thrown  at  us  five  times,  \lL  lamp  standhll 

eludes  •"  ""  ''"'"  ^'''''^^''  '^"'''"''''  """'^  '''  ^'°'"^^''  ^'"^  ^hus  con"- 

'  Againo  a  great  noyes  a  iireat  while  very  dreadful      ATaine  in   1^^n  ,v,nvr,' 
a  great  stone  being  six  pounds  weight  dic^remove  from  ^  ace  to  Slac"     wf 
saw  It.     Two  spoonos  throwed  off  the  table  and  presently  the  talde  ihrovvid 
downe,and  he.n:,  nunded  to  write,  my  ink  liornewas  hid    ram  me  lyShl 

%vhile  I  Mas  ^^^tlnlr,  one  eare  of  corne  hitt  me  in  the  face  and  fire  sticks  ^nd 
stones  and  —  throwed  at  me,  and  my  pen  brought  to  me      Wide   T  w^, 
^vntlngwithmynewpen,  my  ink-horne  taken  away.     A-dne  mv  snectic  e, 
hrown  from  the  table,  and  throwne  almost  into  the  fire  by  me  m^  Sand 
the  boy.     Aga.ne  niy  booke  of  all  my  accounts  throwne  into  The  fire  and  h^d 
been  burnt  presently,  if  I  had  not  taken  it  up.     A-aine  boards  Hken  n?  n  .  . 
and  sett  upright  by  themselves,  and  my  papir,  do  w    vt  I  co  dd,  I  could  hardiv 
keep  It,  whde   I  was  writing  this  relat  oi  .     Presently  before  I  emd,,!.!^ 
wrilmn..  a  monmouth  hat  rubbed  along  it.  but  I  heh^t^so  fast  that  it  <b7 b7^ 
but  some  oj  it      My  wife  and  I  bein.rnu.ch  afraid  Ihat  I  sho  Id  not  pre  m^e° 
for  he  publ.ck  use,  we  did  think  best  to  by  it  in  the  bible  and  it  lay  safe  tha 
night.     Againe  the  next    ni-ht]  I  would  lay  it  there  a-rninp  1  „ t  "n  ./  • 

n  was  not  to  be  found  ,1^>  ha  Jhan.ed  downe  Ji^^j^T^  a£';"  ti^dTf 
box  alone.  Againe  while  I  was  writing  this  morning'  I  was  forced  to  forben  -^ 
^vr^ting  any  more,  I  was  so  disturbed  with  so  many  tldngs  consSiy  thJownTi 

This  relation  taken  December  eighth   1679.' 

On  the  court  records  I  find  nothing  more  concerning  Elizabeth 
Morse.  From  an  essay  on  wihlicraft,  by  the  reverend ^John  Hale 
exti^^'   '''  ''"     1^"'^^'^'^^'^  "^  '^'^  y^^-  1697,  I  make  the  following 

'  She  [Elizabeth  Morse]  being  reprieved  was  carried  to  her  own  home  ind 
her  husband  (^yho  was  esteemed  a  sincere  and  understanding  chri  i"  n  r'hos« 
that  kupv  h.m)  d,.sned  some  neighbour  ministers,  of  whomi  was  one  to  ch' 
course  us  wde,  winch  we  did.  and  her  discourse  'was  very  christian  and  stHl 
pleaded  her  innocence  as  to  that,  which  was  laid  to  her  char,^e.  fc  d ki  2 
esteem  ,t  prudence  tor  us  to  pass  any  .leliuilive  sentence  upon  one  under  Cl 
circumstances,  y.t  we  inclined  to  the  more  charitahleside.  In  he  L  Snes. 
she  was  m  much  trouble  and  darkness  of  .spirit,  which  occasioned  a  juit  on' 
fnend  to  examine  her  slrn-tlv,  whether  she  had  been  guilfy  of  witVc  a  W 
bhe  said  no,  but  the  ground  of  herlrouble  was  some  imratient  m,  n  ■  l",, 
speeches  and  actions  of  her  while  in  prison  upon  The  ^.'con^rtr'sXin' 
^■mugfully  whereby  she  ha.l  provoked  the  Lord  by  putting  center^  p  10^^  if 
W.  .  And  in  fine  .she  souuiit  her  pardon  an.l  conifort  trom  God  in  ClSnnd 
^^^sofaras  I  understand,  praying  ,0,  and  resting  upon,  God  in  ChSt  S! 

that  the  lite  ot  Ehzabeth  Morse  was  saved,  and  the  town  of  New- 


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bury  thus  prcventod  from  offoring  the  first  victim,  in  Essex  cmmty, 
to  tliat  kmental)lo  spirit  of  dolii.sioii,  which  twelve  years  after  left  so 
dark  a  slain  on  its  annals. 

The  following  is  a  view  of  the  house  occupied  by  William 
Morse  and  family,  and  which,  in  the  language  of  the  excessively 
credulous  Cotton  iMather,  'was  so  infested  wi'tii  demons'  in  1679, 
and  where,  '  before  the  devil  was  ciiained  up,  the  invisible  hand  did 
begm  to  put  fortli  an  astonishing  visibi/iti/."  The  house  is  still 
standing  at  the  corner  of  Marivct  street,  opposite  to  saint  Paul's 
churchy  Tli(>  lot  on  which  it  stands  was  gi-anted  to  William  Morse 
in  1645,  but  in  wliat  year  he  "rc-ted  it,  no  record  informs  us;  but 
from  all  that  I  can  ascertai  .  ■;  >  -use,  or  at  least  a  part  of  it,  must 
have  been  erected  soon  afte.  ,  was  granted. 


ii  ^ 


-_!    ^i^~  ~  —'^^r^Si&c^S^^'*' 


~^;:7=r——^'yv\rt^  *•*««-  -f- 


March  S/h.  The  town  grant.  1  the  petition  of  John  Badger  for 
'two  rods  of  land  over  against  ids  house  to  set  up  a  mill  to  make 
oatmeal.'  This  mill  was  kept  in  operation  till  1810.  The  last 
proprietor  was  IMr.  Nicholas  Lunf,  who,  between  1763  and  1810, 
manufactured  thirty-seven  thousand,  five  hundred  and  sixty  bushels 
of  oatmeal. 

March  Sth.  '  The  selectmen  (liearing  that  Jeremy  Goodridgo 
and  his  family  was  in  a  suffering  condition)  sent  up  Joseph  Pike  to 
know  how  the  case  stood  with  him,  ;uid  upon  his  incpiirie  Jeremy 
Goodridge  told  him  he  was  in  a  way  to  get  a  house  of  his  owne 
and  for  provision  he  was  in  a  way  also  to'  provide  for  himselfe,  for 
he  had  corne  paid  for,  which  he  hoped  he  sliould  have.  And  Joseph 
Pike  told  him  if  he  was  like  to  suller  ho.  should  come  and  acquaint 
the  selectmen  with  it  and  they  would  make  him  supply.'  *■ ' 


*  Town  records. 


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^Atipist  2m.  James  Merrick  cliosen  sexton,  and  to  have  three 
pounds  and  ton  shillings  a  your  i'or  his  sorvico.'  =X= 

'  October  mit.     It  was  volod  that  whereas  the  scholars  arc  so  few 

that  such  us  come  to  loarncEnghshshaU  pay  three  pence  a  week 
lor  tiieir  schooling.'^  * 

Octohn-  19///.  The  town  voted  to  inn)ower  the  selectmen  to 
petition  the  generul  canirt  to  grant  Mr.  Woodbridgt;  magistratical 
power.  Tn  their  petition  they  say,  among  many  other  thinLr-  <  bv 
reason  of  the  largeness  of  the  towne  and  fre(,uent  concourse  of 
vessels  to  trade  among  us,  they  wish  to  have  Mr.  W^oodbridire  as 
he  IS  the  httest  and  most  able  for  such  a  work  in  this  i)laee ' 

'November  2m.  The  town  voted  that  lionceforth  the  general 
towne  meeting  should  be  the  first  Tuesday  in  March.'  * 

1G82. 

Early  this  year,  a  small  baptist  church  was  formed  in  Newbury 
as  appears  from  11h>  following  extract  from  the  records  of  the  first 
baptist  church  in  Boston. 

'Febnunyjm,  168 J -3.  [It  ^^'as]  agreed  upon  a  church  meeting 
that  we  the  church  at  Boston  have  assented  unto  the  settlin-  of  the 
church  at  Newbury.'  =" 

The  persons  who  formed  this  church,  were,  probably,  George 
Litt  0  and  1  hdip  bqua-e,  who  united  with  the  baptist  Vhurch  tn 
Boston  in  lb/(,,  Nathaniel  Cheney,  WiUhun  Sayer  and  wife, 
Benjamin  Morse  ami  wife,  Mr.  Eduard  Woodman  and  wife,  John 
bayer  an<l  Abel  Merrill,  all  of  whom  became  members  of  the  same 
church  in  1681.  All  these  were  residents  in  N.nvbury  at  that  time. 
Ihis  comprises  all  the  jiilormalion  tliat  I  can  find  on'the  subject 

Among  die  papers  of  CJeorge  Little,  above-mentioned,  the  fol- 
lowing  petition,  in  the  elegant  handwriting  of  William  Chandler, 
IS  still  to  be  seen.  It  has  n.^ilher  date  nor  signature,  but  was 
probably  wnlten  between  the  years  1661  and  this  year.  The  iust- 
ness  of  the  sentiments,  and  the  beauty  of  the  style,  wiu'rant  the 
insertion  of  it  here. 

'  To  the  honored  general!  court. 

nf 'r!?r'n!ri  '"'''' '''''''  ^^T"  ""''"y  >''''"''''  '''"  Pre^'rvecl  by  the  nood  providence 
of  God  under  a  peaceub k-  ^-..vrunient  in  this  wilderuesse  and   many  worthy 

\Mth  all  thankfulnesse,  notwithstanduiff,  may  it  ph'aso  you  to  take  notice  of 
some  Kreevance  of  many  of  the  people  of  God  in  this  couutry  which  lieth  on 
he.r  8pu-its  respe,.tn.n;  so.ne  strei.htues  nnd  streiahteuinu- of  y  christia,  Tibenv 
^vhu■h  wee  nnk  ou.ht  to  be  allowed  ,mto  all  r.hristiansliou  din-  tWoun 'l  i^ 
tion  and  walkmc.  „,derly,  thou.di  of  dilienMu  p.  rswations.  namely  worship 
God   accordur,^   to    their    owne    judaemeut   ami    .-onseieuces  U  ho .  tbein-^ 

Sratious  kma;  i.>  pleased  m  lus  letter  (  to  declare  (as  wee  apprehemU  that  a  nrin- 
c.pall  end  ot  this  plantation  granted  is  yt  liberty  of  conscience  may  bee  hee?e 


*  Town  records. 


t  Septeml)er,  1661. 


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enjoyed.  Wee  hope  therefore  it  will  be  noe  f?riefe  of  miml  to  you  to  consider 
of  it,  and  to  repeain  such  luwes  as  are  a  liiiu]oiaiict>  or  restrainiiii;  in  any  respect 
to  ye  people  of  God  eitlicr  in  their  joiiiim,^  toirether  in  church  fellowship  or 
exercism:?  in  the  ordinances  of  Cod  accordini^e  to  ye  pure  ijospel  rule.  Our 
humble  petition  is  that  all  such  laws,  as  occasion  or  cause  any  such  strei;,'htne3, 
restraint  or  hinderauco  may  be  ri-pealcd,  and  that  such  christian  liberty  may 
bee  ^allowed  and  conlirmed,  the  which  wee  believe  will  tend  mucli  to  ye  glory 
ot  God  in  ye  peace  and  setllemeiif  of  his  people  lie(ue.  And  soo  shall  wee 
pray  for  your  peace  and  reinaine  (as  in  duty  wee  are  bounil)  your  faithful  and 
humble  petitioners.' 

^March  22(1.  The  selectiTien  agreed  with  Williain  Bohon  to  keep 
the  dry  lierd  and  to  come  upon  the  first  day  of  Mny  and  fetch  the 
cattle  and  drive  theni  np  into  the  upper  commons*  and  so  fortli  and 
William  Bolton  is  to  iuive  paid  liim  by  the  owners  of  tiie  cattle 
sixpence  a  head  to  be  paid  in  malt  or  Indian  come.' 

'  And  he  is  to  bm-ne  the  woods  and  to  make  up  the  flatts'  fence 
and  for  that  he  shall  l)e  paid  fourteen  shillings."! 

'  At  a  legall  meeting  of  the  towne  April  nineteentii  1682. 

'  There  was  voted  to  go  to  Ipswich  to  subscribe  according  to 
court  order  about  Mr.  ]Mason'.-5  cjayme,  captain  Daniel  Pierce,  Mr. 
Riefiard  Dummer,  sergeant  [Tristram]  Collin,  sergeant  [Caleb] 
Moody,  Mr.  John  Woodbridge,  IMr.  Henry  Smvall,  Nicholas  Noyes.' 

In  October,  the  general  court  renewed "tlie  license  of  Hugh  March 
to  keep  an  '  ordinary.'  In  his  petition  to  the  court,  he  slates,  that 
'the  town  of  Newbury  some  years  since  were  destitute  of  an  ordi- 
nary and  could  not  persuade;  any  person  to  keep  it.  For  want  of 
an  ordinary  they  were  twice  fined  by  the  county  and  would  have 
been  fined  a  third  time  had  I  not  undertaken  if.  It  cost  me,'  says 
he,  '  one  hundred  and  twenty  poinids  lo  repair  the  house,  and  more 
than  four  hundred  pounds  iii  building  house,  barn,  stables  and  so 
forth.' 

3Iarch  22d.  '  It  was  ordered  that  all  swyne  that  goes  upon  the 
cow  commons  shall  be  ringed  under  the  penalty  of  twelve  pence 
a  head  and  so  forth  and  that  all  horses  and  horse  kind  and  dry 
cattle  shall  be  cleared  out  of  flic  commons  cuiil  Plum  island  between 
this  and  the  first  of  May  next  under  the  penalty  of  two  shillings  a 
head'  and  so  forth.  All  these  were  to  be  driveji  up  into  the  upper 
commons,  except  '  such  horses  that  are  ke[)t  for  the  necessary  use 
of  their  owners.'  These  were  '  to  be  fettered  under  a  like  penalty,' 
in  case  of  neglect,  f 

From  this  extract,  from  the  petition  sent  to  the  general  court  in 
1679  by  the  inhabitants  of  Ipswich,  and  from  other  circumstances 
and  allusions,  it  is  evident  that  large  numbers  of  cattle  and  horses 
were,  by  the  inhabitants  of  Ni-wbury,  for  many  years  after  the  first 
settlement  of  the  town,  driven  on  to' Plum  island  in  the  fall  of  the 
year,  there  to  .spend  the  winter  and  live  as  they  could  till  the  spring 
of  the  year,  or  turned  out  in  the  lower  commo'ns  to  shift  for  iheni- 
selves.     Tradition  informs  that  many  of  the  cattle,  especially  those 

*  '  The  upper  commons,'  see  I^Iarch  twenty-tirst,  1012. 
t  Town  records. 


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on  Pimn  iyliuid,  beoamr  ho  wild,  Hint  it  became  neressary  for  their 
owners  to  .^lioot  llieia  us  lliey  would  oilier  wild  beasts. 

As  may  be  eas'ly  supposed,  neat  cattle  were  much' smaller  than 
those  which  are  kept  by  our  fanners  at  the  present  dav  At  the 
same  liine  that  iheir  cuttle  were  thus  iicfrlected,  lar-e  (.uantilies 
ofliay  w<.r<<  sent  to  h^x.-ler,  Portsmouth,  Dover,  Lynn,' and  so  lortli. 

March  V-Mh.  Ser-eant  Nalhaniel  Clark  was  appointed  by  the 
selectmen,  'to  wariie  Evan  Morris  out  of  the  to\\ne  of  Newbury 'f 

In  this  year,  i\Iarc-li  twenty-second,  I  find  the  followinL^  rcKula- 
tions  conccniini:^  sheep.  * 

'  It  was  ordered  that  all  sheep  shall  Im^  kept  in  that  part  of  the 

commons  where   their  owners    live.     The   inhabitants  of  the  old 

town  to  keep  their  sheep  ih.Mr.      'I'he  uvx\   finek   to   be  k.M)t  from 

Lobs  pound-*  and  over  the  mill  brid-e  to  llenrv  Ja(pies  his  pas- 

jure.     And  the  next  Hock  from  thence  to  James  "  Smith's  and  over 

irottcTs  bridire.     Aii<l   the  inhabitants  from  .lames   Carrs  to  Air 

.John  hcwalls  and  .Jacob  Toppans  are  Hie  frog  pond  Hock  and  their 

range    shall   be  the   Aps    swamp   from    James   Smith    to    (George 

Marches  bridge  and  dismal  ditch   and  Robin's  pound,  and  jMos7s 

iilsburyam   thelurihcrcndof  Hietowne  are  to  have  the  plaines 
lor  their  /lock.'  f  ' 

Maif  \lth.  'The  towne  voted  that  the  sc^lectmcn  shall  have 
power  to  lake  care  that  the  poore  may  he  provided  for  and  to  build 
cottage  or  colt:iges  lor  them  according  to  their  discretion  and  so  forlh.'t 

June  mil.  The  highway  from  Newbury  to  Andover,  was  this 
day  laid  out,  to  'go  by  James  Sniilhs  and  sJ)  by  (h-orge  March  liis 
larnie,  thence  to  said  Georg(vs  high  li(>ld  and  from  thence  by 
marked  trees  to  ialls  river  upon  as  straight  a  lyne  as  the  ground 
will  admit,  and  so  forth.' t 

In  April,  twenty-nine  men  and  thirty-one  women  w^ere  'seated' 
in  live  new  seats  in  the  gallery. 

iVIrs.  Ann  White  had  her  liceus(>  renewed  to  k(>ep  an  'ordinary.' 

Noi'Cinbv.r  2^d.  '  Thanksgiving  appointed  on  account  of  a  v.>rv 
plcntilul  harvest.'  ^  '' 


1  G  8  3 . 


On  tlie  fifle(>nth  of  l-\'l)rnary,  the  general  court  ordered,  '  that 
major  Sallonstall  with  the  deputies  tak(>  can;  to  make  a  division  of 
the  soldiers  ot  Ncwimry  into  two  foot  companies  in  as  eiiuall  a 
manner  as  they  can.  and  that  captain  [Daniel]  Pierce  and  his  com- 
mission  olhccrs  shall  have  Hie  lirst  choice,  and  captain  Thomas 
iNoyes  and  Ins  commission  oliiceis,  the  other.      Consented  to.'  ± 

On  Fcl)rnary  nintli,  the  court  of  assistants  'order  that  the  port 
ol  Boston  to  which  Charlestown  is  annexed,  and  the  port  of  Salem, 


*  '  Crowdoio.  whditi  in  irons  bound, 

Thou  liuscly  tlircust  into  f.ob's  pound.' 
t  Town  records. 


IS 


.     Ihtdibrns. 
I  lionoKil  court  records. 


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V      t 


1o  wliicli  IMarblohcad,  Beverly,  (ilonccstor,  Ipswich,  Rowley,  Now- 
l)iiry  and  Siilisl)iiry  an^  aiiiiexecl,  as  iiiciiiliers,  shall  he  the  lawliil 
])or\!i  iri  this  colony,  where  ships  and  other  vessels  shall  lade  or  un- 
lade any  oC  the  plantation's  enumerated  «i;oods,  or  other  goods  I'roni 
Jorei^n  parts  and  no  where  else  and  so  forth.' 
This  occasioniid  the  following  jjelitioii: 

'  To  tli(»  honored  froaeral  court  now  sittiui,'  in  Boston,  tlie  humble  petition  of 
some  ot'  N('\\l)ury.    \ 

'  Wee  hunihlv  crave  tlic  favour  that  your  liouors  woulil  lie  pleased  fo  consich'r 
our  little  Zclmlon  aii<l  to  ea-^e  n.-i  ot'  that  cliaiLii',  wliicli  at  present  we  are  forced 
nnto  l)V  our  ;roeinu  to  Saleni  to  I'liter  our  vessells  and  tiiereliy  are  forced  to  stay 
at  least  tow  days,  before  we  can  unload,  besides  otiier  cliary;es  in  ;,'oinu:  and 
cornin-f.  That  some  iin^et  iiersou  miyht  be'  appointeil  to  receive  the  enti>r  of 
Jill  vessells.  and  to  act  anil  doe  accordinir  as  tho  law  directs  in  that  case  and  wo 
hliall  bo  bouiul  forever  to  pray  for  your  honors. 
May  llfteenth.  IfiS.I. 

Hk.nuy  VViiF.F.r.v.n,     Thomas  Noves,  Wit.i.iam  Noyf.s, 

IIknuy  .Ia<iuf,s,  .Ioiin   Kent,  ^\'lI,MAM  Titcomb, 

D.  I^AVHox,  J.   I)o[,E,  Penuel  TrruoMii. 

Caleb  Moonv,  Uen  waii  Titcomd, 

Referred  to  tho  next  general  court.' 

By  referring  to  the  preceding  year,  it  will  bo  seen,  that  the  whole 
of  th(,' '  lower  commons,'  tli;U  Is,  thi^  territory,  south  of  Artichoke 
river,  was  divided  by  the  town  into  live  distinct  'ranges,'  or  'sheep 
walks,'  which  were  to  be  occupied  l)y  five  Hocks  of  sheep,  each  of 
which  uuist  be  kept  within  its  own  prescribed  limits,  'under  penalty 
of  twelve  pence  a  head  for  every  sheep  so  disorderly '  ^  as  to  be 
out  of  place  night  or  day.  I'Lich  Hock  was  under  thi^  can^  of  a 
sheplterd,  liinHl  by  the  owners  of  the  sheep.  From  an  ancient  doc- 
ument, found  among  th(^  papers  of  the  late  deacon  Nathaniel  liittle, 
of  which  the  following  is  a  copy,  we  are  eiial)led  to  iisccrtaiii  the 
manner,  in  which  each  coiii])aiiy  nr.maged  its  concerns,  The 
company  here  alluded  to,  resided  in  the  vicinity  of  the  upper  green, 
and  comprehended  those  living  within  the  third  'range.' 

'April  \C,lli.  ](i83.  At  a  lemill  ineetiu!:  of  the  company,  whose  names  are 
here  set  down  |we]  have  airreed  that  every  man  shall  taUi'  his  toll  turn  of  fold- 
inii  for  this  year  in  order  accordiiiy-  as  their  names  are  set  down  ;  aiul  for  tho 
next  year  it  shall  heirin  with  that  man,  that  had  no  benefit,  or  that  had  not  his 
whole  heuelit  of  fohliiiLr  upon  his  corn  i'.nd  so  successively  from  year  to  year 
till  every  man  liafli  had  that  benelit  of  folditi'jf  ujion  his  corn  or  otherways  in 
season.  And  also  it  is  airreed  that  every  man  shall  hrinir  a  sutiicient  irate  for 
every  score  of  shei^p  he  doth  brinj  or  send  to  the  Mock  helonnin;;  to  this  com- 

Iiany  according  to  the  nundiur  of  sheep  given  iu  lor  folding  as  witness  our 
lands, 

IhclTAUP    BitnwN, 
]\l0SES    (h'.RIUSlI, 

Joshua   iMokss, 


JniiN    WOOI.COTT, 


Thomas   Noves, 
MArra.  Pettincell, 


Jonathan  IIaynes  for  this  year,    James  Smith.' 

'  It  i.s  also  afrreed  that  i\Ir.  Nois  and  Mr.  Gerrisli  shall   tack  account  of  every 
man's  sheep,  and  proportion  to  every  man  his  share  of  foulding,  and  to  conclude 


♦  Tow  n  records. 


IIISTOIIY    OF    NKWCIJIIY. 


ino 


thf  (■nd  of  fouldiii!,'  tho  (ifth  of  Novrmbor  ami  lot  tl,o  first  Nluiro  of  fouldiii"  bo 
the  bigost,  It  thoy  muko  tmy  dillori'iico  in  oveiy  iuuii'h  two  Nhures. 

Daniel  J'kiuce,         Petek  Toi'i'an,        Joshua  Mobss. 

'It  is  iiLrri't'd  that  Evan  Morris  Himlj  kcop  sheep  for  this  year  lOH.T  and  he  in 
to  have  six  sidjiinirs  a  weeii  in  pav.  and  lie  that  inive  above  forty  in  tlie  told 
8hall  Kivi'  limi  oiH-  sliilbui,'  out  of  the  ulioie  in  nM)nev,  and  ail  tiial  are  nnder 
thnty  shall  pay  sixpence  in  nionev  a  man."  '  They  whose  sheep  ar<'  kept  siiall 
al  ()w  hini  ins  dyett  besides  the  said  six  shiliinys  per  week  where  the  sheep  are 
loldiHl.'  ' 


Tlic  followino;  is  a  list  ol'  the  company,  and  nnnihcr  of  tho 
Mr.  JMosoH  ( It-rrisli,       .     {)() 
Jolin  Atliiiisoii,       .     .     .  40 
(^)usill  Peltiiiiffll,     .     .      It 

Siiiiiiu'i  lVttiiio[('li,    .    .  ;}() 

Ciipfain  [naiiici]  I'circi-,  10") 
Joslma  INIor.ss,  .  .  .  .  )ll 
Serjeant  'J'risf.  Collin,  oo 
Doctor  [PclcrJ  Toppan,     SO 


Ricliiird  Brown,   . 
Thomas  Noyi;.s, 
Robert  Loiif^,  .     . 
James  Smith,     . 
John  Woolcot, 
John  Smith, 
Widow  Stiekney, 
John  Websler,  .' 


irslieep. 

.  )l\ 

.  40 

.  30 

.  44 

.  r>i 

.  r>4 

.  3o 


441 


Total, 


263 
441 

704 


TTere  wi;  find  sixteen  individuals,  in  one  iiei^rhbDrhood,  ownini^ 
seviii  hundred  and  lour  sheep.  How  many  nioro  there  were  in 
the  remaining  I'oitr  (loclo,  we  have  no  means  of  aeeiirately  astcr- 
tainin<r,  but  estimaliiiif  the  mimbcr  owned  by  each  individual  iu 
town,  lo  be  in  proportion  to  the  tax  he  paid  in  KiSo,  the  whole 
iiiimb(T  of  sheep,  owned  in  \ewbm-y  this  yt-ar,  would  be  live 
thousand  six  hmidred  and  eighly-live,  a  mimber,  which  is  jnobably 
not  far  from  the  truth. 

As  there  itkiv  hv.  some  thiji^s  in  the  pivceding  qnotations,  which 
will  need  a  lillle  explanation,  1  will  here  liirnisli  it  from  a  few  other 
old  papers,  and  an  old  siccoimt  book  kept  by  Richard  Bartlet,  junior. 
It  will  be  recollected  llial  our  fathers  loiind' it  netessary,  on  account 
of  the  wolves,  to  hav(!  lln-ir  sheep  securely  folded'  every  niyht. 
This  neces.sity  they  turned  lo  the  advantage  of  their  corn  landj  bv 
folding  the  sheep  u|)on  it.  Having  set  tlie  day  on  which  shepherd 
Morris  was  to  commen((>  his  si-rvices,  whicii  this  year  was  the 
twenty-third  of  April,  tuid  designated  the  man,  who'w.s  to  have 
the  first  '  bcnelit  of  folding,'  who  this  year  was  Rich;a-d  Brown, 
each  one  of  the  company  b/ought  to  his' corn  laud  hi.s  share  of  tho 
materials,  ('a  gate*  for  every  score  of  sheep,')  with  whicii  they  set 
np  the  pen.  Afler  remaining  there  the  prescribed  time,  it  was  taken 
down  and  set  up  on  '  Cousin  IVliingell's'  land,  and  thus  it  passed 
round  from  one  to  another,  like  a  mug  of  iiip  at  an  'ordinary'  ia 

*  Thus, 'ScptenilHT  ninth.  1702.    John  Ordway  Dr.  for  your  help  in  carting  two 
load  ol  sheep  galci  into  my  lield.'    BarlkCt  aaount  liuuk. 


\    -    yA 


I*    ■    tf      I 

'-  '■  i 

.t  ii* 

i:  <i  -r 


.  IS   M 


140 


Hr.STOllY   OF   NEWnnilY. 


oldfii  lime,  oucli  one  receiving,  'ii|)()ii  his  coin,'  (ir  corn  land,  '  ihn 
lull  beiu'lit'  oi  the  top  tlrcsaiu^,  wliii-li  s(^vcn  hiuuln-d  Hliccp  could 
<>ivc.  Wherever  the  pi-ii  wiis  erected,  there  th<'  KJiepIierd  WIH  to 
hiive  his 'dyetl,' and  llun  like  a  iiieiiii^erie,  or  Iraveliii;^'  circiin,  ho 
and  his  uniiiials  wore  coiitiimaily  in  luolioii.  At  other  times,  and 
in  other  places,  the  pen  was  erected  on  some  purl  ol'  the  commmou 
land,  and  was,  alter  a  suitable  time,  removed,  and  a  crop  oi'  turnipi* 
raised,  which,  in  the  liill,  were  divided  pro  ratsi  umon;,'  the  owners 
of  tlie  sheep.  Turnips  at  that  lime,  and  lor  half  a  cculmy  after, 
supplied  the  phict!  ol  potatoes.  In  Kiti'i,  tin;  price  ol  a  cord  of  oali 
wood,  and  a  bushel  oi  turnips,  was  the  same,  namely,  one  sliillinfj 
and  sixpence.  In  I7()'2,  a  cord  of  oak  wood  was  three  shillings,  a 
cord  of  walimt  live  shilling's,  and  a  bushel  of  tm'uips  from  one  shil- 
ling and  sixpence  to  two  shiilintfs.*  From  iMr.  Ilichard  Hartlel'a 
old  joiu'ual  I  take  the  followiiiii;.  '  In  KITC),  tiu'uips  one  shiilint;'  per 
bushel,  hemp  and  butter  sixpence  per  poimd.  In  I (J!r^7,  cotton  wool 
was  one  shiilin>i;  and  sixpence!  per  |)()uud.' 

The  incpiisitive  reader  will  excust-  the  minuteness  of  these 
details,  as  it  ^mv<'s  a  picture  of  some  of  the  custt)ms  of  om*  fore- 
fathers, which  the  lapso  of  more  than  a  century  ami  a  half  has 
either  materially  chaiii^ed  '.>r  eulircly  ellaced. 

A  nei^ro  woman,  named  .lunip'T,  came  to  Newbury  this  year. 
She  was  warned  out  of  town,  but,  rcfiisini?  to  fi;o,  the  selei-tmeii 
iipi)euled  to  the  county  court,  '  to  bo  cased  of  such  a  burthen.' 


I,* 


1(>S4. 

Janunrij  2<l.  '  At  a  generall  lejijall  meetinc;  of  the  towne  it  was 
pro|)osed  :md  voted  on  tlii'  aliirmative,  whether  or  no  we  think  it 
expedient  and  meet  to  divide  a  part  of  the  commons,  if  wc  can 
agree  upon  a  rule  to  do  it  by.'  t 

A  eommillee  of  I'ourteen  p<'rsons  were  chosen, 'to  consult  and 
consider  about  a  ruh'.'  Jt  was  also  voted  '  to  divide  the  conunons 
above  the  hedf^e.'  f  J 

KTunudrji  I6f/i.  At  a  lesjall  meeting  of  tlie  freemen  and  freehold- 
ers it  was  voted  that  six  thousand  acres  of  the  up|)i'r  conuuon  shall 
be  lotted  out,  namely,  one  tliousand  acres  to  the  non-freeholders 
and  soldiers,  and  live  thousand  acres  to  the  freeholders,  to  every 
freeholder  alike  with  an  addition  to  st)me  few  men  that  have  de- 
served more  and  this  shall  not  hii  a  ])recedent  to  the  future  in  the 
ordering  or  dividini,'  of  any  other  part  of  the  common.' f 

In  consequence,  howevi^r,  'of  some,  that  did  manifest  dissatisfac- 
tion at  the  votes  it  was  voted  that  thc'-c  shall  be  no  further  proceed- 

*  John  Knigtit's  journal.  t  Town  rocoids. 

t  '  The  hi;dL;e,'  30  called,  was  nnar  Artichoke  river,  anil  was  the  dividins;  lino  hetween 
'  the  lower  commons,' and  '  upper  i-onmions,'  or  '  upper  woods,' as  it  was  sonietiines 
called.  The  upper  conmions  was  ap[)ropriated  for  tlie  pastiirai;e  of  '  the  dry  herd.' 
The  lower  commons  was  divided  into  '  cow  commons,  ox  commons,  steer  commons,  and 
calf  commons.'    The  sheep  pasture  covered  the  same  ground,  but  was  ditiereutly  divided. 


UISTOIIY    OP    NEWnCRY. 


141 


iiii,'  upon  that  vole,  nor  uiiy  (livi.-*i()ii  ol'  llic  roiiiiiioii  until  tlic  frci'- 
iia-n  and  rrci-lioldcrrt  do  ayrci'  w  ho  the  ))('rs«)ns  shall  Ik.'  thai  dcscrvo 
any  addilimi,  and  what  llit-y  do  dcscrvf  more  than  an  <'(|nall  .nharr.'* 

On  the  siilijccl  ol' dividing  the  connnttns,  nolhini,'  more  was  dono 
until  .March,  HHi,  when,  as  will  be  seen,  tin;  division  was  rrnulc. 
The  cansc  of  the  dissati-jlaction,  which  existed  ainoni,'  a  lar^'e  por- 
tion ol'  the  inhabitants,  originated  in  the  order  passi'd  the  seventh 
ol'  December,  lb  1:2,  which  '  declared  and  ordered  that  ihc  persons 
oiifi/  abovemenlioned  fiiine|y-on(;  in  all]  are  ackiiowledi,'ed  lo  be 
I'reeholders  by  the  tow  ne  and  to  have  a  proportionablt!  ri^'hl  in  a/f. 
waste  /(iiit/s,  roiiiiiiotis,  and  rivers  nndisposed  of  and  sncli  as  by,  from 
»a-  nnderthem  or  their  heyrs  have  boiii,dil,  granted  and  pnrch...-i('d  tVom 
Ihem  or  any  ol'  them  tlieyr  rii;ht  and  title  tlierennto  (ual  none  else.''* 

This  order  of  course  exclnded  all  the  other  inhabitants  ol  the  town 
from  any  riL,dit  or  title  to  nny  of  the  common  lands,  the  river  lots, 
and  I'hm'.  island.  As  early  as  KiSO  attempts  wen*  made  by  the 
non-freeholders  lo  own  and  occn;w  the  connnons  eqnally  with  the 
freeholders,  nsini^  lani(na<,'e  to  the  Irceholders  to  this  ellect. 

'  We  think  it  hard  to  be  di-privcd  of  the  rii,dit  of  connnonafi;e. 
We  pay  accordini,'  to  our  i)roperty  as  nuich  as  yon  for  the  support 
ol  public  worship,  the  sup|)orl  of  schools,  the  repairing  of  the  roads, 
and  our  e<pial  pro))orlioii  of  all  other  taxes,  and  some  of  us  have 
served  as  soldiers  for  your  defence,  and  yet.  you  have  ri^'hts  and 
})rivile^es,  of  which  we  iue  ileprived.'  'I'his  was  al  least  plausible, 
and  after  many  meetin<rs.  they,  in  KiSl),  as  wo  shall  see,  succeeded, 
with  the  assistance  of  some  of  the  rich  freeholders,  in  partially 
accomplishing^  their  object,  and  establishini^  a  rule,  by  which  the 
division  was  made. 

Mai/  \^)lli.  At  this  session  of  the  jrcnoral  court,  Nathaniel  Clarke 
of  New^bury  was  cho.seii  naval  olliccr  for  Newbury  and  Salisbury. 
This  was  in  iccordanct!  with  the  last  year's  petition  of  Newbury, 
and  \v\\\\  that  of  Salisbury,  who  at  this  session  of  the  court,  pre- 
ferred a  similar  petition,  stalimi:  'l''>l  ''"'y  'had  some  small  trade.' 

Mai)  ;M.s7.  Honorable  Nathaniel  Saltonstall,  of  Haverhill,  lima 
writes  to  captain  Thoni^'s  Noyes  of  Newl)ury.  'In  ye  major  gene- 
ral's letter  I  have  order  ,ilso  to  require  you,  which  I  herein  do,  with 
all  convenient  speed,  to  provide  a  (light  of  colours  for  your  foot 
company,  ye  ground  fwld,  or  llight  whereof  is  lo  be  green  villi  a 
red  cross  with  a  white  Held  in  yi'  iingle,  according  to  the  antient 
rustome  of  our  own  I'iUglish  nation,  and  the  faiglish  plantations  in 


■rica  and  our  ow  n  pracljcc  m  our  sln|)s  and 


(nlier  ve 


Tl 


10 


number  or  bullets  to  be  put  into  your  colours   for  distinction,  may 
bo  left  out  at  present  without  damage  in  the  making  of  them.'  f 

Sr  fail(!  not 

Your  'ricnd  and  servant, 

N.  Saltonstall.' 


m 


r  * 


ii 


*  Town  records. 


t  Robert  Aiiams"s  manuscripts. 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


Thus  it  appears  that  tlie  cross  in  the  colors,  which  Endicolt,  at 
the  insiigalion  of  Roger  Wiihams,  had  cut  out  in  1(334  as  a'reJique 
of  antichrist,'  and  had  been  laid  aside  lor  many  years,  was  again 
ordered  to  be  inserted.  The  scruple,  however,  against  its  use,' still 
continued  in  many  minds.  'Judge  Samuel  Sewall,  who  in  16S5 
was  captain  of  the  south  company  of  milhia  in  Boston,  resigned 
his  commission  November  elevenlii,  1G8G  on  account  of  an  order  to 
put  the  cross  in  the  colours.'  * 

In  his  diary,  under  date  of  August  twentieth,  1686,  he  says: 
'read  tenth  Jeremiah,  was  in  great  t^xercise  about  the  cross  to  be  put 
into  the  colours,  and  afraid,  if  I  should  have  a  hand  in  it,  whether 
it  may  not  hinder  my  entrance  into  the  Holy  land.' 

This  year,  for  the  first  time,  a  list  of  tlm  town  debts  is  given  in 
full,  from  which  the  following  extracts  are  taken.  It  is  in  John 
Pike's  handwriting. 

'  To  Mr.  Edward  Tomson  for  keeping  school  tliis  year,  .     .     .    £30    0.9  Od 
To  Richard  Hcninn;  for  .sweepini;  tlie  nioctiiig  hoii.se,  ....       2100 
To  Aniljony  Somcrby  for  kocpiiig  the  town  bookc,     -....100 

To  Daniel  Lutit  an  houre  glas.s, i    g 

To  John  Hendrick  one  day  at  the  hedg 30 

To  Samuel  Sawyer  burning  the  wood.s  in  olde  time,    ....  40 

To  ]\Irs.  White  tavern  expences, 524 

To  James  Brown,  watch  house  glass, 9    fi 

To  Samuel  Plummer  ferriage,      .     .  10    0 

To  William  Sawyer  kaitinu'  lime  to  meettinii;  house,    ....  20 

To  James  Ordway  and  Jonathan  Clark,  twenty-eight  bushels  lime  18    0' 

From  the  same  account  it  appears  that  the  'coullcrs'  for  the  troop 
cost  two  pounds  and  fourteen  shillings,  and  for  the  two  foot  com- 
panies sL-i  pounds,  six  shillings,  and  seven  pence.  The  whole 
amount  of  the  town  tax  for  all  purposes  this  year  was  three  hund- 
red and  thirty-eight  pounds  and  eighteen  slullings,  of  which  one 
hundred  and  twenty-eight  pounds,  six  shillings,  and  sixpence,  was 
the  salary  of  reverend  .John  Richardson. 

November  24///.     In(|uest  on  tht;  body  of  John  Poore,  senior. 

'  We  judge  that  being  in  the  woods  and  following  his  game,  he 
was  bewildered,  and  lost  himself  and  in  his  pursuit  plucked  olf  his 
clothes,  and  scattered  them  some  good  distance  one  part  from  an- 
other till  he  had  left  nothing  on  save  his  waistcoat,  and  drawers,  and 
breeches  and  hose  and  shoes.'  f 


I6S0. 

Ffbniarij  ^fli.     '  Sa])lia1h  afternoon  there  was  an  earthquake.'  J 
JaiuKiri/  17 //i.     'Boston  harbour  frozen  over  down  to  the  castle, 

and  nine  hundred  men  on  tlie  ice  at  onee.'  .| 

The  following  petition  was  sent  in  to  the  town  of  Newbury  by 

some  of  the  inhabitants  at  the  west  end. 

Quarterly  register,  February,  1S41,    t  County  records.     J  Judge  Sewall's  diary. 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


143 


'March  inth,  1 684-5.  To  the  town  of  Newbury  the  humble  request  of  some 
of  the  hiliabitauts  of  thi.s  town  doo  s'no  and  intieat  that  yon  wouhl  be  pleased  to 
grant  ns  your  consent,  appiobation  and  assistaaco  in  geiini?  some  help  in  the 
ministry  amongst  us,  by  reason  that  we  doe  live  sie  remote  from  the  means, 
great  part  of  us  that  we  cannot  with  any  comfort  or  convenience  come  to  the 
publick  worship  of  God ;  neither  can  our  families  be  brought  up  jnder  the 
means  of  grace  as  christians  oni,'ht  to  bee,  and  which  is  absolutely  necessary 
unto  salvation  ;  therefore  we  will  humbly  crave  your  loving  compliance  wiih 
us  ill  this  our  request.' 

The  preceding  petition  is  the  first  recorded  intimation,  that  is  to 
be  found,  that  the  people  of  the  west  end  of  the  town  desired  to 
have  public  worship  among  tliem,«elves.  This  was  the  commence- 
ment of  a  contest,  which,  as  we  shall  see,  involved  the  whole  town, 
and  especially  the  westerly  part  of  it,  in  diilieulties  and  quarrels, 
which  were  not  settled  for  many  years,  the  injurious  consequences 
of  which  are  even  now  perceptible. 

April  20(h.  King  James  proclaimed  king  '  in  the  market  place, 
Boston,  by  tlie  governor,  deputy  governor,  eiglit  soldiers  and  one 
troop  to  guard  the  governor.' 

This  year,  May  twenlieth,  William  Bolton  was  chosen  'to  keep 
the  dry  cattell  in  the  uppei  commons  atiove  the  hedge,  and  to  take 
care  for  ye  repayring  of  such  breaches  as  should  be  in  the  hedg 
from  lime  to  time,'  and  so  forth. 

June  18///.  The  selectmen  defined  the  limits  of  the  five  flocks  of 
sheep.  They  were  called  'the  old-town  Mock,'  'Henry  Short's 
flock,'  'captain  Pierce's  tlock,'  'the  I'rogg  pond  flock,'  and  ''the  Arte- 
choak  ilock.' 

In  Noveinber  the  selectmen  ordered  the  names  of  all  the  tax- 
payiM-s  to  be  recorded,  with  the  amount  paid  by  each  individual 
toward  Mr.  Richardson's  salary,  which  was  'ibrty  poimds  in  money 
aiid  seventy  pounds  in  other  good  pay.'  The  word  'pay'  at  this 
time  meant  all  kinds  of  grain,  and  so  forth,  and  sometimes  cattle 
and  horses.  By  a  warrant  from  the  state  treasurer  '  to  the  select- 
men and  constables  of  Newbury,  the  town  was  recpiired  to  collect 
of  the  inhabitants  eighteen  pounds,  two  shillings  and  ten  pence  in 
money,  and  thirty-six  pounds,  five  shillings  and  eight  pence  to  be 
paid  in  country  pay,  wheal  at  five  shillings  and  sixpence,  barley  and 
barley  malt  and  })east  at  four  shillings  and  sixpence,  rye  at  four 
shillings,  Indian  corn  a1  tlire(>  shillings,  and  oats  at  two  shillings  per 
bushel,  and  all  other  things  at  money  prices,  provided  no  leane 
cattle  or  horses  be  paid,  and  in  case  any  pay  money  in  Vivn  of 
country  pay  they  are  to  be  abated  one  third,'  and  so  forth. 

The  whole  number  of  persons  ratcnl,  was  two  liundred  and  thir- 
teen, among  whom  are  the  names  of  eight  with  the  title  of  '  Mr.,'  a 
mark  of  distinction  at  this  time,  one  esquire,  three  captains,  three 
lieutcMiants,  two  ensigns,  eight  sergeants,  three  corporals,  three  dea- 
cons, and  two  doctors. 


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'  Janiian/  24///,  Su/ui/ai/.  So  cold  thai  the  sacramental  bread  is 
frozen  jiretty  hard  and  rattles  sadly  into  the  ])lates.'  * 

At  the  Marcli  meeting  this  year,  'it  was  ordered  that  the  select- 
men shall  have  twenty  shillings  apiece  for  the  bearing  of  their 
charges  and  the  expeiu-e  of  their  lime  a])out  the  lowne  buisiness 
and  ye  connnissioner  to  have  ten  shillings  and  what  they  spend 
more  they  are  to  pay  out  of  their  owne  estate.'  f 

Blarfh  Wf/i.     '  The  lowne  being  sensible  of  their  great  want  of 
another  come  mill,'   a  eonnnillee  of  live  persons  was  chosen   'to 
view  such  place  or  places,  as  may  be  most  convenient  for  vo  setting 
a  IT.    1.  t 

'  For  the  preservation  of  convenient  shades  for  cattle  and  sheep 
in  ye  home  commons,'  all  persons  were  j'orhidden,  under  penalty 
of  twenty  shillings  a  tree,  '  a])ses,  birches  and  alders  excepted,  to 
cult,  fid  1,  girdle  or  l(>j)p  any  tree  in  any  of  the  towne's  high  wayes  or 
in  any  of  ye  commons'  wilhiu  certain  specilied  limits,  j 

'.Juniper  proposed  for  a  liberty  to  build  a  cottage  to  dwell  in 
upon  ye  common  neer  frogg  pond.  The  lowne  voted  in  the  nega- 
tive.'! 

March  22d.  '  At  a  legall  meeting  of  the  selectmen  twenty  lything 
men  were  ai);)ointed  and  chosen  for  the  year  ensuing.' 

'Benjamin  Mors  was  appointed  to  burn  the  woods  this  year  above 
Artichoke  river  and  to  have  for  hi^  pains  ten  shillings.' 

Hugh  iMarch  and  .Airs.  Ann  White  were  licensed  to  keep  an 
'  ordinary.' 

'  At  a  county  coiu't  JNTarch  thirtieth  ca])tain  Daniel  Pierce,  captain 
Thomas  Noyes  and  lieutenant  Stephen  ( Jreenleaf  are  commissioned 
to  be  magistrates  by  the  court,  as  there  was  no  magistrate  among 
tluMu,'  that  is,  the  [x-ople  of  Newbury.  So  says  John  Badger  in  his 
petition. 

March  2-icl.  '  At  a  l(\gall  meeting  of  the  freemen  and  freeholders,' 
another  attempt  was  made  to  divide  a  part  of  the  upper  commons. 
Among  the  votes  passed  was  one,  fort^'-three  to  thirty-eight,  that 
'  each  freeholder  sliould  have  twenty  acres  of  land  laid  out  in  the 
upper  commons  on  INIerrimack  river  and  on  the  soiUhwest  side  of 
the  U))|)er  conunoiis '  and  so  forth,  and  •  it  was  also  delermineil  and 
agreed  that  if  this  land  in  lime  to  come  shii//  be  imjiroved  by  ienc- 
ing  or  otherwise  tli(>  improvers  of  it  shall  pay  to  all  public  towne 
charge . ,'  and  sri  forth. f 

l"'rom  this  and  other  votes  and  allusions,  it  is  evident  that  the 
larger  part  of  the  land  lying  above  Artichoke  river,  was  still  com- 
mon, uufeiiced,  and  uniiiijiroved  exce))t  for  pasturage.  Large 
(|UKntities  of  tnnber  in  this  tract  were  granted  tf^  various  inilividcals 
to  make  'long  shingle,'  as  it  was  called,  'to  cover  houses,'  for  'pales' 


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for  'clapboards,'  'for  posts  and  rayles,'  for  buildings  of  various 
kinds,  and  for  wiieelwrighls  and  coopers'  use. 

la  the  month  of  April,  complaints  were  'made  to  the  selectmen  of 
great  spoyle  of  timber  that  was  made  in  the  towne's  commons, 
constable  Moses  Pilsbury  seized  and  delivered  to  Joseoh  Pike 
twenty-one  red  oak  trees  and  sixteen  white  oak  trees  at  the  southeast 
end  near  Savages'  rock  and  the  westerly  end  of  Long  hill  near 
Merrimack  river.' 

Man  ^^tli.  A  committee  of  seventeen  was  chosen,  to  'agree  upon 
a  meet-  vny  of  dividing  the  commons  and  bring  in  theyr  result  and 
conclusion  to  the  towne,'  and  so  forth.* 

On  October  twentieth,  tlie  committee  reported,  and  the  '  towne 
voted  that  the  upper  commons  be  divided  in  manner  following, 
namely,  the  six  thousand  acres,  one  half  of  them  in  quantity  and 
([uaiity  be  divided  among  the  freeholders,  to  every  frticholder  a  like 
sliare,  and  the  oilier  half  of  said  commons  be  divided  among  all 
sucli  inliabitants  of  this  towne  and  freeholders  as  have  paid  rates 
two  years  last  past,  proportionalile  to  what  each  man  paid  by  rate 
to  the  minister's  rate  i:i  the  year  IGHo.'-* 

'And  that  about  eleven  hundred  acres  of  the  lower  commons  be 
divided  according  to  the  above  method  and  laid  out  into  five  general 
pastures  and  so  forth,  and  the  rest  of  the  commons  to  be  divided  and 
laid  out  into  wood  lots  according  to  the  above  division  and  same  rule.'* 

^.Tunc  \\)th.     James  INIyricks  house  ])urnt  dowr.'f 

The  coiiimii;ee,  who  were  c-hosen  October  twenty-first,  to  divide 
and  lay  out  the  lands,  were  captain  Daniel  Pierce,  lieutenant  Ste- 
])lien  ( Jreenl(\if,  Serjeant  John  Etnery,  .Toseph  Pike,  lieutenant  Tris- 
tram Collin,  ensign  Nathaniel  Clark,\uKl  Henry  Short. 

November  2(Uh.  The  freeholders  of  Newbury  met  and  passed 
several  orders  before  thi>  lots  were  drawn.  One  was,  that  '  Indian 
river  should  be  free  as  far  as  the  tide  Hows  for  the  passing  and  re- 
passing of  boats  and  canoes.  Another,  that  every  freeholder  should 
draw  his  lot  as  his  name  is  entered  in  the  town  bookc.*  The  free- 
holders' meeting  was  then  adjourned  for  half  an  hoiir  to  attend  the 
towne  meeting  then  to  be.'* 

This  division  of  land,  which  the  frecOiolders  had  at  last  agreed  to 
make,  was  one  of  the  most  iniportani  transactions  in  which  the  town 
had  been  called  to  engage.  It  had  occasioned,  as  we  learn  from  a 
protest  on  record,  signed  by  Margaret  Lowle  and  James  Brown, 
'great  confusions,  conK^ntions,  inconveniences,  and  injuries,'  and 
was  not  settled  witlumt  much  diiliculty  and  opposition.  On  No- 
vember twenty-ninth,  they  again  met,  and  'agreed  that  the  persons 
concerned  in  the  rate  division  of  the  ui)per  conimons  shall  be  drawne 
into  four  compaiiyes,  then  one  man  of  each  comi)any  shiiU  draw  in 
the  name,  and  for  the  said  company,  and  he  that  draweth  figtire  one 
that  comp;my  shall  have  theyr  proportions  first,'  and  so  on.'  '  Then 
every  man's  name  of  every  coi)i])any,  and  the  names  of  the  four 


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compaiiyes  shall  be  putt  into  four  several  bag£!;s,  and  the  committee 
choricn  to  l;iy  out  liic  said  rate  proportion  shall  tali(!  a  ])aper  out  of 
the  bag<(  belon^inij;  to  llie  lirsl  coniijany,  and  that  man's  name,  that 
first  comes  to  hand  shall  have  his  lott  lirst  laid  out  and  so  all  the  rest 
successively  until  the  whole  b'!  laid  out  and  so  lor  the  rest  of  the 
companyes.'  ^ 

December  Isf.  The  Irpeholders  ac^ain  met  and  voted,  that  'they 
would  bei^in  the  division  next  Mr.  John  (h-rrish's  farm  next  Brad- 
ford line,'  and  so  forth.  The  lots  were  accordingly  drawn,  and  the 
land  was  laid  out  by  'the  two  lott  layers,  namely  lieutenant  Tristram 
Collin  and  Henry  Short,'  and  thus  this  perplexing  business  was 
finally  settled,  in  perhaps  the  only  way  wiiicli  could  reconcile  the 
condicting  interests  and  opinions  of  tlie  gi'eat  majority  of  the  people. 

December  13//t.  A  committt-e  was  chosen  to  divide  eleven 
hundred  acres  of  the  lower  commons  into  live  general  pastures. 

December  20///.     Sir  Edmund  Andros  came  to  New  England. 

December  2lst.  The  commilteo  were  desired  to  '  measure  the 
old  towne  (-ommon  and  ])roporti()n  it  to  tlie  old  towue  men  and 
proportion  the  rest  of  the  land  adjafjut  to  the  rest  of  the  inhabi- 
tants in  the  same  proportion.'  '•;'■ 

It  may  not  here  be  im;)ropor  to  explain  the  dill'eronce  between  a 
'freeholders'  meeting,'  a  'freemen's  meeting,'  and  a  'town  meeting.' 

A  man  might  be  a  freeliolder  and  not  a  '  freeman,'  and  vice  versa. 
He  might  be  a  voter  in  town  rilairs,  ajid  yet  neither  be  a  freeholder 
nor  a  freeman.  A  freeman  was  one.  who  luid  taken  the  freeman's 
oath,  and  which  alonc^  entitled  him  to  vote  in  the  nomination  of 
magistrates,  choice  of  deputies,  alias  representatives.  A  freeholder 
was  on(!,  who  either  by  gnml,  [jurcliase,  or  inheritance,  was  enthled 
to  a  share  in  all  the  common  and  undivided  lands.  When  any 
town  oMicers  were  to  be  chosen,  or  money  raised  by  way  of  rate, 
all  the  inl)al)itants  could  vole,  'i'hus  w(^  sometimes  (ind  the  expres- 
sion, '  at  a  meeting  of  the  freemen,'  sometimes  '  a  meeting  of  the 
freehokhu's,'  or  'a  meeting  of  the  freeholders  and  propvi(>tors,'  or  'a 
meeting  of  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants,'  or  'a  generall  towne 
meeting,' and  sometimes  '  a  legiiU  towne  meeting.'  These  ex|)res- 
sions  always  indicate  the  nature  and  o])ject  of  the  meeting,  and 
were  necessary,  as  all  the  transactions  were  recorded  by  the  town 
clerk,  in  th(!  same  book.  In  this  y(>ar,  two  sets  of  books  began  to 
be  kept,  one  for  the  town,  and  one  for  the  proprietors,  and  were 
kept  se|)arate  till  the  tinal  s(Mtlement  of  the  proprietors'  concerns,  in 
the  sale  of  Plum  island  in  IS27.  To  the  division  of  the  land  in 
the  U])per  commons,  on  the  i)lan  pro])()sed,  many  W(M'e  opposed, 
.some  from  principle,  and  some  I'rom  interest.  The  division  was  at 
last  settled  by  a  comi)romise,  whi(>li  evinced  a  good  d(>al  of  man- 
agement, (piieting  the  non-freeholder,  and,  at  the  same  time,  (>nrich- 
ing  the  wealthy  I'recholder  at  tlie  expense  of  the  poorer  freehctlder. 
That  a  rich  freeholder  would  obtain  a  larger  share  by  consenting 

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that  the  rate-paying  non-freclioklors  should  share  with  him  accord- 
ing to  '  tiie  rule,'  is  midciit.  h'or  oxuiiipli-,  wore  one  hundred  and 
thirteen  acres  of  land  to  be  di\ided  amonsj:  the  fVeeholdi'rs  alone, 
each  would  have  an  acre  ;  l)ut  were  the  saui(>  amount  to  be  divided, 
one  half  among  the  freeholders,  and  the  olher  lialf  among  the  free- 
holdecs  and  rate  payers,  a  iVeelioldt>r  would  have  half  an  acre  on 
the  first  tlivision,  and  if  he  paid  a  sixteen  shillings  lax,  he  would 
obtain  eight  times  as  much  on  the  olher  half  as  a  freeholder  who 
only  paid  a  two  shillings  tax. 

November  2lst.  '  The  three  deacons  namely,  deacon  Nicholas 
Noyes,  deacon  Robert  Long  iuid  deacon  Tristram  CoHin  were  at 
the  request  of  \\w  selectmen,  chosen  standing  overseers  of  the  poore 
for  the  town  of  Newbury.' 

December  ht.  'Captain  Dimiel  Pierce  and  captain  Stephen 
Greenleaf  senior,  were  added  to  the  deacons  as  overseers  of  the 
poor,  and  that  any  three  of  ihem  shall  have  ])ower  to  make  a  valid 
act.'  *  The  town  also  engaged  '  to  ratify  and  eonhrm  whatsoever 
bargain  the  overs(>ers  of  the  poore  shall  make,  provided  alwayes 
that  they  do  iiot  engage  money.'  ^ 

December  I'Sf/t.  The  town  empowered  a  committee  'to  lay  out 
a  convenient  high  way  of  such  ])n'adtli  as  they  shall  see  meet  thro' 
the  plaines  to  sergeant  Emery's  mill.'-)^ 

'  The  first  range  of  lots  for  the  freeholders  began  at  sergeant  John 
Emery's  farm  [near  Ariichoke  river]  and  so  ran  up  IMerriinack  river 
unto  INIr.  .John  Gerrish's  Inrin  [near  or  adjoining  to  Bradford.'] 

The  committee,  consisting  of  Mr.  Daniel  Pierce,  with  Tristram 
CoiHn,  and  Henry  Hhort,  lot-layers,  laid  out  a  road  'four  rods  wide 
and  no  more  from  Artichoke;  riv(>r  to  lioweil's  brook  [now  Brown's 
spring]  and  thence  to  Eradiord  line.' ^ 

Joseph  Dudley  was  appointed  ])resident  of  IMassachusettr., 
Plynuiuth,  New  Hampshire,  and  .Maine,  with  a  council,  but  no 
house  of  representatives.  In  six  months  he  was  superseded  by 
sir  Edniund  Andros.  He  was  very  arbitrary  and  opjiressive.  Five 
only  of  the  councillors  joined  with  governor  Andros  in  his 
measures;  the  greater  part  refusing  to  act  with  him. 


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1687. 

Jammri/  ;'///,  lf;S7.  A  conunittee  was  appointed  'to  treat  with 
Peter  Cheney  about  settin:^  up  a  corne  mill  and  a  fulling  mill  upon 
the  Fulls  river,  and  to  treat  witli  Willijini  Moody  conCerning  his 
Indian  purchase  and  the  (piantity  of  land  he  clain'is  thereby,'^  and 
so  forth. 

Janiinri/  S///.  Town  gnuiled  :\Tr.  [D.]  Davison  a  'i)iece  of 
ground  twenty  foot  wide  nc\l  Mr.  Kichard  D()l(>'s  ware  house  grant 
and  thirty-five  foot  long  towards  (U)i-tor  Dole's  house,'  and  laid  it 
out  second  of  April. 

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Town  sent  a  petition  to  sir  Edmund  Andres,  knlglit,  praying 
him  to  appoint  and  empower  some  man  or  men  to  take  the 
acknowledgment  of  deeds,  and  give  oaths,  and  a  clerk  to  issue 
*  forth  all  needful  writs  and  warrants,  there  being  not  one  of  your 
excellencys  council  within  twenty  miles.' 

February  loth,  1687.  Peter  Cheney  ]>roposed  to  'build  and 
maintaine  a  good  suthcicnt  gi-ist  or  corn  mill  within  two  years,  and 
a  fulling  mill  within  three  yeares  at  ye  ui)per  falls,  and  to  full  ye 
towne's  cloth  on  the  same  terms  that  JMr.  John  Pearson  doth  full 
cloth,  and  resigu  up  his  interest  in  Little  river  on  condition  that  the 
town  give  him  fifty  acres  of  land  joyning  to  Falls'  river,'  ^  and  so 
forth,  wdiicli  the  towu  granted. 

March  2Sth.  The  town  granted  to  eleven  young  men,  '  liberty  to 
build  a  pew  in  the  hindmost  seat  in  the  gallery,  that  is  before  the 
pulpit.'  =^ 

October  ISth.  The  committee  chosen  by  the  town, '  agreed  with 
Mr.  Setli  Shove  to  be  ye  lattin  Schoolmaster  for  ye  town  of  New- 
bury for  the  present  year.' 

April  Q>th.  'A  warrant  was  granted  to  warnc  out  of  ye  towne 
Wm.  Nisbett,  Edw.  Badger  and  one  David  that  lives  at  JMr. 
Thurlos.'  ^ 

'  This  year  the  worms  did  much  mischief  in  the  summer,  eating 
up  trees,  grass  as  though  they  had  been  mown,  leaving  weeds.'  f 

October  2oth.  A  new  ferry  across  tlie  Merrimac  was  granted 
by  sir  Edmund  Andros,  to  captain  John  Murcli,  and  was  the  first 
ferry  granted  within  the  limits  of  wiiat  is  now  Newburyjjort.  It 
was  situated  just  where  it  is  now.  Tlie  first  was  granted  at  Carr's 
island,  and,  till  this  year,  had  monopolized  tlu^  whole  travel  of  the 
country,  from  the  mouth  of  the  river  to  Amesbury  ferry.  This 
grant  was  in  consequence  of  a  petition  sent  by  captain  March, 
September  twenty-third,  1687.  James  Carr  remonstrated  against 
it,  stating  that  '  the  first  bridge  at  Carr's  island  cost  more  than  three 
hundred  pounds,  that  the  ferry  at  (George  Carr's  death  was  worth 
near  four  huntlred  pounds  and  that  the  injury  to  him  by  March's 
ferry  was  fifty  or  sixty  pounds  a  year.'  Mr.  jNIarch,  in  a  letter  to  the 
town  of  Salisbury,  oliF(>red  to  bo  at  one  half  of  the  expense  of  mak- 
ing their  part  of  the  road  passal)lt.'  to  the  ferry. 

During  the  vacation  of  the  chart(>r,  and  the  tyrannical  adminis- 
tration of  Andros,  it  was  asserted  that  the  ])eople  had  no  title  to 
their  lands.  The  following  hotter  from  l\Tr.  Robert  jATason,  who,  in 
consequence  of  a  grant  to  his  father  from  the  council  of  Plymouth, 
before  the  settlement  of  Massachusetts,  claimed  all  the  land  from 
Naumkeag  river,  [Salem,]  to  JMorrimac,  will  be  read  >  ith  interest. 
JNIason  was  one  of  Andros's  council,  and  resided  at  Portsmouth, 
New  Hampshire. 


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'Great  Inland,  August  I3th,  1687. 

*  To  his  excellency  Edmund  Andros, 
'Sir, 
'  Your  excellency  may  please  to  remember  I  proposed  some  persons  as 
fitting  to  serve  his  majesty  in  the  town  of  Newbury  both  in  civil  and  military 
atiuirs.  In  my  return  to  tliis  place  I  had  discourse  with  several  persons,  the 
most  considerable  of  that  town,  that  by  want  of  justices  of  the  peace,  nothing 
hath  been  done  at  the  meeting  of  those  inhabitants  for  settling  the  rates  and 
other  concerns  of  the  publick.  Mr.  Woodbridge,  one  of  the  justices  is  very  an- 
cient and  crazy  and  seldom  goes  abroad.  Mr.  Dummer  the  other  justice  "lives 
six  miles  from  the  place  and  therefore  very  unlit  for  tliat  service  for  the  town  of 
Newbury,  besiides  his  other  qualites  in  not  being  of  the  loyal  party  as  he  ought 
to  be.  I  doe  therefore  intreat  of  your  excellency,  tliat  in  the  commission  of  the 
peace  my  two  friends,  Daniel  Pierce  .and  Nathaniel  Ckirke  may  be  put,  which  I 
assure  myself  will  bo  for  his  majesty's  service  and  to  your  excellency's  satisfac- 
tion. There  are  no  military  commissions  sent  to  that  place  and  therefore  I  doe 
entreat  your  excellency's  favour  that  commissions  be  sent  these  following  per- 
sons. Daniel  Davison,  captain  of  horse  for  Newbury  and  Rowley.  Stephen 
Greenleaf  junior  lieutenant.  George  March  cornet.  Of  the  fir.st  company 
Thomas  Noyes  captain,  Stephen  Greenleaf  senior  lieutenant,  James  Noyes 
ensign.  Of  the  second  company  Nathaniel  Clarke  captain,  Jolm  INIarch  lieuten- 
ant, Moses  Gerrish  ensign.  I  shall  desire  your  excellency  tliat  IVIr.  Davison 
may  have  his  commission  fust  for  raising  the  troops,  there  being  many  young 
men,  that  will  list  themselves  under  him.  if  not  before  listed  by  the  captain's 
foot.  He  is  very  well  beloved  and  I  presume  will  have  tiie  completest  troops 
in  the  country. 

'  I  shall  be  extream  glad  to  heare  of  my  good  lady's  safe  arrival,  which  so 
soon  as  I  shall  understand,  I  will  make  a  speedy  journey  lo  Boston  to  kiss  her 
hands.  I  came  last  night  to  this  place.  /  hope  all  things  will  go  easy  so  that  I 
may  have  no  occasion  of  using  the  former  seventies  of  the  laxo  against  my  tenants. 
I  had  rather  see  them  rich  than  poor.  I  humbly  kiss  your  excellency's  hands 
and  am  Your  excellency's  servant 

Robert  Mason.' 


1688. 


Jannary  26th.  John  Woodbridge,  esquire,  and  eight  others,  sent 
in  a  written  prostestation  '  against  the  injurious  and  unreasonable 
dealing  of  some  invading  and  disposing  of  the  town's  commons, 
which  (as  they  suppose)  they  have  no  right  nor  authority  to  do,' 
and  so  forth,  and  'demanded  that  whatso(>ver  is  already  done  to  the 
dividing  and  impropriating  our  commons  may  be  made  void  and 
nulled,'  and  so  forth. 

The  town  granted  '  their  interest  in  the  stream  of  the  little  river 
to  the  mouth  of  it  where  it  vents  into  the  great  river  to  Henry  Short 
to  build  a  grist  mill  upon  for  the  towne's  use,  provided  he  build  it 
within  one  year,  and  if  he  do  not  build  within  one  year  he  is  to  pay 
five  pounds  and  the  towne  to  have  thi-yr  interest  in  the  stream 


agame.'  ^ 
'11 


This  summer,  the  people  of  INTassachuselts,  in  addition  to  the 
grievances,  which  they  sulfered  under  the  tyraimical  administration 
of  sir  Edmund  Andros,  were  again,  after  a  twelve  y(!ars'  resj)ite, 
afflicted  with  the  horrors  of  an  Indian  war.  It  was  called  Castine's 
war  from  the  baron  de  saint  Castine,  a  Frenchman,  who  had  mar- 


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Tied  a  dauijlitcr  of  Madocliawando,  the  Penobscot  chief,  and  whose 
house,  in  hi.s  ab.seiic(>,  had  been  phmdered  ])y  the  J<h!f,'Hsh.  Tlie 
Canadian  French  also  united  with  liie  Indians  in  liieirdeprcnhitions, 
which  were  continued  at  intervals  till  IGfKS.  Notwithstandin<<  ali 
the  diliicullies,  under  wliicli  the  people  labored,  they  were,  in  ju;ene- 
ral,  very  patient  under  the  '  new  government.'  *  There  were,  how- 
ever, a  few  exceptions.  '  One  John  Gould  was  tried,  convicted 
and  fined  lifly  pounds  for  treasonable  Avords.'  The  reverend  John 
Wise  and  Mr.  John  Appleton,  of  Jpswich,  were  imprisoned  for 
remonstrating  against  the  taxes  as  a  heavy  grievance.^ 

Caleb  Moody  of  Newbury  was  imprisoned  and  Joseph  Bayley 
put  under  bonds  of  two  hunVlr(!d  pounds  to  answer  for  an  alleged 
oHence,  which  is  best  related  in  i>Ioody's  ovv'n  words. 

'  Caleb  Moody  of  Newbury  a<,'ed  fifty-two  years  testifyelh  that  some  time  in 
January  IfiSS  Joseph  Baylie  of  yt;  satno  lovvne  gave  me  a  paper,  which  lie  told 
me  he  had  taken  up  in  the  king's  highway,  the  title  of  it  was, 

'  New  England  alarmed, 

To  rise  and  be  armed, 

Let  not  papist  you  cliarme, 

I  mean  yon  no  harme,'  and  so  fortli. 

'  The  purport  of  the  paper  was  to  give  notice  to  the  people  of  the  danger  they 
v.'ere  in,  being  under  the  sad  circumstances  of  an  arbitrary  government,  sir  Ed- 
mund Andros  havinir  about  one  thousand  of  our  souldiers,  as  1  was  informed, 
prest  out  of  the  Massachusetts  colony  and  carried  with  him  to  the  eastwaril 
under  pretence  of  destroyinix  our  enemy  Indians  (althoiiiili  not  one  Indian  kiUed 
by  them  that  I  lieard  of  at  that  time.)  We  hatl  no  watching  nor  wardinir  at  our 
towne  by  order  of  those  yt  sir  Ethnund  pat  in  commai.d  there.  Justice  Wood- 
bridue  and  Justice  Epps  sent  me  a  warrant  ti;  lirinir  a  paper  that  was  in  mv 
hands,  vhich  I  ilid,  and  told  them  I  received  the  paper  from  Joseph  Baylie,  who 
owned  ii  lo  them,  whereupon  I  was  cleared,  'Uid  they  bound  saiti  Joseph  Baylie 
in  ii  boiii  of  two  hundred  pounds  to  answer  it  at  Salem  court  ye  lifth  of  March 
following  and  they  took  me  for  his  bondsman.  Nutwithstaudlm,'  ihi.s,  about  a 
week  after  the  sai'l  justices  by  a  warrant  brought  me  before  them  and  then 
comrnitted  me  to  Salem  jirison  (though  I  prolfered  ym  bayle)  they  would  not 
take  it  but  I  was  to  be  safely  kept  to  answer  what  should  be  charged  auaiust  me 
upon  the  king's  account  for  publishinij-  a  scandahiiis  and  seditious  Ivbell.  After 
I  had  been  in  prison  a  whole  week  then  judue  Palmer  and  ;Mr.  (hayham,  ye 
kinu's  attorney  came  to  Salem  and  examined  me  and  conlined  me  to  close  im- 
prisonment ordering  that  neither  my  friends,  or  aciiuaintance  nor  fellow-prisoners 
to  come  to  me,  whicii  continued  for  about  a  week's  time,  and  then  jndi:e  P.  and 
Mr.  G.  came  againe,  and  said  G.  sent  for  me,  and  after  sonu;  discourse  he  refused 
any  bayle,  but  committed  me  to  close  prison,  and  after,  Charles  Redford,  the  high 
sheriff',  came  to  prison  and  told  Joseph  IJaylie  and  myself  that  he  had  orders ''to 
examine  us,  and  to  put  a  new  miltimus  upon  us  and  charge  us  with  treason,  and 
the  time  came  when  the  court  should  have  simt  to  try  us  and  there  was  no  court. 
Afterwards  there  came  news  of  ye  happy  arrival  and  good  success  of  ye  prince 
of  Orauije,  now  kinu  of  Eniiiaud.  and  then  by  ])etitionini,'  [  got  bavle.  The 
time  of  my  nr.prisonmcnt  was  about  live  weeks,  and  I  doe  judge  my  ilamma>'e 
one  way  and  another  was  about  forlv  pounds. 

Boston  Nov.-  Eniiiaud.  Januiuy  niiuh,  l()8<)-f)().'t 

'Caleb  ]\h)ody  ap|)eared  ])ersonaliy  January  ninth,  lfi89-90  and  gave  evidence 
upon  oath  of  the  trutli  of  the  above  written  befor(!  mo 

S.\MUEL   Appr.F.TON 
Assistant  for  ye  colony  of  ye  Massachu.setts 
bay  in  New  England.' 

*  Hutchinson.  f  Colonial  files. 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


151 


The  '  Olio  thousand  souldicrs,'  mentioned  by  IMoody  in  the  pre- 
ceding statt-moiit,  wiT(!  in  I'ucl  only  seven  or  eight  hundred,  wlioin 
governor  Andros  had  inipressed,  and  marched  at  their  heail  in  the 
eastern  eountry  in  November,  a  'measure  univ(>rsally  eoniieinned,' 
as  'not  an  Indian  was  Itilied,'  and  'many  of  the  soldiers  di<!d  with 
hardships.'  'I'he  names  of  lhos(!  impressed  by  his  order  from  New- 
bury, November,  1()HN,  wen;,  captain  John  March,  C'iiarU's  Stuart, 
Benjamin  (roodridge,  William  Goodridge,  John  Cram,  Joseph 
Short,  Edward  (ioodwin. 

In  the  January  following,  Giles  Mills,  Nicholas  Cheney,  Jacob 
Parker,  John  Riciiards,  and  Andrew  Stickney,  were  imj)ressed. 

Joseph  Moring,  a  soldi(>r,  in  his  will,  dated  November  fifth,  16^<S, 
says,  '  I  give  to  the  'new  town'  in  Newbury  twenty  ])ounds  to  help 
build  a  meeting  house,  if  lli()if  do  btdid  one,'\i  they  do  not  build  one, 
then  I  give  twenty  pounds  towards  rebuilding  or  rej)airing  the 
meeliug-house  that  is  now  standing  in  Newbury.' 

In  Richard  Bartlet's  old  aeeouiU  book  1  fm(l,^in  1689,  tht>  follow- 
ing. 'Bought  boards  and  shingles  and  nails  for  the  me<'ling  house.' 
The  west  parish  meeiing-house  was  therefore  built  in  1()S9. 


1G89. 

For  ;lie  last  three  years,  there  is  nothing  of  interest  to  be  found  on 
the  town  records.  The  reason  of  this,  proi)ably,  is,  that  nothing  of 
consequence  was  done.  Under  the  tyraimical  and  arbitrary  govern- 
ment of  Andros,  the  j)eople  were  kept  mider  great  restraint. 

'  Every  town  was  suH'ered  to  nie(>t  once  a  year  to  choose  their 
officers,  but  all  meetings  at  other  times  or  for  other  purposes,  were 
strictly  forbidden.'  ^f= 

The  body  of  the  peojjle,  who  had  borne  with  girat  patience  the 
tyranny  of  Andros's  administration,  were  determined  to  bear  it  no 
longer.  On  Thursday,  the  eighte(>nth  of  April,  tlu>  inhabitants  of 
Boston  and  the  vicinity  's(>ized  and  conlined  tlu>  governor  and  such 
of  the  council,  as  had  been  most  active,  and  other  obnoxious  per- 
sons and  reinstated  the  old  magistrates.'  ^  Some  went  from  New- 
bury. Among  them  was  Sanmel  Bartlet,  a  staunch  friend  of  lib- 
erty, a  very  facetious  but  decided  man.  '  He  was  a  basket  maker, 
fuller  and  farmer.  On  th(^  first  intimation  of  any  dilliculty,  he 
armed  himself,  mounted  his  horse,  and  so  rapid,  it  is  said,  was  his 
flight  to  Boston,  that  his  long  rusty  sword,  trailing  on  the  gi-ound, 
left,  as  it  eam(>  in  contact  with  tin-  stones  in  the  road,  a  stream  of 
fire  all  the  way.  He  arrived  in  season  to  assist  in  imprisoning  the 
governor.'  f 

The  following  is  the  first  article  on  the  records  for  this  year. 

'  il/r/// ()///.  The  committee  of  safety  in  Boston  having  desired 
us  to  send  a  man  or  men  for  consulting  with  them  what  may  be 

*  Hutchinson. 

t  Interleaved  almanacs  of  the  late  honorable  Bailey  Bartlet,  esquire,  Haverhill. 


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HISTORY    CF   NEWBURY. 


best  for  the  conservation  of  the  pcaco  of  the  country.  Our  inhabi- 
tants being  met  tliis  sixth  day  of  May  1689  have  chosen  captain 
Tiionias  Noyes  and  lieutenant  Stephen  Greenh'af  senior  for  the 
end  al'or(!said,'  and  on  May  twentieth  the  inhabitants  of  the;  town 
met  for  consuhation,  and  among  otiicr  things  declared  that  being  '  in 
full  expecttUion  of  enlargeuKMit  of  privilege  and  lil)erty  of  choyce  for 
the  future,'  they  'give  their  consent  to  the  freemen  of  the  towne  to 
make  choyee  of  the  governor,  deputy  governor,  and  assistants  to  be 
our  lawful  authority.'  It  was  therefore  voted '  by  \\w  towne  and  by 
the  I'reenien,'  w  itii  only  two  dissenting  votes,  that  the  charter  should 
be  reassumcd,  though  nothing  had  then  been  heard  from  I'iUgland. 
On  May  twenty-sixth,  news  arrived  at  Hoston  l!uit  William  and 
Mary  had  been  proclaimed  king  and  queeji  of  England.  '  This,' 
says  Ilulehinson,  '  was  the  most  joyful  news  ever  received  in  New 
England.' 

Jii/ij  l.s7.  Town  desired  '  for  the  present  exigence  to  have  all  the 
military  olPicers,  that  were  in  commission  May  twelfth  IGHG,'  to  be 
reinstated. 

'  Also  we  desire  and  empower  the  said  committee  of  militia  to 
appoint  so  many  houses  to  be  fortified  among  us  as  they  shall  see 
cause  and  to  proj)or1i()n  so  many  families  to  each  fortilieation  ac- 
cording to  theyr  discretion.' 

Aug-Hsf,  22d.  '  Brig  Merrimack  of  Newbury,  captain  John  Kent, 
was  captunnl  by  pirates  in  Martin  Vineyard  sound.' 

August  2\th.  The  governor  and  council  and  representatives 
desired  the  town  of  Newbury  to  raise  a  '  subscription  for  a  loan  of 
money,  goods  and  provisions  for  the  carrying  on  of  the  Indian  war.' 
The  town,  '  in  answer  thereunto,'  say,  '  it  is  our  desire  to  maintaine 
ye  soldiers  of  our  own  towne  as  to  provision  and  wages.'  * 

Scptcmbrr  2\)tl.  Samuel  Sayer  was  licensed  by  the  court  to  sell 
victuals  and  drink,  living  conveniently  by  the  road  to  Bradford  and 
Haverhill.' 

December  2-5t/i.  Peter  Cheney  was  allowed  one  year  longer  to 
finish  his  fulling  mill. 

December  26///.  '  The  towne;  granted  all  theyr  right,  title  and 
interest  in  the  stream  of  the  little  river  to  Henry  Short  so  long  as 
he  shall  build  and  maintaine  a  sutficient  come  mill,'  and  so  i'orlli. 

Sometime  this  year,  the  first  meeting-house  in  the  west  end  of 
the  town  was  erected.  It  was  about  thirty  feet  square,  and  was 
built  at  the  cost  and  charge  of  sixteen  persons.  It  stood  on  what 
is  called  '  the  plains.' 

16  90. 

Februanj  2ofli.  '  Divers  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  new  towne; 
having  made  a  proposition  unto  ye  towne  in  order  to  their  calling 
of  a  minister  amongst  them, 


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153 


'The  towno  considorinj;  lio  irr<^nt  woiylit  (»f  nu-h  a  thini»  nnd  yt 
snch  (111  iiU'iiyrc  miiy  lie  ('«ily  coiisidcrcd  liic  lowiic  liiivc  (U.'.sirt-tl  [a 
coiiutiittcn  of  ci;,'!!!  pcrMotisI  to  ;i(lvi^c  \\]\h  yo  ivvcrerid  Mr. 
RirliardHoii  nboiil  flic  siiid  proposition  iuid  to  flniw  up  such  pro- 
poHids  to  tho  next  nifctiii^  of  ihc  town.-  iis  ilic\  mIiuII  iliinii  Miay 
best  condiiro  to  pciicc  thiU  tin*  towiic  may  coiisidrr  Cartlicr  of  it.'* 

Marc/i  'M  'I'hc  conmiiticc  waited  on  .Mr.  Ridinrdsoii,  wlio 
dccliiiccl  tjivins- 'advicr  on  tiic  oiu"  side  or  ilic  oiht-r,  knowing  lie 
must  of  ncccrtsily  give  oU'ciicp.'  The  coinniiltco  roported,  'that 
considcriiiir  the  times  as  trouble ome,  and  the  towne  being  so  mneh 
behind  \vilh  Mr.  Riehaidson's  salary,  the  farmers  and  the  node 
men  being  under  greater  disadvantages  upon  many  aceonnts  do 
desire  and  expeet.  if  sneh  a  thing  be  granted  that  ih.-v  should  have 
the  same  pri\ileg(.  \v.  provi.le  for  themselves,  wliieh  we  think  can- 
not  conduee  to  peace,  therefore  desire  the  new  Unviie  to  rest  satis- 
fied for  the  present."  * 

^Miirch  Kino.  The  eommiltei'  of  \e\vl)urv  appoint  the  liouso  of 
Mr.  Abraham  Merrill  (o  be  a  garrison  house  and  request  him  with 
all  convenient  speed  to  fortify  his  house. 

Danfim,   Pii;ncE  Captain.^ 

March  XUJi.  At  this  meeting,  fifteen  men,  l)elonging  to  the 
west  end  of  the  town,  after  stating  that  'it  was  well  known  how 
far  they  had  proceeded  as  to  a  meeting  lions(>,'  left  two  propositions 
with  the  town,  one  that  tlie  iown  would  agree  to  support  two  min- 
isters, so  that  one  could  jireacli  'at  the  west  meeting  house,'  or  (hat 
the  town  would  consent  to  have  the  •  ministrv  amongst  them  upon 
their  own  cliarii:e  and  that  the  town  would  lovingly  agree  upon  a 
dividing  line  between  them  that  so  thev  miylit  know  what  families 
may  now  belong  to  the  west  meeting  house,'  and  so  forth. 

This  year,  isaac^lorrill.  a  native  of  New  J(>rsey,  came  to  New- 
bury, to  enliee  Indians  and  negroes  to  leave  their  masters  and  go 
with  him,  saying  dial  Ihr  ICinj^-lish  should  he  rut  o/f,  ,n>il  Uw  iicoroes 
should  hr  firr.  [je  was  arrested  May  Iwemv-niulh,  l»i(H),  and  sent  to 
Ipswich  lor  trial.  What  was  the  result  of  his  examination,  I  have 
not  ascertained.  Their  intention  was  to  take  a  vessel  out  of  the  dock 
at  Newbury,  and  go  for  Canada  and  join  the  Fretich  against  the 
English,  and  come  down  upon  the  ba(-kside  of  th(>  country  and  save 
none  but  the  negroes  and  Iiiflians.  They  intended  to  (-ome  with 
four  or  fiv(>  hundred  Indians,  and  three  lu'mdred  Canadians,  betAveen 
Haverhill  and  Amesbury.  over  -Merrimac  river,  near  '  Indian  river 
by  Archelaus'  hill  on  the  backside  of  .Foliii  Emery's  meadow  and 
destroy,  and  then  they  might  easily  destroy  such'  small  towns  as 
Ilaverhill  and  Amesbury.  Morrill ".-^aid  that  he  had  vi(>w(>d  all  the 
garrisons  in  the  country  and  that  captain  Gerrisli  .s  was  the 
strongest.'  f 

The  i)ersons  imi)licatcd  in  this  scheme  to  obtain  their  inalienable 


*  Town  records. 

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HISTORY    OF    NKWnURY. 


riplits,  wore  .Tiiincs,  ji  ncjL'ro  sliivc  of  Mr.  R.  Dok",  and  Joacpli, 
Indian  slave  of  Air.  AhHxIy. 

(Ji'or;,'!'  iNFajiir,  a  .Jcrst-ynian,  was  also  iniplicaft'd.  Ifow  many 
nhivi's,  lixlian  and  AlVican,  tln'rc  wcro  at  this  linio  in  Nt'whnry,  wi" 
havo  no  means  of  iiscertainini(.  'I'lie  innnlxT  was  |)rol)al»ly  small, 
as  i^overnor  llr  idslreiM,  in  a  letter  dated  May  nineteenth,  Ki^O,  to 
the  lords  of  the  privy  coimeil,  says  anions^  oilier  things,  '  now  and 
tlien  Iwo  or  thriu*  neiijroes  in'e  hroiii^lil  hither  from  Harhadoes.  In 
onr  fifovernmeiit  [Massaelinselts]  altont  one  hunilnul  and  twenty  in 
all.' 

Fifteen  soldiers  were  sent  frtirn  Newhnry  to  Sallsl)nry,  Ainesbu- 
ry,  and  Haverhill,  April  twelfth, 

Ajiril  .ix/'i.  Sir  VV'illiani  I'liipps,  with  a  lleet  of  eii^ht  small  ves- 
sels, sailed  against  l*t)rt  lloyal,  [now  Annapolis,]  which  he  took 
'with  little  or  no  resistance,'  and  reiurne<l  the  thirtieth  of  Alay.  His 
sneeess  enconraij[e(l  the  court  to  atlenipt  the  accpiisition  of  Canada, 
which  after  much  expense  and  loss  of  men  proved  a  total  failnro, 
which  occasioned  so  i,'n>at  an  e\p(Mise  as  to  ind>ic<>  the  government 
to  issne  hills  of  credit  from  two  shillings  to  ten  pounds'  denomina- 
tion. The  soldiers  were  great  sutl'erers  by  this  paper  money,  the 
first  seen  in  New  England. 

The  situation  ol'  Xewlmry  during  the  present  Indian  war  maybe 
in  part  ascertained  by  the  following  order,  which  is  similar  to  the 
one  passed  in  llilW. 


AtiffHst  7th.  '  These  am  in  his  majosty's  namo  to  requiro  all  the  soliliors  bo- 
lonijjiriijr  to  this  towuo  to  hriii!,''  tlicir  aims  and  ammunition  to  ye  moetinir  honso 
evary  sabotli  day  and  at  all  other  pnhlii'k  nifi'tini/s,  and  also  tlicv  ar  it'(|iiirt'd  to 
cany  their  arms  nnd  anMnimilion  with  tluin  into  meadows  and  places,  where 
they  worke.  and  it  any  man  doe  retnse  or  ncudcct  his  dinvty  as  above  expressed 
he  shai  pay  five  shiilinus  tor  every  such  m'ij;lt'ct.  * 

Dwit:.,  I'iKKiK,  caiilain,  Jona.  ]Mookes,  lieutenant, 

TiKi.MAS    \ov  i:'^,  captain.  Juon  'I'oim'an,  ensign, 

Srci'it.  Gkkk.nleak,  captain,      11i;nuv   Somkiiuv.' 

Tith)  X^th.  *  .Tohn  IMtircli  is  appointed  a  ciiptiiin  of  one  of  the 
companies  for  the  Canada  expedition,  and  ordi'red  to  enlist  a  com- 
pany mider  him.' 

The  following  letter  from  Nathaniel  Saltonstall,  escpiire,  may  not 
be  unintcrestijig.     It  is  from  Robert  Adams's  mtumscripts. 


M 


'Haverhill  Aiia:u.it  2Qtli,  1690. 
'  Captain  Xoyos, 

'  After  you  were  irono  beinij  thon'.'htfull  how  yourself  and  the  reot 
with  yon  la>t  niulit  would  iret  home.  T  heiran  to  have  sonn'  luipcs  coucernini^ 
you.  because  1  did  not  liciievc  your  dinners  would  Iv  upon  your  stomadis  so  as 
to  indispose  you  in  riding'  unless  in  vexation  for  the  want  of  one  :  there  heini,'  a 
common  sayini;- :  a  man  after  a  iiood  dinner  is  most  airy  and  most  agile  and 
readie  for  riding  or  such  kind  of  imoloyments. 

'James  Sanders  just  now  promisinJ  me  to  call  for  this   letter,  which  incloses 


*  Robert  All 


UIH 


niaiui.scnpl) 


HISTORY  OF  NEwnunv. 


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ye  pnpprn,  yt  oro  to  bo  impmvtul  y.>  noxt  loftiim  iliiy  about  Jononh  Bn\\vv  and 
Jolin  V\mm>.  I  j     j 

'•  Kail  not  of  ffivinu  nio  ii  line  accoiint  ol  y.Mir  inatia^rcmciil  ot  yo  mutter,  ami 

now  It  CDiiicM  JMHt  mill  my  miiul  to  propcHc  to  ixi  tor  yoar   larilirr  pioc ,|iii"- 

iind  it  yoii  act  acconliiiiily  licirlo  it  shall  bi-  owned  by  ine  iiotwilliHtandiii"  ilin 
1,-tiue  iiiade  ;  wliicli  w  ill  willieiit  diiubt  lidly  be  kiiowii  to  all  your  peonl.'  ""  It  in 
IliH,  it  yo  .said  Joseph  or  Jdliii  do  carry  it  Nubmissively  aii(r;:ivo  you  lliereby 
ground  to  hope  that  iheir  eonh'ssion  wiis  Irom  ye  heart,' whicii  I  lor  soro..  reason 
account  so  to  be,  yon  tnay  tell  them  yon  will"  venture  to  stop  ihoir  pnl.ii(iiio 
appearance  on  ye  l.-ctme  day  ;  which  if  tiiey  afterward  run  into  ye  like  evils 
will  bo  a  ;.'reat  airirravalion  of  their  faull. 

'  I  will  l(dl  yoM.  I''()rmi'rly  when  I  had  prosecntod  Roveral  lor  ollences  in  yo 
held  at  court  too,  and  jud-nient  '^iveii  tor  ideir  opi'n  confession  at  ye  head  of  yo 
company,  I  did  abate  it  and  I  found  I  did  not  olleud  ye  court,  but  en"a"ed  Vo 
person  to  civiliiy  and  thankfulness.  "  "  o       j 

[  }l'" ,'""  ''"^''  ''  I"""'"''''  "'"""  y  '  '""V  know  wliut  I  have  to  do. 
If  they  or  either  of  them  be  insolent  let  not  them  or  him,  yt  is  no,  bo  abated 
of  ye  lull  extent  ot  whiit  is  written  iu  \e  jiidirmeiil. 

'  <Jiye  a  little  assistance  to  James  Sanders  to  obtain  my  Icttre,  which  brothor 
Uooilbriilire  writes  mo  word  he  sent  lon^;  since  by  major  Davison,  I  siippo-e  it 
wa.satyt  lime  wh.'ii- Clark  had  y. to  -j.-lt  a  canonical  auricular  con- 
lessor  for  himself  and  family. 

'  Present  my  service  to  ytl  lady  Noyes,  and  ye  major  tlie  ('****  Mr  Rich- 
ardson, and  aiiv  one  tdse,  who  will  send  me  "a  cheap  freight  of  -rood  hay,  I 
euro  not  how  cheap.     Bohovo  it,  sir,  and  yt  I  am  your  .servant, 

N,  Saltonstall.' 

October.  '  Ciipfaiii  Stephen  (Jrepiilejif,  lietxtenant  James  Sniilh, 
rnsif^ii  Williiiiii  Lon^lenow  M-rjciint  liicreiise  Pilshiiry,  Williiuii 
JMitelicIl,  Jiibez  Miiso;r;iye  iif  Aewhiirv  unci  lour  more"  \vere  cast 
awav  iiiul  drowned  at  (.'ape  Jirelon.'  *^ 

Of  .labe/  .^rusirrave.  mciilioned  above,  ]\rather,  in  his  Ilemarka- 
abh's,  thus  speaiss  in  1()S|. 

'  Remarkable  also  was  that  ^vhi(•h  hiippened  to  Jahe/  ]\[ns<,n-ave 
of  Newbury,  who  beini,'  shot  by  an  Indian  [in  Kwli]  tiie  bnllet  en- 
tered  iu  at  his  ear  iind  went  out  at  liis  eye;  on  the  other  sidc^  of  his 
head,  yet  tlie  mau  was  jjreserved  irom  cieatli  yea  and  stijl  is  iu  the 
laud  of  the  liviuij;.' 

iMusjrrav(>  was  one  of  ilie  si.xteen  soldiers  from  Newbury,  who 
vohmteered  to  ^'o  in  this  disastrous  exiiediiion. 

This  year,  major  K(d)ert  Pike,  of  Salisbury,  thus  writes: 

'  CajMaiu  I'ieree,  eajMain  Noye.s  eaplaiu  ('ireenleaf,  and  lietilen- 
ant  INFoores  with  the  rest  of  the  ireutleinen  of  Newbury,  whoso 
assistanee  next  under  (iod  was  the  means  of  the  preservation  of  our 
towns  of  Sali.-ibury  and  Amesbury  iu  the  day  of  our  distress  by 
the  assaults  of  iht;  enemy. 

'  First  J  ^iv(!  you  my  Jiearly  thanks  for  your  readiness  to  adv(>u- 
ture  yourselves  in  that  service,  as  always  you  havci  been  ready  to 
do  and  so  forth. 

'  Second,  to  re(|uesl  the  like  favour  of  you  upon  the  like  occasion, 
if  any  such  be  olfered. 

'  Third,  that  no  (li(nl,\  whicli  is  common  pay  iu  the  country,  may 


■  f 


*  Judge  Sevvall's  diary. 


t '  1  hne  a  sriuil  liraid  sword. 
I  '11  take  ilitnls  fiae  luickuly.'    .Bio jiji. 


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hinder  any  advised  man  from  doing  thayr  duty,  which  is  the  advice 
that  I  give  1o  myself,  which  you  cuinot  bnl  thnik  have  and  shall  have 
as  much  (hint  as  I  can  bear,'  and  so  i'ortli. 

Captain  John  March  and  JNIis.  Ann  White  were  this  year  licensed 
as  innholdcrs. 

This  year,  Essex  soldiers  were  divided  into  three  regiments. 


1G91  . 

March  10///.  The  selectmen  were  desired  to  take  care  that  per- 
sons infected  with  the  small  pox  should  be  confined,  and  that  their 
'families  should  not  suH'cr,  if  they  wore  thems(>lvcs  unable.'^ 

3Liij  I'Sth.  '  The  town  voted  that  from  this  lime  forward  the 
moderator  shall  be  chosen  by  papers,  and  that  it  shall  not  be  in  the 
power  of  any  moderator  to  adjourn  a  towne  meeting  but  by  vote  of 
the  towne.'  ^ 

'  The  town  grants  Mr.  Scth  Shove  thirty  pounds  for  the  year 
ensuing,  provided  he  will  be  our  schoolmaster  and  so  forth  as  fol- 
lovveth  namely  to  teach  readers  free,  Latin  scholars  sixpence  per 
week,  writers  and  cypherers  fourpence  jjer  week,  to  keep  the  school 
one  third  part  of  the  y(>ar  at  the  iirKkllc  of  the  new  towne,  one  third 
part  at  the  school  house,  and  the  other  third  part  about  middle  W'ay 
between  the  nuMMing  house  and  oldtown  ferry.'  ^^ 

June  ^Isf.  'Vhc  oliicers  of  the  two  militia  companies  issued  an 
order  to  Henrv  Short,  recpiiring  him  'in  his  majesties  name  to  take 
care  of  his  watch  every  night.'  They  wer(>  fifty-one  in  all.  'They 
are  alike  reijuired  1o  come  to  yom'  house  to  take  their  charge.  You 
are  to  order  them  to  go  to  (Jeorge  Little's  garrison,  and  there  one  of 
them  is  to  keep  his  post  all  the  night.  The  rest  are  to  walk  three 
in  a  night  1o  tlie  mill  i)ri(i<re.  and  Ivom  thciice  to  Anthony  ^Morse's 
house  and  elsewhere  according  to  your  direction.  The  numlier  of 
men  belonging  to  your  cju-e  and  charge  are  vmder  express,'  and  so 
forth,  and  so  forth. 

Jti/i/  lAl/i.  '  Th(>  towne  luulerstanding  that  several  of  the  inhab- 
itaiUs  of  new  lov.  ne  are  about  calling  of  Mr.  [Edward]  Toinpson 
to  be  their  mimster,  the  1own<'  did  by  vote  manifest  their  dislike 
against  it,  or  against  any  other  minister,  whom  they  should  call, 
until  ye  church  and  towne  are  agreed  upon  it,  looking  upon  such  a 
thing  to  be  an  intrusion  upon  ye  cimrcli  iuid  towne.' 

Anrcnst  t2Ls7.  The  commissioner  with  the  selectmen  states  the 
number  of  ralalile  polls  to  be  two  hundred  and  fifty. 

Ocfoher.  Several  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  west  end  of  the  town 
petitioned  the  giMieral  conrt  '  to  i)e  estat)lislied  a  peo|)le  by  them- 
selves for  the  maintenance  of  the  ministry  lunonii:  them.' 

Dccpmhrr.  'J'he  town  did  by  vote  marnfest  themselves  '  against 
the  new  town  having  their  iietition  graiUed,'  aiul  chose  a  committee 
to  present  a  counter  petition  to  the  general  court. 

*  Town  recorc's. 


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This  year  Newbury  was  allowed  by  the  general  court  to  have 
anolher  house  of  entertainment. 


1692. 

In  February  of  this  year,  commenced  the  witchcraft  delusion, 
which,  for  a  lon^  time,  occasioned  so  much  terror,  distress,  and 
sufll'ering,  in  several  towns  in  IMassachusetts.  It  originated  in  Salem 
village,  now  Danvers,  in  the  family  of  the  reverend  Samuel  Parris, 
whose  '(laugliter  and  niece,  girls  of  ten  or  eleven  years  of  age,  and 
two  other  girls  in  ihe  neighborhood,  began  to  act  very  strangely, 
appeared  to  fall  into  fits,  would  creep  into  holes,  under  benches  and 
chairs,'  put  themselves  into  odd  postures,  and,  as  the  physicians  who 
examined  them  could  give  no  satisfactory  name  to  their  apparent 
disorder,  and  probably  feeling  that  he  must  say  something,  one  of 
them  very  gravely  pronounced  ihem  hewUched.  From  this  begin- 
ning, originating  in  fraud  and  imposture,  and  continued  by  the 
grossest  superstition  and  ignorance,  combined  with  great  fear,  for 
no  one  was  safe,  arose  those  aci  tsations  and  'prosecutions  of  the 
people,  under  the  notion  of  witches,  whereby  twenty  suHered  as 
evil  doers,  (besides  tlios(>  that  died  in  prison,)  about  ten  more 
condemned,  a  hundred  imprisoned,  and  about  two  hundred  more 
accused,  and  the;  country  generally  in  fears,  when  it  would  come 
their  tm-n  to  be  accused.'  ^  In  the  language  of  the  reverend  Charles 
W.  Upham,  '  all  the  securities  of  society  were  dissolved.  Every 
man's  life  was  at  the  mercy  of  every  other  man.  Fear  sat  on  every 
countenance;  terror  and  distress  were  in  all  hearts;  silence  pervaded 
the  streets;  many  of  the  jjeople  left  the  country;  all  business  was 
at  a  stand,  and  th(>  feeling,  dismal  and  horrible  indeed,  became 
general,  that  the  providence  of  (Jod  was  removetl  from  them,  and 
that  they  were  given  over  to  the  dominion  of  Satan.' f  From  this 
awful  scourg(%  Newbury  was  wholly  exempt,  though  we  have 
abundant  evidence,  that  the  inhabitants  participated  in  the  almost 
universal  belief,  that  witchcraft  was  a  reality.  It  was  a  fault  of 
the  age,  from  which  the  luost  pious,  and,  in  other  respects,  learned 
men,  were  not  free.  Sir  .Matthew  Hale  was  a  firm  believer  in 
witchcraft,  and  the  celebrated  Richard  Baxter,  in  a  preface  to  one 
of  Cotton  .Alatlier's  sernu)iis,  on  a  case  of  supposed  witchcraft, 
declares,  'that  this  instance  comes  with  such  convincing  evidence, 
that  he  nmst  l)e  an  obstinate  Sadducee,  who  will  not  believe  it.'  It 
is  well  observed  i)y  goxeriior  Hutchinson,  that  'in  all  ages  of  the 
world,  superstitious  credulity  has  produced  greater  cruelty  than  is 
practised  among  tlie  Hottentots,  or  other  nations  whose  belief  of  a 
deity  is  called  i.i  (|uesti()ii.' 

Miircli.     Several  of  the  west  end  people,  again  made  a  petition 
and  proposition  about  calling  a  minister. 


V. 


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*  Robert  Calef. 


t  Lectures  on  witchcraft. 


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HISTORY   OF    NEWBURY. 


Ma  If  iAth.  Sir  William  Phipps  arrived  at  Boston,  with  the  new 
charter  for  the  IMassaehusetts  ))r<)vince. 

Julij  14///.  Tlianiisgiviug  apj)ohited  on  aceount  of  peace,  the 
charter,  and  so  forth. 

November  Is/.  By  special  order  of  Sir  William  Phipps,  twelve 
soldiers  were  sent  from  Newbury  to  Haverhill. 

December  VSth.  Town  ordered  that  '  whosoever  shall  build  any 
vessels  on  the  towne  common  shall  i)ay  to  the  town  threepence  per 
ton  for  the  use  of  llie  building  yard,  lliat  they  shall  improve.'  * 

December  20f/i.  The  town  voted  '  that  tlley  would  call  another 
minister  at  the  west  end  of  tlie  towne.'  Against  this  vote,  twenty- 
two  of  the  'west  end'    mc;n  entered  their  dissent.* 

December  27///.  A  committee  was  chosen  'to  enquire  after  a 
.suitable  person  to  preach  to  iIk;  west  end  and  to  keep  schoolc.'  * 

This  year,  a  |)etition  to  divide  Essex  county  was  presented  to  the 
general  court ;  Newbury  was  allowed  to  have  another  house  of  en- 
tertaimnent;  and  lh(>  grand  jury  of  Essex  county  '  pre^enled  Joseph 
Bailey  for  saying  the  m;'n  appointed  by  the  town  to  answer  the 
petition  of  those,  who  wanted  anothi'r  minister  were  devils  incarnate.' 


1693. 

April  20///.  The  town  '  chose  Tristram  Coffin  treasurer  for  the 
poor.'  * 

Mai/  12///.  '  Towne  voted  that  Mr.  John  Clarke  be  called  to 
assist  iMr.  Richardson  in  the  work  of  the  ministry  at  the  west  end 
of  the  towne  to  preach  to  them  one  year  in  order  to  farther  settle- 
ment and  also  to  keep  a  grammar  schoolc.'* 

3Iai/  31.s7.  The  selectmen  of  Newbury,  in  their  petition  to  the 
general  court,  state  that  '  a  long  dillerence"  has  existed  between  the 
people  of  Newbury,  and  those  in  the  west  end  of  the  town  about 
calling  a  minister,  that  the  west  end  iieo])le  had  called  Mr.  Edward 
ToiusoM  to  preach  to  them  without  ac(|uainting  the  minister,  church 
or  towne  with  tlieir  proceedings  in  that  all'air,  the  which  when  our 
town  did  understand  that  tli(>y  were  about  to  bring  him  into  town, 
th(!  town  being  met  lo  consider  of  it  by  their  vote  did  declare  that 
they  were  against  his  coming,  or  any  other  until  the  church  and 
town  were  agreed,  yet  they  persisted' in  their  design  and  brought 
him  in,  and  when  he  was  come  in  our  minister  warned  him  to 
forbear  preaching  till  the  church  and  town  were  t.greed,  yet  he 
presumed  to  set  up  a  lecture,  and  preach  witlamt  any  allowance  of 
ministers,  church  or  town,  which  when  the  church  did  understand, 
they  did  call  him  to  account,  and  declared  their  dislike  of  his  irrcfr- 
ular  proceeding,  yet  he  hath  persisted  in  these  irregularities  to  the 
great  disturbance  of  our  |)eace,  and  since  upon  tiie  request  of  sev- 
erall  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  west  end  of  our  towne,  called  another 
minister,  Mr.  John  Clark,  who  halli  siccepted  of  the  call,  and  yet 

*  Town  records. 


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there  are  severall,  who  refuse  to  accept  of  him,  pretending  they  arc 
bound  to  said  Tomson,  wliich  agrccin(>nt  th(>y  made  wlion  the  rest 
of  tlieir  neighbors  were  about  to  uiiike  u|)j)Ueation  to  the  town, 
which  was  since  the  late  law  was  made  to  direct  the  town  to  call 
the  minister.' 

June  \iJlh,  A  committee  of  the  west  end  people,  in  iheir  petition, 
thus  reply.  They  request  the  governor  and  council  'to  pity  and 
help  them,'  'to  ease  them  of  a  heavy  burden  of  travel  on  God's  day.' 
'We  have  been,'  say  they,  'endeavoring  iiljove  these  live  years  to 
have  the  publiek  worship  of  God  establislied  among  us  on  the 
Lord's  day  for  reasons  such  as  these.  Tiie  bulk  of  us  live  four 
miles  from  the  ould  meeting  house,  some  six  or  seven.  Our  num- 
ber is  above  three  hundred.  Few  of  us  htive  horses,  and  if  wo 
could  get  down  to  the  ould  meeling  house,  it  is  impossible  it  shovild 
receive  us  with  them  so  tiiat  many  [would]  Iny  out  of  doors,  the  house 
is  so  little.  Some  of  us  have  groaned  under  this  burden  this  thirty 
years,  some  grt)wn  old,  some  sickly,  and  although  we  were  favored 
with  the  liberty  granted  by  king  .lames  the  second  and  had  erected 
an  house  to  the  worship  of  (iod  on  our  own  cost  and  charge,  and 
acquainted  the  two  next  justices  with  our  intent  before  we  built  the 
said  house.  A  committee  of  live  weri^  ap[ioin1ed  to  come  on  the 
place,  but  before  they  had  liiushed  tlieir  work,  the  governor  arrived, 
which  caused  them  to  desist.  We  complained  to  the  governor, 
who  granted  us  a  protection  from  paying  to  the  ould  meeting  house, 
then  countermanded  it.  The  town  had  a  meeting  —  they  intend  to 
delude  us  by  granting  the  help  of  a  schoolmaster  at  sometimes  for 
one  ycare.  We  believe  our  neighbours  would  be  glad  to  see  us 
quite  tired  out.  We  beg  tlu>  honoraJjle  court  to  establish  peace 
among  us  a  rational  dividing  line.' 

'  June  loth,  1G93.' 

Julij  5th.  '  The  towne  in  theyr  voles  for  the  choyce  of  a  minister 
for  the  west  end  of  the  towne  in  order  to  a  full  settlement  in  the 
work  of  the  ministry  tmd  iMr.  John  C'larke  was  then  chosen  and  not 
one  vote  against  him.''  * 

Ju/ij  C)fh.  Twcnty-i'ive  persons  of  tlit;  west  end  (>ntered  their 
dissent  against  'calling  Mr.  Clark.  The  reason  is  because  the  new 
towne  j)eople  have  a  uunister  already.'* 

This  year,  a  jury  of  twelve;  women  hi-ld  an  in(iuest  on  the  body 
of  Elizaln'th  Hunt,  of  Newbury.  The  following  is  an  accurate 
copy  of  their  verdict,  which  was  doubtless  perfectly  conclusive  and 
satisfactory. 

'  We  judge  according  to  our  best  light  and  contients,  that  the 
death  of  said  I'^lizabeth  was  not  l)y  any  viohms  or  wrong  dun  to 
her  by  any  jiarson  or  thing,  but  l)v  soni  sodfii  sloping  of  her  i)n'ath.' 

Septembt'f '2i)th.  On  this  day,  the  court  of  conunon  pleas  held 
its  first  sessions  in  Newbury.  The  court  was  held  in  the  first  parish 
meeting-house. 

*  Town  records. 


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1694. 


I.    i 


February  2\st.  Libovty  was  £?rantc(l  1o  ihc  prlilionors  '  to  erect 
between  captain  Noyes'  lane  and  Mr.  Woodbridgo's  [upper  gi-een] 
a  little  house  for  the  accommodation  of  a  good  and  puliieicnt  schoolo 
dame.'  A  similar  petition  was  granted  to  deacon  William  Noyes, 
'to  sett  up  a  schoole  house  upon  the  towne's  land,' 

A  salary  of  'twenty  pounds  in  money  and  fifty  pounds  in  graine 
was  voted  to  ye  reverend  Mr.  John  Clarke  so  long  as  he  carry  on 
the  worke  of  the  ministry.'  Mr.  Clark  having  deciined  the' call, 
Mr.  Christopher  Toppan  was  invited  '  to  preach  at  the  new  towne.' 
Mr.  Toppan  having  declined  settling,  but  expressing  his  willingness 
•to  help  in  the  work  of  th*;  minislry  for  a  year,'  the  town  voted  'to 
give  Mr.  Toppan  forty  pounds  in  money  and  four  contributions  a 
year.' 

March  26f/i.  The  town  granted  permission  to  Jolm  Kelly,  senior, 
to  keep  a  ferry  over  the  Merrimac,  at  Holt's  rocks,  'in  the  place 
where  he  now  dwells.'  Ferriage,  'sixpence  for  horse  and  man, 
and  twopence  for  a  single  man.' 

Sejdembcr  Atli.  '  lAIr.  Joseph  Pike  and  Richard  Long,'  both  of 
Newbury,  'were  shot  by  the  Indians  as  they  were  traveling  near 
the  end  of  Pond  plain,'  =^  in  Haverhill. 

September  5th.  A  committee,  consisting  of  .Toshna  Brown,  .John 
Ordway,  and  tSamuel  Bartlct.  petitioned  to  the  general  court, 'in 
behalf  of  the  company,  that  as  they  had  erected  a  meeting  horse, 
and  supplied  themselves  with  a'  minister  yet  nevertheless  our 
distresses  do  contiimally  grow  upon  us  toward  an  insupportable 
extremity,  since;  the  imprisoning  of  some  of  our  number  for  their 
signifying  our  desire  to  enjoy  \\w.  minister,  whom  we  had  formerly 
invited  to  preach  in  the  mecM'ing  house,  which  we  built  at  our  own 
cost  and  charge,  and  some  of  us  have  been  fined  for  not  delivering 
up  the  key  of  the  said  mecling  hous(\' 

They  conclude  by  rc(|ucsting  the  general  court,  that  they  would 
'so  far  interpose  in  our  concerns  as  to  take  some  etfectual  'care  for 
the  relief  of  your  petitioners  and  for  tlie  (juiet  of  the  whole  town, 
the  peace  whereof  is  now  so  dangerously  interrupted.' f 

Octolfcr  22d.  '  The  town  brought  in'  theyr  votes  by  papers,'  for 
a  minister  for  'the  west  end  of  the  towiic 'of  Xewl)iiry  and  Air. 
Christopher  Toppan  had  sixty-live  voles  and  Mr.'  Tompsou 
seventeen.'  ^ 

December  2lst.  A  committee  of  live  were  chosen  '  to  draw  up 
articles  and  proposals  in  order  to  setting  off  p;ut  of  the  west  end  of 
the  towne 'I  as  a  separate  ])arisli. 

This  year,  a  petition  wa^;  sent  to  the  governor  and  council,  from 

Newbury  and  four  other  towns,  for  a  division  of  the  countv  of  Essex. 

'John  and  Samuel  Barllet,  Abraham   Morrill  John  Emery  and 


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Joseph  Bailey  were  1)ound  over  and  admonished  for  onposin"  their 
ordained  minister,  Mr.  John  Richardson.'  "^ 


1695. 

Jamary  Is/.  The  town  met  and  « voted  that  Pipe-stave  hill  near 
Daniel  Jacpies'  house  shall,  be  the  place  for  the  meeting  house,  and 
those  that  live  nearest  1o  that  placf!  shall  pay  to  the  ministry  there, 
and  those  that  live  nearest  to  the  old  meeliiig  house  shall  pay  there,' 
the  inhabitants  at  the  west  end  to  choose  a  minister  for  themselves,' 
only  Mr.  Tompson  excepted.'  '  And  the  meeting  house  to  stand 
where  it  do,  until  tlie  major  part  of  them  see  cause  to  remove  it.' 
'  The  dividing  line  shall  be  from  the  middle  way  from  the  prefixed 

run  on  a 


place  in  Pipe-stave  hill  and  the  old  me(!ting  house,  to  ...„  „„  „ 
straight  line  to  Francis  Brown's  house  near  Birchen  meadows  and 
so  straight  over  to  the  littk;  pond.'  *■ 

Janmn/  '3d.  Tristram  CoiFm,  Henry  Short,  and  Abraham  Mer- 
rill, divided  the  town  into  two  parishes. 

Hugh  Murel),  in  behalf  of  himself  and  brother,  captain  John 
March,  petitioned  the  town  'to  grant  them  a  piece  of  crrountl  and 
flatts  to  build  a  wharf  and  dock  near  captain  March's  barn.'* 
This  petition  was  granted  on  certain  conditions,  January  sixteenth, 
provided  they  are  built '  within  three  years.'  # 

3Iarch  Vllh.  '  Mr.  John  Woodbridge  dies,  a  good  man  and  a 
constant  attendant  upon  God  in  his  publick  worship  on  the  Lord's 
day.'t  _ 

June  5th.  '  Town  voted  to  give  Mr.  Christopher  Toppan  twenty 
pounds  yearly  in  money  and  three  hundred  pounds  a  year  in  good 
country  pay  so  long  as  he  carries  on  one  half  of  the  ministry  among 
them,  and  thirty  ])ounds  a  year  so  long  as  he  shall  keep  a  grammar 
and  a  writing  schoole,  the  scholars  to  pay  as  they  did  to  Mv.  John 
Clarke,'  which  proposals  Mr.  Toppan  accepted,  July  seventeenth. 

September  m.  '  Twenty-four  men  at  Pema([nid,  going  to  get 
wood,  fire  shot,  four  of  whom  are  dead.  Serjeant  Hu<,di  March, 
[ol  Newbury.]   George's  son,  was  kilicxl  at  the  iirst  shot.' f 

Orlo/jer  7lh.  On  the  afternoon  of  tiiis  day,  five  Indians  attacked 
and  plundered  the  house  of  .John  Brown,  who  lived  on  the  westerly 
side  ol  Turkey  hill,  and  captivated  nine  persons;  one  only  of  the 
family  cscapetl  to  tell  the  tale.  On  the  same  dav,  colonel  Daniel 
Pierce  sent  the  following  letter  to  colonel  Appleton  and  colonel 
Wade,  of  Ipswich. 

'Sir,  this  afternoon  thore  came  the  enemy  to  a  house  in  our  town  and  went  in 
and  took  and  oariied  awiiy  nine  [jersons  and  pliindcMod  the  lionse,  and  as  near 
as  we  can  nath,.]-,  tluM- went  soiithwcstwardlv  In'twccn  Boxford  and  l^ia.ltord. 
VVe  can  not  iratherth;  there  were  idjove  live  of  tlie  eneinv,  hut  ni-ht  r;,,i'e  on 
so  that  we  couhl  not  pursue  tliem,  i)nt  we  have  lined  Merriniae  river  with  about 
lourscoie  men  to  watch  lest  they  should  carry  the  captives  over  tlie  river,  and 


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do  design  in  the  morning  to  pursue  them  and  range  the  woods  with  all  the  force 

we  (Mil  iiKiko.  iiiui  think  it  iulvisuhh;  that  you  rani!;e  tlie  woods  towards  Andover, 
and  that  UowU-y  towiuds  Bradford,  for  if  tiiey  escape  ns  it  will  bt>  an  fncomage- 
ment  to  tiieni.  "Sir.  [  do  think  the  case  requires  our  utmost  industry  wlio  am 
your  friend  and  servant, 

D.  PlEKCE. 

October  1th,  1(595.' 

To  this  letter  was  appended  the  following. 

'  Colonel  Godney, 

Honored  sir,  it  is  thouiiht  advis.iblo  on  the  consideration  abovesaid  yt  it 
may  be  benetieial  for  tlie  several  companies  in  the  several  townes  to  range  ye 
wooils  with  all  possible  speed  towards  Bradford  antl  Andover  and  so  towards 
IMeiriinack  river,  so  that  if  it  might  be  ye  enemy  may  be  found  and  destroyed, 
which  spoyle  oiw  people. 

Ipswich,  October  eighth,  at  live  in  the  morning. 

Your  servant, 

Sa.muel  Appleton.' 

Three  hours  after  this,  colonel  Thomas  Wade  thus  writes  from 
Ipswich. 

'Honored  sir, 

Just  now  captain  Wicom  brinas  information  that  the  last  niiiht  captain 
Greer  h  .if  with  a  party  of  men  met  witli  the  enemy  by  the  river  side,  have  re- 
deemeii  all  the  captives  but  one,  which  they  doulit  is  killed.  Three  of  the  In- 
dians aot  into  a  canoe  and  made  cscai-(\  and  the  other  two  ran  into  the  woods, 
uleaf  is  woundeti  in  the  side  and  arm,  how  much  we  k.iow  not, 


Captain  (Jreeu -       

which  is  all  at  present  from  your  servant. 


Tiio.MAS  Wade.' 


Judge  Scwall,  in  lii.^  journal,  says,  '  all  tlie  captives  were  brought 
back,  save  one  boy,  that  was  killed.  Tiie  Indians  knocked  the  rest 
on  llie  head,  save  one  infant.' 

Reverend  Joint  Pike,  in  Ills  journal,  states,  that  'the  captives  were 
all  retaken  but  soni(>  died  of  their  wounds.' 

On  the  lifth  of  .March,  1G9(3,  captain  Greenleaf  adckessed  the  fol- 
lowing petition  to  the  general  court. 

'  The  petition  of  captain  Stephen  Greenlcaf  of  Newbury, 
•  Huniblv  sheweth, 

'  That  upon  tlie  seventh  of  Octolier  last  about  three  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon  a  party  of  Inilians  surprised  a  family  .'t  Turkey  hill  in  saiil  town  cap- 
tivated nine  persons,  women  and  children,  rilled  the  house,  carrying  away  bed- 
diuir  and  other  aoods.  Only  one  person  escaped  ami  gave  notice  to  the  next 
family  and  thev,  the  town.  "  Upon  the  alarm  your  petitioner  with  a  party  of  men 
pursued  after  the  eueniv,  endeavouriuLr  to  line  the  river  Merrimack  to  prevent 
their  passaire.  bv  which  me-::;  t''e  captives  were  recovered  and  brouLdit  back. 

•  The  encMiy  lav  in  a  liully  hard  by  the  hiirhway  and  about  nine  at  uiufit  made 
a  shot  at  your  ])etilioner  ami  shut  him  through  the  wrist  lietween  the  bones,  and 
also  made  a  larire  wound  in  his  side,  which  wounds  have  t)een  very  painlul  and 
costly  to  your  petitioner  in  the  i-ure  of  them  ami  have  in  a  great  nu'asure  utterly 
taken  away  the  use  of  his  left  hand  and  wholly  taken  !uni  otl  from  liis  employ- 
ment  this  winter. 

•' Your  petitioner  therelbre  humbly  prays  this  hiiiiored  court  that  they  would 
make  hiia  such  compensailon  a.^  shall  scorn  lit,  which  he  shall  thankfully 


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acknowledge  and  doubts  not  but  will  ho  an  oncourasemont  to  others  speedily  to 
relieve  their  neighbours  wIkmi  assaulicil  by  so  burbaious  an  enemy, 
And  your  ]H'titiou(.'r  shall  ever  pray, 

Strphf.n  Gref.nleaf. 
'March  Mli.     Read  and  voted  that  there  bo  paid  out  of  the  province  trea-sury 
to  the  petitioner  the  sum  of  forty  poiuids.' 

From  one  of  John  Brown's  descendants,  William  G.  Wliito,  I 
learn  the  rollowing  particulars  as  a  family  tradition.  The  Indians 
had  secreted  themselves  for  some  time  ii(>ar  the  house,  waitijitjj  for 
the  absence  of  the  male  members  of  the  family,  who,  about  three 
o'clock,  departed  with  a  load  of  turnips.  The  'Indians  then  rushed 
from  their  concealment,  tomahawked  a  ijirl,  who  was  statidini;;  at  the 
front  door.  Another  ifirl,  who  had  concealed  herself  as  long  as  the 
Indians  remained,  innnediately  after  their  departure  gave  the  alarm, 
which  resulted  as  belore  relatc'd.  The  coat,  wliich  captain  (ircen- 
leaf  wore  in  his  pursuit  of  the  Indians,  is  still  preserved  by  his  de- 
scendants, together  with  the  bullet,  which  was  extracted  from  his 
woimd.  This,  I  believe,  is  the  only  instance,  in  which  the  Indians 
either  atlaiked,  captivated,  or  killed,  any  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Newbury. 

From  the  original  document  now  in  my  possession,  I  copy  the 
following. 

'October  iUh,  1095.     To  Abraham  iMorrill  of  Nowbury. 

*Tlu'si>  Arc  Li  his  Majesty's  niuno  to  will  and  l\(>([iii('r  yon  to  take  the  Cear  to 
Beat  the  walcii  of  live  nuui  A  n'vjhl  Beuiiiinir  att  Samuel  Poores  and  Job  I'ils- 
buryos  and  ail  Sayer's  Lean  lliine|  to  Kdward  Poores  and  soe  Runiny  by  yo 
Road  to  llarliehoak  river  and  soe  Xotlierly  Ext-epl  the  Roimdars.  Vou"  Are 
Lik('\vise  [{ecjuired  to  Ordrr  two  of  said  watchnieu  upon  Dewty  to  walke  Dowen 
to  Daniel  ^lerriils  and  tno  more  to  John  Ordways  att  thaier  returen  Alwavs 
keepina'  out  a  Sentinell  upon  dewty.  \'oa  are  also  to  Make  return  of  all  tiet'ac'ts 
unto  the  Capteu  to  whom  tiiey  beloui,'  forthwith.  It  is  also  desiered  that  you 
deman<l  and  recpiire  ye  tien  for  each  man's  defeact  and  upon  thi'ir  refusall  to 
make  return  as  aforesaid.' 

December  ISfh.  The  town, '  on  the  request  of  the  inhabitants  of 
the  west  end  of  the  towne  of  Newbury,  granted  them  five  acres  of 
land  on  the  cast  side  of  Artichoke  river  for  a  ptisture  for  the  minks- 
try  and  one  acre  of  land  near  the  west  meeting  house,  and  when  the 
major  part  shall  see  cause  to  remove  the  said  meeting  house,  the 
land  shall  be  tit  the  disposal  of  the  towne  to  procure  latid  for  tlie 
ministry,  near  the  west  meeting  house,  w/uii  rcmuicd.'^ 


1696. 

Frbniar//  '2^fh.  A  rate  was  made  for  payment  of  building  and 
finishing  th<>  west  end  ineeting-house  and  ministry  house.  The  ex- 
pense was  twenty-two  potnids  and  three  shillin<rs  in  money,  and 
two  hundred  and  eighteen  |)omids,  eighteen  shiUings,  and  twopence 

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in  pay.  This  was  duo  from  sixty-four  persons.  Of  tliis  number, 
twenty-four,  namely,  Benjamin  and  .)o.seph  lMor.se,  Thomas,  Daniel 
and  Moses  Cimse,  John,  senior,  John,  junior,  and  Abiel  Kelly,  Mr. 
Abraham  Aimis  and  Isaae,  Joseph  Kiehard.-on,  Ahv\  Iluse,  Caleb 
Moody,  Benjamin  Low,  'J'ristram  (Jreenleaf,  Daniel  Morrison,  Ed- 
ward Woodman,  John  Hoag,  llanariah  Ordway,  Thomas  Follans- 
bee,  lieutenant  John  Emerson,  Thomas  Willianis,  Franeis  Willet, 
and  Samuel  Sayer,  junior,  objeeted  to  the  continuance  of  the  meet- 
ing house  on  the  plains,  and  wished  to  have  it  removed  to  Pipe 
stave  hill.  The  contest,  thus  connneneed,  continued  for  many  years 
with  an  obstinacy  and  bitterness,  to  whicli  the  annals  of  Newbury 
furnish  no  parallel.     Its  results  we  shall  hereafter  see. 

March  1st.  The  town  granted  to  Slej)hen  (Jreenleaf  '  four  or 
five  rods  on  the  llatts  from  Watts'  cellar  sjjring  to  ensign  Greenleaf's 
and  Mr.  Davison's  grant  from  high  wat(!r  mark  to  low  water  mark 
to  build  a  wharfe  and  a  place  to  build  vessels  uppon,'  on  certain 
conditions,  one  was  '  that  it  come  not  within  ten  or  twelve  feet  of 
the  sj)ring.'=* 

//////  29t/i.  The  town  offers  Mr.  Nicholas  Webster  thirty  pounds 
a  year  in  country  pay  to  keep  a  '  gi-annner  sclioole  ])rovided  he  de- 
mand but  fourpence  per  week  for  Latin  scholars  and  teach  the  town's 
children  to  read,  write  and  cyplu'r  without  ])ay.'* 

Sej/k'inbcr  9///.     Reverend  Christopher  'J'oppan  ordained. 

'  The  winter  of  this  year  was  the  coldest  since  the  first  settlement 
of  New  England.'     Leivis's  history  of  Lynn. 


y*i-^   ^' 


1697. 

March.  Laid  out  to  Stephen  Greenleaf  a  *  parcel  of  Hatts  and 
rocks  lying  on  Merrimack  river  near  Watts'  cellar,  bounded  nortli- 
erly  by  the  river,  easterly  by  major  Davison's  grant,  southerly  by 
the  common  land  of  Newlnny  and  the  westerly  bound  comes 
within  about  fifteen  foot  of  the  spring.' 

''March  Wth.  The  town  laid  out  to  Anthony  S';inerby  apiece  of 
land  three  rods  squtur,  lying  at  the  phice  knowne  by  the  name  of 
Ciladiiig's  spring  f  ]x)unded  by  tlie  common  or  vmlividcd  land  of 
Newbury  on  every  side,  bounded  with  a  small  rock  at  every  corner, 
for  the  convenience  of  dressing  of  leatlier.'  ^ 

^ April  ^-'Hh,  Tharsday.  'J'his  day  is  signalized  by  ye  achieve- 
ment of  Hannah  Dunstan,  Mary  Nelf  and  Samuel  Lennardson, 
who  killed  two  men,  two  women,  and  six  others  and  brought  home 
their  scalps.'  J 

This  year  ensign  James  Noyes  made  a  gi-eat  discovery.  It  is 
thus  mentioned  by  Judge  Sewall  in  his  diary^ 

'  1(397.  Colonel  Pierce  gave  an  account  of  ye  body  of  limestone 
discovered  at  Newbury  and  the  order  of  the  seiectmeu  published  by 

*  Town  records. 

t    01;i(lin!,''s  spring'  is  a  few  rods  southwesterly  from  Mr.  Silas  Noycs's  house. 

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James  Brown  deputy  slierifT,  lo  proliibit  any  persons  from  carrying 
any  more  away  under  yr  penalty  of  tweiny  shillings.  It  seem.s  they 
began  to  come  with  teams  thirty  in  a  day.  'i'iic  town  will  have  a 
meeting  and  bring  it  to  some  reij;ulalion.  Our  INIumi'ord  says 'tis 
good  marhle.     Knsign  James  INoyes  found  it  out.' 

We  at  the  present  time  can  hardly  conceive  ..^i'  the  excitement 
occasioned  in  the  town  and  neighliorliood  by  this  discovery.  It  was 
deemed  by  judge  Sewall  worthy  ol'  special  notice,  as  an  answer, 
among  other  things,  to  a  letter  written  from  New  England  to  Old 
]'ii'gland,  'discoursing  of  an  inip()ssil)ilily  of  sul)sisting  here.'  He 
thus  writes  in  his  '  Phaniomena  (pacdam  apocalyptica,'  page  sixty- 
fourth,  published  this  year. 

'  This  sunnuer  ensign  Jumrs  No/jrs  hath  hajipily  discovered  a 
body  of  marble  at  Nt'ichiinj,  within  hidf  a  mile  of  the  navigable 
part  of  Liflle  river,  by  whicli  means  very  good  lime  is  made  within 
the  province.' 

From  this  extract  it  would  appear  that  this  body  of  limestone  was 
the  first  discovered  in  Massachusetts.  Certain  it  is,  that  vast  quan- 
tities of  lime  of  the  best  (juality  Avcre  annually  made  in  Newbury, 
for  nearly  a  century,  i'or  export  as  well  as  lor  home  use.  Prior  to 
this  time,  lime  was  manufactured  from  oyster  and  clam  shells.  Lewis, 
in  his  very  minute  and  acctn-ate  history  of  Lynn,  informs  us  under 
the  year  ItiUti,  that '  innuense  numbers  of  girat  clams  were  thrown 
upon  the  beaches  by  storms.  The  people  were  permitted,  by  a  vote 
of  the  town,  to  dig  and  gather  as  many  as  tlu>y  wished  for  their  own 
use,  but  no  more  ;  and  no  person  was  allowed  to  carry  any  out  of 
the  town,  on  a  ))cnalty  of  twenty  shillings.  The  shells  were  gath- 
ered in  cart  loads  on  tlu;  beach  and  maiuUactured  into  lime.' 

Jiih/.     *  Sor(5  and  long  continued  drought.' 

Jk/ij  22il.  '  Drought  continuing  many  of  the  towns  and  churches 
had  clays  of  fasting  and  prayer.'  * 

'  Scpfivihrr  \:lth.  '  Our  army  abroad  under  the  command  of  ma- 
jor John  iMarch  [of  Newbury]  going  ashore  at  a  place,  called  Dam- 
aris  cove,  a  small  island  in  the  eastern  parts,  the  Indians  being  there, 
they  waylaid  them  and  killed  several  of  them.  Our  English  fought 
bravely  and  drove  them  olf  the  ishiiid.'^ 

i><'])k'ml>cr  2'2(i.  The  town  chose  '  major  Daniel  Davison,  corpo- 
ral (Jeorge  IMarch  and  ensign  .lames  Noyes,  as  a  couunittee,  who 
shall  inspect  into  all  matters  eoncerning  the  lime  stones  in  any  of 
the  undivided  landt;  in  the  town,  who  shall  have  the  sole  ordering, 
disposing  and  importing  said  lime  stones  for  the  town's  use  in  what 
way  and  manner  they  shall  judg  shall  most  conduce  to  the  benefit  of 
thc'towne,'  and  so  forth,  and  so  forth.  The  committee  were  to  keep 
accurate  accounts  of  all  disbursements  and  profits,  which  were  to  be 
read  once  every  six  months  in  a  public  town  meeting.  All  persons 
were  prohibited,  under  a  penalty  of  twenty  shillings  the  hogshead 
and  i)roportionable  for  smaller  quantities,  who  should  presume  to 


i-  . 


*  Fairfield's  journal. 


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IIISTOnV    OF   NEVVBI'RY. 


dig  or  carry  away  or  dispose  of  ;ui y  ol'  tiic  aforosaid  limeslwne,  and 
so  I'orth. 

'  It  was  also  voted  that  //ir  kiln  lor  burning  said  lime  sliall  bo 
built  at  or  near  the  end  ol'  Mii/zie's  lane  next  Alemniaek  river.'  *■ 

'The  kiln'  mentioned  above  was  the  kiln  in  which  the  lime  was 
burnt  by  the  commjtiee  lor  the  benelit  of  the  town.  Lime  kilns 
owned  by  i-.-divi'liials  in  various  parts  of  the  town  were   ninnerons. 

^Aiig-rsl.  Orfl.r.i!  by  the  seleelmen  that  the  river  ealled  by  tlio 
Indians  Cjiuasaeuneon  and  has  since  been  called  bv  div(>rs  names, 
as  Newbury  river,  Oldlown  river,  be  from  this  time  called  by  the 
name  of  the  river  l^n-kcr  in  remembrance  of  the  worthy,  learned, 
and  reverend  niinistcr  .Mr.  Thomas  Parker,  who  was  a  li'rst  planter 
and  pastor  of  y(!  clmrch  of  Xewbnrv  iuid  learned  schoolmaster.' =* 

JS'ovrwbrr  i-it/i.  The  town  voted  lliat  the  asHe.ssors  '  raise  the  tax 
on  polls  one  penny  on  the  poll  for  every  penny  that  they  raise  upon 
ye  pound.'  * 

'  Also  voted  that  the  selectmen  procure  a  (lacfg  for  the  meeting 
house  to  be  |mt  out  at  the  ringing  of  the  tirsl  ix-ll,  and  taken  in  when 
the  last  bell  is  rung.'* 

'As  I  lay  in  my  bed  this  morning,'  says  judge  Sewall,  'this  verse 
ran  in  my  mind  : 

'  To  liorsps.  swine,  neat  cattle,  sliecp  and  deer, 
Ninety  and  seven  piovet'  a  mortal  j  ear.' 


1698. 

3Ia>/  4fli.  '  The  towne  voted  that  I\Ir.  George  March  should  be 
paid  for  I'encing  in  the  burying  place.' 

Jiih/  iith.  '  The  lowne  voted  that  they  would  build  a  new  meeting 
house,  and  for  that  ])urpose  chose  tli«>  worshipful  colonel  Daniel 
Pierce,  captain  'i'homas  Noyes  and  serjeanl  Stephen  Jaques  ;i  com- 
mittee, who  on  October  flftli'  made  their  report.' 

Drrrinher  '^is/.  -  The  towne  voted  that  scrjeant  Stephen  .Tacpies 
should  build  a  meeting  house  sixty  feet  in  lenglh  fifty  feet  in  breadth 
and  twenty  feet  in  the  stud  for  five  hundred  and^hirtv  pounds.' 
The  next  February,  'the  town  voted  to  have  the  nieciing  house 
twenty-four  feet  post  instead  of  twenty  and  to  pay  scrjeant  .laques 
twenty  pounds  more.' 

Ortuhrr  :2(i//<.  A  church  was  gathered  in  the  west  pre(  inet,  and 
on  November  tenth  the  revenuid  Saumel  Belcher  was  ordaimd 
their  minister. 

November.  '  Near  the  close  of  this  month,'  says  Fairfield,  in  his 
diary,  'there  was  a  c«'ner!il  contribution  in  the  province  for  the 
relief  of  captives  in  Aretiuiiiez  in  i\rorocco.'  In  a  letter  to  colonel 
Thomas  Noyes  on  this  subject,  honorable  Andrew  Heldier  thus 
writes.     '  On  the  sixth  of  Decern  I  )er  J()9«  you  paid  me  three  pounds 

*  Town  records. 


HISTORY   OF   NEWnUIlY, 


167 


eififht  sliilliii<?.s  nnd  Ion  ju-ncc,  i(  bcintr  the  colltctioii  of  some  of  the 
iiilial)iliiiils  oi'  Newbury,  towards  ilit«  relict"  of  llie  captives  in  Salloe.'  # 

'This  year,  E/.ni  Collie  eoiimieiieed  sliip-hiiildinnr,  jit  or  near  llio 
foot  of  Cliandler's  lane  [iM'der.d  .sireelj  where  Mr.  VV'illiam  .lohu- 
soii  huilt.'  f 

'I'he  town  made  snun-  new  reijnlations  al)ont  the  lime  stones,  and 
'voted  that  lour  shiliini,'S  per  ton  shall  be  paid  lor  lime  stones, 
transportation,  and  that  no  more  be  sold  out  ol  the  towne  till  Curtiier 
ordi-r.'  f 


ir 


^i*' 


1  (J  9  9  . 


I 


''''he  town,'  on  certain  condition 


'fj:ranted  to  Ebenczer  Knowl- 
ton  nine  rods  of  land  for  the  seltini^  rip  a  tannins;  trade.' f 

Decoiihvr  \Hf/,,  H'olonel  Daniel  I'icn  ■>  and  colonel  Thomas 
Noyes  were  iiipowered  to  employ  ye  honorable  captain  Samuel 
Sewall  to  procure  a  f<ood  and  sull'iei'cnt  mcetiui,'  house  bell  for  the 
towne  of  Xewbury,  suitable  for  our  towne  considering  the  remote- 
ness of  our  dwellings.'  f 

17  0  0. 

'  This  year,'  says  the  reven>nd  Richard  Brown,  in  his  diary,  '  has 
been  famous  for  three  things,  namely: 

'First,  for  yl  the  winter  was  turned  into  summer,  or  at  least  we 
have  had  little  or  none,  the  ground  being  bare  for  the  most  part, 
though  we  have  had  snow  at  some  times,  yet  very  shallow,  not 
exeee(lin:;  al)ove  twelve  inches  and  tliat  by  an  advance  of  southerly- 
gales  faded  away  speedily. 

'  Second,  an  earthquake  on  the  last  of  January,  which  was  con- 
siderably irreat. 

•  'I'liird,  anothtM-  on  the  last  of  February  passingly  considerable.' 

April  '22(1.  '  Serjeant  Stephen  Jaques  was  ordered  to  hang  the 
old  meeting  house  bell  in  the  new  turret.' 

Hcplcnihrr  l^f/t.  • 'I'lic  town  voted  to  have  the  new  meeting 
house  composed  with  seats  as  tli'  old  one  was,  except  ten  leet  on 
three  sides  for  pews  and  alleys.' 

Ortohrr  l^//i.  '  Voted  that  a  |)r\v  be  l)uilt  for  the  minister's  wife 
by  the  pulpit  stairs,  that  colonel  Daniel  Pierce  should  have  the  first 
choict!  for  a  pew  and  major  Thomas  Xoyes  shall  have  the  next 
ehoice  and  that  colonel  Daniel  Pierce  escpi'ire.  and  Tristram  Collin 
escpiire  i)e  impowered  to  procure  a  bell  of  about  four  hundred 
pounds  weight.' t 

This  year  a  lio'i-e  was  built  for  the  poor  to  live  in. 

Noi-e/iih<r  6f/i.  I'ermissitin  was  granted  to  twenty  persons  'to 
build  pews  on  the  lower  (loor  for  themselves  and  fam'ilit  s.' 

In   November  of  this  year,  Hester  Rogers,  of  Newbury,  was 


# 


*  liobfit  Adams's  manuscripts. 


t  Town  records. 


J 


m 


168 


IIISTOIIV    OP   NKWnURY. 


arrcHtod  on  suHpifion  of  iminli'i-ing  Iut  child.     Tlie  ft)llowing  is  u 
litoral  copy  of  tlic  coiistublc'ri  hill. 

'John  I'i^c,  constiibli-  for  yp  town  (if  Ncwliiiry.' 

'  His  liill  of  cost  for  ,s('as(>iiiH;  mi, I  Hcciiiiii;,'  the  fioily  of  UvMvr  Floi^crs  of  said 
Ni'wliiiry  apprcluMidt'il  hy  oiio  of  lii.i  majostio'H  justicos  for  murdoring  hor 
child rcu  in  yo  year  17(tO. 

Itom,  for  prociiiiiii,'  of  a  wnrrani  for  Hoasini;  lior  body        .        .        .        £0,  is, 
Itom,  by  ;;uai<liiiu;  of  ye  Ixidy  of  tlic  said  Roijors  niLrlitniul  day  with  two 
men  from  vc  thiili'ciitii  of  Novoiidicr  I7(iit  until  yo  ninth  day  of 

Dcc'cndn-rlTOi)         .  6,  10 

Itom,  by  sfttinir  said  ifnard  dayly  with  new  men  at  wi.vponcu  pur  tiujo   0,  13 
Item,  by  convoyinLT  tif  her  liody  to  Ipswicii  ixaol        ....  0,    H 

Item,  for  tier  wood  and  iiltiMidancc!  duiiny:  .said  term  of  time,        .         .       1,  12 
Item  and  also  fur  lier  wood  and  trobuliny  yo  houso,  .        ,        .  1,(M) 

cut,  Ol.s 
Jou.N  TiKK,  constaiile  a.s  aliovesaiil.' 

Dcrrmhrr  (U/i.  Tlui  coniiniltcc  a|)poiiitc(l  lo  'scat  tlu^  inc(<1ino^ 
liouse,'  pcrlonucd  tlicir  tusk.  Tlic  iiiiml)i'i-  of  men  iiiid  woiucii  to 
whom  scats  were  assliriKnl,  wcrt;  three  liiiiulrcd  tuid  thirteen,  whoso 
names  ar(»  all  recorded. 

From  a  testimony  on  lile  in  the  (inarterly  court,  it  appears,  that, 
so  late  as  this  year,  only  twt)  houses  had  been  erected  on  the  biuiks 
of  the  iNferrimac,  in  iXcwlniry.  One  of  these,  owned  by  doctor 
Humphrey  J5radstrcet,  stood  near  the  head  of  Halo's  wharf,  the 
other,  owned  by  Daniel  Pierce,  was  farther  south. 


Ma 


P  y 


1701. 

March  ISl/i.  The  canojiy  of  the  old  pulpit  was  ii;iven  by  the 
town  '  to  th(!  west  ])art  of  Newbury  for  their  puljut.'  * 

In  .ludifc  Sewall's  diary  1  lind  the  lollowinij;,  by  which  it  appears 
that  Hester  Routers  liiul  her  trial  at  Hostou. 

^Jk/ij  l-')f/i.  I']stlier  ito^ers  v.  iv.  tried  and  condemned  for  murder. 
Mr.  Cook  jironounced  llie  sentence.' 

From  Fairlield's  journal  I  niaki'  the  following  extract: 

'Jidy  thirty-lirst,  a  yonnij;  ^vonian,  inuned  Esther  lio;,'ers  was  evecnted  at 
Ipswich  fur  niurderini,'  iier  ehild  (a  nuilatto)  of  wiioni  it  nn\y  be  noted,  siu>  was 
a  poor  sinfid  ercalnre,  as  vile  as  ordinarily  any  are  luuler  the  liu'lit  of  the 
gospel,  and  oin\  who  had  a  ehild  by  a  neifro  at  Newhmy,  when  sjie  was  alnint 
seventeeri  years  of  au'e,  as  sin;  herself  eonfessed,  and  that  she  ninrdered  it  and 
buried  it  in  the  j;arden,  and  fonr  years  after  had  a  ehild  iv^iim  atul  uKn^lered 
that,  but  could  not  conceal  it.  Of  her  carriairi;  in  prison  and  at  the  (■.vecntioti 
there  is  an  account  priiUi'd  witii  three  sermons  in  Ipswich  on  occasion  thereof.' 

Tradition  informs  us  that  Esther  Rosj^crs  drowned  her  child  in  the 
pond  behind  tlie  lirst  parish  meetini^-house. 

In  October,  Thomas  .Mossum,  a  colored  man,  was  ordered  to 
leave  town  with  his  family. 

*    Town  recordi. 


,:  V 


HISTORY   OF   NEWDURr. 


169 


M 


'Ortober  mi  VoK-d  t(,  give  Mr.  Richiinl  Rrnwn  an<l  Mr.  Mohoh 
Hale  twelve  ^h.llini(s  per  sc-riiu,,.  lor  every  s.-nnuu  that  tl)..y  preached 
to  us  diiriiii,'  iMr.   ruppiiu'M  Hickiicss.'  * 

Z;m-/«/>./-  m.  The  t()w.i  voted  to  ahute  one  half  the  minister's 
rate  ol  sixteen  persons  at '  the  lulls,'  lor  ihe  coining  year  * 


1702. 

Jamarfj  13/A.    The  town  voted  to  divide  according  to  « former  rule 

eighteen  hundred  acres  of  the  lower  commons,  reserving  i)a.sturage 

or  lour  c.ws  lor  the  ministry  in  tlu-  east  end  of  the  towne,  thnr  f,r 

the  mimslry  m  the  west  .mkI,  thre..  |or  the  live  school  and  the  lu^rb- 

age  ot  twenty  cows  lor  the  benefit  of  the  town's  poor.'* 

Julif  'j2d.  Town  voted  to  give  iVFr.  Ili.-har.l  Brown  twenty 
pounds  lor  Ins  yc-urly  salary,  and  to  have  Iburpence  a  week  lor  hia 
Jjatin  s{;holars. 

Tovvn  also  chose  '  the  selectmen  a  committ.'e  to  coiisidiT  and  re- 
port  what  It  will  cost  to  remov..  the  old  meeting  lu.us..  farther  from 
tie  new  meetmg  house  and  to  fltt  it  up  for  u  court  house,  town.; 
house  and  school  house.' #  >  ' 

Sometime  this  year,  the  p.-opjc  resi.ling  within  the  limits  of  what 
was  a  tervyard  incorporated  as  JJylield  parish,  built  a  mcetin.r-house 
near  the  place  where  the  present  house  n..w  stands.  As  the  parish 
(•ompn.  u-ndcd  a  part  c.f  Nc-wbury,  and  a  part  of  Kowl.^v,  it  was  at 
l.rst  called 'JWIm.ry.'  Mehctabcl,  wife  of  William  Moody,  and 
daughter  of  Henry  Sewall.  who  ,licd  Au-.ist  second,  170^,  aged 
tliirty,  was  the  lirst  person  interred  in  the  burying  ground  there. 


.  U 


■  h 


17  0  3. 

i^Wt  dlh.  '  The  town  voted  to  pay  four  pounds  fo  those  who 
killed  two  wolves  at  the  Ipswich  end  of  Plum  island.' 4«= 

1  he  town  also  '  voted  to  let  the  ferry  ovr  the  river  Parker  for  four 
years  at  lour  p..unds  a  year  to  corporal  Kichar.l  .Tackman,who  is  to 
carry  all  the  court  ofl.ccrs,  going  and  returning  from  court,  all  town 
olhcers,  when  employed  by  the  town,  and  all  the  rams,  belonging  to 
the  town,  lerry  Irce.'  ^  '  s    h 

Marc/i  17///.  Town  voted  that  the  old  meeting-house  be  repaired 
and  htted  lor  a  court  house, «  school  house  and  town  house.' 4^ 

Ihirty  rods  of  land  were  gralited  to  Richard  (ioodwin  on  the 
southerly  side  of  the  great  hill,  said  (ioodwin  engaging  himself  and 

lamr'^i''''"''" '"    ^^"^  "''  '^"^^''  ''''"'"^  '''■  "'  ^'"'^  '''"'"  '''''''"  ''"  '''^'^ 

This  year  '  Renaiah  Titcomb's  vessel  was  captured  on  his  voyage 
from  Antigua  to  Newbury.'  ''  ° 

iSeplcmbcr  2Sth.     There  was  a  great  snow  storm. 


"J.) 


*  Town  records. 


170 


HISTORY    OF   KLWBURY. 


In  November,  captain  John  March  petitioned  the  general  court  to 
grant  him  some  compensation  for  the  losses  he  sustained  in  his  de- 
fence of  Casco  fort.  He  says,  '  I  forsook  my  own  habitation  at 
Newbury  and  removed  my  family,  stock  of  cattle  and  so  forth  to 
the  said  fort,  upon  which  upon  the  perfidious  breach  made  by  that 
barbarous  people,  your  petitioner  was  in  utmost  hazard  of  losing 
his  life,  and  by  a  wonderful  preservation  esca})cd  the  hands  of  those 
infidels,  and  did  actually  lose  more  than  five  hundred  j)ounds  of  his 
estate.'  Among  his  losses,  he  meniions  'sloop  and  furniture, 
eighty-nine  head  of  sheep  and  cattle,  five  and  a  half  acres  of  wheat, 
six  acres  of  as  good  peas  as  ever  I  saw,  four  and  a  half  acres  of 
Indian  corn,'  and  so  forth. 

^November  20f/t.  The  general  court  granted  to  captain  John  IMarch 
fifty  pounds  in  consideration  of  the  brave  defence  of  his  majesty's 
fort  at  Casco  bay,  wlien  lately  attacked  by  the  French  and  Indian 
enemy,  and  of  the  wounds  he  then  received.'  * 


1704. 


Janiinnj  rHh.  '  The  town  voted  that  two  shillings  and  sixpence 
per  ton  sliall  be  paid  for  lime  stone,  provided  that  they  that  Ijuy  them, 
dig  them,  and  burn  them  in  Newbury.'  f 

'•Januarji  19th.  The  town  chose  a  committee  to  mf'asure  and  di- 
vide the  bank  against  Merrimack  river,  and  votcfl  that  two  men  be 
hired  to  watch  and  ward  vpon  the  river  until  it  breaks  up.'  f 

Fehnuirfi  2ith.  '  This  day  the  new  j)arishioners  met  in  the  house, 
built  for  their  minister  and  agn^e  to  call  the  precincit  Byfield.'  | 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  a  li'tter  from  Judge  Sewall  to  his 
brother,  William  Moody  of  Newbury. 

'Boston,  April  ist,  1704. 

'  Loving  brother, 

'  After  your  hc'mv^  here  last  I  writt  a  letter  to  colonel  Byfiekl  and  in- 
formed him  t'aat  you  iiad  named  your  infant  i)arish  Byfield.  and  would  from 
henceforth  locic  upon  liini  as  your  patron,  and  he  ready  2ratet\diy  to  acknowledsre 
any  countenauee  or  favour  he  sjionld  lie  pleased  to  aiiord  you.  To  this  etiect 
in  "more  words.  This  day  1  received  a  letter  from  colonel  Byfield,  in  which  are 
the.se  words  ; 

'  I  am  .surprised  at  the  account  yon  cive  me  of  the  name  of  a  new  town  upon 
the  river  Parker  near  Newbury.  How  they  hitt  upon  my  name  I  can't  imagine. 
I  heartily  wish  them  prosperity  :  and  if  any  respect  to  me  was  th(!  cause,  it  is 
an  obliiriitiou  upon  me  (when  God  shall  enable  me)  to  study  how  I  may  be  ser- 
viceable to  them.' 

'  I  called  it  only  a  parish.  What  if  Mr.  Hale  should  write  a  letter  to  colonel 
Byfield.  intirnatiiiir  the  matter  of  fad.  that  it  was  in  reuard  to  him.  ^'ou  hin'O 
been  informed  of  his  ])arentaLre.  He  has  only  two  dauixliteis,  .Madam  Lydt?  and 
Madam  Taylor.  1  believe  he  is  a  good  man,  and  a  fast  friend,  very  imlustrious 
and  thorow  in  promoting  what  he  undertakes.' 

Samukl   Sewall. 


*  Province  reeords. 


Town  records. 


I  Judge  Sewall's  diary. 


HISTORY    OF    NEWBURY. 


171 


March  2St.h.  The  court  again  confirmed  the  ferry  to  colonel  John 
\March,  wliich  was  granted  him  in  1687. 

August  Sd.  Colonel  N.  Saltonstall  thus  writes  to  colonel  Thomas 
Noyes  : 

'  Sir,  by  his  exceilency's  express  direction  I  command  yoa  in  her 
majesty's  name  fortliwith  to  appoint  and  set  forth  one  half  of  your 
company  by  name  and  have  tliem  ready,  well  fixt  with  arms  and 
ammunition  and  ten  days'  provision  to  march  at  an  hour's  warning. 
Tlie  commr^nd  is  strict.' 

September  2Sth.  He  thus  wi-ites :  '  I  desire  and  order  that  by 
tomorrow  morning  at  farthest  you  press  and  post  at  your  block 
houses  in  Newbury  twelve  able'souldiers,  three  at  each  of  your  four 
[block]  houses,  to  abide  there  night  and  day,  to  ,,  atch.' 

The  expiMise  this  year  for  these  block-houses  was  one  hundred 
and  six  pounds,  ten  shillings,  and  seven  pence. 

November  11th.  •  Henry  Lunt,  Thomas  Newman,  and  Richard 
Dole,'  captains  of  freighting  sloops  from  Newbury,  o.' iplained  to 
the  general  court  of  the  conduct  of  captain  Tuth'ill,  -  i  the  castle, 
who  '  brouglit  all  their  vessels  to  an  anchor,  took  them  out,  earned 
them  to  the  castle,  demanded  money  lor  a  shot,  which  he  said  was 
fired  at  them,  made  them  ))ay  six  shillings  and  eight  pence  apiece, 
one  shilling  apiece  for  pass  money,  and  three  sliilLings  apiece  to 
carry  them  back  to  their  vessels  again.' =* 

In  170:2.  'walnut  wood  was  five  shillings  per  cord,  oak  three 
shillings,'  cotton  wool  one  shilling  and  ten  pence  per  pound,  corn 
two  shillings  per  bushel.  In  this' year,  1704,  cider  was  six  shillings 
per  l)ari-el.  In  1703,  turnips  were  ojie  shilling  and  three  pence  per 
bushel,  and  1708,  one  and  eiglit  pence,  and  in  1711  sturgeon  was 
two  pence  per  pound.f 


Vn 


1705. 

February  Glh.  The  town  '  voted  to  apportion  the  flatts  among 
the  proprietors '  by  lot,  and  on  February  thirteenth,  '  that  they  should 
begin  next  iMr.  Pierce's  meadow  and  that  there  should  be  a  Avay 
above  said  lots  two  rods  broad.'  ^  By  tliis  it  appem-s  that '  Water 
street'  was  not  laid  out  till  tiiis  year. 

The  iHunbcr  of  tin-  river  lots  was  two  hundred  and  Iweiily-four. 

Febniurfi  20th.  (lovernor  Dudley  thus  writes  to  colonel  Gallon- 
stall:  '  1  pray  you  to  give  direciion  that  your  snow-shor  men  from 
NewlMiry  to  Andover  be  ready  at  a  moment's  warning  till  the 
weather  br(>aks  up,  and  then  we  may  be  quiet  awhile,' 

Mai/  2'i'/.  Tiie  '  old  meeting  house  was  granted  to  Richard 
Brown  Avith  liberty  to  remove  it.'  J 

July  11  fh.  The  '  ferry  over  Merrimack  river  between  Newbury 
and  Salisbury  near  captain  I'dward  Sargent's,'  was  purchased  by 
the  town,  of  colonel  .lohn  lAlarch,  for  two  hundred  and  forty  pounds, 


*  Piovinco  Records. 


t  Old  account  books. 


J  Town  roconts. 


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and  on  March  fifth,  1706,  '  they  sold  one  half  of  it  to  Salisbury  for 
one  hundred  and  twenty  pounds.' 

June  21th.  Governor  Dudley  orders  colonel  Saltonstall  '  to  de- 
tach twenty  able  soldiers  of  tlie  Newbury  militia  and  have  them 
rendezvous  at  Haverhill  on  July  fifth.' 

On  the  appearance  of  these  men  at  Haverhill,  colonel  N.  Salton- 
stall thus  writes  to  colonel  Noyes  : 

'Haverhill,  July  nth,  1705. 

'  I  received  your  return  of  ye  twentv  men  ve  Governor  commanded  me  t" 
call  for,  and  when  ye  persons  (which  I  can  "t  call  men)  appeared,  even  a  con- 
siderable number  of  them,  to  be  but  boys,  or  children,  and  not  fit  for  service, 
bimd  m  part,  and  deaf,  and  cross-handed.  I  stopt  till  I  waited  on  ye  governor, 
ye  twelith  mstant  and  upon  libertie  to  speak  with  him,  1  with  ye  major  have 
taken  the  best  care  we  can  to  keep  the  men  and  cluldien  sent  hither  for  ye 
present,  till  I  may  have  opportunity  to  tell  you  the  queen  likes  it  not,  to  be 
served  in  this  manner. 

'  But  one  in  special,  Nicholas  *******  by  name,  is  blind,  and  deaf,  and 
small,  an'  not  ht  to  be  continued,  and  therefore  to  be  short.  I  send  Nicholas 
*******  home  to  you,  and  do  expect  that  yo'  v  .11  send  some  able  man  in  his 
place,  if  you  have  an  a!  le  one  in  N(  — burv. 

'  The  other  diminutives  are  sent  out  to  garrison  at  present,  or  else  vou  had 
mett  with  thoin  to  return  to  you  for  ve  like  evchanire. 

'  My  heart,  il'  it  siK'aks.  is  full.  l"  wait  a  suitable  time,  to  tell  you  what  I  have 
to  say  on  her  majesty's  behalf.  To  take  boyes  for  original!/  Tirest  men,  and 
they  hired  too,  I  know  not  ye  reiTularity  of  it.  I  shall  be  i  I  -.C  co  see  you,  and 
intend  to  do  it  at  Haverhill  c  Newburv  or  a  middle  place,  as  you  will  desire, 
if  I  am  able  to  attend,  to  see  what  is  viyln  anil  what  is  ou:"  d.ity  for  us  to  do. 

Your  verv  humble  servant, 

To  lieutenant-colonel  Thomas  Noyes.'  Nathaniel  Saltonstall. 

In  another  letter  he  thus  writes  :       -         . 

'August  4th,  1705. 

'  One  Smith  catne  tliis  day  with  two  of  his  sons  in  order  to  get  a  release  for 
John  Daufonl.  I  wnuilcr  how  you  concern  vourself  so  much  about  this  man, 
to  ii-et  Danford  home,  and  (iisre;jrar(l  vour  default  and  liave  not  vet  sent  a  good 
man  for  that  jutiful  insiitiicient  sick  man  Nicholas  *******  whom  I  sent  off 
ye  sixteenth  of  July  hist  to  you  to  .send  a  better  hand,  and  he  to  returne  in  two 
days  time  to  me,  but  he  is  not  yet  come,  noi  other  for  him.  Pray  consider  what 
lyes  at  your  doore  and  do  not  deale  so  unhandsomely  with  vour  patient  friend 
and  humble  servant, 

N.  Sai.tonstall. 
u)  lieutenant-colonel  Thomas  Noye.s.' 


«fil 


17  0  6. 

Januanj  Al/i.  '  Voted  that  the  new  beli  be  hanged  in  the  turret  of 
the  meelini,'  house  with  all  convenient  speede.  Also  to  take  care 
that  the  bell  be  rung  m  nine  of  the  clock  every  night  and  that  the 
day  of  tlie  month  be  every  night  tolled.'* 

The  in.scription  round'  the  bell  is:  'let  us  love  as  brethren. 
Matthew  ■-{agley  fiaidit.  \7().V 

'  The  to  ATI!  granted  to  twelve  persons  a  piece  of  ground  between 

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the  M'atch-house  and  the  meeting  house  pond  joyning  to  doctor 
Toppan's  fence  to  set  up  a  stable.'  * 

March.  '  Many  sheep  were  drowned  ihis  month  in  Newbury, 
by  the  overflowing  of  Merrimack  river,  the  ice  being  jam'd '  f 

October  2ist.  '  The  Newbury  part  of  Byfield  was  set  off  for  so 
long  a  time  as  they  shall  maintain  an  orthodox  minister  amongst 
them.'*  = 

October  22d.     Henry  Short,  the  town  clerk,  died. 

October  mil.     Mr.  Richard  Brown  was  chosen  to  supply  his 

.   place.     At  the  same  meeting,  the  town  voted  to  employ   '  serjeant 

Joseph  Pike  to  build  a  bridge  over  Indian  river  near  his  saw-mill.'* 

Novcmtter  17///.  Reverend  Moses  Hale  was  ordained  the  minis- 
ter o(  the  '  falls '  parisli,  but  had  pn-ached  for  them  about  four  years. t 

Febrvary  28th.  '  The  town  chose  a  committee  of  three  to  prot 
ceed  and  build  a  meeting  house  at  Pipe-stave  hill.'  *  For  a  more 
lull  account,  see  under  the  year  1712. 

1707. 

Januari/  29///.  The  '  town  voted  that  there  be  a  gaole  or  prison 
built  in  Newbury,  lor  the  ease  of  the  subject,  for  the  restraining  of 
rnuch  vice  and  keeping  up  of  the  ord(T  of  government,  provided 
the  county  be  at  one  half  of  the  cost  and  char"-e.'  * 

1708. 

3Ta?j  2Gt/i.  The  general  court  'ordered  that  colonel  Thomas 
Noyes  [of  Newbury]  shall  for  the  present  ease  of  her  majesty's 
subjects,  whose  situation  makes  it  disputable  to  which  of  the  prov- 
inces they  belong,  notify  the  -.■nllemen  appointed  by  Massachusetts 
and  Aew  Hampshire,  to  meet  at  such  lime  and  place  as  he  shall 
appoint,'  111  order  to  run  the  line  'that  th.>v  may  not  be  oppressed  by 
a  demand  upon  them  by  both  govi'vnments.' 

Jtiiir  IN///.  The  town  'voted  that  the  nine  a  clock  bell  should  be 
rung  r//  nine  of  the  clock  jji-ecisely,  nightly  for  the  year  ensuing.'  * 

III///  bih.  Th'-  town's  commons  '  were'divided  into  four  general 
pastures.  The  first,  the  common  land  at  the  neck.  The  second, 
th(>  old  town  common  to  Mr.  Sliort's  farm.  The  third  to  extend 
near  to  the  dwrlling  |u)use  of  corporal  .lames  Smith  and  to  run  up 
by  the  brook,  whereon  the  new  bridge  is  to  Mr.  March's  farm  and 
by  the  southerly  side  of  said  farm  to  the  birchen  meadows  and  the 
rest  ol  said  common  at  the  new  town  to  be  the  fcnirlli.'* 

'August.     There  was  a  great  dronght.'  § 

This  year  .loseph  TiUiit  rodi^  post. 

Av<rusl  2\)th.  Joseph  Bnrtlet,  o^  Newbury,  was  taken  captive  by 
the  French  and  Indians  in  their  attack  on  Haverhill,  and  carried  into 


IF    ' 

'A '' ' 

\k  h  ^^^H'l     1 

*  Town  lorords. 
I  Parish  records. 


t  SpwalTs  diary. 
\  FahiieWs  journal. 


r 


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\WJ 


Canada,  where  he  rcmahied  over  four  years.     Sec  his  narrative, 
appendix  (1. 

liiberty  to  build  a  saw  mill  was  ganted  1o  Edmund  Goodridge 
and  John  Noyes,  junior,  for  twenty-one  years  on  '  cart  creek.' 


1709. 

March  Sfh.  Tlie  town  '  voted  that  tiie  selectmen  shall  take  care 
that  the  burying  place  may  be  fenced.'  ^ 

March  loth.  '  Voted  that  the  selectmen  be  impowered  to  dispose 
of  the  lime  stones.'  ^f 

'  Voted  also  to  jjetition  the  court  of  sessions  for  liberty  to  hang 
gates  across  the  country  high  ways  in  Newbury  where  shall  be 
thought  needful.'  ^ 

March  22d.  '  Voted  tluit  there  should  be  gates  hung  across  the 
town  high  ways,  whore  it  shall  be  thought  most  convenient  for  the 
fencing  olT  the  pastures,'  *  that  is,  the  four  general  pastures. 

'  Great  drought  this  year.  In  October,  want  of  water  for  men 
and  cattle.'  f 

'  3Iaij.  An  expedition  was  formed  against  Canada.  On  the  tenth 
there  was  an  impioss  for  soldiers.  Some  say  every  tenth  man  was 
taken.'  $ 

1710. 

March  1th.  A  committee  was  chosen  1)y  the  town  '  to  discourse 
with  Benjamin  Rolfe  about  purchasing  the  lane  called  Rolfe's  lane 
in  order  to  make  it  a  highway  for  the  town's  usc.'=^ 

In  June  of  this  year  there  was  an  extreme  drought. 

Octo1)cr  '2Sih.  Byfield  parish  was  incorporated.  It  was  at  first 
called  Rowlbury,  being  formed  from  a  part  of  Newbury  and  a  part 
of  Rowley. 

1711. 

Ajjrif  24th.  'John  Ki-nt  of  the  island  had  his  barn  bvn-nt  liy  ta- 
backo  witli  six  oxen  and  four  calves  and  a  goose,  tiiat  w  as  bringing 
young  ones.'  f 

.//////  ;30///.     Fleet  set  sail  for  Canada. 

'  Cottle's  lane,'  once  so  called,  now  South  street,  was  bought  and 
laid  out '  one  rod  and  a  half  wide  from  Ezra  Cottles  to  the  way  by 
Merrimack.' 

The  town  '  voted  thai  the  m'ainmar  school  be  removed  to  Green- 
leaf's  lane  or  near  thereabouts.'  Greenleaf's  lane  is  now  State 
street. 

'John  Swett  was  licensed  by  the  court  to  keep  the  ferry  at  Holt's 


♦  Town  records. 


t  Sevvall's  diary. 


}  Fainield's  journal. 


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rocks  September  twcnty-fillh.  Fare  twopence  for  a  man  and  four 
l^ence  for  a  horse.' 

The  town  voted  that  Benjamin  Morse  should  *  rincf  the  bell  at 
nine  o'clock  every  night,  and  sabbath  days  and  lectm-o  days,  and 
said  Morse  is  to  winge  or  rub  down  the  principal  seats  the  day  after 
sweeping  the  meeting  house.  — and  to  touU  the  bell  till  the  minister 
comes.'  ^ 

October  9(h.  Deacon  Nathaniel  ('olfni  was  chosen  town  clerk, 
in  room  of  Mr.  Richard  Brown,  resigned.  On  leaving  town  for 
Reading,  where  Ik;  was  ordained  as  minister,  June  twenty-fifth, 
1712,  he  left  the  following  on  the  fly  leai  of  the  town  book. 

'  I  have  served  Newbuiy  as  sciinolinuster  eleven  years  and  as  town  clerk  five 
years  and  a  half  a^.d  have  '".en  repaid  with  alnisc,  contempt  and  insratitiide. 
I  have  sentni^ii  as  many  to  cille;!:!'  as  all  tlic  masters  before  me  since  the  rev- 
erend and  learned  Parker.  'I'hose  I  have  hretl  think  themselves  better  than 
their  master  ((iod  make  them  better  still)  and  yet  they  may  lemember  ye  foun- 
dation of  all  their  irrowin;:  greatness  was  laid  in  die  sweat  "of  my  brows. 

'  1  pray  that  poor  unacknowledi;ing  Newbury  may  y:et  diem  that  may  serve 
them  better  and  tind  thanks  when  they  have  done. 

'  If  to  tind  a  lionse  for  ye  school  two  years  when  vo  town  had  none,  if  to  take 
the  scholars  to  my  own  Hre  when  there"  was  no  wod^d  at  school  as  frequently,  if 
to  give  records  to  the  poor,  and  record  tlnnr  liiiths  and  deaths  gratis,  deserves 
acknowledgements,  then  it  is  my  due,  but  hard  to  co?ne  by. 

Est  aliquain^rato  moritnm  cxproharo  voliiiitiis 
Hoc  fruar,  ha-c  Jc  te  gaudiasoki  luiam. 


R.  Browx.' 


A  later  wnriter  adds  the  following  lines. 


'  The  lines  above  ilo  soem  to  me  absurd, 
Which  by  a  .sciiolar  an^  left  on  rerord 
Snrh  boa.^liiii;  as  srhool  master  Ui  Very  wron.j, 
Such  boa.sting  don't  of  right  to  man  belong.' 

The  town  employed  .loshua  INIoody  to  ,e;ich  the  gTammar  school 
the  remainder  of  the  year,  ;uid  voteirtital  the  grammar  school  be 
removed  to  Greenleaf's  lane,  [State  street.] 

Town  also  '  vt)ted  that  the  .selectmen  shall  forthwith  employ  sev- 
eral persons  to  take  ciu-e  ye  boys  be  kept  in  order  on  sabbath  days 
and  satisfie  said  persons  out  of  ye  money  of  ye  parish,  to  which 
they  belong  for  their  sarvice.' 


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1712. 

March  11///.  The  town  '  voted  that  a  house  for  ye  keeping  ye 
granii  .■.iv  scliool  in  slmll  be  built  tind  set  up  near  ye  middle  way 
between  yc  old  school  honsc  and  the  little  old  house  now  standing 
by  the  v.-ay  near  frog  pond.'  * 

Jii  the  beginning  of  this  year,  a  few  individuals  residing  near 

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ij> 


what  is  called  '  the  plains,'  separated  from  the  church  and  society, 
Avilh  which  they  hud  been  iiillierto  connected,  and  declared  them- 
selves in  lavor  of  the  epi^;copal  iorm  of  worship.  As  the  causes, 
which  led  them  to  dis<ent  from  the  accustomed  order  of  the  New 
England  churches,  have  never  been  fully  explained,  'the  narrative' 
ol  those  causes,  drawn  from  authentic  documenis,  '  cannot,'  in  the 
language  of  the  reverend  doctor  JNForss,  '  fail  of  being  interesting 
and  instructive.' 

As  early  as  March,  1685,  the  people  at  the  west  end  of  the  town, 
on  account  of  the  increase  of  their  numbers,  and  their  distance  from 
the  'meeting  house,'  petitioned  the  town  for  'some  hel])  in  the  min- 
istry amongi^r  diem.  As  llie  reply  lo  ll)is  petition  was  not  satisfac- 
tory, sixteei!  persons  in  1689  erected  a  meeting-house  on  'the 
plains.'  In  1695,  the  tovni  voted  that  Pipe-stave  hill  shall  he  the 
place  for  the  meeting-house,  and  so  forth.  From  this  time  till  1712, 
those,  v>^ho  lived  nearer  to  the  meeting-house  on  the  plains  than  they 
did  to  Pipe-stave  hill,  acted  in  opposition  to  the  votes  of  the  town, 
the  authority  of  the  state,  and  a  large  part,  (forty  to  twenty-four,)  of 
the  worshipers  in  their  own  precinct,  all  of  whom  had  decided  that 
th'  right  place  for  the  meeting-house  was  Pipe-stave  hill,  while  the 
other  party  were  as  decided  tliat  it  should  stand  where  it  was,  and 
not  l>e  inoved.  As  early  as  1696,  the  reverend  Samuel  B(>lcher 
with  his  fjimily  was  residing  in  l!ie  ])recinct.=*  In  the  same  year,  a 
vote  was  jn.-sed  to  build  a  minir  try  house,  and  to  enlarge  the  meet- 
ing-!ioiise  on  '  the  plains.'  In  January,  1706,  the  precinct  voted  that 
'  they  either  wonld  remove  the  meeting  house  and  build  an  addition 
to  it,  or  else  build  a  new  meeting  house.'  February  twenty-eighth, 
'  it  was  voted  that  ye  inhabitants  of  ye  west  end  of  the  town  of 
Newbury  will  build  a  new  meeting  house  ujion  Pip*;  stave  hill,  fif- 
ty-four leet  long  and  thirty-four  feet  broad  within  the  space  of  five 
years  at  ye  furthest  and  to  meet  in  the  old  meeting  house  five  years, 
not  to  force  any  person  to  pay  any  money  or  pay  till  three  years  ])e 
expired,  and  then  to  pay  one  quarter  part' yearly  until  ye  whole  be 
paid.' 

From  this  vote  twenty  persons  dissented. 

'  Captain  Hugh  March,  Caleb  Moody  and  serjeant  John  Ordway 
were  also  chosen  a  committee  to  buiUrthe  new  meeting  house  and 
enlarg(>  tlie  nhl  meeting  house.'*  In  F(>bruary,  I7t)9,  the  \YM\y  op- 
posed to  the  removal  of  t!ie  meeting-house  froiu  '  the  plains,'  to'Pipe 
stave  hill,  petitioned  the  general  court  i'or  relief.  Amoiic:  other  things 
they  say,  that,  '  having  built  a  meeting  house  and  settl'-d  a  minister, 
which  hath  not  been  rlle(  ted  above  twelve  years  or  thereabouts,  there 
are  certain  of  our  inhabitants  since  planted  in  the  upper  parts  of  our 
precinci,  who  under  tin-  supposing  notion  of  a  major  vote  of  our 
inhabitants  have  advcntnred  against  our  declared  dissents  to  make  a 
considerable  and  chargealjle  proicss  towards  the  building  of  another 
meeting  house,  wherein  they  have  proceeded  so  far  as  to  adventure 

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npoii  om-sclvo.^  to  levy  n  lax  upon  that  arcounf  nnd  to  employ  a 
collcctcr  to  talvt;  away  our  i^'oocls,  and  so  lorili.'  '|'li,.y  proceed  to 
.state,  tliat,  'if  tlic  ahovesaid  proeess  and  design  on  hand  proceed  1o 
take  ellect  uecordiiiii;  to  th(!  desin^  of  ye  inanagerH  thereol',  namely, 
1o  lix  ye  nieetinir  house  and  ministry  solely  ihoro,  tvlierc  tlirtj  have 
now  creeled  their  new  meefhtg'  hoiise,''h  will  not  o:ily  as  we  appreli(<nd 
very  unrciasonably  necessitate  us  to  lose  ye  jtrn-u  charge  we  have 
been  at,  hnl  which  is  wors(<,  frustrate  our  good  ends  therein,  which 
were  our  own  and  our  children's  enjoymerit  of  y(^  means  of  grace, 
and  render  it  in  divers  r(>spects  more  dilliciill  and  ineonvenienTtlmn 
])efore  our  separation,  and  ;o  forth.  We  tlierefon;  pray  your  excel- 
leney  and  honors  to  vouchsafe  Ir)  us  a  favorable  regard'  to  oiu-  hum- 
ble address  that  (mr  so  very  hard  and  costly  i)rivileges  may  be  con- 
tinued to  us  in  such  sort  as  may  not  be  suppressed  ])y  oVir  oppo- 
nents, and  so  forlli.  And  we  humbly  ])ray  that  if  no  better  method 
may  be  foiuid  out  for  our  relief  ilia!  we  'may  be  set  off  so  far  as 
may  agree  with  righteousness  and  religion,  to'maintain  our  minister 
and  ministry  amongst  ourselves,  the  chiu-ge  whereof  we  choose 
abundantly  to  undergo  raliier  than  have  our  good  ends,  desires  and 
endeavours  abovesaid  frustrated  and  made  voyde.' *  Signed  by 
(ifly-live  p(-rsons— eleven  Barllets,  six  Sawyers, 'three  ]\r(>rnlis,  four 
lirowiis,  three  Baileys,  Charles  and  Joseph' Annis,  two  Thurstons, 
Iwo^ named  Rogers,  three  Littles,  and  nineteen  others. 

From  the  preceding  jx'tition  W(>  learn  that  the  meetinir-house  had 
been  (>reeted  on  Pipe-stave;  hill,  prior  to  the  date  of  the  petition, 
]m)bably  in  i1h>  Ia1t(>r  part  of  J7(IS.  Judge  Sewall,  in  his  diary, 
under  the  date  oi'  Afay  tenth,  I7()*),  says,  '  visited  cousin  Jacob  'J'op- 
paii  and  laid  a  stone  in  l!ie  foundation  of  ye  meeting  house  at  Pine 
stall'  hill.'  ^ 

On  March  tweuty-fivst,  ]7in,  the  inhabitants  of  the  precinct  voted 
'that  they  a>'eepted  of  what  was  already  done  and  authorized  the 
major  part  of  the  committee  (who  were" chosen  in  1700,  February 
twenty-eighlh.)  to  procved  and  ilnish  th(>  meeting  house  according 
to  the  time  mentioned  in  said  vote.'  f 

I^Vom  this  vot(>  twenty-Jwt-  persons  dissented. 
Among  the  pajiers  on  lile  lii  t!,-'  state  house  in  Boston,  is  one 
written  by  Jo!m  Ordway,  but  \villioul  date,  giving  his  reasons  why 
he  declined  acting  with  the  committee  appoiiited  in  170(5  to  build 
the  new  meeting-house.  'First,  because  i!ie  vote  was  dissented 
against  by  many,  and  more  oliered  their  dissent  and  therefore  a 
great  likelihood  of  contention  among  us.  Scx-ond,  because  we  had 
no  land  to  set  it  on,  nor  order  to  ])urchase  any.  Third,  because  it 
was  so  long  a  time  since  wo  were  chosen,  an'd  I  wished  to  call  a 
meeting  of  (mr  precinct  to  see  if  they  were  united,  and  if  nt.t,  I 
thouglit  it  very  uiiadvisable  to  pnucecl  in  strife  and  contention,  for 
the  building  of  a  meeting  house  dughl  to  be  carried  on  in  love  and 
l)eace.     To  what  is  above  written  captain  March  and  lieutenant 


,t    P. 


CJonornl  ooiirt  filos 

Si 


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Moody  or  ono  of  tlicin  aiisworod,  wo  hfivo  a  voto  for  it,  and  if  you 

will  not  goo  oil  willi  us,  wo  will  iioo  witiioiil  von  and  von  shall  pay 

for  it; 

On  June  second,  1710,  a  nolifioaliou  was  sent  from  the  general 
eonrl  to  the  town  of  Nowbnry,  which  was  served  on  them  by  some 
of  the  west  v\ii\  peiilioners  to  the  eonrt.  On  ,lnne  seventh,  the  town 
chose  colonel  Thomas  Xoyes  to  act  in  their  Ix'haU',  who,  on  .Inno 
ninth,  replied  to  tlu'  pelilion  of  Kobricny  ninlh,'  1701).  In  his  reply 
ho  slates,  that, 'of  the  lii')y-liv(^  signers  to  tlie  pelilion,  thirty-four 
were  at  no  charge  in  building  their  meeting  house,  several  live 
within  a  mile  of  Mr.  Toppan's  [tirst  |)arish  meeliiig-honse]  and  leu 
more  to  the  west  and  northwest  oi  the  new  meeting  house,  so  that 
it  is  impossible  that  the  major  part  should  beany  ways  aggrieved 
by  pulling  down  the  old,  or  putting  up  the  now  u\o(iing  house.' 
lie  eonoludos  by  saying,  among  other  things,  that  '  the  whole  of  the 
western  precinct  assemble  in  a  house  of  not  above  thirty  feet  square 
and  yet  rather  than  not  have  their  wills  they  would  have  two 
churches.' 

This  iM'odueed  a  long  reply,  dated  .Tiuie  twentieth,  in  which  they 
stale,  'that  Ave  now  have  one  hundred  and  thirty  families,  seventy  of 
which  do  not  liv(!  two  miles  from  the  old  mooting  house.' 

They  conclude  by  saying, 'we  must  acknowledge  ourselves  obliged 
to  him  in  the  suporliitive  degree  forspealiing  the  very  truth  eonoorn- 
ing  us  namely,  rather  tliiui  not  have  our  wills,  which  :m\  not  the 
s])aring  of  our  purses  l)ut  ye  propagation  of  ye  gos)iel  and  ye  pro- 
moting ye  edification  of  ourselves  an  I  ours,  particularly  our  young 
ones  under  the  means  of  grace  and  ye  welfare  of  inunortal  souls, 
we  had  rather  have  two  churches  and  meeting  houses  also,  most 
convenient  for  th(>  ol)taining  those  good  ends.  W<^  only  ])ray  the 
general  court  to  prove  their  servants  awhile  with  their  petilioned 
pulse  and  water  and  afterwards  as  ye  shall  see  and  lind  our  counte- 
nances, so  deal  wilh  your  humble  servants.' 

This  petition  was  iu)l  i,'ranti'tl,  and  on  the  twenty-second  of  June 
it  was  '  resolved  in  council  that  Pipi^-stave  hill  is  the  most  conven- 
ient place,  and  so  forth,  and  that  a  committee  of  the  principal  inha))- 
itants  in  the  said  precinct,  do  forthwith  attend  the  reverend  iNlr. 
!Bolchor  and  ac(iuaint  him  wilh  the  desire  of  this  court  that  when  a 
meeting  house  shall  be  erected  there  and  a  convenient  dwelling 
house  thereto  for  his  rocojitioii  with  suitable  accommodations  of 
land  and  so  forth  he  be  content  to  remove  thither.'  They  iilso 
resolved  thai   'a  tax  be  laid  on  all  the  inhabitants.'* 

Determined,  as  it  would  appo;u",  not  to  worship  in  the  meeting- 
house on  |-*ipe  stiivi!  hill,  twonly-sovon  of  liio  potilioncrs  signed  the 
following  document,  which  is  accur.Uely  copied  from  the  original 
now  before  me. 

'Jnhi  iir  Wh,  1710. 
'  We  whos  names  Arc  hoarto  Suliscriboil  doo  Airrce  And  oblidiic  oursealvcs  lo 


*  Cieiieral  court  (ilc; 


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each  othor  to  mnyntiiin  llic  ])iil)lick  iniiiislrv  Al  llni  old  meeting  liouso  in  yo 
west  ])m<'iiict  ill  iNtnvbuiy  Alllioiii^li  wo  aiffor.sud  to  piiy  Kl.swiiiuo  wluit  .sliiiil 
bi!  laviil  upon  u.s.' 

Oil  tli(!  nc;xt  (lay,  .riily  lliirlccntli,  tlic  iiiliiihitaiits  of  llio  west 
paririh  held  a  ini'C'liiii^S  !iii(l 'voted  to  obscrvt!  the  direelioii  uiid  re- 
solve! of  the  i^n-iieral  court  .lime  Iweiity-seeoiid  in  every  piirtietilar.' 
Oil  July  seveiiteeulli  tliey  had  auolher  nieeliiiir,  in  whieli  tliey  '  voted 
tolevy  !i  tax  of  four  liiindred  ijomids  to  (hdray  pari  of  the  "eharires 
of  hiiildiiiu'  a  lueelini;;  house  ministry  liouse  and  so  forth,  1o  pay 
Ir.iek  all  they  had  taken  by  dislraiiit  and  1o  eoniirin  all  that  the 
buikling  committee,  chosen'  in  .170(i,  had  done  and  gavi;  them  full 
power  to  iinish  and  so  forth.'  * 

On  the  nineteenth  of  April,  1711,  the  precinct  had  anoth(>r  meot- 
Jn^,  and  iis  tin;  tinu!  of  live  years,  durinif  a\  liieh  ihey  had  deter- 
iniiied,  in  February,  J  7()(),  ti/nieiM  in  \hv.  old  nieotin<,'-hoiise,  had 
expired,  the  majority  ]>i'oceedcd  to  carry  the  remainder  of  the  vote 
into  execution.  To  this  end,  they  chose  a  commiltee  of  three,  to 
dispose  ol  the  mini.slry  house  and  land  near  the  old  mceliiii,'-house, 
and  obtain  a  house  and  land  near  the;  new  mectinii,-lioiise,  at  I'ipe- 
stave  hill.  They  also  voted  'to  lake  the  sealer  and  boanls  and 
glass  out  of  ye  old  meetini-'  house  to  hv  improved  in  the  new  iiicet- 
m'j;  house  and  also  to  remove  the  old  meclini;-  house  and  sett  it  up 
att  Pipe-sta\o  hill  to  be  unprocvd  for  a  Oani  lor  the  ministry  in  con- 
venient time.' 

It  will  HMdily  be  M'r\i,  th;if,  as  soon  as  the  'convenient  time'  came, 
to  carry  tin-  precediunr  \,,|(>  jnti,  clU.,'!,  ihe  minority  ^\•()^lld  lind  it 
impossible  to  '  maynlain  the  ])nblick  ministry  at  the  old  meeting 
house,'  as  they  had  oljliijaleil  lliemselves  to  do,  July  twcll'lh,  171("). 
The  'convenient  lime"  soon  came,  l)ii1  not  in  the  niaimer  contem- 
plated by  the  vole.  Corroborated  iradilioii  informs  n:*,  that  a  party 
ol  UKMi  h'om  thi'  upper  part  of  the  parish,  came  down  in  a  riotou^s 
and  disorderly  maimer,  in  the  niii;li1,  tore  down  the  'old  meeting 
house,'  and  c  irried  it  olV.  The  piirish,  however.  3[arch  fifth,  171:2, 
on  account  of  tlu;  'diU'erence  amongst  ye  inliabilants  about  pulling 
down  ye  old  meeting  house  agreed  to  leave  it  to  tlu^  delerminalion 
of  thriH-  men  and  to  sit  down  satisfied  and  rest  conleiiti'd  with  their 
determination.'  * 

'I'his,  without  doul)t,  increased  the  opposition  of  the  minoritv, 
who,  being  as  det(>rniined  not  to  Mibmit,  as  the  majority  were  to 
govern,  immedialely  commenced  preparations  to  build  a  newineet- 
jng-hotise.  This  undertaliinii',  the  majority  determined  to  frustrate, 
if  possibl(>.  A  commiltee  of  six  |)ersoiis,  petitioiKnl  the  general 
eourt,  in  .Inly,  to  take  notice  of  the  matter,  and  slati;  that  '  Hamuel 
Earllet,  Joseph  Bailey,  lieutenant  Samuel  S:iver,  Joslah  Saver,  .Tohn 
Bartlet  junior,  John  Hartlel  third.  Xallian  Barllet,  rviehard  l^arilet 
third,  William  iliise,  .losliua  Urown  junior.  Slepheii  Hrowii  and 
Skipper  Luiit.  their  carpiiiler,  and  si'verul  others  have  cut  and  hailed 

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timbor  in  ordor  1()  l)uil(I  ;i  mootiii'jf  lionso  and  iiilt'iid  to  riisc  said 
rmH'tiii^f  liouso  williiii  one  lortnii^'ht  :iii(l  set  it  iit  or  lu-iir  llin  rast 
oikI  of  tlid  west  prcciiict  in  i\('\vl)ury  !i-*  llicy  iiilorni  ixs,  not  ivurard- 
ing  the  lalt!  ivsolvc  of  the  j^rciit  and  gcnt'ral  coiu'l,'  id  so  !■  rlii, 
and  so  I'oitli, 

'.//////  19///,  171  I.  'I'lic  conrt  advised  and  direct. 'd  fen*  tlic  prcsfr- 
vafion  ol'llic  peace  of  llie  town  of  Xewhury  tlial  llie  persons  herein 
named  and  otiiers  eoneemed,  desist  their  proceeding  to  ilie  raysing 
tlieir  meeting  liouse  until  there  Ixt  a  hearing  of  tlie  maiter  iJeforo 
the  court.' 

To  tills  advice  ami  direction  llie  minority  paid  no  attention,  but 
went  steadily  on  with  thi>ir  work.  I'V'rxel  opus.  This  causeil  an- 
other petition  against  them,  in  which  a  conmiitleo  of  the  majority 
state,  August  twenty-fourth,  1711,  Ihal  'iliey,  [the  minority,]"  hail 
raised  and  in  |)art  covered  a  meeiing  house  and  sel  il  ni-av  the  divi- 
ding line,  notwilhsianding  tlii>  advice  and  direction   of  the  ci)nrt.' 

'iho  court  inmiediateiy  ordered  til  It  'Samuel  Harliet,  John  Ord- 
way,  dea<'on  Joshua  15ro\\n,  .loshi  i  l^ailey.  Skipper  liimt,  and 
Penuel  Tilcoml)  l)e  anew  served  by  die  sherilV  with  a  process  and 
order  of  this  conrt  of  ninele(>nth  July,  strictly  forbidding  them  and 
their  associates  ))roceedIiig  in  tin-  work  of  ilieir  in1(  iidid  meeting 
liouso  and  so  forth,  tmd  that  said  persons  be  summoned  to  attend 
this  coinrt  on  the  second  Wednesday  of  their  fall  session.' 

On  the  twenty-third  of  October,  1711,  they  again  ]ietiliou  the 
court,  'to  grant  them  leave;  to  goe  on  Avitli  'tlieir  meeting  house 
that  they  have  Ix'mni.  that  the  farlhermost  of  forty  families  and 
about  thirty  more  of  our  neighbours  arc;  not  abovt;  one  and  a,  half 
miles  from  the  meeting  house  we  are  about  to  erect  and  prepare 
and  that  we  drrm  if,  our  diilii  lo  Diuiiifain  the  rrirrnid  Mr.  Belvhcr, 
{for  V'hom  vr  /larr  a  /icni/iar  rcs/nr/,)  viitil  v>'  dkii)  '-r  order/// 
dismisL'  They  ;dso  reepiest  lli(>  court  '  to  set  them  oil' as  a  precinct, 
making  Artichoke  river  the  dividing  line,  and  that  there  are  now 
ninety-six  families  above  Artichoke  river.' 

In  till'  general  court  records,  under  <la1e  of  November  second, 
1711,  is  the  iollowlng.  '  Tpon  hearing  the  case  of  Newbury  referring 
to  the  house  late  pretended  to  be  raised  for  the  publick  \vorship  of 
God  on  or  near  deacon  Joshua  Brown's  land,  contrary  to  the  direc- 
tion of  this  court,  of  which  there  is  no  present  necessity.  It  is  or- 
dered that  the  building  of  the  said  house  be  not  on  aiiy  pretence 
whatever  further  proceed<'d  in  but  that  the  division  of  tlnMown  into 
two  precincts  between  the  old  meeliiiij:  house  and  thai  upon  Pipe- 
stave  hill  be  the  present  division  of  the  auditory  and  is  hereby 
conllrmed  and  established  and  all  ])ersons  concerned  iire  to  yield 
obedience  accordiiiifly,  and  that  the  disorders,  thai  have  been  in  the 
procecHlings  about  the  said  house  in  r.rown's  land,  be  referred  to  the 
next  sessions  of  peace  in  I'lssex.' 

On  November  fourth,  171  I,  anolluT  petition  was  pre])ared  to  be 
presented  lo  the  general  court,  signed  hy  Abraham  IMi'irill,  .Joshua 
Brown,  and  si\ty-five  others.     In  il,  among  oilier  things,  they  pray 


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llio  t  ourt  'to  iiidul^o  \vi  ^\itll  yotir  r,ivoral)lo  grant  of  lihcrly  to 
proceed  in  yo  linisliin<j;  ul  onr  nicfling  housf,  imcl  to  ( all  t-imw. 
ortiunlox  iipprnvt'd  piTson  to  j)r('iicii  y<'  word  of  (iod  to  n.s  there, 
wlioni  (iiotwiilislimdinL,' ye  iiMial  ol^jeelions  iViiiiicd  on  yt  aceoiint 
against  us)  we  trust  under  (loil's  bli's.sing  we  Hliall  so  aeeoinniodatc 
us  itiay  be  appii'ved  l»y  your  honors  and  saiisfaetory  and  eonirorlaUJo 
to  liimseir.     Tin.-  praying,'  and  so  lortli. 

This  putitiou,  wliieh  is  now  in  tny  possession,  was,  of  eourse,  not 
presented,  pinbahly  on  aeeonni  oI'iIk-  peremptory  order  of  the  court, 
passed  Xo\.  iiiber  seeoml,  two  days  before  their  petition  was  dialled, 
but  M-liieh  tliey  probably  had  not  seen.  iU'rc;  was  -.i  dillionlty, 
wliieh  file  petitioners  knew  not  how  to  obviiite.  Tliey  had  ereete<l 
•'  Mieeting-house,  in  which  tliey  had  intended  to  selilc  'some  ortlio- 
,tj)proved  person,'  but  which  tlu;  eomt  woidd  not  allow  tliem 
eiilier  to  li-e  t)r  (iiii-h.  l'|)  to  llils  time,  it  is  evident,  i'rom  their  own 
p(!tilions,  lliat  they  had  intended  to  settle  a  congrcifational  minister 
in  th«  rnectini,'-house,  which  tliey  had  erected  i'or  that  pnrjiOH*'.  Tlio 
manner  in  w  liicli  a  part  of  them  became  episcopalians,  is  best  told 
in  the  lollowiiej;  extract  I'rom  a  narrative  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
prceinet,  Iron  commeneement  to  17-'34.  It  was  found  among  the 
papers  of  Mr.  A'eliemiah  JJartlet,  and  was  written  many  years  ago. 

'  Onr  fiillieis  (lid  not  reiriinl  wluit  th(>  court  sent  to  thorn,  but  liad  raised  said 
building  and  had  iiot  on  to  lini-h  it.  Tliis  honorable  eonrt  sent,  on  express  to 
forbid  ns  ^dini(  on  under  any  ]iretenro  whatever.  Ib'solved  I'ipe-.'Jtave  hill  to 
he  the  place  i'or  the  whole  ]);i!i-ili.  i\]r  people  went  to  this  couit  to  slww  their 
;i;rievane(>s.  No  roliei'.  Mil  -ilh  u  \tcnlli mini  Mr.  \.hilin\  Ihiihir.  rliunliiiiifii, 
IvUiiiir  It  vinj  Id  jirotrrt  litem,  lu  canii:  iiiiilir  llir  tinnrli  of  KhuIidkI  Iiv  innilil  prntfct 
thi'iii.     Sonic  lii-iiiii-  iirijiHiinlril  villi,  tliv  iliMirh  nniipliiil.     Kevercnd   Mr.   Harris 

(•anu>  ami  preached,  went  home,  sent  ^Ir. biiuipton,  chaiilain  of  a  station 

ship,  some  abiding  with  him,  .some  went  back  to  I'ipe-stave  hill,'  and  .so  forth. 

This  ]Mr.  i?ridger  was  'surveyor  of  tin;  hint's  woods,'  as  T  learn 
from  several  letters  of  his,  l)et wet n  1707  and  \7l-').  In  the  latter 
year,  he  was  in  liOndon.  Jn  .Iudg«  Scwall's  diary,  I  lind  the 
I'ollowiiisj; : 

^  Dvccnihi'i'  \')lh,\1i{)l.  (Governor  <;dls  a  council,  reads  a  letter 
from  i\lr.  (.lohii|  Ih-idger,  complainiiiij;  of  trees  cut  contrary  to  char- 
ier.    iMr.  liridger  has  been  here  ai)o\e  a  twelvemonth.' 

On  the  twenly-lirsl  of  October,  1711,  JMr.  J^ridger  thus  writes 
from  Portsmouth,  to  colonel  'J'lionias  Noyes,  of  Newbury: 

'Sir,  pursuant  to  tli(^  governor's  orders  I  do  apply  to  you  for  a 
guard  of  six  or  eight  troopers  lor  tny  guard  while  doing  my  duty 
as  surveyor  of  his  majesty's  ^\■oods  for  America. 
I  am  your  most  humble  servtmt, 

.loiiN  Bridiiei!.' 
From  the  same  diary  of  Judge   Sewall,  I  make  the  following 
extract,  namely : 

'  Wcihwiihiij,  FdiriKii-ji^  -nih,  I711-r2.  .Toseidi  bailey  of  Newburv,  introduced 
by  Mr.  Mylus,  JNb'.  Jiarris  anil  JNlr.  Bridgur  pre.'seiitcd  a  petiliuu  to  tlio  governor 


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signed  by  Abraham  Merrill,  Joshua  Brown,  Samuel  Barllet,  John  Bartlet,  Sam- 
uel Saycr,  Joseph  Bailey,  twenty-lwo  in  all,  declaring  that  they  were  of  the 
pnre  episcopal  church  ol  England,  would  no  longer  persist  with  their  mistaken 
dissenting  brethren,  had  sent  to  tlieir  diocesan,  the  bishop  of  London  for  a  minis- 
ter and  desired  protection. 

'  February  28tli.    Governor  dates  his  letter  to  ye  episcopal  church  at  Newbury.' 

In  another  part  of  the  same  diary,  lie  says,  '  on  the  twenty-sev- 
enth of  February  last  1711-12  I  saw  the  certainty  of  what  I  could 
not  believe  before  namely  deacon  lAferrill  and  deacon  Brown  and 
twenty-two  others  and  so  forth,  Kuw  though  it  is  well  enough 
known  what  was  the  spring  of  yr  motion  and' notwithstanding  their 
aprons  of  iig  leaves  they  walk  naked.' 

Their  petition  to  governor  Dudley,  and  his  reply,  are  as  follows, 
namely : 

'  To  his  excellency  Joseph  Dndlev,  the  humble  petition  of  several  freeholders 
and  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Newbury. 

•'  Whereas  your  excellency's  petitioners  have  declared  themselves  members 
of  the  church  of  England,  and  have  raised  a  building,  for  the  worship  of  almigh- 
ty God  according  to  the  manner  of  service  prescribed  in  the  said  church  we 
humbly  desire  your  excellency's  protection  and  encourasement  in  our  jast  and 
laudable  undertakinss.  We  are  convinced  that  the  church  of  England  is  a 
pure  orthodox  church,  and  so  are  resolved  to  coniinue  no  longer  in  th'at  separa- 
tion, which  has  so  unhappily  prevailed  among  the  mistaken  and  prejudiced 
inhabitants  of  this  country.  This  resolution  has  occasioned  ye  ill  will  of  our 
dissentino-  brethren,  who  levy  upon  us  more  than  ordinary  rates  towards  the 
mauitenance  ot  their  minister,  and  other  purposes  of  that  nature,  which  act  of 
theirs  is  a  very  great  hardship  and  grievance  to  us,  since  we  have  addressed  a 
letter  to  our  right  reverend  diocesan  ye  bishop  of  London  to  send  us  a  minister, 
which  we  shall  most  gladly  receive,  but  think  ourselves  under  no  obligation  to 
any  other  ;  it  being  a  thing  unknown  in  her  majesty's  dominions  yt  ye  members 
of  the  church  of  England  are  obliged  to  contribute  to  the  support  of  the  dissent- 
ing teachers.  We  therefore  pray  your  excellency's  favour,  that  we  may  not  be 
molested  for  the  future  upon  this  account  and  beg  leave  to  subscribe  ojiselves 
Your  excellency's  most  dutiful  and  obedient  servants.' 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  reply  : 

,T         .      ,  ,  ,,  'Boston,  February  28th,  nn-12. 

1  received  yesterday  an  address  and  petition,  signed  by  twenty-two  freehold- 
ers and  inhabitants  ot  the  town  of  Newbury,  setting  forth  that  they  are  de- 
clared members  of  the  episcopal  church  of  England,  as  by  law  e.stablished 
and  that  they  have  raysed  a  building  for  the  service  of  God  according  to  the 
manner  of  service  prescribed  in  the  said  church,  desiring  protection  and'encour- 
agcment  therein  accordingly,  and  that  they  have  addressed  the  ri'dit  reverend 
the  bishop  of  London  to  have  a  minister  sent  to  them,  and  that  thereupon  they 
may  not  be  obliged  to  contribute  to  the  subsistence  of  the  other  ministers  of  any 
other  profession  as  at  large  is  set  forth  in  this  petition. 

'  I  am  nl^o  informed  by  the  reverend  Mr.  Harris,  one  of  the  ministers  of  the 
church  of  En-land  in  this  place,  that  at  their  desire  he  has  visited  and  preached 
to  tliat  new  congregation,  and  had  a  very  considerable  auditory,  and  that  he 
sha  continue  so  to  do.  until  their  said  address  to  the  lord  bishop  of  London 
shall  be  considered  and  orders  given  therein.  I  am  thereupon  of  opinion  that 
the  said  petitioners  and  others  that  joyne  witli  them  oiiirht  to  be  peaceably  al- 
lowed in  their  lawful  proceedin-s  therein  for  thi  ir  Good  establishment  •  and  ou^ht 
not  to  be  taxed  or  imposed  upon  for  the  support  ahd  maintenance  of'  any  other 
public  worship  m  the  said  town.— Of  which  I  desire  all  persons  concerned  to 
take  notice  accordingly.  Given  under  my  hand, 

J.  Dudley.' 


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At  what  precise  time  their  letter  was  addressed  to  the  bishop  of 
London,  I  have  found  no  record.  It  must  have  been  between 
November  foiu'th,  1711,  and  February  twenty-eighth,  1712.  I  have 
in  my  possession  an  original  letter  from  the  bishop  of  London,  of 
which  the  following  is  a  copy. 

'Sir, 

'  I  am  very  glad  of  the  assurance  from  you,  how  well  your  people  are  dia- 
p  Ased  to  hold  communion  with  us  ;  and  you  need  not  doubt  of  all  due  encour- 
agement so  far  as  the  ditliculty  of  the  times  will  allow,  and  therefore  I  should 
be  glad  to  hear  what  it  is  parllcularly,  that  may  suffice  for  this  encouragement ; 
and  in  the  mean  tune  I  shall  endeavour  to  gett  Ihe  best  advice  I  can  in  refer- 
ence to  the  deed.  1  pray  God  prosper  your  pious  endeavours  and  pray  believe 
mi)  Sr  your  most  assured  friend 

and  humble  servant, 

Fulham,  April  19th,  1712.'  Henry  Londini. 

As  the  superscription  of  this  letter  is  torn  otT,  I  am  not  able  to 
say  to  whom  it  was  addressed. 

The  next  allusion  to  the  church  that  I  find,  is  the  following  ex- 
tract from  a  letter,  written  by  the  reverend  Benjamin  Colman,  of 
Boston,  to  bishop  Kennct.    It  i.s  dated  November  seventeenth,  1712. 

'This  last  year  a  difference  happened  in  the  town  of  Newbury  about  placeing 
their  meeting  house.  The  matter  was  brought  before  our  general  court,  who 
determined  it  accordhig  to  the  free  vote  and  act  of  the  precinct,  whereby  ihey 
had  obliged  themselves  to  each  other.  Whereupon  a  number  of  them  declare 
themselves  for  the  church  of  England.  Many  of  them  I  will  suppose  persons 
of  sobriety  and  virtue  only  in  a  pett  and  to  save  their  rate  to  their  aged  and 
worthy  minister,  Mr.  Belcher,  utterly  ii>norant  of  the  church  they  declare  for, 
nor  offended  in  the  least  with  the  form  of  worship  or  discipline,  which  they 
turn  from  ;  and  as  wide  herein  from  their  old  -pn^torls  spirit  and  principles,  which 
are  as  catholick  as  can  well  he  found  amona;  ministers  of  any  denomination :  being 
till  nc'v  amoni^-  the  most  narrow  and  rigid  dissenteis,  who  would  before  this  have 
disowned  me  in  particular  for  the  use  of  the  Lord's  prayer,  reading  the  scrip- 
tures and  a  freer  admission  to  the  Lord's  table,  than  has  been  generally  prac- 
tised in  these  churches.'  * 

The  lines  in  the  above  letter,  printed  in  italics,  are  entirely  omit- 
ted by  the  reverend  Jamos  JMorss  in  his  century  sermon,  delivered 
December  thirly-hrst,  1837,  tlie  words  'difference,'  and  '  turn  from,' 
are  changed  to  '  difficulty,'  and  '  had  observed,'  and  the  words  '  they 
were,'  before  '  most  narrow,'  added. 

Since  the  compilation  of  the  foregoing  narrative,  the  following 
letter,  or  part  of  a  letter,  written  by  the  reverend  Matthias  Plant,  and 
published  in  the  Christian  Witness,  January  twenty-eighth,  1842, 
has  been  pointed  out  to  mo.  The  date  is  not  given,  nor  the  name 
of  the  person,  to  whom  it  was  addressed.  It  wa^  obtained,  as  I  am 
informed,  by  the  reverend  doctor  Hawkes,  during  his  recent  visit  to 
England,  and  is  undoubtedly  accurate  in  its  statements. 

_  'Newbuuyport.  We  copy  the  following  from  the  Church  Record;  and,  as  it 
gives  .some  interesting  incidents  in  the  early  history  of  the  ancient  church  in 
Newburyport,  we  presume  it  will  be  acceptable  to  our  readers  : 

*  Turell's  life  of  Colman,  pp.  124,  5. 


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First,  the  history  of  biiildincr  the  church,  et  cptera.  It  was  erected  for  a 
meeting-house,  lu  1711,  by  tlic  inh;il)itaiit,s,  about  forty-live  fiunilios  in  number, 
but  boinjT  opposed  by  a  g;i-c:iU^T  body  of  peopli-  witliia  the  sami>  division  or  par- 
ish, wlio  iiad  erectod  anollior  meotiuif-house,  they  eomplained  of  them  to  the 
justices  of  the  peace,  who  corninitted  some-of  lliem  to  prison,  and  others  were 
compelled,  for  their  safety,  to  appeal  to  tiie  governor  and  council,  where  they 
met  with  no  better  treatment,  for  eiectini;  a  meetiuu-liouse  contrary  to  law  ;  (for, 
according?  to  tlie  laws  of  th(.  province,  tlie  major  part  appoints  the  place  where 
the  meeling-house  sliall  bo  buih.)  Mi:  Bridger.  of  Portsmouth,  in  New  England, 
having  information  of  tlie  severity  used  towards  these  people,  came  to  Newbury 
and  told  the  inlialiitanls  that  if  they  would  couveit  their  intended  meeting-house 
into  a  church,  he  would  engage  them  protection  from  the  /Governor'  They 
comp  ying  with  his  motion,  (after  the  perusal  of  several  churcir  books.)  he  ob- 
tained their  easement.  The  salary  is  weekly  contributions  by  the  auditors ; 
about  Iwentv  pounds  per  annum.  Tlie  materials  witli  whicii  the  cluirch  is  built 
are  wood.  The  dimensions  of  it,  fifty  feet  long  and  thirty  wide,  but  accommo- 
dated with  no  house  or  glebe. 

'  Second,  the  number  of  hearers  was  about  one  liundred,  who  at  first  frequented 
the  church  ;  (for  many  who  contributed  towards  building  the  church  never  con- 
sented to  convert  it  to  that  use.)  Their  condition  of  fortunes  is  like  unto  our 
ordinary  farmers,  who  rent  thirty  or  forty  pounds  per  annum.  They  commonly 
add  some  trade  to  their  farming.  In  matters  of  religion,  dissenters.  Their  set- 
tlements dispersed  after  the  manner  of  our  cottau-es.  upon  commons,  some  per- 
haps having  thirty  to  sixty  acres  of  land.  Some  of  my  hearers  live  in  the  adja- 
cent towns,  from  two  to  six  miles  distance.  Maiblehead  is  the  nearest  church, 
thirty-two  miles  remote.  My  constant  auditors  are  from  one  hundred  and  fifty  to 
two  liundred,  or  thereabouts,  and  daily  increase,  as  dotli  my  salary.  Their  for- 
tunes are  no  otherwise  improved  than  by  their  lands  becoming  more  valuable, 
which  IS  occasioned  by  people  becoming  more  numerous  in  the  country. 

Matthias  Plant.' 

At  what  time  the  reverend  IMr.  Lampton  came  to  Newbury,  I 
have  not  been  able  to  ascertain.  It  must,  however,  have  been  sub- 
sequent to  twenty-seventh  of  February,  1712,  as,  in  the  petition  to 
the,  governor,  of  that  date,  we  find  the  expression,  '  send  us  a  min- 
ister, which  we  shall  most  ghidly  receive.' 

From  a  letter  in  the  library  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society, 
at  Worcester,  written  by  the  rtiverend  Christopher  Toppan,  to  Cot- 
ton Mather,  November  twenty-eighth,  1712,  I  make  the  following 
extract : 

'  Perceiving  that  some  of  the  ceremonies  were  camels  too  big  for  them  at  first 
to  swallow,  he  Mr.  Lampton]  told  them  they  should  be  left  to  their  liberty  as 
to  kneeling  at  the  sacrament,  baptising  with  "the  siirn  of  the  cross  and  so  forth. 
This  has  been  wonderfully  taking  with  them  and  a  great  means  to  encouran-e 
them  in  their  factious  proceedings.'  ° 

Notwithstanding  the  '  opinion,'  that  the  jiotitioners  of  February 
twenty-sev(>nth  '  ought  not  to  be  taxed '  for  tlie  support  of  the  con- 
gregational ministers,  the  precinct  '  voted  fourteenth  of  Ajnil  that 
captain  Hugh  Mai\;h  should  go  to  the  general  court  and  ask  advice 
of  them  aboitt  gathering  Mr.  Belcher's  rate  and  the  meeting  house 
rate  of  those  persons  that  pretend  to  sett  up  ye  episcopalVay  of 
wor.ship,'  and  on  October  seventh,  desurcd  captain  March  to  proceed 
in  '  that  affaire.' 

As  to  what  was  done  '  in  that  affaire,'  no  record  informs  us. 


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March  m.  The  west  parish  held  a  meeting,  on  account  <  of  the 
ditterence  among  the  inhabitants  about  pulling  down  the  old  meet- 
ing house  selling  the  parsonage  house  and  land  and  so  forth,  and 
agreed  to  leave  the  above  mentioned  particulars  to  lieutenant  John 
White  of  Haverhill,  lieutenant  John  Foot  of  Amesbury  and  Mr. 
Ihomas  Kuuball  of  Bradford,  promising  to  set  down  satisfved  and 
rest  contented  with  their  determination.'* 


1713. 

'  Fehrmry  U.  Deacon  Abraham  Merrill,  deacon  Joshua  Brown 
[and  SIX  others]  were  requested  by  a  committee  of  the  church  to 
give  their  reasons  for  absenting  themselves  from  the  communion  of 
tlie  church.'     Their  reasons  were  : 

'  First,  we  do  count  that  you  acted  illegally  in  disposing  of  a 
house,  that  you  never  built.  is 

'  Second,  for  violently  pulling  down  our  meeting  house  and  car- 
rying it  away  contrary  to  our  minds  and  consent. 

'Third,  taking  away  from  our  brethren  and  neighbours  part  of 
their  estates  by  distress,'  and  so  forth.f 


1714. 

January  \Wi.  The  west  parish  agreed  to  concur  with  the 
church  in  caUmg  the  reverend  John  Tufts  to  settle  with  them  in  the 
ministry. 

March  20tL  The  parish  '  voted  to  give  the  reverend  John  Tufts 
eighty  pounds  a  year  till  he  settles  and  keeps  house,  and  then  ninety 
pounds  a  year.'  ^ 

April  2d.  The  parish  '  voted  to  free  all  that  oie,  or  shall  be,  for 
the  episcopal  way  of  worship  and  also  all  quakers.' 

April  5th.  The  town  'voted  to  grant  liberty  to  Mr.  Benjamin 
Woodbridge  and  Mr.  Henry  Somerby  to  cut  timber  on  Plum  island 
to  hnish  two  wliarfs  Vv^ith.' 

June.  The  ferry  at  Holt's  rocks,  was  settled  for  forty  years  on 
JNewbury  and  Haverhill  by  the  court. 

June  30th.     Reverend  John  Tufts  ordained. 

In  judge  Sewall's  diary,  I  find  the  following,  which  is  all  1  have 
been  aoie  to  find  on  the  sul)ject : 

'  December  25th.  Mrs.  Bradstrect  of  Newbury,  her  kiUincr  her 
negro  woman  [is]  much  talked  of.'  '  * 

In  this  year,  the  reverend  John  Tufts,  of  the  west  parish,  pub- 
lished a  small  work  on  music,  entitled,  'a  very  plain  and  easy 
introduction  to  the  art  of  singing  psalm  tunes,  with  the  cantus  or 
trebles  ol  twenty-eight  psalm  tunes  contrived  in  such  a  manner  as 


♦  Parish  records. 

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HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


that  the  learner  may  attain  the  skill  of  singina;  tliem  with  the  greatest 
ease  and  speed  imaginable,  by  the  reverend  Mr.  John  Tul'ts.  Price 
sixpence  or  five  sliillings  per  dozen.' 

Small  as  this  book  mnst  have  been,  to  be  afTorded  for  sixpence 
per  copy,  it  was  at  this  time  a  great  novelty,  it  being  the  first  i)ubli- 
calion  of  the  kind  in  New  England,  if  not  in  Anieviea.  As  late  as 
1700,  there  were  not  more  than  four  or  live  tunes  known,  in  many 
of  the  congregiUions  in  this  country,  and  in  some,  not  more  tliaii 
two  or  three,  and  even  those  were  sung  altogether  by  rote.  Tiiese 
tunes  were  York,  Haclaiey,  Saint  JMary's,  Windsor,  and  IMartyrs'. 
To  publish  at  this  time  a  book  on  music,  containing  the  enormous 
number  of  twentyeight  psalm  tunes,  (whieii  were  in  three  parts, 
and  purely  choral,)  although  it  was  only  a  rejirint  of  Ravenscroft, 
which  was  first  published  in  1018,  was  a  daring  innovation  on  the 
old  time-honored  customs  of  the  country,  and  tiu^  attempt  to  teach 
singing  by  note,  tlius  commenced  by  Mr.  Tufts,  was  most  strenu- 
ously resisted,  and  for  many  years,  by  that  large  class  of  persons, 
everywhere  to  be  found,  who  believe  that  an  old  error  is  better  than 
a  new  truth.  Many,  at  that  time,  imagined,  that  fa,  sol,  la,  was,  in 
reality,  nothing  but  popery  in  disguise.  A  writer  in  the  New  Eng- 
land Clironicle,  in  17:23,  thus  observes.  '  Truly  I  have  a  great 
jealousy  that  if  we  once  begin  to  sing  by  rule,  the  next  thing  will 
be  to  pray  by  rule  and  preach  by  rule  and  t/icn  comes  popcrij.^ 

In  1721,  reverend  Thomas  Walter,  of  Ro\!)ury,  published  a  book 
on  music,  entitled  '  the  grounds  and  rules  of  musiek  exj)lained, 
or  an  introduction  to  ihe  singing  by  note  fitted  to  the  meanest 
capacity.' 

In  the  preface,  Mr.  W.  says :  '  the  tunes  now  in  use  in  our 
churches,  when  they  came  out  of  the  hands  of  the  composers  of 
them,  were  sung  according  to  the  rules  of  the  scale  of  musiek,  but 
arc  now  miserably  tortured  and  twisted,  and  quavennl  in  some 
churches  into  a  horrid  medley  of  confused  and  disordiu'ly  noises. 
Our  tunes  are  for  want  of  a  standiml  to  a|)peal  to  in  our  singing, 
left  to  the  mercy  of  every  unskilful  throat  to  chop  and  alter,  twist 
and  change,  according  to  their  inlinitely  divers  and  no  less  odd 
humours  and  fancies.  No  two  churches  sing  alike.  At  present 
we  are  confined  to  eight  or  ten  tunes  and  in  some  congregations  to 
little  more  than  half  that  number.' 

September  1st..  Town  'voted  to  give  forty  shillings  for  (>very 
gTown  wolf  and  ten  shillings  apiece  for  wolfs  whelps  killed  within 
the  towne.' 


1715. 

3Tarch  IWi.  A  highway,  of  two  rods  broad,  was  laid  out,  from 
Kent  street  to  Ordway's  lane,  now  Market  street. 

Mfirch  Wlh.  .lohn  Emery,  Archelaus  Woodman,  Stephen 
Emery,  and  Benjamin  Sawycsr,  petitioned  the  town  to  grant  them 
'  liberty  to  set  up  a  fence  across  the  way  to  Turkey  hill  that  we  may 


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koop  our  sheep  from  running  away  before  we  have  sheared  them.' 
lli<!  pulilion  was  f>rauted. 

Maif  '6d.  '  Town  voted  to  give  five  pounds  per  head  for  every 
grown  wolfe,  which  shall  be  killed  within  the  town  of  Newbury.' 

j]Iaij  '2()tli.  JNIr.  John  Jiridi^er  sent  a  letter  '  to  the  ehureh  wardens 
and  vestry  at  Newbury,'  frcnu  London,  by  Mr.  Henry  Lucas,  who 
had  been  npponitcd  lli.ir  minister,  and  says  :  '  I  have  no  reason  to 
doubt  he  wiU  lully  answer  your  expectation  and  advance  the  church 
arnongst  you  to  the  jn-aise  and  glory  of  almighty  God  and  to  the 
cdihciUion  of  many  souls,'  and  so  forth. 

October  21th.  A  committee  of  the  west  end  preeinet  church, 
was  api)oint(;d,  '  to  discourse  with  certain  members  of  the  church, 
who  had  withdrawn  from  their  communion  and  see  if  something.- 
could  not  be  said  or  done  to  draw  them  to  our  communion  agniiK 
and  j1  we  cannot  draw  them  by  fair  means,  then  to  determine  what 
means  to  take  with  them.'  # 


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1716. 

Janvary  2\th.  A  day  of  humiliation  was  kept  by  the  church  in 
the  west  precinct,  for  several  reasons;  one  was,  'that  (jod  would 
prevtmt  yc;  spn-ad  of  errors  in  this  place,  especially  the  errors  of  the 
quakers.'  -(• 

We,  at  the  present  day,  can  hardly  conceive  of  tlic  feelings  enter- 
lamed  and  manifested  by  our  ancestors,  airainst  the  quakers.  In 
the  law,  passed  by  Massachusetts,  in  IGoS,  th(.'  fourth  section  thus 
C(,.>uuences.  '  Whereas  there  is  a  cursed  sevt  of  herelicks  lately 
risen  up  m  lh(>  world,  which  are  commonly  eallerl  quakers,'  and  so 
lorth.  In  l()()l,  another  law  was  passed.  Mo  ])revent  the  intrusions 
oi  the  quakers,  who  do  like  rogues  and  vagabonds  come  in  upon 
us,'  and  so  iorth.  In  16oS,  Robert  Adams,  of  Newbury,  was  in- 
dicted tor  attending  a  friends'  meeting,  in  Salem,  at  the  house  of 
Nicholas  Phelps,  to  hear  William  Erend  and  William  Leddra.  In 
IbSO,  governor  Simon  Bradstreet  thus  writes  to  'the  right  honorable 
the  lords  of  his  majesty's  privy  council.'  '  We  have  no  Ix'irgars 
and  few  idle  vagabonds,  except  a  few  quakers  from  Road  Island 
that  much  molest  us.'  In  1704,  Judge  Sewall  thus  writes.  '  I  told 
Mr.  [Nicholas]  Noyes  of  Salem  of  ye  quaker  meeting  at  Samuel 
Savers  and  of  ye  profaneness  of  ye  young  Hoags  professing  that 
her(<sy.'  These  'yoniig  Hongs,'  were  all  sons  of  .Tolin  Iloa-^  and 
r(!sided  in  the  west  parish  of  Newljurv.  In  this  year,  [171b!]  says 
judge  Sewall,  there  was  a  'qualcers'  dispute  at  Newbury.' 

In  the  account  book  of  Stephen  Jaques,  I  find  the  followin<^ 
namely :  ^' 

'  Odohcr  21rf  nifi.     On  the  sabalh  day  about  eleven  of  the  clork  in  sarman 
tune  It  grue  so  dark  that  ouo  could  not  sou  a  parson  from  one  eiul  of  tlio  nietting 


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HISTORY    OP   NEWBURY, 


hous  to  tho  other  except  it  was  agiiinst  a  window,  nor  could  iinow  another  four 
seats  ol],  nor  read  a  word  in  a  p.sahn  book.  It  contiiiiiod  near  half  an  hour. 
Sum  muii.HtPr.s  sent  for  caudels,  nuin  set  .still,  til!  it  was  li^rhtcM'.  Sum  was  ready 
to  tluuk  ye  world  was  at  an  end  ;  all  seemed  to  be  cousarued.  It  'was  a  timo 
wlien  ye  air  was  very  fidl  of  .siuoke.  It  eanu'  ilayly  down  when  it  was  a  south 
west  wind,  tlio  wnul  now  being  as  I  remember  at  est,  wliicii  mi;,'ht  bring  ye 
smoak  baek,  and  dark  clouds  pass  over,  as  it  being  cloudy  weather.  I  was  an 
eie  witness  of  this  myself. 

Stephen  Jaques.' 

For  a  similar  account  of  Iho  same  darkness,  sec  Pliilosopliical 
Transactions,  nuinber  four  hundred  and  tAventy-third. 

In  October  of  this  year,  '  governor  Shut(^  went  from  Boston  to 
Portsmoutli,  was  met  by  tlie  Newbury  troop,  conducted  to  lieutenant 
governor  Dummer's  house,  where  li'is  cxcelieney  was  finely  enter- 
tained that  niglit  and  morning.'  ^ 

In  judge  Sewall's  diary,  under  dale  of  June  twenty-second,  I  find 
the  lollowing.  '  i  essayed  to  prevent  negroes  and 'Indians  being 
rated  witli  horses  and  cattle,  but  could  not  succeed.' 

Instances  lijce  tlie  following,  were  formerly  iVeciuent.  In  the 
inventory  of  the  estate  of  Saiuuel  Morgaridge,  who  died  in  1754, 
I  find,  SO'  > 

'  Item,  three  negroes, dClOG,  6s.  Sd. 

'  Itetu,  flax, J  2,  2,    8.' 

In  the  inventory  of  Henry  Rolfc's  estate,  taken  in  April,  1711,  I 
find  the  following,  namely, 

'  Fifteen  sheep,  old  and  young,    .... 

«  An  old  gun, 

'  An  old  negroe  man,  .        .        *        . 


£2,  15s. 
2 
,     10,    0 

£T2~7s? 


.£10. 
20.' 


In  iMoses  Gerrish's  inventory,  I  find, 

'  Barley,  Indian  corn,  and  oats, 

'  An  Indian  slave, 

From  the  lax  book  of  William  Titcomb,  junior,  I  make  the 
following  extract.  This  year  the  number  of  ratable  polls  in  New- 
bury was  six  hundred  and  eighty-five,  of  which  four  hundred  and 
thirty-seven  were  in  the  first  parish,  one  hundred  and  ninety-six  in 
the  west  parish  and  fifty-two  in  the  falls  parish.  In  August,  a  val- 
uation of  the  town's  property  was  taken.  Plough  land  and  meadow 
were  estimated  at  twelve  shillings  i)er  acre,  pasttuc  land  at  six  shil- 
lings. ,  The  whole  valuation  of  property,  real  and  personal,  was  nine 
thousand  and  sixty-two  pounds,  and  one  shilling. 

In  1712  and  1713,  the  number  and  valuation  stood  thus  : 

1712,  polls  584,  estate  d£7H;J7. 

1713,  "    613,      "        7790. 

The  province  rate  was  5.?.         per  poll,  and  Gd.      on  the  pound. 
The  town  rate  was       2,   Sd.     "      "     and  2  1-2    " 
Mr.  Toppan's  rate  was  2,   (id.     "      «     and  3  « 


*  News  Letter. 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


.  Sd. 
8.' 

LI,  I 


1717. 

This  year  is  rendered  memorable,  liy  ih,;  iinusual  (nii.iitilv  of 
snow,  which  fell  on  the  twentieth  and  twentv-fourth  of  l-Vbruaiy 
In  th(<se  two  storms,  the  earth  wa.s  covered  with  snow,  from  ten   to 
filteen  leet,  and,  in  some  places,  to  twenty  feet,  deep.     Manv    one- 
story  houses  were  covered,  and,  in  many  jilaees,  paths  were  dn^, 
from  house  to  lumse,  under  the  snow.     Many  visits  were  made 
from  plac(!  to  place,  by  means  of  snow  shoes,  the  wearers  haviii<^ 
hrst  stepped  out  of  their  chamber  windows,  on  these  excursion^ 
'Love,'  we  know,  'laughs  at  loeksmith.s,'  and,  of  course,  will  disrc^ 
gard  a  snow-drift.     Tradition  informs   us,    that  a    ]Mr.   Abraham 
Adams,  wislnng  to  visit  his   'ladye  love,'    Miss   Abigail   Pierce 
mounted  his  snow  shoes,  took  a  three  miles'  A\-alk,  for  that  purpose 
and  entered  her  residence  as  he  left  his  own,  namely,  by  the  cham- 
ber window.     He  was  the  first  person  the  family  had  seeii  from 
abroad,  for  more  than  a  week.     Cotton  Mather  has  left  in  writing 
a  particular  account  of '  the  great  snow,'  and  the  many  marvels  and 
prodigies  attending  it. 

Stephen  .Taques,  in  his  account,  thus  writes.  '  The  year  1717-lS 
aftar  this  darkness  ^i' was  the  sadest  time  for  sicknes.l  A  mortal 
feaver  spred  throw  ye  country  and  in  al)out  three  months  time  it 
made  twenty  widows,  besides  many  other  parsons  swept  away.' 


1718. 

Ma?/  nth.  '  The  selectmen  were  desired  not  to  grant  approbation 
lor  above  five  taverns  and  not  above  three  retailers  of  strong  drink.'t 

lown  voted 'to  invite  the  neigiibouring  towns  in  the  -ounty  of 
fcissex  to  join  with  us  in  endeavouring  to  obtaine  a  dividin<^  of  ve 
county  of  Essex  into  two  couniies.'  f  t'         J 

June  2'M.  Richard,  son  of  captain  Richard  Gcrrish,  of  Ports- 
moutli,  was  drowned  at  the  end  of  Long  wharf. 

September  24t/i.  The  town  granted  to  IMoses  Chase,  Abraham 
Annis,  Joseph  Pike,  William  Morse,  Benjamin  Smith,  Abiel  Kelly, 
.Tonathan  Kelly,  John  Swett,  John  Carr,  and  .Joshua  Bayley,  on 
their  petition,  'eighty  rods  of  the  flatts  above  Holt's  rocks  to  fish  on 
on  condition  they  pay  as  an  acknowledgement  to  ye  town  two 
salmon  per  year  one  to  Mr.  Toppan,  ye  other  to  Mr.  Tufts,  if  then 
catch  Ihrm.^  •'        ^ 

The  value  of  salmon  at  this  time,  may  be  estimated,  by  the  fol- 
lowing letter  to  Anthony  Morse. 

'  Mr.  Morse, 

This  is  to  desire  ye  favour  of  you  to  gett  me  one,  two  or  three  or  more  of 
ye  first  sammon  yt  can  be  had  this  year.     I  am  willing  to  give  a  good  price  and 


'1 


*  October  twenty-fust,  1716. 


''(h 


1 
I, 


t  Town  records. 


100 


IlI.STonY   OF   NEWDURY. 


ii  iTr.-iii  pripo  rnflicr  than  not  hiivn  it  and  will  pay  n  man  and  horsn  for  biin^inir 
u  to  i-oiitiMil,  hilt  ohsi'ivo  ho  do  n't  brin«  for  any"hody  elno  at  yo  samo  tiinc^  If 
Ihoro  1)0  hilt  one  sin-;hj  sanimon,  Nond  awav  (orihwith.  If  more,  tiioii  it  will  holp 
yo  o.vt-aordinary  ohari;o,  hut  don't  lot  thorn  ho  k.-pt  till  almost  spoilod  in  hones 
ol  moiv.  I'niy  i<ivn  my  sarvice  to  your  father  Moody  and  I  desire  hin  help  in 
this  allair.  It  yon  have  sncci-ss  let  ye  hearer  eall  at  ]\Ir,  Woodhridnc's  and  at 
raplaiii  (.'orney'H  m  his  way  to  me,  for  they  may  liap[)en  at  yo  same  timo  to 
havo  somo.     1  shall  lake  it  very  kindly  if  you  will  ho  miiidfull, 

I  am  your  friend 

Boston,  March  twonty-first,  1728.' 


1719. 

3I(trch  C)fh.  Cottle's  lane,  now  South  slroet,  was  laid  out,  '  one 
rod  and  a  half  wide  from  High  street  to  INIerriinack  river.' 

Mnrc/i  Will.  'IVnvu  voted  to  ^rivc  Mr.  John  Wuodhridge,  forty 
pounds  '  for  the  year  ensuing  to  keep  a  free  school  for  latin  scholars, 
readers,  writers  and  eypherers,  and  sixty  pounds  for  maintaining 
schools  in  the  remote  parts  of  the  town.' 

This  year,  potatoes  were  introduced,  by  some  emigrants  from 
Ireland.  Tiiey  were  raised  in  the  garden  of  IMr.  Nathaniel  Walker, 
es(iuire,  of  Andover.  Tradition  infortns  us,  that  tlie  first  which 
were  raised  in  Newbury,  grew  on  the  land,  once  owned  by  Ilcnry 
Sewall,  lately  by  JMr.  Stephen  Nv)yes,  and  now  by  Mr.  William 
Sargent,  but  in  what  year  this  valualilc  root  first  made*  its  ap- 
pearance in  Newbury,  no  record  informs  us.  In  1732,  I  find,  in  a 
JNIr.  Morgaridge's  journal,  '  half  a  bushed  of  pcrtaters,  six  shillings,' 
and  in  the  siime  year,  '  one  peak  of  pcrtaters.'  In  the  diary  of  a 
farmer  of  Lynn,  he  mentions  'patatas,'  in  I73;3.  In  1737,  the  rev- 
erend Thomas  Smith,  of  Portland,  says,  in  his  diary,  '  there  is  not 
a  peck  of  potatoes  in  the  whole  eastern  country.'  In  1739,  Robert 
Adams  chronicles  the  sale  of  a  bushel  and  a  half  of  '  pcrtaters.' 
Their  introduction  into  general  use,  was  slow,  and,  so  late  as  1750, 
should  any  person  have  raised  so  large  a  quantity  as  five  bushels, 
great  would  Itavc  been  the  inquiry  among  his  neighbors,  in  what 
iiianner  he  could  dispose  of  such"  an  abundance.  They  were,  at 
first,  raised  in  beds,  like  onions. 

3Ia>j  \2th.  Th(;  town  voted  '  that  all  the  country  roads  should 
be  four  rods  broad,  if  they  are  not  now.' 

In  the  latter  end  of  this  year,  the  people  of  New  England  were 
much  excited  and  alarmed,  at  the  appearance  of  the  northern  lights, 
which  were  to  them  a  novelty,  and  were  supposed  to  betoken  some 
dire  calamity.  In  the  journal  of  Mr.  Stephen  Jaques,  under  the 
date  of  December  eleventh,  1719,  he  thus  writes. 

^December  Uth,  1719.  Between  seven  and  eight  o'clock  at  night,  the  moone 
being  neare  the  full,  it  might  want  two  days,  there  appeared  in  yo  north  above 
like  a  rainbow,  but  it  was  white.  It  seemed  to  reach  from  norwest  to  northeast, 
and  it  was  more  strait  in  the  middle  than  a  rainbow.  It  seemed  to  bo  eight 
foot  wide.     It  looked  like  a  cloud.    There  appeared  in  tlie  north  clouds,  whFch 


111 


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HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


in 


looked  wry  nvl  and  Hocmcd  to  flin  up  nllmost  ovnrhcnd,  ns  if  thoy  liad  hocn 
drivon  Willi  ii  liiM.i  wind  iiiid  tlwii  parted  to  tho  cast  and  no  viiiiislicd  away. 
Jho  white  cloud  or  bow  rt'inaiiicd  an  hour  or  two.  nctwccn  it'u  and  (dinvn 
tlu'r.'  appeared  a  (doud,  which  eairin  from  ye  uorwest  hk.;  a  mint.  We  could 
Hce  tiie  .stars  through  it.  It  was  us  red  u.s  blood  or  crimson,  but  not  a  thicii  red 
Aly  UK'S  saw  it. 

Stephen  Jaih/es.' 

Lewis,  in  his  history  of  Lyim,  says,  Mhc  nortiinii  li<r|ita  were 
Jirsf  oh.si'rvcd  this  year  on  the  Kcvnitevnth  of  Dcccniher.'  A.s  the 
moon  was 'lu'iiro  the  full;  imy  iKTson,  with  an  ahiuinac  for  I71J), 
can  easily  ascertain  which  is  correct,  December  eleventh,  or 
Decemljcr  nineteenth. 


.  k\ 


Ju 


1720. 

'  This  year,'  says  doctor  Ilohiics,  in  his  annals,  Mca  h.-qan  to  l)n 
used  in  New  En^land.'  It  must,  however,  have  been  n.M'd  ili  sinall 
<inantities,  many  years  before.  The  first  tea  kettles  were  small 
articles,  made  of  copper,  and  first  used  in  Plymouth  in  170:2.  The 
first  cast  iron  tea  kettles,  were  made  in  PIvmptou.  now  C:arver, 
hetween  I7()()  and  17(i;5.  'When  ladies,'  says  Lewis,  «went  to 
visiting  parties,  each  oik;  carried  her  tea  cup,  sau'-er  and  spoon. 
The  tea  cnps  were  of  the  best  china,  very  small,  contiiining  as  much 
as  a  common  wine  glass.' ^ 

From  ati  unpublished  letter,  written  in  England,  in  the  year  1740, 
.lanuary  lirst,  1  extract  the  following. 

•'  They  arc  not  much  o.-iteemed  now  tliat  will  not  treat  hiirh  and  n-o^sip  about 
Tea  IS  now  become  the  darlinir  of  our  women.  Almost  every  little  tnulesman's 
wite  must  set  sippin!.r  tea  tor  an  hour  or  more  in  a  mornini,',  and  it  may  lie  a"-ii" 
in  the  afternoon,  It  they  can  ^'et  it,  and  nolhinir  will  please  them  to  sip  it  out  of 
nit  china  ware,  il  they  can  -et  it.  They  talk  of  bestowing  thirty  or  forty  shil 
■  ii-s  up.,,,  a  lea  e.iu.paire,  as  they  call  it.  There  is  tbo  .silver'  .spoons,  silve 
tongs,  ind  many  other  trinkets  that  I  cannot  name.' 

'  1720  March  ye  first  about  half  an  hour  after  eight  of  ye  clock 
there  appeared  a  thick  strack  from  ye  northwest  to  ye  soufhcst  all- 
most  right  ovar  my  head  like  an  arch  and  it  seemed  to  be  about 
eight  or  ten  foot  in  br(>adth.  It  was  like  a  very  thick  black  smoke 
of  a  elnmiKW,  'I'^l  seemed  very  low.  It  began  in  ye  norwest  to 
vanish  and  disappear  and  so  by  degrees  to  pass  away,  the  moon 
about  half  an  hour  high  a  going  down.'     Stephen  Ja<im'.s'  jovnuil. 

^  An^uat  20fh.  'Tis  said  Mr.  Lucas,  the  church  of  England 
minister,  cut  his  own  throat  at  Newbury.  However  the  minister  of 
Marblehoad  set  a  good  face  on  it,  had  the  corpse  carried  into  the 
church  and  preached  ti  funeral  sermon.'  f 

'  November  2M.  There  appeared  on  this  day  about  eight  of  the 
clock  at  night  a  light  in  ye  north  almost  like  that,  which  appeared 
the  last  year,  it  being  red,  but  not  so  much.     The  Friday  night 


I 


ver 


*  History  of  Lynn. 


t  Judge  Sewall's  diary. 


199 


MrsTony  op  Nnwnunv. 


Bl 


before  there  npneart-d  in  ye  north  between  seven  nnd  eight  n  light 

lilic  tho  (lay  li^'lit,  when  it  breaks  thr iiiiirler8  oC  an  hour  hii^h.' 

i^lip/u'nJu(jue.H*  Journai. 

172  1. 

Sf'/ifi'inhfr  mil.  'Y\w  town  (^hose  deacon  Nathaniel  Collin,  en- 
ii,'n  William  'rilcomb.  and  lieutenant  llenrv  IloHu,  to  receive  tho 
town's  part  of  the  lifly  Ihousiuid  pounds,  irnmled  by  iMassaehusettB, 
thirteenth  of  July,  I7:i(),  and  let  it  ont,  on  <,'ood  security,  in  sums 
not  less  than  ten  pounds,  nor  more  tliiui  thirty  pounds,  at  live  per 
eentiun,  for  no  Joui^'cr  period  than  one  year  at  a  time.  For  the  use  of 
this  money,  the  town  was  to  p;iy  ih,.  >^\;x\v  four  per  <cntum.  This  was 
the  famous  '  huid  bank  '  scheme,  as  it  was  called,  which  proved  so 
injurious  to  the  estates  of  many  individuals. 

In  judf,'e  Scwall's  diary,  of  this  yenr,  I  lind  the  followinj^. 

'  Thomas  Hale  [was]  made  a  jiislice.  I  opposed  it,  because  there 
are  Jirr  in  Nnrlmri/  ahrnd//  and  he  had  lately  kept  an  ordinary  and 
sokl  rum.  I  was  answered  he  had  laid  it  down.  I  lear  it  \\  not 
be  lor  the  honour  of  the  persons,  nor  of  the  jroverrior  and  council, 
nor  for  tla-  welfare  [of  the  town]  unless  perliaps  dwelling  on  the 
neck  he  may  irive  check  to  traveling'  on  th(!  Fiord's  day.'  Within 
the  limits  of  'ould  Newi)erry,'  there  nre  now  forty-four  justices. 

Sf'plt'mbcr  -nsL  This  year,  tlie  small-pox  prevailed  in  Ne., 
England.  ]\ror(>  than  eight  hundred  died  in  Boston,  wliere  it  bean 
Newbury  .scut  twenty  pounds  to  the  poor  of  Boston,  in  wood.  "^ 


w 


1722. 

The  town's  stock  of  anmiunition  was,  this  year,  examined,  and 
found  to  consist  of  seven  bags  and  two  casks  of  Ijullets,  and  eight 
ciisks  of  pow(hT,  c(,usisting  of  live  hundred  and  forty-three  jMrnnds 
of  bullets,  and  three  hundred  and  liftv-s(!vcn  ])ounds\)f  powd(>r. 

'  The  fever  began  at  Rowley  and  n'.any  pcopel  dyed.  TIk^  like 
was  not  known  in  ihat  towu.'"^ 

^I'lilrmbrr  ilth.  The  first  parish  in  Newburv,  gave  tluMr  assent 
to  the  formation  of  anotli(>r  parish,  in  Newbury,"  which  was  formed 
Septeinher  nineteenth,  and  was  called  the  third  parish  in  Newbury, 
now  iirst  in  Ncwburyport. 


1723. 

'  Fchruartj  25th.  An  unusual  high  tide,  higher  by  twenty  inchea 
than  was  ever  known  before.  At  the  same  time  the  sea  at'lluu])- 
ton  ])roke  over  its  banks  for  some  miles  together  and  continued 
running  for  several  hours.'  f 


*  Stephen  Jaqiios'  journal. 


t  Cotton  Mather 


HISTORY    OF   NKWULrnV. 


193 


Fthrunrn  2')//i.  «  Hrcond  parish  hons^rht  of  drarori  Williiirn 
Moras  for  mww  pomuls  fen  -liillinnrs  I,, If  i„i  i,,.,-..  ,,r  land  near 
Swrli'.s  Icrry.  and  a  (|iiartrr  of  an  acri!  ol"  l-J/.-lvicI  llal(>  for  ii  bury- 
iiij,'  nlacc'     Swell's  I'crry  was  near  Holt's  rocks,  now  Kock's  l)ridir('. 

^  March  VM.  A  connniltn'  of  tlmM-  was  clioscn  to  coninulo  t7in 
COBt  of  an  alms  lionsc  and  to  view  ji  place '  to  set  if,  ai\d  so  lortli  # 

April  mil.  iMr.  Daniel  llolhrook  died.  IFe  hadhcen  called  to 
assist  in  \\w  work  of  the  ministry,  imd  w.aild  have  been  ordain.uj, 
had  Ins  hie  hccn  spared.  '  I  le  was  taken  sick  in  the  pnlpit  on  Snn- 
diiy  Aprd  lomlecnth,  alter  he  had  commenced  preaching,'  and  was 
()l)lif,'ed  to  leave  the  meetinif  house.' f 

'  This  year,'  says  Stephen  .laipies,  in  his  journal,  'was  the  sadest 
year  as  ever  was  known  in  Xewlmry,  lor  iii  ye  month  of  April  iheru 
died  near  forty  parsons,  most  of  tliein  i<rowii  np,  sometimes  two  a 
day,  s()metiiii;-s  three  a  day,  y(Hin<,'  men  and  wimmen.  About  iIk; 
twenty-lonrth  day  of  the  month  the  town  eapt  a  fast.  There  ^vas 
nine  parsons  lay  dead  that  day  and  I  do  beiiev(!  lilly  or  sixty  or 
more  lay  sick  and  it  pleased  (i,„|  |(,  hear  the  prayers  ()f  his  people 
and  to  aiisar  them  in  a  wouderfiill  mannar,  for  "the  mies  was  the 
next  inoriiin-r  they  were  all  bel'cr,  and  so  it  was,  for  very  fne  dy.d 
iiltarwan'  O  that  men  \vonl(l  praise  the  l.oni  for  liis  goodness 
and  his  wonderfull  works  to  ye  children  of  men.' 

'Ma// '.hi,  \7i-\.  Xewbury.  Time  of  health  now.  No  person 
IhrM  I  know  of  liavin^  been  lately  s<-i/.ed  witii  the  distennx-r  that 
hath  proveil  so  inorial.'f 

On  occasion  of  this  mortality,  .lohn  Calef,  son  of  John  Calef  of 
Newbury,  ai,'ed  nineteen,  wrote  and  published  three  elegies,  which 
a  writer  thus  Jiotices,  in  tlit^  New  England  Chronicle,  \)f  August 


If  iH  Willi  l!ic  utmost  concern  I  woiild  niw  represent  to  von  tlio  hard  fate 
which  oin-  countrymen  are  like  to  suiter,  who  luippiMi  to  .li.«  Willi  a  irood  name! 
Ihe  ileail  liave  iieeii  Ion:?  eiioii^rli  aluiseii  and  the  iivin;.- dislinhed  by  the  very 
(  re-^  ol  the  colleiro  and  the  pjon-li  in  their  el.>-iac  perlormauces  iiisomncli 
tliat  some  consid.Malde  persims  anuniu:  us  have  I.een  cniistrained  to  do  hut  little 
Sood  an(  appear  useless  ail  their  lilelinie,  to  avoid  the  i,rr-rnflion  of  an  ele.^y 
at  their  death.  We  hav(>  indeed  lliitlered  ourselves  ihat  it  woidd  he  l.elter livinrr 
and  heller  dym-  lor  all  honesi  men  in  New  Huulaud  than  it  has  been  for  a  lum'^ 
(lieil  years  pa-^t,  but  to  our  morlilicalion  we  liiid  lhat  this  spirit  of  versilicalioii 
hass|)read  ilseil  amonir  the /(»■<,/ a////r.  no  less  than  three  clr<rir.'i  havin<r  been 
lalc.y  wrote  and  published  by  ^Ir.  .I.ihii  Calf  of  Xewhiirv.  one' of  which  Ts  mho(1 
the  (lailk  Iff  tli(  irrcirmi  Mr.  Daniel  Ifnlhmok  of  Xvwhxnj,  who  was  t.ikeii  sick 
onllui  day  he  ilrv<r,ml  to  preach  madam  Krver's  funeral  sermon;  and  how  well 
tins  hleatiH;r  Calf  has  performed  his  task  and  embalmed  the  memory  of  tlie  de- 
ceased the  following  lines  may  shew. 

'  On  s;d)l);itli  (l.iy  he  wont  his  way, 
As  111'  was  iiscil  to  do, 

(Joil's  house  unto,  iliiit  they  mii^ht  know 
What  he  li;ul  for  to  •^hi'w  . 

Wlica  ho  canie  tiicre  he  went  to  prayer, 
But  very  liiint  he  spoke, 


*  Town  records. 


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lilSTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


M'? 


\Mi' 


His  mortal  wound  inclosed  round, 

And  ijave  a  fatal  stroke. 

His  !"   t  lio  took,  his  ho;<d  he  shook, 

A  mournful  si^ih  he  irnvn, 

A  shepliord  true,  the  liook  went  through. 

Not  daunted  to  the  ^nave. 

Tie  oftiui  said,  v.'hen  that  he  laid, 

His  dyins;  bed  upon, 

Distracted  he  should  surely  be, 

Before  his  breath  was  i^one. 

(iod's  holy  will  he  must  fuUi!, 

But  it  was  his  desire 

.For  to  declare  the  sermon  rare 

Concerning  mad  iiu  Fryer. 

A  man  in  pain  doth  pray  in  vain, 

I,  less  he  prays  to  (iod 

To  him  let 's  jiray  both  nii^ht  and  day. 

To  ease  his  heavy  rod.' 

'  His  soeoiid  perfonnance  is  a  mournful  eleuy  occasioned  by  the  great  mor- 
lalilv  in  the  fiimily  of  j^Ir.  Uenrij  Ckvk  of  Newbury,  which  is  chicliy  made  up 
of  the  day.s  of  the  month  aiu.l  ages  of  the  pt,r.sons  duce;i!sed.  And  after  he  has 
barbarously  buried  the  dead  one  after  another  as  they  were  bom,  he  cries  out 
in  a  rapture 

'  If  sucn  vines  wither  well  may  we, 
Whose  bodies  so  corrupted  be. 


'  H;.;  tliird  tjet  of  jingles  is  called  a  funeral  elea'v  occasioned  by  the  death  of 
]\Ir.  EdmundTitcomb,  at  the  close  of  wluch  he  liiis  a  few  Hues  to  shew  that 
death  is  certain,  but  tli(>  time  when  very  uncertain,  and  to  make  his  argument 
good,  he  mentions  die  death  of  Sarupsux  and  says  -no  hodij  ran  deny  hni  thut  he 
died'  But  methinks  tliis  is  but  a  poor  way  of  aiu-uing  for  allowing  it  to  be  true 
that  Sampson  did  die.  yet  it  is  as  true  that  he  died  by  his  own  hands  and  some 
are  of  opinion  that  if  lu'  hud  not  bivn  so  foolish Iv  heroic  as  to  pull  his  house 
down  about  his  ears  he  iniaht  have  lived  till  this  time. 

'  To  omit  any  f,;rther  reuuirks  on  this  e!e:ii()u:raplier,  I  think  it  necessary  to  in- 
form the  woritl  that  since  the  publication  of  his  denies  he  has  been  ir'spired 
with  a  great  desire  of  learniii\>-,  and  in  order  to  prepare  himself  for  college  he 
has  made  a  vigorous  attempt  upon  his  utadcnrc  and  could  boast  before  two 
credible  witnesses  that  he  h,:d  ;ot  it  all  by  he^irt  twice  in  a  week. 

'  1  hear  his  next  trial  of  skill  will  be  on  Cole's  dictionary,  aiul  that  h."  promi.ses 
to  get  that  by  heart  iu  three  mouths'  time,  which  if  he  does,  it  will  be  the 
interest  of  ail  gc/j/ZoHcn  and  Indies,  deacons  -ind  minisiers  to  beware  ot  dying  in 


good  termb  with  his  calve' s  head  and  pluck,  for  tl 


loubt 


'  Hix  brains  )'••'' issue  forth  and  as  thctj  f.<j 
C'onsrcnl  into  a  I'loiir.if'id  'Usi/, 
Thv  .<f».sc  of  irhii.'i,  if  mortal  man  ran.  dice  m 
His  verse  may  raise  the  dead  or  kill  the  living 


TibuUus: 


This  year  there  vvas  a  ship-yard,  and  ships  were  built,  by  Thorla's 


bridge, 


17  24. 

The  war  with  the  NorridgcwocU  Indians,  whicli  began  in  1721, 
•was  this  year  ended,  by  the  death  ol'  Sebastian  Ralle,  the  French 
Jesuit.  He  was  .'vilied  by  lieutenanl  [Richard]  Ja(|ues,  of  Newbury, 
This  information  wc  obtain  from  Hutchinson,  who  obtained  from 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY, 


195 


captain  [Jerominli]  Moulton  a  minnto  and  circumstantial  account 
of  iJie '  battle.  He  says,  '  captain  Moulton,  witli  about  eighty  men 
reached  Norriclgewock  about  three  P.  M.  August  twell'th  and  com- 
menced  the  attack.  Alter  driving  the  Indians  (about  sixty  men 
and  one  hundred  women  and  children)  over  the  river  and  killing 
many,  they  returned  to  tlie  town  and  Ibimd  the  Jesuit  in  one  ol  the 
wigwams  firing  uj)on  a  (v.\y  of  our  men,  who  luid  not  pursued  after 
the  enemy.  Mouhon  had  given  orders  not  1o  kill  the  Jesuit,  but  by 
his  firing  from  the  wigwam  one  of  our  men  being  wound,  a  lieu- 
tenant Jaqucs  stove  open  the  door  and  shot  him  tjirough  the  head 
Jaques  excused  himself  to  his  commanding  officer,  alleging  that 
Ralle  was  loadijig  his  gun  and  declared  that  he  would  neither  give 
nor  take  cjuarter.' 

On  July  sixth  of  this  year,  reverend  Christopher  Toppan,  of 
Newbury,  wrote  a  long  leller  to  Cotton  lAIather,  who,  if  any  thing 
strange,  prodigious,  or  unnatm-al  happened,  was  sure  to  obtain  an 
acccMxnt  of  it.  Prom  this  letter,  now  in  the  library  of  the  Americaa 
Antiquarian  Society,  in  Worcester,  I  make  the  following-  extract. 

'  Coiioerning  the  amphisbena.*  as  soon  as  T  received  your  commands  I  made 
dih;ron\  enquiry  of  sevi>ral  ])ersons,  wlio  saw  it  after  it  was  dead,  but  they  could 
give  mo  no  assurance  of  its  baviu'ir  two  heads,  as  thev  did  not  strictly  examine 
It,  not  calling  it  the  J.'ast  ni  (|a.-Miou  because  ii  seemed  as  .eally  to  have  two 
heads  as  one.  They  directed  me  for  further  iniormatiou  to  the  person  I  before 
spoke  ot,  who  was  out  of  towr  :nul  to  the  i)ersous.  who  saw  it  alive  and  killed 
It,  which  were  two  or  three  lads,  about  twelve  or  fouiteen,  one  of  which  a  pert 
.sensible  youni;ster  tolii  me  yt  one  of  his  mat(>s  rnnnim;-  towards  him  crved  out 
there  was  a  snake  with  iwo  heads  runniny  after  him.  upon  which  he  rmi  tohim 
and  the  snake  -eltm-  into  a  i)ud(lle  of  water,  he  with  a  stick  pulled  him  out 
alter  which  <t  came  towards  hiin,  and  as  he  went  backwards  or  forward,  soe  the 
snake  wouhl  doe  likewise.  After  a  little  lime,  the  snake  upon  his  strikiu'--  at 
him,  aathered  up  his  whole  l)odv  into  a  sort  of  (juoil.  except  both  hraih.  wTdch 
kept  t()wards  him,  and  he  disiincllv  .-aw  two  moiilhs  wnd  two  v/»)i.-.s  (us  thev  are 
vulyaiiy  called)  which  stiinrs  or  tonunes  it  kept  imltinLr  f.jrth  after  the  usual 
manner  ot  snakes,  till  he  killed  it.  Thus  far  tlie  lad.  This  day  undersfandin.^ 
the  uorson  mentioned  before  was  returned.  1  went  to  him.  and  asked  him  aboiit 
the  premises,  he  told  me  ho  narrowly  examined  the  snake  heini,'  broushttohim 
by  the  lads  ;iitcr  it  was  dead  and  he  found  two  distinct  heads  one  at  'each  end 
opeiumi  .'"'"'i  \^'"1»  !i  l"tl'-  S"i'k:  ill  each  of  which  he  .saw  a  stin"'  or  tonirue,  and 
that  eacl  head  liad  two  eyes,  throwiiiir  it  down  and  iioiu£r  awav,  upoif  second 
thou-hts  hi.  began  to  mistrust  Ids  own  eves,  as  to  what  he  had  seen,  and  there- 
tore  returned  a  second  time  to  ecamine  "it.  if  possil)le.  more  .strictlv.  but  still 
ioimd  It  as  betore.  This  person  is  so  credible  that  t  can  as  much  l)elieve  him 
asjl  Ihae  .seen  him  mv.self.  He  tells  me  of  another  man  yt  examined  it  as  he 
did,  but  I  cannot  yet  meet  willi  him. 

'  Po^tscrijit^  Before  eusealimi-  \  sjxike  wiih  the  ot1i(>r  man.  who  examined  the 
anij.usbena  (and  he  is  also  a  man  of  credil)  ,iiid  he  assures  me  vt  it  had  really 
two  h-ads,  one  at  each  end,  two  moullis.  two  sliuL's  or  tongues  aiid  ,so  forth 

•  Sir  I  have  nothing  more  to  add  but  that  he  may  liav?  a  remembrance  in  vour 
prayers,  who  i.s,  Sir^  your  most  liumbie  servant 

ChrISTOPIIEK    Toi'l'AX.' 

«  A  smart  close  winter,  ending  Fe])ruary  twenty-eighth,  1725.'  f 

*  Aniphishpiin, !,  siiakn  wiili  two  lieiufs,  one  whore  the  tail  sliouUl  have  been. 
t  Koverenil  '1.  Smith's  diary. 


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HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


at 


17-25. 

This  year,  the  third  parish  in  Newbury,  now  first  in  Newbnry- 
port,  erected  their  meeting-house,  of  whieli,  tlie  earliest  notice  lliat 
I  find,  is  the  following,  from  a  letter,  written  by  William  JMoody, 
of  JByfield,_to  his  brother,  judge  Sewall,  dated  seventeenth  of  Feb- 
ruary, 172-5.  He  thus  writes :  <  our  people  at  towne  are  going  to 
build  another  meeting  house,  but  intend  to  set  it  so  nigh  to  Mr. 
Toppan's,  that  I  fear  it  will  make  great  contention.  Newbury  are 
great  sufferers  this  day  for  what  have  happened  by  contending  about 
the  place  of  a  meeting  house.' 

Febrnari/  2oth.  TJie  town  '  voted  that  a  towne  house  should  be 
built  and  should  be  set  at  the  upper  end  of  Greenleaf's  lane,'* 
[now  State  street.] 

June  2o(k.  On  this  day,  the  third  parish  meeting-house,  now  first 
in  Newburyport,  was  dediVated.  The  sermon  was  preached  by  the 
reverend  John  Tufts,  of  Newbury.  The  house  was  at  first  forty-five 
by  sixty  feet,  in  length  and  breadth,  but,  in  173G,  was  ei^'arged,  tbu3 
making  it  sixty  by  eighty  i'eet.  It  stood  in  what  is  now  the  market 
place,  in  Newburyport,  the  steeple  fronting  the  rivi-r.  The  pulpit, 
which  was  on  the  westerly  side,  standing  near  where  the  town 
pump  now  stands. 

August  2/L  The  reverend  John  Lowell  was  called  to  the  work 
of  the  ministry,  having  preached  to  the  jxxiple  from  June  twenty- 
seventh. 

August  31s;.  '  About  midnight  a  company  of  rioters  assembled 
on  horseback  and  with  crow  bars  broke  the 'doors,  bolts  and  locks 
of  the  gaol  in  Newbury  and  took  off  on  spare  horses,  Isaac  Brown 
and  Hugh  Ditson  charged  with  capital  olfences.  Governor  William 
Dummer  offered  a  reward  of  fifty  pounds  for  their  apprehension.'! 

M)i'eiiiber  SOf/i.  A  committee,  consisting  of  'lieutenant  colonel 
Richard  Kent,  major  Joseph  ( Jerrish,  deacon  Caleb  iMoody,  lieuten- 
ant Charles  Pierce  and  captain  John  INlarch  were  appointed  to  use 
all  proper  means  with  oth(>rs  of  other  towns  for  to  get  the  county  of 
Essex  divided  into  two  counties.'  ^ 

In  November,  the  general  court  '  ordered  a  committee  to  view 
the  situation  of  the  westerly  (>nd  of  the  first  parish.'  This  committee 
met  December  first,  and  reported  l)eceiub(>r  eighth. 

December  2'i)f/t.  '  Tho  third  parish  vot^d  to  give  INIr.  John  Ijow- 
ell  one  hundre.'d  and  thirty  pounds  yearly  salary  and  two  hundred 
to  build  him  a  house.' 

The  general  court  confirmed  the  dividing  line  of  the  third  parish, 
which  was  'Chandler's  lane,  [now  Federal  street.]  thence  to  captain 
John  March's  farm,  [now  Sanuiel  Tinn-low's,]  thence  to  the  line  of 
the  second  parish,'  with  this  condition,  that  those  who  wished,  might 
remain  with  the  first  pirisli.  About  thirty  remained.  Eight  fami- 
lies, south  of  Chandler's  lane,  wished  to  belong  to  the  new  society. 


*  Town  records. 


t  News  Letter. 


HISTOHY   OF   NEWBURY. 


197 


1726. 

January  12lh.  The  third  congregational  church  in  Newbury, 
was  this  day  gathered,  by  the  reverend  Caleb  Gushing,  of  Salisbury. 
Twenty-two  of  the  male  members  had  been  dismissed,  .lanuary 
second,  from  the  first  church  in  Newbury,  for  that  purpose.  The 
day  was  observed  as  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer.  A  sermon  was 
preached  by  the  reverend  Moses  Hale,  of  Eyfield. 

January  19t/i.  The  reverend  Jolin  Lowell  was  ordained  pastor 
of  the  third  church  in  Newbury.  Sermon  by  the  reverend  Thomas 
Foxcroft,  of  Boston. 


1727. 

January  17th.  The  town  '  voted  that  a  work  house  and  a  house 
of  correction  should  be  built.'  # 

March  22d.  P'irst  parish  '  voted  to  give  the  third  parish  the 
old  bell.'  *■ 

May  10///.  A  highway,  of  two  rods  wide,  was  laid  out,  '  from 
ye  country  road  near  to  his  honor  the  lieutenant  governor  Dummer's 
house  to  the  parsonage  land  in  Byfield  parish  on  the  land  of  John 
Dummer  esquire,  IMr.  Richard  Dummer  and  Mr.  Joseph  Noycs.'=i^ 

May  2'3(h  Tlie  third  parish  '  voted  to  get  a  bell  weighing  'about 
four  hundred  pounds.' 

Jdy  2olh.  '  Town  voted  to  make  a  good  and  suflicient  way  over 
Ash  swamp  — said  way  to  be  covered  with  suitable  wood  of  thir- 
teen leet  in  length  and  \\ic  wood  to  be  well  covered  with  gi-avel  all 
across  the  swamj),'  #  and  so  forlh. 

September  mil.  '  A  mighty  tempest  of  wind  and  rain,  which 
did  mucli  hurt  by  land  and  sea.'  f 

_  '  In  the  nionlh  of  September,'  says  Stephen  Jaques,  'on  Saturday 
in  ye  alternoon  ye  wind  began  to  be  very  strong  and  increased  more 
in  the  night.  It  blew  down  and  brake  six  trees  in  my  ould  orchard 
and  trees  all  over  ye  woods.  There  never  was  ye  like  known.  It 
twisted  young  walnut  trees  in  ye  midst.  It  raised  a  great  tide, 
which  swept  away  near  two  hundred  load  of  hay,  that  was  in  swath.' 

As  the  earth(iuake,  which  happened  in  Octoljcr  of  this  year,  was 
one  of  the  most  viohMit  ever  felt  in  New  England,  and  as,  accordino- 
to  Hntehinson  and  other  writers,  'Ihe  shock  was  greater  at  Newbury 
and  other  towns  on  Merrimack  river  than  in  any  other  part  of  Mas- 
saehusetls.'  T  shall  .be  a  little  inore  minute,  in  m'y  extracts  from  ac- 
counts written  in  Newbury  at  the  time.  From' the  records  of  the 
episcopal  church  in  Newburyport,  kept  by  the  reverend  Matthias 
Plant,  I  make  the  following  extract. 

'  October  2!),'/(,  1 727.     BHn-  tli,;  Lonl'.s  day  at  forty  minutes  past  ton  the  .same 
evening,  them  wits  a  mo.st  tt'inble,  .sudden  and  amazing  earthquake,  which  did 

*  Town  records.  t  Reverend  Mr.  Phillips. 


198 


IIISTOIJY    OF    NEWJJURY. 


cliunM?..  in  tho  n-rpntnst  pmt  of  tlu-  mM-hhoiirliood,  sliook  iin<l  threw  down  tops 
ol  (•hiiniiics  ami  in  miuiy  plan's  the  ,.;ir.!,  opciu'd  ii  foot  or  more.  It  continued 
ver3-  t.Tiihi.;  hy  trc(|ucnlly  biuslint;  and  sliockinir  our  houses  and  histed  all  that 
wcek(tlu>Mstt)(Mn!j;  the  loudest  shock,  and  eiirht  more  that  immediately  fol- 
hnved,  louder  than  the  rest  that  followed)  sometinu^s  breakini.-  witii  loud  claps 
SIX  times  or  ollener  m  a  day  and  as  ofleu  in  the  nioht  until  Thursday  in  the  said 
week  and  then  somewhat  ahale.l.  Upon  Friday  in  the  eveninif  and  about 
niK  niuhf,  and  about  break  of  day  and  on  Saturday  there  were  three  very 
Joiul  claps.  \\e  also  liad  it  on  Salurday,  the  sabbath.'and  on  jMonday  morning 
about  ten,  tho  much  abate.l  in  tlie  noise  and  terror.  Upon  the  Tuesday  follow- 
inir,  .Xovember  seventh,  about  eleven  o'elocdv  a  yery  lend  clap  upon  every  day 
or  nmhl  more  or  less  three,,  four,  six  tim.^s  each  day  or  ni-ht  and  upon  the 
twelllh  belli-  the  Lord  s  day  twice  from  betwixt  three  to  half  past  four,  in  all 
whu'h  space  of  time  some  claps  were  loud,  others  .seoininnly  at  a  distance  and 
much  abale(  .  I  pen  .^londay  two  hours  before  day  a  lend'  burst  and  at  half 
past  two  ill  the  alleriioon  another  burst  was  heard  somewhat  loud.  On  the  nine- 
teenth about  ten  at  nialit  a  very  loud  shock  and  another  about  break  of  day 
.somewhat  lure  abated,  but  at  llav.Mhill  a  very  loud  burst,  makin-  their  houses 
rock,  as  that  oyer  nuiht  did  with  us.  It  was  Lonrs  day  in  the  evening.  It  hath 
been  heard  twice  since  mucli  abated.  The  very  lirst  shock  opened  a  new  sprin<' 
by  my  iaiher  Samuel  I5artl,.fs  hous..  in  the  m(>a<low  and  threw  un  in  the  lower 
i-Tonnds  in  iNewbury  several  loads  of  whit.,  sand.  After  that  some  loud  claps, 
shockmsv  our  houses.  (1,,  D,.,.,.mber  sevenleendi.  about  half  an  hour  after  ten 
beinij  Lord  s  day  at  evenim.-  a  very  loud  burst,  .shocking  our  houses.  Another 
about  lour  the  next  morning;-  abati'd.' 

The  next  account,  is  one  written  by  Stephen  Jaqucs,  and  is  as 
follows,  namely  : 

'  On  (he  twenty-ninth  day  of  October  between  ten  and  eleven  it  beinn-sabath 
day  ni-ht  tiiere  was  a  terabel  earllupiake.     The  like  was  never  known'' in  this 

and.  (t  came  with  a  dreadful  roreiuu'.  as  if  it  was  thu)i<ler,  and  then  a  pounce 
like  irrale  iruns  two  or  three  times  close  one  after  another.  It  lasted  about  two 
miiiils.  It  sliook  down  briks  trom  ye  tops  of  abundance  of  chimnies,  some 
allmost  all   tie  heads.     Knight's  and   Toppairs  fell.     All  that  was  about  ye 

louses  trembh.d,  beds  .shook,  some  cellar  walls  fell  partly  down.  Benjamin 
1  lumer  s  stone  williout  his  dore  h-ll  into  his  cellar.  Stone  wals  hdl  in  a  hmidred 
plasis.  x\h)st  peo|)el  gat  up  in  a  moment.  It  came  very  often  all  ye  iii-ht  altar, 
and  it  was  heard  two  or  threi"  tunes  some  days  and  niirhts,  and  on  the  sabath 
day  nmhl  on  ye  twenty-l.jurth  of  December  followiiur  between  ten  and  eleven 
It  was  very  loud,  as  any  time  except  ye  (irst,  and  twice  that  niuht  aftar  Init  not 
so  loud.  Ihe  lust  uiiiht  it  broke  out  in  more  than  ten  places  in  ye  town  in  ye 
clay  low  land,  blowin-  up  ye  .sand,  sum  more,  sum  less.  In  o'ne  place  near 
Spring  islaml  it  blew  out.  as  it  was  jud^'cd  twenty  loads,  and  when  it  \yas  east 
on  coals  ni  ye  night,  it  burnt  like  brimstone.' 


^  The  followin,^r  is  a  copy  of  n  letter,  written  by  Henry  Sewall,  of 
Newhnry,  to  his  kinsman,  jitd-ro  Saninel  Hewall,  of  Boston.  It  is 
printed  in  tiie  Boston  News  Letter. 


,„  ,    .  'Ncu-hunj,  Novcmhcr'ilst,  iT27. 

'  Honored  sir : 

[  'J'hro"  God's  goodness  to  us  we  are  all  well  and  have  been  preserved  at 
the  time  ot  tin;  lati;  great  and  terrible  earthquake.  We  were  sittinu  by  the  lire 
and  aliout  hall  after  ten  at  night  our  hou.se  shook  and  trembled  as  if  "it  would 
have  fallen  to  pieces.  Being  alfriirhted  we  ran  out  of  doors,  when  we  found 
the  ground  did  trenibl(>  and  we  were  in  irreat  fear  of  lieini:  swallowed  up  alive 
but  God  pivscrved  us  and  did  not  sullcr  it  to  break  out.  till  it  ■.■(>(  forty  or  fifty 
jods  from  the  house,  where  it  broke  the  ground  in  the  common  near  a  pkico 


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the  tunc  of  thi-  late  ^reat  and  terrible  efirtli(juake.  Wf:  were  sittln"  by  the  tiro 
and  about  half  after  ten  at  ni-ht  our  house  shook  and  trem])led  as'if 'it  would 
have  fallen  to  pieces.  Ueinu-  alliiirhted  we  ran  out  of  doors,  when  wo  found 
the  firoinid  did  tremble  and  we  were  in  -rreat  fear  of  beinir  s\vallow(Hl  up  alive, 
but  God  preserved  ns  and  did  not  sulier  it  to  break  out.  till  it  •'■„;  r„ity  o,-  HtW 
i-ods  Ironi  the  house,  where  it  broke  the  ground  ia  the  coninion  near  a  place 


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called  Spnn- i.slantl,  and  tlioro  is  from  sixfoen  to  twonty  loads  of  lino  sand 

like  a  .sprinn;  l)ut  is  now  dry  and  th,.  -loiuid  closed  up  a-iiiii,      1  liavo  ..M.t  soiri, 
of  tho  saml  that  you  may  sue  it.    Our  lioL.se  kept  slu'ki.iT,-  about  tlirl^o  rni.VutS!' 

December  'Hh.  The  churcli  connected  with  the  third  parish,  in 
Newbury,  mot,  and  ciiosc  a  select  number  of  the  nienilnuN  'to 
meet  onee  a  month  and  consider  what  may  be  lor  the  rrood  of  tho 
town  in  general,  especially  the  clmrclies  i.ril  and  more  particularlv 
their  own  church  The  other  churches  proceeded  hi  the  same 
method  and  upon  the  same  design.'  * 


1728. 

The  reverend  Mathias  Plant  thus  continues  his  account  of  the 
earthquakes  this  year. 

'January  third,  about  nine  at  niyht  an   easy  clap.     Salurday  nin-|,t  and  day 
five  c  aps.     iMom  al,out  six  at  niuht  to  four  Sanelay  mnrnin.r  somo  pooplo  s    d 
It  coritinued  for  half  an  hour  without  (.•(Msing  burst  upon  burst.     Unon  Wodnos. 
day  January  tu-enty-fourth  about  half  au  hour  aftor  I'ino  at  ni,ht  one  loud  b  rst 
followed  m  half  a  minute  by  anothor  mud.  almfd.     I'pou  Lord's  day  Januty 
tweuty.e.ohth  another  ea.sy  burst  about  half  affr  siv  in  the  n.,)r.unVa        e^r 
about  ten  same  morn, no-  easy.     At  tho  same  ui^ht  about  on.,  o\docU-       iS 
burst      Monday  January  twenty-ninth  it  was  heard  twice.     Tnesdiy   he   fhirti- 
eh  about  two  in  the  afternm.n  there  was  a  very  loud  clap  ecpuil  to  any  but  the 
first  t^^3r  terror,  shakimc  our  houses  so  that  many  people  were  afraid  of  their  t^al! 
ling  down   pewter  and  so  forth  was  shaken  od'dressers  at  considerable  lis  „ce 
Another  shock  much  abattnl  about  half  an  hour  afterwards,     tVl.ruan     w     tv 
first  about  half  after  twelve  at  midnight  a  considerabl..  loud  bu        \^  b    ,  fj 
twenty-mnth  about  half  after  one  P.  SI  another.'     lAlr.  P.  also  men  ions  sicks 
as  having  occurred  'March  seventeeuch  about  Uiree  A.  M.  Marc  iiu'te  euh 
about  forty  minutes  jiast  one  P.  M.'and  at  nine  the  same  ni^ht.     An       u  e 
eighth  about  tiye  P.  M    May  twelfth  Sunday  nioruin,^  about  tori v  mi     le       ^st 
nine  a  loud  an.l  long  clap.     May  seventeenth  Friday  about  eiuht  P.  Ma  loud 
and  long  clap.     May  twenty-second  several   claps  in  the  moniin.-,  i.ud   aln 
ten  .he  same  morning  a  very  loud  and  Ion-  clap.     May   twenty-fourth  about 

1  m"  lullr'tlli   i'a  Hr'  I'll  ''r  '"  ."'".  ";'"""1^'-  'J"""  -'--''i ' 't  nine 
dap.'  ^  ^^^'  '""-'"'y-l'^^'l  ^i^""t  t^'-e^k  of  day  a  very  loud 

January  30lh.     '  About  two  o'clock  a  shock  of  an  (earthquake ' 

'ftrch  18//,  The  third  parish  voted  to  add  thirty  pounds  to 
the  thirty  pounds  granted  bv  the  town,' f  for  tlie  schools 

April  im.  '  The  town  r(«ceived  of  the  Slate  one  thons;uid  three 
hundred  and  twenty-eight  jxiuiids,  and  lifteeu  shillin-.s,  bdnc^  their 
proportion  of  the  si.xty  thousand  i)ounds,  raised  i,y  the;  sTate  to 
be  loaned  to  raise  a  revenue.'  J 

Ma//  13///  The  town  '  voted  not  to  build  a  town  house  or  an 
alms  hou.se  in  a  short  time.'  J 

'  In  July  there  was  a  great  drought  in  Maine.'  § 


♦Third  parish  church  records. 
I  Town  records. 


t  Third  parish  records. 
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November  2C)th.  Tlu;  third  ptirish  chose  a  pomrnittpo  <  to  sclnot  a 
phuH!  for  ii  scliool  lioiisi'  iiiid  also  for  a  buryiiiff  place'  This  was 
the  commencement  ol'  tlie  buryin-,'  phice  near  Frog  pond. 


1729. 

Jntwarn  '^'^th,  1729,  died  Daniel  Emery,  nged  tliirfy-six.  Tn  his 
will,  he  gave  sixty  pounds  for  the  use  of  tlie  ininisfry,  of  whicli, 
ten  pounds  was  for  eoinnuuiion  plate,  twenty  pounds  more  for  the 
first  chur(!h,  which  should  be  gathered  at  Chester,  and  a  niinisler 
ordained,  twenty  jiounds  for  Nottingham,  twenty-live  pounds  to  the 
parish  in  which  he  belonged,  twenty-five  jiounds  to  Mr.  Tufts,  fifty 
potmds  to  his  kinsman  at  college,  and  one  thousand  pounds  to  his 
brothers  and  sisters,  besides  providing  liberally  for  his  widow. 

April.  Will.  The  inhabitants  of  the  u[)per  piu-t  of  the  west  parish, 
on  this  day  made  an  agreement  'to  build  a  meeting  house  fifty  feet 
by  thirty-eight  and  twenty  foot  stud.' 

Aug-Kst  '2Slli.  The  pi.-ople  in  the  upper  part  of  the  west  parish, 
petitioned  the  g(Mieral  court,  to  divide  the  west  parish  into  two  pre- 
cincts. They  state,  among  other  things,  that  they  '  have  near  eight 
score  dw(!lling  houses,  besides  churchmen  and  qualvcrs.' 

From  an  accurate  maj)  of  the  west  parish  of  Newbury,  taken  by 
John  Brown,  esquire,  and  dated  S(^ptember  fifteenth,  1729,  on  which 
is  drawn,  a  representation  of  every  house  in  the  parish,  and  the 
name  of  each  occupant,  it  appears  that  the  number  of  houses  was 
at  that  time  ojie  hundred  and  eighty-four,  and  number  of  lamilies 
one  hundred  and  eighty-three, 

'March  nineteenth  betwixt  two  and  three  P.  M.  earthquake  very 
loud.  September  eighth  at  half  past  three  P.  M.  another  shock.  Sep- 
tember twenty-ninth  about  half  past  four  P.  M.  another.  October 
twenty-ninth  the  earthquake  was  heard  twice  that  night,  one  of  the 
times  being  about  the  time  of  night  it  was  the  first  time  we  heard 
it  two  years  past. 

*  Novernber  fourteenth  about  eight  A.  M.  it  was  loud  being  at- 
tended with  two  cracks  like  unto  two  sudden  claps  of  thunder  and 
shook  the  house.  November  twenty-seventh,  about  eight  P.  M.  a 
very  loud  noise  and  a  large  shock  of  the  earthquake.  It  was  heard 
at  Ipswich.' =i^ 


1730. 


Fehrunrii  Idth.     '  The  earthquake  was  pretty  loud  before  day.' 
March  lOlh.     Town  voted  not  to  aj)probate  more  than  sLx  per- 
sons to  keep  houses  of  public  entertainment. 

3Iarch  17th.    «  The  third  parish  voted  to  set  their  school  house 

*  Reverend  Matthias  Plant's  journal. 


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by  Frog  pond  about  two  thirds  of  the  way  between  Fish  street 
[now  Stiite  sireel]  and  Green  street.'* 

This  y,,ir  th.;  '  l.uryinir  p|,,p,.,'  n„w  b.irying  hill,  near  Frog  pond, 
was  inelosed  wilh  a  boiird  Icnce.'*  •»     «        '  bl         > 

Tn  llijs  year,  sho.-ks  of  an  earlhcpiake  were  notieed  and  recorded, 
on  l<el.niary  eighth  about  eight  P.  M.  and  at  midnight.  F.-hruarv 
twen  y.s.xih  two  sluu-lvs  a  .piarter  b<'f(.re  two  A.  M.^  Ar.ril  twelfti, 
n  HM.t  eight  1'.  M.  July  twenty-.-ightli  abont  nine  A.  M.  An-nst 
hiteenth  two  shoeks  alx.ut  eight  A.  IVL  Noven.IxT  sixth  about 
eleven  A.  M.  a  loud  shock.  November  fourteenth  alx.ut  nine  A. 
n.;r"  u  u  November  twenty-fifth  another  about  twenty  minutes 
past  eight  PM.  December  eleventh  at  a  .piarler  before  s.«ven  P. 
M.  December  ninet.-enlh  about  half  past  ten  R  i\[.  a  very  heavy 
.slioek.     It  was  perceived  at  Boston  and  Portsmouth  about  e.pial  to 


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_  Febrmr>/2-M  The  town  voted  this  day  'to  build  a  town  house 
m  Chanc  ler  s  lane,'  now  Federal  street.  From  this  vote  fiftv-seven 
persons  dissented.f  *' 

^iMmrk  m  Mr.  John  Woodbridge  was  ehosen  a  ^rammer 
school  master  for  the  year  ensuing  and  shall  have  fortv-five  „ound3 
lor  his  servic(<  and  s/in//  /lai-c  Hour  but  Lalia  sr/iohirsfj 

March  m.     '  The  town  granted  lil>erty  to  William  Johnson  and 

nine  others  to  build  a  wharf  at  the  foot  of  Chandl.'r's  lane   fnow 

ledeml  street]  on  condition  it  be  built  within  four  years  and  that 

he  inhabitants  of  Newbury  may  fasten  their  hay  boats  or  gondolas 

to  said  wharf  Avithout  paying  for  it.' 

Liberty  was  also  givi-n  to  Abiel  Somerby  and  others,  to  build  a 
whad  atthe  foot  of  queen  street,  now  Market  street,  on  sunilar 
conditions.  ' 

^  March  22d.  William  Ilsley  and  Joseph  IMorse  junior  were 
ehosen  and  appointed  to  tune  the  psalm  in  ye  meeting  house  in 
lime  ol  pul.lick  worship  and  take  their  turirin  that  work  that  it 
may  be  done  with  ye  more  ease  and  cheerfulness.     And  the  said 


■\T~  ■  .     ,      ,•  .      .         :  '„ -••-....»  .-^-.        ^nnj.     lilt;    BtllU 

Morse  is  a|.pointed  to  sit  m  the  fore  seat  of  ye  south  body  with  ye 
said  lisley  lor  ye  managing  said  work.' J  ' 

March  •29fh.     The  second  parish  voted  to  desire  the  general  court 

to  conlirm  the  setting  olf  the  fonrlh  parish,  from  tlu;  second,  which 

was  done  by  a  committee,  on    lA'hniary  twcntv-second,  aecordincr 

o  a  vote  passed  by  the  second  parish,  January  sixth,  consenting  \o 

llie  division.  '^ 

Ma//  lOfh.     '  Town  vol.«d  to  give  to  Ihc  first  parish  in  Kitlery 
lilty  p:)niids  towards  i.uilding  a  meeting  house.'  f 

Shocks  of  the  earthquake  were  this  year  notieed  liy    Mr  Plant 
as  liap]3ening  'January  seventh,  about  seven  P.  I\I.     Januarv  elev- 


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enth  about  mi(liiic;hl.  March  Hovt'iith  five  P.  M.  INTay  twoiify- 
eighth  niiH!  A.  iM.  July  tilth  ahout  .nuurisc.  Aii^mi.sI  iwculy-lirst, 
evening.     OctolxT  twcnty-lirat  about  I'U'vt'u  P.  M.  It>u(l  and  long.' 

On  I'V'hruary  lirst,  a  .sul)scri|»ti(tn  piipcr  was  circulalrd,  lor  ilu! 
pur|H)si!  of  raising  money  to  hiiiiti  a  town  luuisc,  'to  he  sut  where 
will  be  best  entertaining  lor  horses,  lor  strangers  and  so  I'orlh,'  pro- 
vided  'any  person  will  give  the  land  to  set  said  honse  upon  U^tweeu 
the  meeting  house  and  Arehelaus  Adams'  tavern  house.' 

It  was  linished,  and  eontlitionally  deeded  to  th(!  county,  February 
eighteenth,  ll'-\'>,  reverting  to  the  town  and  parish,  should  no  court 
be  held  in  it  for  nine  months.  The  original  cost  of  the  building 
was  live  hundred  and  thirty  pounds,  and  ten  shillings,  of  which  the 
county  paiil  two  hundred  pounds,  and  individuals  contributed  the 
remainder.  It  was  oceupicsd  as  a  court  house,  town  house,  school 
house,  and  so  forth,  and  stood  on  land,  given  by  Henjauiin  iMorse, 
opposite  the  head  of  Alarlborough  street,  where  captain  Amos 
Knight's  honse  now  stands,  it  remained  there  till  .March  iilih,  17^0, 
when  it  was  bought  ut  auction  by  John  iMycall,  esiiuire. 


1732. 

^Janunru  T)///.  This  day  died  in  Dedham  that  noted  \  :  in, 
Samuel  Hyde  in  the  one  hundred  and  sixth  year  of  his  age.  ITo 
was  a  faithful  soldier  to  the  Engiish.  Ft  was  said  by  himself,  arr). 
of  him  by  others  that  he  killed  nineleen  of  the  enemy  Indians  (lin 
kept  the  account  on  his  gun)  and  would  fain  have  made  up  tho 
number  twenty.'  ^ 

This  'noted  Indian'  was  for  some  time  a  resident  in  NewbnrV) 
of  whom  many  anecdotes  are  still  told,  indicative  not  only  of  his 
wit  and  shrewdness,  but  of  his  incorrigible  mendacitv.  The  phrase, 
'you  lie  like  Sam  Hyde,'  or,  'you  lie  lik<'  old  Hyde,'  expresses  to  a 
native  of  Newbury,  the  ne  pins  ultra  of  lying.  Among  the  testi- 
monies on  Hie,  among  the  county  papers,  is  one  concerning  hiin,  in 
a  complaint  against  a  citizen  of  Newbury,  which  is(|uite  character- 
istic, but  not  suitable  for  ])ul)lieation.  In  a  petition  to  the  general 
court,  August  twenty-liftli,  1()7(),  Daniel  (Jookin,  senior,  lestilies, 
'that  Sam  and  .leremy  Hyde  have  aecpiitted  lliemselves  well  both 
for  courage  and  fidelity,  especially  Sam  Hyde,  whom  they  have 
witnessed  to  be  one  of  the  best  and  most  active  of  them  all,'  and 
that  '  he  took  at  Bridgewater  on(!  young  man,  and  five  young  wo- 
men and  children  at  other  places,  and  he  sl(!W  one  lusty  young  man 
and  brought  his  hand  to  captain  Hunting  at  mount  Hope.' 

May  I2f/i.  The  town  voted,  that  'the  school  be  kept  at  the 
town's  house  by  the  meeting  house  in  the  first  parish  this  year.' 
This  was  ])robably  the  watch  house. 

'  September  ijt/i,  at  eleven  P.  ?I.  there  was  a  small  shock  of  an 
earthquake.'  f 


*  Nfws  Letter. 


t  Poi-ish  records. 


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1733. 

'  Till'  winlcr  of  173:2-3,'  »n\n  Strplicn  Jsuiucn,  '  wns  very  severe. 
'I'hf  snow  (ill  iilioiit  y<'  ruiirtrfiilh  of  Xovcriihcr  mid  liiy  miiil  April! 
Iliiy  wiis  tliiTi-  |)oiiM(is  ii  loud.  I'fiich  tri'c's  bt-sran  to' bloHssoiii  ve 
cIcvcMlli  of  INIiiy,'  (old  style.) 

iMdir/i  \:\//i.  A  rommitlcc  was  appointed  «to  procure  a  frame 
1111(1  othrr  materials  for  a  town  house,'  wliieli,  on  INIay  eleventh,  llio 
town  granted  '  liberty  to  the  lirst  parish  to  build  within  two  years 
on  their  ()\vn  eost  and  eharjj;e  near  lieuteiiant  .lohn  March's  honse,' * 
and  whirl),  on  December  lonrth,  the  iirst  parish  'voted  should  be 
(or  the  use  of  the  county.' f 

^  (hfohrr  I!)///,  Fridp'y  abont  midniii;ht,'  says  Mr.  Tlant,  'there 
was  a  lonj,'  and  loud  noise  of  the  earth(|uake.' 

'  November  Alh.  AFpscs  Hradstrcet  kilh-d  on  I'lum  island  in  a 
violent  storm  sixty  wild  ij;eese  with  a  club.'  % 

Novembn-  I'ytlt,  A  moose,  seven  feet  liigh,  was  kilJcd  in 
Salisbury. 

1734. 

^Jnnmri/  Wfli,  abont  twenty  minutes  past  ten  A.  M.  there  was 
an  eartlKpiake  lony  and  loud.' § 

'  JaiiKori/.  Mr.  .loini  Stickney,  aged  forty-one,  a  noted  coaster,  fell 
overboard  I'rom  his  sloop  and  was  drowned.' 

'  The  winter  of  17:];i— 1  was  very  moderate.' 

Maij  nil.  The  town  granted,  on  certain  conditions,  'liberty  to 
have  a  bridge  built  over  the  river  Parker  provided  it  may  be  l)uilt 
and  maintained  without  being  a  charge  to  this  town  of  Newbury 
and  within  t(!n  years  from  ye  date  hereof.' 

\June  29l/i,  at  a  (juarter  past  three  P.  M.  there  was  another 
earth(piaK-e.'§ 

'ylll^■llsf.  A  great  storm.  Much  hay  carried  off  and  Indian 
corn  damaged.' 

Srpfrniber  i'Sf/i.  Town  '  voted  that  the  town  house  shall  be  fin- 
ished with  the  remainder  of  the  interest  money  of  ye  first  bank,  and 
that  said  house  shall  be  made  sun;  to  the  town  and  county.' 

Srjitrinbrr  2'M.  A  committee  was  chosen  to  ct)mply  with  '  the 
order  of  court  July  thirtieth  to  build  a  j^rison.' 

^Or/oberWi,  al)out  twenty  mimites  past  "ten  A.  M.  an  earthquake.' § 

^Noreniui,-  1:2///.  about  one  A.  M.  we  had  the  loudest  noise  and 
greatest  slioc'k  (except  the  first  of  ail)  very  awful  and  terrible  and 
long.     November  sixteenth  at  six  A.  INI.  si  severe  shock'  § 

*  Town  records.  f  Parish  records.  J  Boston  paper.  ^  M.  Plant. 


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173d. 

•  February  2(1,  about  six  P.  M.  there  was  a  shock  of  the  earth- 
quake nretty  loud.'  ^ 

'  March  llth.  The  town  voted  thirty  pounds  to  mok-j  Rolf's  lane 
a  town  way.' 

'  Marrh  2U[,  about  lialf  past  ten  A.  M.  there  was  a  loud  noise  of 
the  earthquake.'  *= 

In  May  this  year,  a  disorder,  called  the  throat  distemper,  appeared 
in  Kingston,  New  Hampshire.  The  first  per^^oii  who  took  llie  dis- 
ease, was  a  ]\Ir.  Clough,  who,  having  exuuiined  the  swelled  throat 
of  a  dead  hog,  died  suddenly  with  a  swelling  in  liis  throat.  In 
about  three  weeks,  three  chiklren,  about  a  mile  from  IMr.  Clough's, 
were  attacked,  and  died  in  tliirly-six  hours.  In  fourteen  towns  in 
New  Hampshire,  nine  Inuidred  and  eighty-four  died  between  June, 
1735,  arid  July  sixteenth,  17:36.  In  Massachusetts,  the  mortality 
was  nearly  as  great  as  in  New  Hampshire.  A  particular  account 
of  the  num.jer  in  each  town  in  the  two  states,  was  published,  by 
the  reverend  INIr.  Fitch,  in  Portsmouth,  and  the  reverend  John 
Brown,  of  Haverhill.  Of  the  mortality  in  Newbury,  Stephen 
Jaques  thus  writes  : 

'  A  sickness  bei?an  by  the  water  side  about  Septemb-r  at  Thomas  Smith's, 
which  carried  oti'  two  of  his  oliildron  and  prevailed  arnoiirr  the  cliildreii,  so  that 
by  the  middle  of  February  there  died  from  Chandler's  lane  [Federal  street] 
with  the  falls  eiirhty-one  persons.  John  Jioynton  lost  eii.dit  childreu.  Benjamin 
Knight  had  three  buried  in  one  irrave.'  IVIr.  John  Boyton  had  four  eliildren 
buried  in  one  f,'rave,  two  on  Saturday,  and  two  on  Sunday,  December  twentieth 
and  twenty-first.     In  another  place,  Stephen  Jaijiies  writes  as  follows. 

'  Thvr^ihiu,  October  29tli.  My  wife  went  into  a  chambei',  that  was  locked,  to 
fetch  candels.  that  was  in  a  bushel  under  a  bed,  and  as  she  kneeled  down  and 
took  her  candels  and  laid  them  on  the  bed  and  thrust  back  tlie  half  bushel, 
there  came  out  a  child's  hand.  She  saw  the  liners,  the  hand,  a  streked  boy's 
cote  or  sleeve,  and  upon  sarch  there  was  uo  child  m  the  chand)er.  On  Thurs- 
day a.  fortnite  aftar,  my  Steven's  son  Heiny  died.  The  next  Thursday  Ebene- 
zer  died.     The  next  jAIonday  morning  his  eldest  son  Stephen  died.' 

Jii/i/  2Wi.  Town  '  chose  Joseph  Gei-rish  and  Henry  Rolfe  es- 
quires to  use  proper  means  to  have  yc  county  of  Essex  divided  into 
two  counties.' 

'  In  Sej^tember  a  Newbury  sloop,  Offin  Boardman,  master,  with 
a  cargo  of  rafts  at  her  stern  was  overset  on  her  passage  from  Casco 
bay  to  Boston  and  thirteen  persons  drowned.' 


1736. 

Fehriiary  2d.     There  was  an  earthquake. 

March.     The  third  jmrish  'voted  to  enlarge  their  meeting  house 
thirty-five  feet  back.'     It  was,  when  erected,  in  1725,  forty-live  by 

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HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 

sixty  feet.  It  was  now  eighty  by  sixty  feet.'  They  alao  'voted  to 
petition  the  general  court  to  liave  liberty  to  raise  money  in  order  to 
keep  a  graunuar  school  for  theini  ('lves,'as  the  first  pari"'s]i  has  peti- 
tioned, and  be  freed  I'rom  paying  to  any  oilier  school.'  On  the  twenty- 
fifth  of  jyurch,  the  first  parish  had  petitioned  for  the  same  liberty.''^ 
'Julij  rSfh.  About  tlirce  ciuarters  past  nine  in  the  forenoon,  there 
was  a  loud  shoelv  of  the  eartliquake.'  f 

September.  The  ways  for  landing  of  fen-y  boats  was  settled  by 
court.  -  ^ 

September  21st.  A  committee  of  three  'was  appointed  to  treat 
with  his  majestie's  justices  about  moving  the  gaol  now  standing  in 
Newbury.'  J  '  ° 

September  2hf.  '  Tlie  town  leased  March's,  now  Newbury  port 
ferry  to  Eenjainin  Woodbridge  and  Moses  Gerrish  for  seven  years 
'jt  thirty-six  pounds  a  year.'  J 

'■Oetulwr  1st.  Aboiit  ludf  past  one  A.  M.  there  was  a  great  and 
very  loud  shock  of  the  earthquake.'! 

'November  12f/i.  About  two  A.  M.  another  shock,  and  about  six 
the  same  morning  another.'! 

'December  29t'h.  There  was  a  suri)rising  bloody  appearance  in 
the  heavens.'  §  ^      » i 

In  this  year  thirteen  families  in  Byfield  buried  all  their  children 
With  the  '  throat  distemper.' 

'  In  the  year  1734  a  few  caterpillars  of  a  peculiar  kind  appeared  on  the  oak 
trees  as  soon  as  the  leaves  beuaii  to  i,n-ow.  In  1 735,  a  miieii  lai-e.-  number  one 
hini(li;pd  to  one,  were  .so.ni,  but  in  this  year  the  luiinbci-  of  catemillars 'was 
astouishin-  Almost  all  the  woods  in  JIaVerhill  and  Bradford,  some  part  of  the 
east  end  exoeplod  the  eastoily  part  of  Chester  and  Audover,  many  thousand 
acres  ol  thick  woods  had  then-  leaves  and  t\vi;rs  of  this  year's  "rowth  entirely 
eaten  np.  They  cleared  olf  every  -ree;i  thin-  so  that  th'.-  trees  were  as  naked 
as  in  the  depth  of  winter.  They  wer.;  laruer  than  our  common  caterpillar  -uid 
made  no  nests  No  river  or  poud  could  stop  them.  They  would  swim  like 
dous,  and  travel  in  nnaccountable  armies  and  completely  cover  whole  houses 
and  trees  Cart  and  carria-e  wheels  would  be  dyed  green  from  the  numbers 
tliey  crushed  in  then'  progress.'  || 

Richard  Kelly,  of  Amesbury,  in  his  diary,  says,  'they  are  larger 
than  tiie  orchard  cattn-pillar,  I)iit  smooth  on'  the 'back  with  a  black 
s1r(>ak  witii  while  spots.  They  are  tliought  by  many  to  be  the 
palmer  worm.' 


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1737. 

'Febnmr//  Qth.  Aliout  a  quarter  past  four  P.  M.  there  was  a 
considerable  shock  of  an  carth(iuake.'  f 

'  In  ye  spring  of  this  year,'  says  Richard  Kelly,  'was  an  extraor- 
dinary scarc(>  time  for  hay.  Many  cattl(>  in  the  country  were  lost 
and  many  others  brou-ht  very  low,  and  tlie  summer  after  was  the 
scarcest  lime  for  corn  that  ever  I  knew.' 

*  Parish  rpconls.  t  M.  Plant.  t  Town  reconl-, 

^  Revereu.1  Mr.  P.irkman's  manuscripts.      j|  Honorable  Bailey  Bartlefs  almanacs.' 


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March  hyh.  ITumpliroy  Richards  was  chosen  sexton  of  Ihe  first 
parish  in  Ni'\v])iirv,  a  jjost  wiiich  he  oecnpiod  without  iuterrnption 
till  his  death  in  iMarch,  178"),  a  period  of  forty-eight  years.  His 
successor  was  Moses  Short,  wlio  was  annually  eliosen  to  the  same 
office,  from  1789,  till  a  short  lime  before  his  death,  July  sixth,  1841, 
a  period  of  nearly  hfly-two  years. 

June  lot/i.  The  general  court  impowered  the  inhabitants  of  the 
first  parish  to  support  a  grammar  school,  and  exempted  them  from 
paying  elsewhere. 

Augrust  10///,.  On  this  day  the  assembly  of  New  Hamjishire  niet 
at  Hampton  falls,  and  that  of  Massachusetts,  at  Salisbury.  A  large 
cavalcade  was  formed  at  JJoston,  which  with  a  troop  of  horse  es- 
corted the  governor.  At  Newbury  ferry  he  was  met  by  another 
troop,  and  at  tlie  supp(>s(<d  divisional  line  between  the  states  by 
three  more,  who  escorted  him  with  great  pomp  to  the  George  tav- 
ern in  Hampton  falls,  where  he  held  a  council  and  made  a  speech 
to  the  New  Hampshire  assembly.  The  ol)ject,  which  both  assem- 
blies had  in  view  in  thus  meeting  within  live  miles  of  each  other, 
was  to  settle  the  line,  a  subject,  which  had  created  great  interest  in 
both  provinces.  The  governor's  cavalcade  occasioned  the  following 
pasquinade. 

'  Dear  paddy  yon  novor  did  bclinld  such  a  sight, 

As  yostprday  morning  was  seen  before  niirht. 

Yon,  in  ail  yonr  born  days  saw,  nor  I  neither, 

So  many  line  horses  ail  I  men  ride  tou;ether.  * 

At  the  liead,  tlie  lower  house  trotted  two  in  a  row, 

Then  all  the  higher  house  pranced  after  the  low. 

Then  the  governor's  coacli  galloped  on  lilce  the  wind, 

And  the  last  that  came  foremost  wore  the  troopers  behind. 

But  I  fears  it  means  no  good  to  your  neck,  nor  mine. 

For  they  say  tis  to  iix  a  right  place  for  the  line.'* 

From  November  seventeenth,  173o,  to  October  sixth,  1737,  one 
hundred  iind  ninety-irine  persons  tiled  with  the  throat  distemper  in 
Haverhill,  iMassachusetts. 

'December  Ilk.  A  little  before  eleven  at  night  the  earth  quaked 
very  much.'  f 


1738. 

The  regular  increase  of  the  mercantile  interest  among  'the  water 
side  people,'  especially  in  ship  building,  iuid  the  consequent  addition 
to  the  population,  not  only  from  other  parts  of  the  eoimtry,  but  from 
Europe,  made  it  extremely  inconvenient  for  the  congregationalisls 
to  worship  either  in  the  first  or  second  parish,  or  for  the  e])iscopa- 
lians  to  worship  in  Queen  Anne's  chapel,  'on  the  plains.'  The 
iormer,  as  litis  been  noticed,  had  erecttnl  their  house  of  worship  in 
the  centre  of  business,  as  early  as  173o,  ;md  had  been  obligetl  to 
make  what  hud  been  a  breiidth  of  forty-five  feet,  a  length  of 
eighty  feet  in  173(3,  and  though  a  i)ortiou  of  tiie  latter  had,  accortling 


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to  fi  statement  made  by  ]Mr.  Plant  in  his  diary,  bcgiin  to  agitate  the 
subject  of  building  a  new  church  on  a  more  convenient  spot,  as 
early  as  17:^5,  nothingeirectual  was  done  till  this  year,  when  saint 
Paul's  church  was  erected  on  the  spot,  whicii  ifs  successor  now 
occupies.  The  samt;  caus(;,  which  induced  many  of  the  builders 
of  the  congregational  meeting-house  on  the  plains,  to  become  epis- 
copalians, and  to  name  their  house  of  worship,  Queen  Anne's 
chapel,  namely,  the  distance  they  had  to  travel,  soon  produced  a 
division  among  themselves.  The  original  founders  of  the  society, 
who  had  been  unwilling  to  go  '•to  meclbi^;'  up  river  as  far  as  Pipe- 
stave  hill,  were  ecjually  unwilling  to  go  '■to  church,^  down  river  as 
far  as  JMarket  street,  while  the  'water-side  people'  had  objections 
equally  valid  against  worshiping  at  'the  plains.' 

They,  therefon!,  as  soon  as  practicable,  took  the  ni^ccssary  steps 
to  obviate  the  diiliculty.  ',Tose[)h  Atkins,  esf[uire,  olfered  to  give 
fifty  pounds  towards  building  a  new  ciuu-ch  by  the  water  side 
and  I,'  says  Mr.  Pis- -it,  'proposed  to  give  the  same  sum.  Here 
was  laid  the  foundation  of  a  new  church,'  and  so  forth,  which, 
thougli  raised  in  17;JS,  was  not  suHiciently  linished  for  public 
worship  till  1740.  In  P'ebruary,  1743,  eleven  persons  gave  Mr. 
Plant  a  written  invitation  to  preach  at  saint  Paul's  church.  This, 
with  the  consent  of  the  people  at  '  the  plains,'  he  agreed  to  do,  every 
other  Sunday,  but  in  December,  regret  having  been  expressed,  that 
such  an  invitation  had  bcM-n  given  to  iMr.  P.,  a  vote  was  passed, 
that  he  should  deliver  up  the  instrument,  inviting  him  down  from 
queen  Ann's  chapel.  This  was  accordingly  done,  April  twenty- 
fu-st.  1743,  and  virtually  excluded  him  from  saint  Paul's  church. 
The  contest  now,  was  between  iMr.  Plant  and  the  water  side 
people,  they  desiring  to  manage  the  alVairs  of  saint  Paul's  church 
in  their  own  way,  independent  of  him,  and  he,  on  the  other  hand, 
deniaiulinir,  that  they  should  giv(>  liiin  induction  into  saint  Paul's 
church.  This  they  refused  to  give,  and  the  diiliculty  thus  com- 
menced, was  not  settled  till  June  twenty-fourth,  17-31,  when,  in  the 
language  of  the  reverend  doctor  JMors's,  'the  indrpciidcnvc  of  the 
gentlemen  at  the  water  side  was  r(>linquished  and  Mr.  P.  was  legally 
inducted  into  saint  Paul's  church.'  In  his  ])rivate  diary,  of  which 
I  have  a  copy,  he  details  witli  great  miimteness,  all  the  dilliculties 
between  himself  and  the  water  side  people,  in  letters  to  doctor  Bear- 
crolt,  which  are  very  interesting,  but  of  wliich  we  have  no  room, 
even  lor  an  abstract.  JTe  appears  to  have  been  a  man  of  strict 
integrity,  and  great  benevolence,  iuid  encountered  the  dillicullies 
wliich  beset  him,  with  iirnniess  and  discretion.  On  December 
Iwcniy-lhird,  17-")1,  he  ma(l(>  choice  of  Mr.  Edward  Bass,  to  assist 
him  in  the  work  of  lh(>  ministry,  and  died  April  second,  17-j:},  aged 
sixty-one,  having  olliciated  from  April,  17:2:2,  a  period  of  tliirty- 
(Mie  years. 

Frbrunrij  2(Stli.  On  this  day  a  council  was  called,  in  the  second 
l);n-isli,  to  take;  into  consideration  'the  distressed  state  and  condition 
of  ye  second  church  of  Christ  in   Newbury  by  reason  of  their  rev- 


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crend  pastor  Mr.  John  Tiifls  boiii;^  clitvrgod  by  a  woman  or  women 
of  his  indocont  cuniusre  and  ul^o  of  hi^  ubiisivc  and  unchristian 
beliavior  towards  them  at  several  times  and  so  forth.'  ^ 

The  council,  consistinp^  of  len  minist(>rs  and  twenty  delegates, 
met,  but  Mr.  Tufts  refused  to  unite  with  tiie  council,  velienrently 
opposed  the  swearing  of  the  witnesses  against  him,  and  in  this  un- 
settled state  of  allairs,  lu;  asked  and  oh'  lincd  a  dismission  from  the 
church  and  people,  March  second,  the  church  refusing  to  recommend 
him  as  a  christian  minister,  and  stating,  among  other  things,  that,  as 
Mr.  T.  had  never  been  admitted  a  member  of"  the  second  church,  a 
recommendation  and  dismission  from  the  church  would  not  be 
proper. 

Mai/  18///.  The  town  granted  permission  to  Joseph  Atkins,  and 
sixty-lour  others,  to  build  a  wharf  at  the  foot  of  Queen  street,  now 
Market  street. 

This  year  there  was  published  in  lioston,  a  pamphlet  of  seven- 
teen pages  of  rhyme,  concerning  the  ravages  of  the  th.roat  distem- 
per.    The  two  following  verses  are  a  suilicient  specimen. 

To  Ki'irbiinj  O  go  nnd  see 
To  IlvnptoH  and  Kins;stnn 
To  1«)A.- likouiso  and  Killcry 
Bnhold  what  God  hath  done. 

The  how  of  Ood  is  bent  abroad 

Its  arrows  swil'lly  lly 

Voiiiii;  men  an  1  iiiai'ds  and  sucking  babes 

Are  smitten  down  thereby. 


1739. 

Januanj  10///,  was  the  first  snow  this  winter  thiit  lay. 

Joniian/  31.s7.  Reverend  Thomas  l^arnard  ordained  pastor  of  the 
second  church  and  parish  In  Newbury.  At  this  lime,  the  church 
contained  two  hiuidred  and  twenty  members. 

^  April  11///.     Mr.  William  Coker,  of  Newbury,  and  Mr.  Samuel 
Green,  of  Boston,  v.-ere  drowned  In  Merrlmac  river. 

August  2d,  about  half  })ast  twc,  a  great  slioek  of  the  earlhquake.f 

December  9///.     No  ice  on  Merrlmac  river,  no  frost  in  the  ground. 

December  2S)tJi.  The  town  chose  two  ))ersons  '  to  prosecute  any 
person,  who  should  kill  any  l)uck,  doe  or  lawn  contrary  to  law.'' 

December  2d//i.  (feneml  court  passed  a  law,  restraining  cattle 
and  horses  from  going  on  Plmu  island,  undt>r  a  penally,  forbidding 
the  cutting  of  bushes,  and  so  forth. 


1740. 

In  May,  Mr.  Samuel   JiOiig,  of  Newbr.rv,  buried  his  wife  and 
four  children,  (all  his  family,)  v/ith  the  '  throat  dlsKmiper.' 


*  Letter  missive. 


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September  10///.  The  reverend  George  Whitcfield  preached  on 
Ihis  (lay,  ior  llic  hrst  lime  in  Ncwlniry.  At  one  of  his  subsequent 
addresses,  in  front  of  the  nieoting-liouse,  whicli  then  stood  on  the 
eayt  side  of  High  street,  a  few  rods  south  of  Federal  street,  a  stone 
was  thrown  at  him,  which  nearly  struck  the  bible  from  his  hand, 
ills  answer  to  this  unprovoked  assault,  was  the  following.  '  I  have 
a  warrant  from  God  to  jireach.  His  seal,  (holding  up  the  bible,)  is 
in  my  hand  and  1  stand  in  the  King's  high  way.'# 

The  summer  and  fall  of  this  year,  were  as  remarkable  for  the 
ram,  whi(-li  fell  and  flooded  the  country,  as  the  subsequent  winter 
was,  for  the  severity  of  the  cold.  It  was  probably  the  most  severe 
winter  ever  known,  since  the  settlement  of  the  country.  Reverend 
iMr.  Plant,  Stephen  .laques,  honorable  Nathaniel  Collin,  and  many 
others,  r(>corclcd  some  of  the  most  remarkable  events  that  occurred, 
Iroiu  which  1  shall  mak(!  a  few  extracts. 

'  The  summer  of  17-10  was  a  wet  summer.  In  October  gathered 
our  corn,  one  third  very  green.  We  could  not  let  it  stand  by  reason 
ol  ram.  On  November  fourth,  the  winter  set  in  very  cold.  On 
the  fifteenth  a  foot  of  snow  fell,  a!)Oul  the  twenty-second  of  the 
month  It  began  to  rain  and  it  rained  three  weeks  together.  The 
stars  m  the  evening  seemed  as  bright  as  ever,  l)ut  the  iiext  morning 
ram  again,  which  occasioned  a  freshet  in  INlerrimack  river,  the  like 
was  not  known  by  no  man  for  seventy  years.  It  rose  fifteen  feet 
atllavcrhill  and  floated  oil"  many  house  s.  It  was  said  that  a  sloop 
might  pass  between  J-hncry's  milt  and  his  house,  and  that  the  water 
was  twelvf^  feet  deep  on  Rawson's  meadow  at  Turkey  hill.'  f 

'  It  washed  away  all  tlii!  wood  and  timb(>r  for  building  of  ships 
so  that  for  fourteen  days  every  inhabitant  was  fishing  for  wood  in 
the  mer.  It  was  conmionly  supposed  that  upwards  of  two  thou- 
sand cords  were  taken  up  on  PImii  .island.'  | 

'  Our  corn,'  says  Stephen  Jaques,  'moulded  as  fast  as  six  hc^s 
could  eat  it.' 

'  Derntihrr  \m.  The  river  was  shht  up  again  by  the  severity  of 
the  weather.  Before  the  first  of  January  loaded  teams  passed  from 
Ilayerhill,  Newbury,  Newtown,  Amesbury,  sometimes  twenty,  thir- 
1y,  forty  in  a  day  having  four,  six,  (>ight  oxen  in  a  team  and  landed 
below  the  ujjper  long  whiu-f  nigh  to  the  ferry.  People  ran  upon 
the  ice  for  several  days  to  half  tide  rock.  Shipping  was  all  froze  in 
and  this  severity  extended  to  New  Ym-k  government.  On  Decem- 
ber fourteenth  about  thirty-five  nunutes  past  six  there  was  a  loud 
noise  of  the  earthquake.'  J 


1741. 

'January  tenth  there  was  a  thaw,  which  held  tliree  days.     Janu- 
ary eighteenth  about  four  A.  M.  and  on  January  twenty-fifth  about 


*  Rovcronii  S.  1'.  William's  historical  discourse. 
\  Reverend  ,U  J'hinl. 


'■^i 


t  Stephen  Jaques. 


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ten  minutes  before  four  P.  M.  there  was  an  earthquake.  February 
third  about  a  foot  more  of  snow  fell,  February  ninth  another  great 
snow,  and  on  February  —  another.  In  February  the  streets  were 
full  of  snow  to  the  top  of  the  fences  and  in  some  places  eight  or 
ten  feet  deep.  The  river  all  the  time  was  frozen  over  to  colonel 
Pierce's  farm.  March  twenty-eighth  the  sleighing  was  good  on 
the  river  to  colonel  Peirce's  farm  a.id  Plum  island.  April  seventh 
there  fell  about  a  foot  of  snow  so  then;  now  lay  about  four  feet 
deep  in  the  woods.  From  December  filth  1740  till  March  twenty- 
seventh  1741  Plum  island  river  was  frozen  over.  On  the  nineteenth 
and  twentieth  of  March  the  river  was  frozen  to  the  Tower  end  of 
Seal  island.  In  Plum  island  river  the  ice  broke  about  tliirtieth  of 
March.  There  were  twenty-seven  snows  this  winter,  the  hardest 
winter  that  ever  was  known.'  '  The  peo])le  of  Newbury  had  tlie 
principal  part  of  their  corn  ground  at  Salisbury  mills.  From  Feb- 
ruary third  till  IMarch  thir»y-lirst  Pearson's  mill  was  stopped  by  the 
ice.  February  twenty-eighth  the  ice  at  Deer  island  the  strongest 
place  of  the  tide  was  thirty  inches  thick.' 

Some  time  this  year,  commenced  in  this  county  and  town,  the 
remarkable  revival  of  religion,  which,  connncnced  imd(>r  the  preach- 
ing of  the  reverend  Jonathan  Edwards,  in  17:3-3,  and  continued  by 
Whitefield,  Tennent,  and  many  others,  agitated  not  only  New  J^'ng- 
land,  but  the  whole  country.  An  accurate  account  of  the  'great 
awakening'  in  this  vicinity,  the  elfects  of  which  are  to  this  day 
everywhere  visible,  would  require  a  volume.  To  otlier  sources, 
therefore,  must  the  inquisitive  reader  look,  on  this  interesting  sub- 
ject. The  following  hitherto  un])ublished  letter,  will  doubtless 
gratify  some  of  my  readers. 

'  To  Nathaniel  Coffin,  esquire,  at  Newbury. 

Kitteni,  October  14th,  1741. 
'Honorcl  Sir,  ■^' 

'  This  may  inform  you  tho,t  we  had  a  comfortable  time  home  and  found  all 
m  health.  v' 

'  Biu  the  chief  design  is  to  oive  you  a  short  representation  of  the  mighty 
work  of  God  at  York.  The  reverend  Mr.  VViJJard  of  Biddeford  took  a  jouniev 
the  last  week  up  as  far  as  our  town  to  visit  the  brethren  ami  see  how  they  did, 
preached  at  every  town  as  he  came  ;  on  Tuesday  twice  at  York,  on  \Ye(hiesday 
at  our  parish  from  these  words  :  '  Lo  they  that  are  far  from  thee  shall  peiish",' 
showed  very  plainly  in  what  respects  we  were  far  from  God  and  the  certainty 
ot  our  perishing,  if  taken  away  in  that  state:  some  few  onlv  much  alfected. 
T'pon  his  return  to  York  on  Thursday  he  preached  from  Hebrews  third,  seventh 
and  em-hth  verses  :  '  wherefore  (as  the  Holy  Ghost  saith)  to-dav,  if  vo  will  hear 
his  voice,  harden  not  your  hearts,  as  in  the  provocation,  in  the  dav  of  temptation 
m  the  wdderness.'  Where  God  was  pleased  in  a  most  wonderfid  manner  to 
set  hom(!  his  word  by  his  spirit  on  the  hearts  of  the  hearers.  Being  much 
desued  to  preach  to  them  on  Friday  and  Saturday,  ho  did  with  the  same  power 
and  the  same  nifluenco  of  the  spirit  of  God  accompanvinir"  his  sermons.  Mr. 
Moody  secMUir  that  God  had  so  blest  his  preaching  at  York  desired  him  to  tarry 
the  sabbath  which  he  did  and  preached  three  sermons  on  said  day.  tlie  bles^in" 
stdl  followmg.  Mr.  iMoodv  supplied  Mr.  \Villard\s  pnlpit.  The  n(>ws  reached 
ns  on  Saturday  night.  On  Mondav  Mr.  Routers  with  thirty  or  forty  of  his  hear- 
ers went  to  \  ork  to  see  this  marvellous  work,  father  BiiiHett  aiul  m\  self  in 
company  (to  my  great  amaze  and  surprize)  for  the  one  half  was  not  told  u,s, 


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n  her  indeed  is  it  possible  for  mv  pen  to  express  it  to  you.  A  universal  concern 
abo     tlu-r  .souls  and  what  they  «fmll  do  to  be  saved.     Jlore  than  forty  tliat  no 

of  Ih,;  „\  e  ot  God  aiul  Christ,  perfectly  in  a  rapture  of  joy  beinp  in  full  assurance 
of  ftu.h,  vyhose  inouihs  are  lilled  with  praises  to  (lod  -xnd  the  Hches  o  hi"  fme 
ffraee  m  Chns  mau.le.sted  .so  clearly  to  them.  Most  of  them  younL^  perso us 
under  tweuty-hve  au.l  dowu  to  the  ago  of  live  and  six  years.  *  Some  m  Idle 
u^rd  and  a  feu  o  d  pcM.sons.  To  hear  these  little  children  of  six,  seven  ad 
ti^yht  .Vfius  o  (I  ta  k  so  powerfully,  wonderfully  and  exnerimontally  of  the  thin-rs 
of  God  and  Chnst  .^n.  particularly  of  the  doctrine  of  hve  fr,aee  [s  unaccou  u! 
able  wore  it  not  truly  by  the  spirit  and  power  of  the  Almighty.  The  tin^ror  of 
the  Lord  is  most  certainly  in  this  matter.  ^  " 

„  ■,}^  J^"A''''..'"1  ''^"^""^  endless  to  give  you  a  particular  account  of  those  I  talked 
with,  t)oth  01  those  new  converts  and  also  of  them  under  strong  and  hopeful 
tir''!"v  ^,^''^'';l<^^vas  never  seen  in  New  England.  The%onversio^n  o 
tho,se  at  Nortliamplou  1734,  .5  and  6,  according  to  Mr.  Edwards'  account  is  not 
comparah  e  to  this.  The  Lord  is  pleased  to  make  (,uick  work  of  it.  Some 
convinced,  huniMed  to  the  dust  and  converted  in  a  minute,  others  in  an  hour— 
olhers  in  a  night  and  others  longer  — to  see  them  under  convictions  and  in  such 
an  extraordinary  concern,  so  that  the  most  acute  or  most  sharp  pain  of  body 
mat  ever  1  saw  is  any  way  comparable  to  it  —and  how  should  it  be,  since  Sol- 
omon tells  us  that  tile  spirit  of  a  man  sustameth  his  infirmity,  but  a  wounded 
spirit,  who  can  bear— they  are  indeed  pricked  in  their  heart  and  cry  out  what 
sfia  1  we  dr  They  admit  of  no  meat,  clrink  or  sleep  till  they  find  rest  for  their 
souls  in  Llirist. 

'Mr.  Rogers  preached  to  a  very  numerous  congregation  on  the  same  day  at 
York  and  the  spirit  accompanied  his  sermon  as  well  as  Mr.  Willard's  Three 
perscins  111  particular  that  were  mocking  and  scolHng  on  sabbath  evening  were 
^yo,lderiully  convinced  at  this  .sermon -altho'  there  was  not  the  least  terror  in 
it,  f)ut  alt<)g..t]ier  on  comfort  and  joy.  Mr.  Rogers,  as  he  expressed,  had  a  far 
more  clear  manifestation  of  the  love  of  (iod  upon  his  own  soul  than  ever  he  had 
iHtore.  He  wa.s  moved  to  preach  ujian  this  text  in  the  eleventh  chapter  of  Acts 
and  twenty-third  verse,  -who  when  he  came  :uid  had  seen  tiie  grace  of  (Jod 
was  g  ad  ;  and  exhorted  them  all,  that  with  purpose  of  heart  they  woul  1  cleave 
unto  tlie  Lord.  •^ 

'  ^.^-'y  .^^"'l  <'f  his  infinite  mercy  and  free  grace  visit  our  town  and  yours  with 
the  like  in  luence  of  hi.s  holy  spirit  and  the  whole  land  and  world  of  mankind, 
winch  IS  the  prayer  and  iieart's  desire  of  your  dutiful  son, 

/T  11,,  Edmund  Coffin. 

Love  and  duty  and  respects  to  all  as  due. 

'  P.  S.  Young  air.  Moody,  't  is  thought,  will  come  speedily  out  of  his  dark 
and  despairing  condition  in  this  day  of  God's  mighty  power  and  visitation 
lie  IS  fiecoine  very  rational  in  his  discourse,  and  mightily  composed  in  his  mind 
to  what  he  tiath  been  for  these  four  years  past,  and  'tis  to  be  hoped  will  shortly 
appear  strong  in  the  cause  of  Christ.'  ' 


f1  H 


'   §, 


1742. 

*  March  27(h,  a  quarter  before  7  A.  M.  the  noise  of  the  earthquake 
wa.s  very  loud,  but  it  did  not  make  any  shaking?,  as  I  coukl  perceive, 
althoiiirh  I  wivs  alone  and  .seated  in  my  little  house.  One  tliin<^  I 
took  notice  of  namely,  at  all  times  before,  when  we  heard  the  no?se, 
which  way  our  faces  were,  that  way  the  noise  always  seemed  to  be, 
but  now  the  noise  seemed  to  be  behind  me,  and  my  family  took 
notice  of  it  that  the  noise  seemed  to  be  behind  them/* 

*  Reverend  M.  Plant. 


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This  was  iiKl(!ocl  a  plionoraonon,  which  Iho  ob-torvor  could  not 
explain,  and  on  whieli  liie  compiler  docs  not  i'ccl  coinpct(;nt  to  make 
any  comments. 

'  Srpfcmber  IWi,  about  half  past  five  an  oarlh(iiialv(>.' ^ 

Tiiis  yeJir,  tiio  oxcilcmcnt  on  the  subject  oi'  religion,  which  had 
for  some  time  prevailed  over  a  largo  part  of  New  J']ngland,  was 
evidently,  in  this  region,  on  the  increase.  Every  churcli,  and  every 
parish,  was  more  or  less  alFecled,  and  in  some  places  to  a  degree, 
of  wliich  the  present  generation  can  have  but  a  I'aint  idea.  In  a 
letter  to  doctor  Bearcroft,  of  IMarc-h  second,  17-1:2,  revcu'i-nd  Mr. 
Plant  thus  writes.  <  I  do  not  know  but  before  these  si.v  months  to 
come  most  of  my  hearers  will  leave  me  for  all  the;  coiuitry  near  me 
is  taken  with  this  new  scheme  (as  they  call  it.)  Within  one  month 
fifty-three  have  been  taken  into  commi'xnion  in  one  dissenting  meet- 
ing house.  Some  of  them  belonged  to  another  meeting  house,  and 
the  dissenting  teacher  not  ai)proving  of  said  scheme  they  forsook 
him  to  [attend]  at  the  other  meeting  house.'  In  another  letter,  of 
July  twenty-third,  he  says,  'in  my  last  to  you  I  hint(<d  !o  you  some- 
thing of  the  commotion  that  the  new  scheme  of  inethodisin  made 
amongst  us.  I  was  under  a  great  surprize  at  the  time,  for  1  thought 
that  all  my  people  would  be  withdrawn  from  church,  for  they  began 
to  dock  after  the  itinerants  and  tokl  me  in  a  full  body  that"  if  they 
did  not  get  good  by  them  it  was  because  they  had  biul  hearts,  but 
how  strangely  is  the  scene  changed.' 

In  the  Boston  Evening  I'ost",  of  May  third,  is  an  anonymous 
article,  charging  'the  reverend  N.  Rogers  of  Ipswich,  Mr.  Daniel 
Rogers  and  ftlr.  Buel,  candidates  for  the  ministry  with  having  come 
into  Newbury  formed  a  party  and  taken  possession  of  Mr.  Lowell's 
meeting  house  without  his  knowledge,  or  asking  leave  of  the  pro- 
prietors of  the  house,  or  the  consent  of  the  church  or  conim^galion 
and  so  forth  and  that  an  attempt  of  the  like  factious  nature  was 
niade  ujion  the  reverend  Mr.  Toppan's  meeting  house,  bnt  Mr. 
Toppan  being  present  the  party  was  repulsed,'  and  so  forth. 

This  article  caused  a  reply  irom  IMr.  .lohn  Brown,  dated  May 
seventh,  denying  the  truth  of  part  of  the  charges,  and  then  another 
article,  of  May  twenty-second,  signed  J.  Lowi'll,  aliiriuing  tli(>  truth 
of  the  first  statements.  This  caused  another  reply  from  Mr.  Brown, 
in  the  Boston  Gazette,  dated  ,Iune  twenty-ninth,  and  two  other 
articles,  signed  Henry  Rolfe,  Al)rahain  Titcoinb,  and  Humphrey 
Richards.  To  these  ])apers  I  refer  the  curious  reader  I'or  further 
information,  merely  o])serving,  that  I  have  not  the  space  to  give 
even  the  title  pages  of  the  sermons,  dialoi,nies,  tracts,  and  so  fortli, 
on  religious  subjects,  with  which  the  neighborhood  was  lilhid. 

'  Since  my  last  of  July  1742,'  says  I\Ir.  Plant.  Iw'brnary  fifteenth, 
1743,  '  a  new  meeting  house  was  built  by  the  new  schenK'rs.'  This 
must  have  been  the  meeting-house  in  High  street,  just  below  Fede- 
ral street,  where  the  presbyterian  society  first  worshiped. 

*  Reverend  M.  Plant. 


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1743. 

Mdfi  im.  '  Town  chose  a  coinmittfe  to  consult  about  bnildiii" 
a  work  liouhc,  aiul  to  build  n  powder  house.'  " 

'Aii^'iist  .10///,  about  live  I'.  M  a  pretty  loud  shock  of  the  earth- 
cjuake.  * 

'About  the  twenty-sixth  of  June  the  worms  came  upon  the  corn 
and  eat  the  grass  in  ye  low  <,m)und,  and  did  iiuieh  damage.  Manv 
people  sav(!d  liieir  corn  by  ditching.  They  lasted  about  eight  or 
ten  days  and  went  away  as  strangely  as  they  came.'  f 

'Oclobr.r  loth.    An  exceeding  higirtidc;,  which  did  unich  datnage.'t 

Derrniher  DM.  Town  voted  to  soil  all  the  old  law  books  bc- 
longuig  to  the  town,  to  the  highest  bidder.  Also  to  build  a  gaol 
and  a  work  house. 

In  this  year,  a  large  number  of  the  members  of  the  churches, 
AT  ?",  pastoral  care  of  tin;  reverend  iAIr.  Lowell  and  the  reverend 
Mr.  Toppan,  separated  from  tluiui,  and,  soon  after,  lormed  another 
cluircli,  alter  having  had  a  long  controversy,  both  oral  and  written, 
with  llu!ir  respective  pastors,  without  coming  on  cither  side  to  any 
satishuMory  result.  Having  a  transcript  of  ail  tin;  letters  to  and  from 
the  reverend  Mr.  Toppan,  I  copy  the  following  as  a  specimen. 

'The  revpi-fml  air.  Topp.-m's  conduct  in  tliis  remarkable  ilav  of  divine  visita- 
tion liavHiu  occasion,.,!  -,,.;,(  uneasiness  in  his  ciiurcii  and  parish,  divers,  who 
M-cro  a^-ricvcd  thereat  h..m  time  to  lime  w.Mit  to  discourse  him  on  liivers  mat- 
ters, till  at  Icnolli  he  declare,!  lie  v.duld  talk  no  more  with  them  and  that  if  any 
were  uneasytlievsliouhl  write  to  liini  aiul  he  would  answer  them  bv  writin-^ 
whereupon  divers  who  wen-  auiiiieved  met  to-ether  and  wrote  a  letter  to  hitn' 
contanmi-  the  rnattor.  of  their  grievances,  which  lAIr.  Toppan  hearing  of  sent 
tile  lollowing  letter. 

10  I  liarl(\s  Pierce  esqnire  m  ^(>wbnly. 

'  Sir, 
'I  hav(?  be(-n  iiif,)rme,l  that  some  yt  are  called   schemers,  by  others  new 
light  men  (lor  Satan  hv.Mx  now  esp(.ciallv  transformed  into  an  an'>-el  of  li<rht 

liatli  translormed  '  '     '  '' -- -    ''    '''-  '  .     ~    .  -  _  -^ 

pretend  unto)  hav. 
doctrine    tanghi  in  i 


■iioweis  into  his  likeness  in  regard  of  the  new  liirlit  they 


religion,  and  some  rcsp 


^me  articles  against   me,  some  respecting  my 
•no  res])ecti:g  my  belief  in  several  articFes  of 

■  ■     ,' ,  i  ■  I'liacti.'cs  and  I  have  been  told  you  have  the 

onginal    by  vou.     I  ha.  .    .ircd  to  see  it,  but  could  never  yet  obtain 

It.     lliis  is  tlieretore  to  ,L  ,  you  to  send  mo  the  ori-iiial,  or  a  copy  of  it 

attested,  for  I  am  obliu-ed  to  go  to  Vork  superior  court  ve  next  we(>k  and  would 
carry  it  with  me  to  shew  to  tlie  superior  judges  for  their  judirment  upon  the 
whole  as  to  my  doctnni's  whetlier  they  b(>  riuht  or  no.  for  which  I  purpose  to 
carry  my  sermons  relli'ctcl  upon,  as  to  mv  principles  whether  they  be  ri"ht  or 
no,  (thtuii:h  in  the  paper  liefore  mentioneil  1  believe  there  arc  many  thinn-sTalse 
lor  1  never  yet  knew  a  schemer  tliat  would  not  lie.)  As  to  mv  practices  whether 
rigtit  or  no,  I  shall  leave  them  to  judue  and  determine.  I  purpose  to  carry  with 
me  a  copy  of  what  I  now  seiul  to  you  to  shew  it  to  them  ;  if  you  answer  not  my 
request  in  sending  me  the  original  or  an  attested  copy. 

Sir,  I  am  yours  to  servo  in  what  I  may, 

Christopher  Toppan.' 


«    I 


*  U.  Plant. 


t  Stephen  Jaques 


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214  HISTORY    OF   NEWnURY. 


17  14. 

Fcbntan/  1th.  TIki  town  voted  to  e^ivc  the  roniity  a  piooo  of 
hind,  on  which  to  build  ii  prison  and  prison  keeper's  iionse,  whicii 
were  this  yciu-  imill  in  IA'(lcr;d  street. 

^  Miiij  V'Uli,  in  tile  niornini,',  iuid  on  iMay  sixteenth  at  a  rpiarter 
past  eleven  A.  M.  tliere  was  an  eartlKiuake."' 

Jiini'  '2d.     War  was  proelaimed  at  Boston,  by  Enfi[hind  amiinst 
•    France. 

^Jime  ''ill.  Salji)atli  a  (piarter  past  ten  we  had  a  terrible  shock  of 
the  eartluinake.  It  made  the  earth  so  shake  that  it  inach;  myself 
and  many  others  run  out  of  tin;  church.' =i<= 

Jinie  2Hf/i.     VnbWi'  fust,  and  in  tiie  eveninpf  an  earthquake.  # 

This  suiiuner,  the  society  of  friends  in  Newbury,  erected  a  moct- 
ing-house  in  what  is  now  called  Bellevilh!,  It  is  diirty-live  fet't  in 
length,  and  fwenly-liv(^  in  breadth,  and  is  now  used  as  a  vestry  for 
the  congregational  society  there,  the  friends  having  erected  a  new 
meeting-house,  near  Turkey  hill. 

/////y  '2\t./i.  The  aggrieved  brethren  of  the  first  church,  having 
been  ijuablc!  to  come  to  any  satisfactory  result,  in  their  controversy 
with  ^[r.  Toppan,  an  ex  parte  council  of  eight  cluu-ches  was  this 
day  held  iii  N(!wl)ury,  to  examine  the  charges  against  him,  which 
were  nine  in  number,  and  which,  having  been  written  June  seventh, 
had  been  presented  to  Mr.  T.  .June  tenth,  174:3.  The  council,  in 
their  report,  justify  the  aggrieved  Ijrelliivii,  and  condemn  .Mr.  Toj)- 
pan,  and  advise  the  aggrieved  brethren  'to  hearken  to  any  reason- 
able method,  whereby  your  final  separation  from  the  church  and 
parish  may  be  prevented,'  and  conclude  by  saying,  that  '  however 
we  utterly  disapprove  of  unnecessary  sepanvtions  as  partaking  of 
great  guilt  and  accompanied  with  great  scandal,  yet  looking  upon 
your  circumstanc(!s  as  extraordinary  and  deplorable  we  caimot  think 
you  blameworthy,  if  with  good  advice  you  seek  more  wholesome 
food  for  your  souls  and  put  yourselves  under  the  watch  of  a  shep- 
herd, in  whom  you  can  conlide.' 

August  :3l.s/'.  This  day,  another  ex  parte  council  met  in  New- 
bury, (!alled  by  the  friends  of  iMr.  Toppan,  the  charges  against 
whom  they  examined,  and  in  their  result,  ac(piit  him  of  nearly  all 
the  allegations  contained  in  them,  and  censure  the  aggrieved  breth- 
ren for  their  'disorderly  walking  and  advise  tli(!m  to  return  to  the 
bosom  of  the  church  and  to  the  pastoral  care  of  him,  who  has  been 
so  faithful  and  useful  a  pastor  over  you  for  near  lifty  years,'  and  so 
forth. 

November  1th.  Captain  Donahew  sailed  from  Newbmy,  in  a 
Fmall  privateer,  belonging  to  Boston,  with  sixty  men,  took  a  sloop 
with  live  stock  eight  days  after  he  sailed,  .-.nd  in  three  days  after,  at 
Newfoundland,  took  a  French  ship  with  three  thousand  (piintals  of 
fish,  ai.d  so  forth. 

*  M.  riunt. 


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In  the  n-viTcml  'riioiiius  Snulirs  journal,  I  i'nid  the  lollowiuf?. 

'  FrhriKir//  'M/.  (Jrciil  talk  alxait  "Whitcticld's  |)rcacirm<;,  and  tliu 
Ih.'c't  to  capt!  Jircton.'  'i'lii'Sf  two  suhjcc-trf,  war  and  religion,  were 
at  this  time  in  i-vcry  body's  month.  The  cnthnsiasni  in  I'avor  of 
the  oxpedilion  a<,'ain.st  Loiiisl)iiri,'  was  cxlraordinary,  and  ahnost 
unanimous,  wiiilst  on  the  suhjcct  of  ihc  rchgious  tenets  and  |)rae- 
lices  of  Whilelieid  and  his  adherents,  the  eommunity  was  divided, 
and  ahnost  every  man  was  either  an  ardent  advocate,  or  a  (h'(i(h'd 
o))|)oneut.  'I'ht!  eonse(|nence  of  this  slali'  of  thing's,  was  divisions 
and  contentions  in  all  liie  chin-ches,  and  miuiy  yi'nrs  elapsed  bi-foro 
the  storm  hecame  a  calm.  In  tin-  midst  of  ilTls  excitement,  news 
came  diat  L()uis!)ur:j;  had  been  taken  l>y  the  Xew  I'^ngland  troops, 
June  sixleenth.  Jn  the  reduction  ol'  this  place,  wdiich  was  one  of 
the  most  remarkable  events  in  the  history  of  North  America,  a  lar^o 
number  of  Newbury  soldiers  were  en^aired.  Amony  the  most 
noted  of  these,  was  major  Moses  Tilcomb.  Of  him  irutchinson 
liius  speaks.  '  ."Nrajor  'Tilcomb's  readiness  to  eni>;age  in  the  most 
hazardous  part  of  the  service,  was  acknowlcdi^ed  and  applauded, 
lie  siirvivetl  the  sieije,  was  colonel  of  a  reifiment  when  ^'cneral 
Johnson  was  attacked  by  J)ieskau,  and  there  lost  his  life  in  the 
service  of  his  coimtry.  Of  the  live  lascine  batteries  that  wen; 
erected  in  the  roduclion  of  Louisbury,  the  last,  which  was  erected 
the  twenlieth  of  iAfay  and  called  Titcoml/s  battery,  liavini^  five 
forty-two  pounders,  did  as  great  cxeciUion  as  any.''  Aim)!!"  th(^ 
natives  of  Newbury,  who  were  engaged  in  that  niemorable  siege, 
was  the  r(>vercu(l  iSauuiel  Moody,  of  York,  who  went  as  chaj)lain, 
anil  so  conlident  was  lu;  of  success,  that  he  took  with  him  a  hatchet, 
to  cut  the  images  in  the  catholic  cluu-ch(>s.  Moses  Collin,  afterward 
of  Eppiiig,  was  also  there,  and  olliciated  in  the  double  capacity  of 
druimucr  and  chaplain,  a  'drum-ecclesiastic'  On  returning  to  the 
camj)  after  one  (Migagemcnt,  li(>  found  a  bullet  had  passed  nearly 
through  a  sm;dl  pockiH  bible,  which  he  always  carried  with  him, 
and  which  in  this  cas(>  was  the  uu'ans  of  saving  his  life.  This 
incident  I  give  on  the  authority  of  the  honorable  William  Plumer, 
senior,  of  hipping,  New  Ifampshire. 

Novrmbrr  \{)lh.  Reverend  .loliii  'l'uck(^r  was  settled  ns  colleague 
with  the  reverend  doctor  Tojjpan.  Of  the  dilliculli(>s  which 
])receded,  attended,  and  followed  his  settlement,  something  will  be 
said  herealter. 

The  dillicultics  still  continuing,  and  rather  increasing,  in  the  first 
ehurch  and  parish,  between  the  reverend  Mr.  'J'oppan  and  his 
people,  notwithstanding  all  the  attempts  that  had  been  made  to 
satisfy  both  parties,  the  parish  voted,  Alay  eleventh,  to  concur  with 
the  church  in  setting  'apart  a  day  to  be  kept  by  solemn  prayer  and 
fasting  to  seek  to  heaven  for  a  blessing  on  our  endeavours  in  callin" 
a  pious  and  orthodox  man  to  assist  in  the  ministry.' 


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HISTORY    OF    NK\VIlt;ilY. 


'Jiift/  10///.  ]\rr.  .lolm  'Vnrki'r  was  rnllcd  to  tli('  work  of  llir 
ministry  hy  llic  lirst  cliiin'!!  mikI  parish  in  Nrwhnry,'  w  liicli,  iillcr 
loiiit,'  and  anxious  deliberation,  lie  accepted,  and  was  ordained  No- 
vember twentieth.  This,  however,  was  not  elVeefed  without  jj;real 
opposition,  the  majority  in  the  parish  in  his  lavor  beint,'  twelve,  and 
thai  in  the  chnnh  beini,'  two.  The  minority  sent  in  to  the  ordainini,' 
C'onncil,  a  loni,' JMit  imavailinf,'  protest  a^'aiiist  his  ordination.  On 
December  twentieth,  they  sent  a  letter  to  the  lirst  chmeh,  which 
concludes  in  these  words. 

'  Whcrefoit!  brctlncn  on  fheso  oonaideralions,  for  tho  pnnco  of  our  consclntiPes, 
our  spiritual  cililicalion  iuui  the  lionor  and  iuleicst  of  ivliiri,,,,  j,h  we  tliink.  wo 
do  now  witlidraw  coirnnunion  tVoni  v"n  ami  shall  look  niiou  oniMclves  no  lon-icr 
subjeetcd  to  yonr  watch  and  discipline,  hnt  shall,  a'.nccalile  to  ye  advice  '.'ivi-u 
us,  speeddy  as  we  may,  seek  ns  a  paslor,  who  is  likclv  to  teed  "us  with  knowl- 
e(l;,'n  und  understanding'  and  in  whom  we  can  with  more  reason  conlide. 

'And  now  hri'llireii  llial  llic  Cod  of  a  fidl  li-iil  and  trulli  would  lead  l)otli  you 
and  ns  into  tlw  know  led^'c  of  all  irulli  as  it  is  in  Jesus,  is  ami  shall  ho  tho  dosue 
and  prayer  ol  your  hrelhren,  and  so  forth. 

Ciuni.ES  PiKuci;,  and  twenty-two  others. 

Billiculties  somewhat,  simihir  also  occnrred  in  the  church  antl 
parish  under  th(>  pastoral  care  of  the  reverend  .lolm  Lowell,  which 
resulted  in  the  withdrawal  of  'a  consich-rable  mimber  of  ))ersons ' 
from  the  society.  This  induced  the  cimrch,  on  May  lirst,  174:J,  to 
vote  'to  keep  the  eleventh  of  i^Tay  as  a  day  of  fa-stuit,' jmd  prayer 
upon  this  sad  occasioji.'  *  1m-oii'i  their  cimrch  records  I  extnict  the 
followina:. 


in 


'  xMay  eleveiuh,  I7\'l,  was  ol)serv(>d  as  ji  day  ('f  fastinj^  and  prayer 
pursuance  of  the  vote  ai)ove.  The  same  day  thi'  separatists  held 
a  public  assembly  in  iV[r.  .lohn  IJrown's  barn  iir.Mr.  Toppan's  parish 
at  which  deacon  Heck  Avas  present.' 

The  barn  h(>re  mentioned,  stt)od  in  the  field  nearly  opposite  to 
Mr.  Silas  Noyes's  house.  Loni^  and  able  letters  to  "and  from  the 
reverend  .John  Lowell,  of  the  followint^  dates,  October  thirty-lirst. 
November  lirst,  Noveml)er  fourth,  December  sixteenth,  17-1:5,  and 
January  third,  1714,  are  now  on  file  among  the  state  records,  lioston. 


17  4  0.  * 

January  2d.  This  day,  iiineti>en  of  the  jx'rsons,  who,  on  the 
twentieth  of  the  last  month,  had  formally  withdrawn  from  the  first 
church,  formed  ih(>  presbyterian  church.  In  their  petition  to  the 
general  court,  are  tlu^se  words  : 

'  After  this  on  the  third  of  January  17 IG  we  embodycd  init)  a 
chtirch  and  entered  into  a  covenant,  whereof  we  gave  die  church 
notice  by  letter  under  our  hands  of  the  twenty-second  of  tlH>  same 
month  and  then  proceeded  to  give  the  reverend  Mr.  .fonathan  Par- 
sons a  call  to  tho  ministerial  olliee,'  and  so  forth. 

*  Third  church  records. 


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Wx 


II 


iiisToiiv  or  Ni;\viii'uy. 


317 


Mutrli  •l><tli.  'I'ln'  sfpnnilc  hrcllircii,  lliiriyt'iKlil  in  pnmIxT,  who 
liiiil  Inr  iifiiily  tlircf  y«'iirs  willidiawii  Iroiii  liic  (•oiiifiniriion  of  tlio 
lliii'd  cliiirch,  pctitiuMt'd  lor  ii  (lisiiiissioii  and  rccoimiicndalion  to  tlu! 
im'slwli'riiin  cliiirch.  'I'liis  the  clmiclircrn-'fd  to  ^'nint.  On  April 
.^i\th,  11  conitiiitlcc  oi'  tin-  '  .sc|)!ualists '  sent  a  petition  to  the  clmrcli, 
coiruncneim^  thus,  'n-vcrcnd  tnid  liclovcd  in  lliosd  points  of  chris- 
lianity  wherein  we  can  ai^n-e,'  desirini;  thechiireh  to  lavor  llietn  with 
'th('  reasons  lor  not  ^ranlint;  their  recpiesl.' *  Tliis  was  of  no 
avail,  nnd  they  were  iinaily  atlniitte<l  to  \\w  new  chnrch  without  a 
recoiriHiendatioii. 

'I'he  foilowini,'  is  tht;  eoveiKuit  of  the  preshylorian  c-hiirch. 

'Wotiif  sul)8cril)in;r  brotlircn,  wiio  were  nn'inliers  of  iho  liiHt  clairch  in 
NVwhuiy,  and  huvo  thmiirlit  it  our  iliity  to  witliilmw  tiicict'iom,  do  idso  look 
upon  it  our  duty  to  enter  into  ri  chiiirircstntc;  Htirciiiliy  as  \v('  apprelierMi  thin 
rriav  bn  for  llin  irlory  of  (!od,  au.l  tlu-  interest  of  l\w  {{edeemer's  kin^'dom,  an 
well  aM  for  our  own  mutual  edilicatinu  ami  (•t)nir(irt. 

'  We  do  Iheiefore,  as  \v(>  trust,  in  the  tear  of  Cod.  mntunlly  covenant  and  nj^rno 
to  walk  togetiuu-  as  a  cliurch  of  ('lui.>t  ufcording  to  tlio  rules  and  order  of  the 
pospel, 

'  In  lestiiininy  whereof  we  have  hereunto  set  our  hands  and  seals  thi.s  third 
day  of  Jaiuuiry,  t7l(i. 

CiiAKi.vs  Pi  Klin:, 


MoSKS   J5u A  riSTIlKET, 
KdW.-.IIII    I'llKSllUKV, 

John   BuiiwN, 

KlCHAKIl    H^l.t., 

Rkn.iamin    Kmi;!(t, 

WiM.IAM     HhoWN, 

Benjamin   I'ieuoe, 
Daniki.  Noves, 

Ma.IOU  (i<U)I)  wi  \, 


'I'noAlAS     I'lKE, 

Da  n  ii:i.  Wki.i.s, 
JosKrn  HiDUE.N, 
Nathaniki.  Atkinson, junior, 

.to  NATHAN     PMiMMKK, 
DaNIET,    (ioOIlWIN, 
SiLVAMJ.S     Pn'Mf.R, 

Sami'ei,  Ham., 

ClITTlM*     PETriNKELf,.' 


Jaunan/  11///.  The  parish  of  Byfichi  voted  to  build  a  new 
meotin^r-honse,  lifty-six  feet  long  and  forty-fivi;  feet  wide,  which 
was  eoiiiplcted  tlie  next  summer. 

March  i'lf/i.  First  parish  voted  liv(>  hundred  pounds,  old  tenor,  to 
revererd  .lo!m  Tiuker,  to  build  a  house. 

'  Allien sf  :if/,  jnsl  before  sunrise,  there  was  a  considerable  loud 
and  long  eartluiuaivc.'  f 

'  Auiriisf  :ilsf  and  ^Qil,  there  was  a  heavy  frost.'  f 

Scplrmbrr  10///.  A.  fl(>et  of  nearly  forty  ships  of  war,  besides 
transports,  bringing  betw(>en  three  nn'd  four  thousand  troops,  with 
veteran  ollieers,  and  all  kinds  of  military  stores,  under  the  command 
of  the  duke  d'Anville,  arrived  from  "France,  in  order  to  retake 
liouisburg.  This  attempt,  however,  in  consecjuence  of  a  violent 
storm,  on  September  first,  and  a  variety  of  remarkable  incidents, 
was  rendered  entirely  abortive,  to  the  great  joy  of  the  people  of 
New  i^iiigla nd. 

'  October  17///.  Friday  a!)out  nine  A,  M.  if  began  to  snow  and 
continued  snowing  luitirtlnve  P.  M.  the  next  dttv.'  I  and  my  wife 
went  to  church  in  the  sleigh  and  it  was  very  good  sleighing,  the 
snow  being  two  feet  upon  the  level  and  lasted  lour  days.'^f 


*  Third  oiiiin.'h  ri'.ctin 

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M.  rhnit 


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HISTORY    OF    NEWBURT. 


1747. 

•January  6th,  about  midnight  there  was  an  earthquake.'* 

'  February  6th.     Three  deer  went  through  Stephen  Morse's  land 

in  the  west  parish  of  Newbury  and  disappeared  in  Amesbury.'  f 
'  December  'Ccl,  at  half  past  four  P.  M.  and  on  December  sixth  at 

four  P.  M.  there  was  an  earthquake.  * 


1748. 

March  8th.  The  town  granted  to  John  Crocker,  on  his  petition, 
liberty  to  erect  a  rope  walk  '  along  by  the  windmill  and  to  improve 
said  place  for  ten  years  for  making  of  ropes  and  for  no  other  use.'  | 

Note.  The  wind  mill  stood  near  where  the  south  brick  school  house  now  stands 
by  Frog  pond,  and  vas  erected  in  1703.  This  rope  walk  was  probably  the  first  which 
was  established  in  Newbury,  and  stood  on  the  margin  of  the  pond. 

'^  March  11th,  about  a  quarter  before  seven  A.  M.  there  was  an 
earthquake.'  =* 

This  year  ..o  rain  fell  from  the  last  of  May  till  August  first. 

October  7th.  Peace  was  established  between  England  and 
France,  at  Aix  la  Chapelle.  By  this  treaty,  Louisburg  was  restored 
to  the  French. 

November  5th.  Charles  Pierce  and  one  hundred  and  twenty-five 
others,  petitioned  the  general  court  to  be  freed  from  paying  taxes  to 
the  first  and  third  parishes. 

November  10th.  Governor  Shirley,  having  received  the  petition, 
says,  among  other  things,  '  I  am  always  averse  to  any  thing  grievous 
upon  any  people  on  account  of  their  religious  sentiments.  I  desire 
you  would  once  take  this  repeated  application  of  the  petitioners  into 
your  serious  consideration.'     The  petition  was  not  granted. 


1749. 

March  \(h.     Mr.  Joseph  Coflln  was  c'losen  town  clerk. 

June  \st.  One  hundred  and  sevonty-r.ine  persons  belongin"  to 
Mr.  Parsons's  society,  petitioned  the  general  court  to  be  freed  Irom 
paying  taxes  to  the  first  and  tliird  parishes.  August  eleventh,  hav- 
ing heard  the  answers  of  the  first  and  third  parishes,  they  dismissed 
the  petition  ncm.  con. 

This  summer  there  was  a  very  severe  drought.  This,  attended 
as  it  was  with  swarms  of  caterpillars,  and  other  devouring  insects, 
caused  great  distress  in  New  England.  '  Many  brooks  and  springs 
w-ere  dried  up.'  Not  more  than  a  tenth  of  the  usual  crop  of  hay 
wa.s  cut,  and  much  was  imported  from  Pennsylvania  and  England. 
*  1  mowed,'  says  Richard   Kelly,  •  several  diiys  and  could  not  cut 


*  M.  Plant. 


t  S.  MornpV  nianuscripts. 


\  Town  records. 


HISTORY    OF    NEWBURY. 


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more  than  two  hundred  pounds  a  day,  and  people  were  fain  to  kill 
abundance  of  cattle  because  they  could  not  get  hay  to  winter  them.' 

October  29lh.  Reverend  Thomas  Barnard  resigned  his  pastoral 
office,  in  the  second  church  and  parish. 

The  winter  of  1749-50  was  a  very  severe  one.  Cattle  had  to  be 
brow  sed  in  the  woods. 

1750. 

January  ISth.  Town  authorized  Daniel  Farnham,  esquire,  to 
prefer  a  petition  to  the  general  court,  for  a  lottery,  to  build  a  bridge 
over  the  river  Parker.'  * 

April  Ist.  Province  bills,  first  issued  in  1702,  ceased  to  pass. 
This  cuiTcncy  was  called  '  old  tenor.'  In  1748,  there  were  three 
kinds  of  bills  :  old  tenor,  which  passed  at  seven  and  a  half  for  one ; 
that  is,  seven  shillings  and  sixpence  in  bills,  was  equal  to  one 
shilling  lawful ;  middle,  or  three  fold  tenor,  and  new  tenor.  The 
redemption  of  the  old  tenor  bills,  occasioned  the  celebrated  Joseph 
Greene  to  write  a  poem,  entitled,  '  a  mournful  lamentation  for  the 
sad  and  deplorable  death  of  Mr.  Old  Tenor,  a  native  of  New  Eng- 
land, who  after  a  long  confinement  by  a  deep  and  mortal  wound, 
which  he  received  about  twelve  months  before,  expired  on  the  thir- 
ty-first of  March  1750.' 

'  The  winter  of  1750-51  was  remarkably  mild.' 

3Iay  20tk.  '  The  third  church  voted  nemine  contradicente  that 
the  scriptures  be  read  in  publick  the  Lord's  day.'  f 


1751. 

February  20t/i.  Reverend  Moses  Hale  ordained  pastor  of  the 
second  church  and  parish. 

March  12ih.  Several  citizens  of  the  town  petitioned,  that '  several 
ways  and  landing  places  might  be  confirmed  to  the  town.'  This 
the  proprietors'  committee  opposed,  declaring  that  the  town  had  no 
power  to  act  in  the  all'air.  Here  commenced  a  contest  between  the 
town  and  the  proprietors,  which  was  finally  settled  in  favor  of  the 
latter,  in  1826. 

March  22d,  1751.  Third  parish  '  voted  to  choose  one  or  more 
parsons  to  take  care  of  the  boyes  that  plays  at  meeting.'  J 

'1745,  October  2Sth.  Ephraim  Lunt  was  chosen,'  in  the  first 
parish, '  to  set  i*i  the  gallery  to  and  take  special  care  that  ye  boys  do 
not  play  in  service  time  and  correct  those  boys  that  do  not  give  due 
attention,'  and  so  forth. 

1752. 

'  March  21th.  Town  voted  to  build  for  the  use  of  the  town  a 
house  near  the  upper  end  of  Plum  island.'  * 


*  Town  records. 


t  Church  records. 


}  Third  parish  records. 


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HISTORV    OF    iNKWBIJllY. 


This  winter  was  a  very  cold  one. 

This  year  ihe  HrJti.-*h  parliament  made  an  alleriition  in  the  style. 
From  '  Jol)  Shepherd's  alnianacJc,"  published  in  Newport,  by  James 
Franklin,  I  make  the  following  extract. 

'  Kind  reader, 

'  \  oil  have  now  sueh  a  year  as  yon  never  saw  before,  nor  ever  will  see  here- 
after. The  i<in;i-  and  pailiamenl  have  tlii.u;j;lit  proper  to  eniiet  tiuil  the  month  of 
bepteniher  175-2  shall  eontaiii  bnt  nineteen  dav.s  so  that  wi!  are  not  to  hav(3  two 
beffiiininss  to  our  years,  but  the  livst  of  Jatiuarv  is  lo  be  the  lirst  day  and  lirst 
month  of  th(^  year  17rv2.  Eleven  days  ar(>  taken  from  September  and  be-in  one 
luesday,  two  Wednesday  and  tonrteen  Thursday-.  Be  not  much  astonished, 
nor  ook  with  eoncern.  tiear  reader,  at  sueh  a  dednetion  of  days,  nor  rei,aet  as 
for  the  loss  of  so  much  time,  bat  take  tliis  for  your  consolation  that  your 
expences  wdl  appear  li^iter  anil  your  mind  be  more  at  ease.  And  what  an 
lndul^^enee  i.s  here  for  those,  who  love  their  pillows,  to  lie  down  in  peace  on  the 
second  of  this  month  and  not  perhaps  awake,  or  be  disturbed  till  the  fourteenth 
in  the  mornitig.  A'ow,  reader,  since  't  is  lik(dy  you  mav  never  have  such  another 
year,  nor  such  another  aimaniick,  I  would  advise  yoii  to  improve  the  one  for 
your  own  sake,  and  recommend  the  other  for  the  sake  of  your  friend, 

Poor  Job.' 

<  Ma?/  2Gth.  Pro})rie1ors  lease  to  Jonathan  Pearson  for  twelve 
years  all  the  stream  of  water  from  Rowley  line  to  Peter  Cheney's 
grant,  (which  was  made  tifb^enth  February  1087)  on  condition  he 
Avould  grind  for  i\ewl)iiry  before  he  would"  for  other  towns.' 

'iTffl//  7f/i,  1752.  The  members  of  the  second  church  in 
Newbury  met  to  deal  with  our  brother  Richard  Eartlet  for  the 
following  reasons. 

'First,  our  said  brother  refuses  communion  with  the  church  for 
no  other  reason  but  because  the  pastor  W(>ars  a  wigg,  and  because 
the  church  justifies  him  in  it.  setting  up  his  own  opinion  in  oppo- 
sition to  the  church,  contrary  to  tiuit  humility,  Avliich  becomes  a 
christian. 

'  Second,  and  farther  in  an  unchristian  manner  he  censures  and 
condemns  both  p:istor  and  church  as  anti-christian  on  the  aforesaid 
account  tmd  he  slicks  not  from  time  to  time  to  assert  with  the  great- 
est assurance  that  all  who  wear  wiggs,  unless  they  repent  of  that 
particular  sin  before  they  die  will  certtiinly  be  daiimed,  which  we 
judjje  to  be  a  piece  of  uncharitable  and  sinful  rashness.' 

This  opposition  to  wigs  was  not  peculiar  to  i\Ir.  Bartlet,  though 
he  was  probably  one  of  the  last,  who  took  so  decided  a  stand 
against  that  article  of  dress.  From  their  first  introduction  in  New 
England,  till  the  tyranny  of  fashion  had  sanctionc<l  their  almost  uni- 
versal use,  the  a  earing  of  wigs  had  been  violently  opposed  by  our 
fathers,  who  considered  the  manner  of  wearing  the  hair,  as  a  subject 
of  grave  and  serious  conse.|uence.  In  many  places  in  judge  Sewall's 
diary,  Ik;  allud(!s  to  this  subject.     I  make  a  few  extracts.' 

'  1G85,  i<t'j)lember  \')lh.     Three  admitted  to  the  church,  two  wore 
periwigs.' 

'1696.     ]\Ir.  Sims  told  me  of  the  assaults  he  had  made  on  peri- 
wigs, seemed  to  be  in  good  sober  sadness.' 


IirSTORY    OF    NKWBUIIY. 


221 


'  1097.  Mr.  Ncycs  of  Suloni  wvole  a  treatise  on  periwigs,'  and 
so  forth. 

^  \70A,  Januor//.  Walley  appears  in  liis  wig  iiaving  cut  ofT  liis 
own  liair.' 

'1708,  Aug'ust  mil.  Air.  Clioevfr  died.  Tlie  welfare  of  the 
province  was  much  upon  liis  heart.     He  abominated  per'miifs.^ 

The  venerable  John  Elliot,  the  apostle  to  the  Indians,  believed 
that  the  sntl'erings  (>ndured  l)y  the  people  of  Massachusetts  in  Piiil- 
ip's  war,  were  indicted  on  them  as  a  judgment  from  heaven  for 
wearing  wigs ! 

Even  th(>  members  of  the  society  of  friends,  were  troubled  with 
the  wig  question.  From  the  minutes  of  the  moiuhly  meeting,  I 
make  the  following  extracts. 

'  1721,  November  16fh,  At  this  meeting  we  received  an  account 
from  ye  ([uarterly  meeting,  in  which  we  are  desired  to  consider  the 
wearing  of  wigges  and  give  in  our  judgment  at  the  next  (luarteriy 
meeting  to  be  held  at  Salem.' 

'  1721,  December  21st.  Hampton.  The  matter  a])ove  mentioned 
consarning  ye  wearing  of  wigges  was  discoursed  and  it  was  con- 
cluded by  this  meeting  ijt  ye  wearing  of  extravcgent  superjlues 
tvigges  is  altogether  contrary  to  truth.'' 


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11      i 


1753. 

'  March  13th.  Town  granted  the  petition  of  Nathan  Hale  and 
others  about  a  fire  engine.' 

'  3Iay  23d.  Town  granted  liberty  to  Samuel  Titcomb  and  John 
Harris  to  build  a  substantial  engine  to  weigh  hay  to  stand  where 
the  old  engine  stood,  near  the  head  of  Fish  street.' 


1754. 

'  3Tarch  12th.  Town  voted  to  build  a  powder  house.' 
^September  19th.  The  town  taking  into  consideration  the  bill 
entitled  an  act  for  granting  to  his  majesty  an  excise  upon  wines 
and  spirits  distilled  and  sold  by  retail  or  consumed  in  this  province, 
voted  that  they  are  of  opinion  that  that  part  of  said  bill,  which 
relates  to  the  consumption  of  distilled  spirits  in  private  families 
(which  was  referred  to  the  consideration  of  the  towns)  is  an  infrinQ-e- 
went  on  the  natural  rights  of  Englishmen  and  ought  not  to  pass 
into  a  law,'  and  so  forth. 


1755. 

^  January  2Ut.  Town  voted,  first,  that  the  town  will  act  on  an 
act  lately  made  relating  to  an  excise  on  the  privati  consumption  of 
distilled  spirits,  wines,  lemons,  limes  and  orange 


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HISTORY    OF    NEWBURY. 


'  Second,  v()U>d  that  the  petitioners  nainelv  captain  Michael  Dal- 
ton  and  others  and  any  other  gentlemen,  who  are  willing  to  join 
them  should  on  their  own  cost  and  charge  apply  home  in  order  to 
prevent  said  acts  obtaining  the  royal  assent,' 

'M//y  22d.      Reverend   John   Lowell  preached  a  sermon  from 
Deuteronomy  20 :  4  at  Newbury  at  the  desire  and  in  the  audience  ■ 
of  colonel   JMoscs  Tilcornb  and  many  others  enlisted  with  him  in 
an  expedition  against  the  French,'  at"  Crown  point,  where  he  was 
slam,  September  eighth.     'In  the  battle  of  lake  (xeorge  he  com- 
manded his  regiincMit  on  the  extreme  right  wing  of  general  John- 
son's line.     He  got  behind  a  l;n-ge  pine  tree  about  one  rod  distant 
from  the  end  of  the  breast  work,  where  he  could  stand  up  and 
command  his  men,  who  were  lying  flat  on  the    ground,  and  where 
he  could  have  a  better  opportunity  to  use  his  own  piece.     Here  he 
was  insensibly  (lanked  by  a  party  of  Indians,  who  crept  around  a 
large  pine  log,  across  a  swamp  about  eighty  yards  distant,  and  shot 
him.      Colonel   Titcomb  rmd  lieutenant  Baron   stood   behind  the 
same  tree  and  both  fell  at  the  same   fire.     This  was   about  four 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  i^Ionday  the  eighth  of  September  1755.' 
The  preceding  particulars  I  give  on  the  authority  of  lAIr.  Henry 
Stevens,  junior.     \n  the  preface  to  a  funeral  sermon  preached  on 
the  occasion,  by  the  reverend  John  Lowell,  from  Joshua  1:2,  he 
says,  ^'  being  more  especially  called  to  take  notice  of  colonel  Tit- 
comb's  death,  and  in  a  religious  way  publickly  to  improve  it,  as  he 
was  one  of  the  church  under  my  pastoral  care,  and  I,  ^  family  and 
relations  arc  with  us :  and  as  many  had  their  triends  gone  from  my 
parish  under  him,  the  following  sermon  in  the  height  of  our  pas- 
sionate resentment  of  the  affecting  providence,  I  hastily  composed 
and  preached  immediately  after  the  news  of  it ;   as  what  I  then 
thought  seasonable.' 

By  a  census  taken  this  year,  Newbury  had  fifty  slaves,  negroes, 
and  Indians;  thirty-four  males,  and  sixteen  females. 

November  1st.  A  great  and  destructive  earthquake  destroyed 
Lisbon. 

'  November  Idlk,  about  four  o'clock  A.  M.  was  the  most  violent 
earthquake  ever  known  in  North  America.  It  continued  about 
four  and  a  half  minutes.  In  Boston,  about  one  hundred  chimneys 
were  leveled  with  the  roofs  of  the  houses  and  about  fifteen  himdred, 
shattered  and  thrown  down  in  part.  There  was  a  shock  every  day 
till  the  twenty-second.' 

'  December  19th.    There  were  two  or  three  shocks  about  ten  P.  M.'  * 


EflBHl 


III 


17  5  6. 

'  March  llth.     About  three  P.  M.  a  small  shock  of  earthquake.' 
April  16th.     A  great  gale  of  wind  commenced,  which  lasted 
three  and  a  half  days.     Sixteen  vessels  w'ere  lost,  f 


*  Richard  Kellv. 


t  Caleb  Greenleaf's  almanacs. 


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223 


From  May  eighteenth  till  June  nineteenth  there  was  no  rain. 

The  meeting-house  now  standing  in  Federal  street  was  this  year 
erected.  From  almanacs  kept  by  iMi-.  Caleb  Greenleaf,  I  make 
the  following  extracts. 

'/«///  5///.  We  began  to  raise  our  meeting  house  and  fmished  it 
the  seventh,  and  not  one  oath  heard  and  nobody  hurt.'  The  house 
is  one  hundred  feet  long,  by  sixty  broad. 

'  On  the  seventh  the  revdend  John  lAIorehead  of  Boston  preached 
the  first  sermon  in  it  from  2  Chronicles  7 :  12.  The  first  sermon 
preached  in  our  new  meeting  house  was  on  August  fifteenth.  The 
text  was  the  whole  of  the  one  hundred  and  twenty-second  psalm.' 

'  Aiig-nst  idth  and  20lh,  we  pulled  down  our  old  meeting  house.' 

This  house,  as  has  been  observed,  stood  on  the  easterly  side  of 
High,  formerly  Norfolk  street,  a  lew  rods  south  of  Federal  street. 
From  a  letter  to  doctor  Bearcroft,  written  February  fifteenth,  1743* 
by  the  reverend  INI.  Plart,  it  appears  that  it  was  erected  in  1742. 
He  says,  '  since  my  last  of  July  twenty-third  1742  a  new  house  was 
built  by  the  people  called  the'  new  schemers  and  their  dissentino- 
teacher  received  fifty-three  into  their  communion  in  one  day  oi 
those,  who  are  of  their  way  of  thinking.'  The  'dissenting  teacher' 
above  mentioned,  was  the  reverend  Joseph  Adams,  who  was  after- 
ward settled  in  Newington,  New  Hampshire. 

October  2d.  The  immber  of  quakers  in  Newbury,  was,  at  this 
time,  twenty-five  men.* 

'  November  IGth,  at  ten  minutes  before  four  A.  M.  ihere  was  an 
earthquake.'     A  remarkably  open  winter.f 

17  5  7. 

Jaminrij  13///.  The  town  granted  the  petition  of  four  persons,  to 
build  a  grist  and  saw  mill  at  Pine  island. 

'/H//y8//<,  at  twenty  minutes  past  two  P.  M.  there  was  a  small 
earthquake.' 

1758. 

This  year,  another  diillcully  occurred  in  the  second  parish.  As 
the  me(>ting-liouse,  in  consequence  of  the  setting  ofi"  of  the  fourth 
parish,  in  1729,  was  no  longer  in  a  central  place,  and  was  very 
much  (lilapidiited,  the  parish  had  voted.  November  thirtieth,  1756, 
to  rebuild  it  at  the  '  southerly  end '  of  Hanover  street.  In  February 
and  June,  nineteen  persons  petitioned  the  general  ccmrt  to  be  set  olf 
from  tlie  second  to  the  i'ourth  parish,  'on  account  of  distance,  bad- 
ness of  the  road,  badness  of  the  meeting  house,  and  on  account  of 
a  vote  to  HMuove  the  meeting  house  half  a  mile  farther  east.'  They 
conclude  a  long  petition  in  the  following  figurative  strain. 

'Thus  vdiir  I'vci'llcni'v  anil  hoiKiiN  iiiiiv  jiis^ily  see  lluit  we  are  atloaf  in  nn 
ocerm  ot  diliiculty,  and  nui^^t  uiiavoidubry  wilhoul  your  excellency  and   honor's 


'li 


f  II 


*  Robert  Adams's  manusoipt.- 


t  Reveiend  Peter  CofTin's  idnianacs. 


HISTOIIY    OF    NEWBUIIY. 


i*^ 


inlcvposition  bn  \v;ift('il  from  our  much  ilesinul  churcli  and  congropration  into 
the  bosom  of  Dur  iriollicr  (.'liurcli.  into  vvliicli  iiolhiiig  but  a  long  and  tedious 
(|Uiirrcl.  a  shattcrcilj  dolcl'til  and  uncorntortabic  house  to  woisliip  our  divino 
master  in,  together  with  a  total  despair  of  being  extricated  out  ol  our  misery, 
would  bring  us.' 

3fa!/ 2of/.  A  comniilteo  was  rin)yf>ii  l)y  lh(>  Icnvn,  'to  sell  the 
town's  part  of  the  prison  house  and  land  in  Newbury,  and  to  buy 
or  build  a  convenient  house  for  the  poor.' 

The  sueeessns  of  the  h'reneii.  iknvn  to  nearly  the  elosc  of  1757, 
luid  very  mueii  depressed  and  dispirited  the"  colonies;  but  they 
soon  began  to  feel  the  effect  of  the  enerovtie  measures  of  the  ini- 
niorlal  i^ilt,  who,  in  tlu;  autuinn  ol'  1757,  became  prime  ministe'-  of 
Great  Brilain,  the  success  or  defeat  of  whose  arms,  especi:  ' 
North  America,  excited  the  deepest  interest.  July  twenty-  "  ; 
Louisbui-o;  was  taken.  7^ugust  twenty-seventh,  "i'ort  Fronle.i.c 
surrendered,  and,  on  November  twenty-fifth,  fort  Du  C|uesne,  after- 
ward called  fort  Pitt,  now  Pittsburg,  was  wrested  from  the  French. 
In  all  these  engagements,  the  New  England  people  contributed  their 
full  proportion  :  New  Hampshire,  Connecticut,  and  Massachusetts 
furnishing  lifteen  thousand  troops,  of  whom  a  large  jn-oportion  went 
from  Newbury. 

Scpfcmhcr  11///.  There  was  a  public  thanksgiving,  on  account 
of  the  reduction  of  cape  Breton. 

The  bridge  over  the  river  Parker  was  erected  this  year. 


1759. 

This  year,  the  British  arms  were  triumphant  in  all  their  engage- 
ments in  North  America.  July  twenty-fourth,  Niagara,  was  taken, 
and  on  the  twenty-seventh,  Ticonderoga,  and  when  the  news  an-ived 
in  Massachusetts,  that,  on  Sept(Mnb(>r  thirteenth,  the  army  under 
general  Wolfe  was  victorious,  on  the  plains  of  Ai)rahain,  and  tiiat, 
on  the  eighteenth  of  the  same  month,  Quei)ec  had  surrenden^d,  the 
joy  and  ( nthusiasm  of  the  people  seemed  to  know  no  bounds. 

The  citizens  of  Newbury  had  a  day  of  rejoicing.  An  ox  w  -* 
split  and  broiled  on  a  huge  gridiron,  at  the  west  end  of  the  reverend 
Mr.  Lowell's  meeling-house.  S<nigs,  commemorative  of  the  victo- 
ries of  this  year,  were  everywhere  sung.  Every  stanza  of  one 
of  the  songs,  ended  with  the  words,  'the  year  fifty-nine.  So,  dea- 
con Benjamin  Colman,  aged  ninety-two,  now  living,  [December 
twenty-lhird,  18 1 1.]  informs  me,  who  saw  the  ox  broiled,  and  re- 
members the  following  lines  of  the  song,  which  was  then  sung. 

'  Do  la  C —  had  a  sqiindrnn  so  nimblo  iiiul  liclit. 
On  mfotini;  Bosca\v(Mi  like  a  Proiichnian  looklnght; 
But  ruiininj;  too  fasten  somo  mitrhty  design, 
JIc  lost  both  his  legs  in  the  year  fifiy-ntiw. 

'  A\'ith  fruo  Briliph  valdur  wp  liroko  ovnry  hnr, 
And  (  onijiKTcii  (iupl)pi-  in  tlip  yfar  liftv-nirie.' 


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March  I2th.  The  town  granted  the  petition  of  James  Knight 
and  nine  others,  'to  erect  another  engine  to  weigh  hay  near  the  head 
of  Muzzey's  lane,'  now  Marlborough  street. 

Mai/  25th.  The  second  parish  commenced  tearing  down  their 
old  meeting-house,  and  this  year  raised  thcur  new  meeting-house, 
which  was  fifty-four  feet  long  and  forty-four  broad. 

June  2Sth,  '  A  public  fast  on  account  of  the  expedition  to 
Canada.' 

Jii/i/  Sth.     '  At  a  quarter  past  two  ihere  was  an  earthquake.' 

August.  The  hovises  of  Anthony  Gwynn  and  Mr.  Somerby,  of 
Newbury,  and  Mr.  Greenleaf,  of  Newbury  new  town,  were  struck 
with  lightning. 

September  iOth.  '  Mr.  Samuel  Petdngell  fell  from  the  steeple  of 
the  reverend  Mr.  Parson's  meeting  house,  (which  was  this  year 
erected)  antl  was  killed  instantly.'  * 

October  25th.  '  Public  thanksgiving  on  account  of  the  surrender 
of  Quebec.' 

In  November  of  this  year,  the  small-pox  made  its  appearance  on 
'  the  plains,'  so  called,  and  was  for  some  time  called  the  eruptive 
fever. 

Some  time  this  year,  Mr.  Enoch  Noyes,  a  self-taught  mechanic, 
commenced,  without  instruction,  making  horn  buttons  and  coarse 
combs,  of  various  kinds,  and  continued  the  business  till  1778,  when 
he  employed  William  Cleland,  a  deserter  from  Burgoyne's  army, 
a  comb-maker  by  profession,  and  a  skillful  workman.  This  was 
the  commencement  of  the  comb-making  business  in  Newbury,  and 
various  other  places. 

1760. 

*  February  3d,  at  three  o'clock  A.  M.  there  was  an  earthquake  at 
Newbury.' 

Mai/  20th.  The  town  acted  on  the  petition  of  doctor  Nathan 
Hale,  and  others,  and  voted  that  they  would  not  repair  or  remove 
the  town  house,  and,  on  May  twenty-sixth,  'voted  not  to  build  a 
new  town  house.' 

Pine  island  grist  and  saw  mill  erected  this  year. 

Maij  2\-st.  Twenty-two  members  of  the  'old  church,'  namely, 
queen  Ann's  chapel,  in  consequence  of  the  discontinuance  of  pub- 
lic worship  in  that  building  three  sabbaths  in  every  month,  united 
with  several  others,  in  an  agreement  to  build  a  new  meeting-house, 
and  again  become  congrcgatio  lalists,  for  the  same  reason  that  some 
of  their  ancestors  became  episcopalians,  namely,  distance  from  the 
meeting-house,  and  petitioned  the  general  court  to  form  a  new  parish. 

In  July,  the  small-pox  ceased  in  Newbury.  Daring  its  continu- 
an(tc,  the  selectmen  fenced  in  the  infected  district,  from  the  school- 
house  to  Emery's  hill,  and  sent  to  Boston  for  physicians  and  nurses. 


m 


m 


*  Mr.  Caleb  Greenleaf's  almanacs. 


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236 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBUnr. 


who,  as  the  custom  then  Wiia,  s^rcatly  aggriivatcd  the  diHease,  by 
shiitfiiig  up  Iht!  sic-lc  in  small  aiul  iicatcd  rooms.  About  eighty  per" 
sous  had  the  disorder,  of  wliom  thirtv-six,  all  adulls  but  two,  died. 

September  m.  Montreal  was  taken  by  llie  J-lnglish,  as  also 
Detroit  and  Maekinaw. 

October  '2S)th.  There  was  a  'publie  ihanksgiving  on  account  of 
the  entire  reduction  of  Cajiada.' 


176  1. 

February  6th.  Second  and  third  parishes  opposed  the  formation 
of  a  new  parish  at  '  the  ]ilains.' 

March  10th.  <■  Town  ehose  a  committee  to  use  their  ])est  endeav- 
ours to  remove  the  inferior  court  hekl  in  Salem  to  Ipswich,  and  one 
of  the  other  courts  from  Ipswich  to  Newbury  inasmuch  as  they  pay 
a  greater  tax  to  the  province  charges  than  any  other  town 'in  ye 
province  save  Boston.'  ^ 

March  10th.  A  ferry  was  granted  from  Newbury  to  Salisbury, 
♦about  the  middle  of  Bartlet's  cove.' 

March  12th,  at  twenty  minutes  p-^-t  two,  A.  M.,  there  was  an 
earthquake.  '  It  was  divided,'  says  one  writer,  'into  two  shakes 
with  a  pause  between.' 

April  5th.  The  fifth  parish  was  incorporated.  The  parishioners 
having  held  a  meeting  in  queen  Ann's  chapel,  bishop  Bass  wrote 
their  committee  the  following  letter. 

,„     ,,  '  June  9th,n 61. 

'  Gentlemen,  ' 

'  I  am  informed  that  you  with  a  number  of  people  whose  committee  I  hoar 
you  are,  broke  into  the  old  church  the  other  day.  I  shall  be  very  glad  to  find 
that  I  am  mismformed,  for  if  it  be  really  so  I  think  you  have  used  me  in  a  very 
uncivil  and  ungentlemanlike  manner,  and  without  any  provocation  and  not  a 
httle  exposed  yourselves.  If  you  had  business  to  transact,  or  any  grave  matters 
to  talk  over  near  the  church  and  it  was  necessary  or  convenient  that  you  should 
go  into  the  church  for  that  purpose  I  don't  know  of  any  body  that  would  have 
becnagainst  It,  but  certainly  you  ought  to  have  done  it  in  im  orderly  manner 
by  asking  leave  of  me,  who  am  the  proper  guardian  of  that  church. 

Edward  Bass.' 

September  Slh.  The  committee  addressed  the  members  of  the 
old  church,  <  and  after  stating  the  incorporation  of  the  parish,  and 
that  they  had  no  convenient  house  for  the  worship  of  God  at  pres- 
ent,' conclude  thus :  '  we  therefore  as  neighbours  and  friends  desire 
your  consent  to  improve  the  said  church  in  the  vacancy  of  Mr. 
Bass  not  attending  there  until  we  are  accommodated  with  a  new 
house.     We  are,'  and  so  forth. 

September  9th.  The  preceding  request  was  granted  by  the  pro- 
prietors of  the  '  old  church.' 

3Iai/.     A  fire  engine,  the  second  in  Newbury,  was  imported  from 

*  Town  record*. 


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227 


London  this  month,  by  Michael  Dalton,  esquire,  and  others,'*''  and 
a  tire  company  of  Iwonty-foii    men  formed. 

November  ist,  between  eig  it  and  nine  P.  M.  there  was  an  earth- 
quake. 

Tiiis  summer  there  was  a  great  drought. 


1762. 

March  2(1.  A  committee  was  appointed  in  Byfield  parish,  to 
•Jippoint  a  grammar-school  master,  according  to  the  will  of  governor 
Dummer,  and  the  academy  was  erected. 

March.  The  county  appropriated  two  hundred  pounds,  toward 
defraying  the  expense  of  building  a  court  house,  'for  the  use  of 
the  county  and  town,'  but  in  consequence  of  the  refusal  of  the 
town,  March  twenty-ninth,  to  unite  with  the  county,  in  the  erection 
of  such  a  building,  'the  water  side  peoj)le'  generously  gave  the 
money  to  build  the  court  house,  purchased,  July  seventh,  eleven 
and  a  (piarter  rods  of  land,  at  the  corner  of  Essex  street,  where  the 
museum  now  stands,  of  Joseph  (Element,  shipwright,  for  sixty- 
nine  pounds.  Said  building,  when  erected,  was  to  be  used  as  a 
court  and  town  house,  '  and  to  no  other  use,  intent  or  purpose 
whatsoever.'     It  was  built  this  year. 

'  Juh/  2SfJi.  There  was  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer  on  account 
of  the  j^xievous  drought,'  and  on  August  twelfth,  a  day  of  thanks- 
giving, on  account  of  the  capture  of  Havana  by  the  English. 

This  summer,  the  church  in  connection  with  the  fifth  parish  was 
constituted,  and  the  reverend  Oliver  Noble  ordained  their  pastor, 
September  first. 

1763. 

Fchriian/  27th,  Momhui.  Dummer  academy  opened.  Mr.  Sam- 
uel iMoody,  preceptor.  The  number  of  pupils  on  this  day  was 
twenty-eight,  of  whom,  one  only,  deacon  Benjamin  Colman,  born 
in  1752,  is  still  living.  Reverend  Moses  Parsons  preached  a  sermon 
on  the  occasion,  from  Isaiah,  32 :  8.  '  The  liberal  soul  deviseth 
liberal  things.' 

Maif  i2th.  Town  '  voted  to  build  a  pest  house  in  the  gi-eat  pas- 
ture tliirty-eight  feet  long  by  twenty-eight  wide  and  one  story  high.'  =* 

At  the  June  session  of  the  general  court,  two  hundred  and  six  of 
the  '  water  side  people,'  so  called,  sent  in  a  petition,  praying,  that, 
for  certain  reasons,  they  might  be  set  off  from  Newbury,  and 
incorporated  into  a  town  by  themselves.  In  this  petition,  signed, 
in  behalf  of  thiunselves  and  the  memorialists,  by  William  Atkins, 
Daniel  Parnham,  Michnel  Dahon,  Thomas  Woodl)ridge,  and  Pa- 
trick Trai-y,  they  enumerate  a  long  list  of  grievances,  as  reasons 


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It' 


why  ihoir  request  should  l)(.  pfrantcd.  The  substance  of  it  is,  that 
between  theui,  Mhe  inereliunts,  tnuli^rs,  iuid  nieelianies/  and  tlie 
husbandmen,  'there  is  a  eertain  jealousy  as  to  their  pul)lic  aflUirs 
antl  a  liigh  spirit  of  opposition,'  and  so  fortli.  'J'hey  cornphiin  of 
*  the  want  oi  sehools  by  the  water  side,'  a  want  of  lire  engines,  that 
'they  are  unreasonably  taxed,'  that  'there  is  no  town  treasurer,' 
that '  they  do  not  have  th(>ir  due  proportion  of  the  selectmen,'  and, 
iinally,  as  an  instance  of  the  prevailing  spirit  of  jealousy  and  oppo- 
sition, they  say,  that  'the  town  has  not  met,  and  we  suppose  will 
not  meet,  in  tlie  new  court  house  lately  built  at  the  water  side  by 
the  county  and  the  people  there  — and  that  it  is  a  sullieient  objection 
with  them  to  any  measure  proposed,  or  thing  done,  tho'  ever  so  just 
and  reasonabU;  in  its  nature,  that  ye  water  side  people  proposed,  or 
did  it.     Wherefore,'  and  so  forth. 

This  summer  there  was  a  severe  drought. 

October  20///.  '  'J'he  town  voted  unaiiiinously  three  only  ex- 
cepted, that  they  were  opposed  to  t!ie  division  of  the  town.  Also 
voted  to  build  a  house  for  the  grammar  school  ;it  or  near  the  head 
of  Fish  street,  and  to  build  a  small  house  behind  the  work  house 
to  keep  crazed  and  distract(}d  persons  in.' 

December  2d.  The  first  parish,  on  account  of  the  supposed 
weakness  of  the  turret  of  the  old  meeting-house,  took  down  the 
bell,  and  hung  it  in  a  bell-house  opposite  the  meeting-house.' 


1764. 

January  27th.  The  town  authorized  the  selectmen  '  to  provide  a 
suitable  gate  at  old  town  bridge  and  at  Thorla's  bridge  and  emiiloy 
one  man  to  keep  each  gate  and  also  to  feiu^e  across  any  road  to 
preA^ent  any  person  infected  with  the  small  pox  coming  into  town,' 
and  'that  no  vessel  shall  come  up  above  Hook's  point  till  an  exam- 
ination is  made.' 


NEWBURYPORT. 

January  2StL  That  part  of  Newbury  now  called  Newburyport, 
was  incorporated  as  a  separate  town.  The  act  of  incorporation 
commences  thus. 

'An  act  for  erecting  part  of  the  town  of  Newbury  into  a  new  town  by  the 
name  ot  Newburyport.  ^ 

'  Whereas  the  town  of  Newbury  is  verv  hir-o,  and  tho  inhabitants  of  that 
part  ot  It,  who  dwell  by  the  water  side  there,"  as  it  is  commonly  called,  are 
mostly  merchants  traders  and  artificers,  and  the  inhabitant.-^  of  the  other  part 
ot  tne  town  are  chiefly  husbandmen,  by  means  whereof  many  diliiculties  and 
disputes  have  arisen  in  managing  tlieir  public  affairs, 

Be  it  enacted/  and  so  forth. 

Here  follows  a  description  of  the  boundary  lines  of  the  town, 
which  can  be  more  easily  understood  by  reference  to  the  map.     In 


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rr;,'ar(l  to  size,  it  is  the  srnuUest  town  in  the  commonwoaltli, 
containing  about  six  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  less  than  a  rnilo 
square.  Ol  its  populalitJU,  husiiK^ss,  trade,  advantages,  and  so 
forth,  I  shall  speak  more  fully  hereafter.  1  shall  here  only  nialvo 
one  ([uotation  from  that  inimitable  book,  written  l)y  the  bite'  Timo- 
thy De.'cter,  entitled  'a  piekh;  for  tin;  knowing  ones.'  With  the 
exception  of  the  punctuation,  I  give  it  verJjatiin  and  literatim. 

'  fourder,  frinds.  I  will  toll  the  a  tipe  of  mankind,  what  la  that  ?  :},')  or  30 
years  ayono  A  toiin  called  Koubiy,  all  won  the  Voiiiiilcd  states,  N()Kl)ry  pcopcl 
kept  toifethor  (piiet  till  the  Lamod  K"'<'iied  .strong',  tlic  i'arinurs  was  I'i  out  of 
20.  thay  wanted  to  have  the  oilescrs  in  the  Coiitry,  th(^  Lamed  in  the  see  port 
wanted  to  have  them  there,  f^ijeriiii;  ARose,  'jroiieil  warine,  lite  thay  wood,  in 
Law  thay  went  the  .Iinr(d  Cort  to  be  sot  of.  finely  tiiay  <;ot  there  Kands  Ansj- 
wered,  the  see  port  eaUid  Newhiiryport,  (iOO  Kuiicrs  of  Laiul  out  of  30000  Ea- 
kers  of  good  land,  so  muiih  for  mad,  people  of  Laming  makes  them  mad.  if 
th.?y  had  kept  together  thay  wood  have  been  the  sekent  toun  in  this  state  abont 
half  of  Boston.' 

Among  the  conditions  of  the  act  of  incorporation,  were  these : 
that  Newbury  should  hereafter  send  but  one  representative'  to  the 
general  court,  and  Newburyport  one,  and  that  '  the  inhabitants  (»f 
Newburyport  shall  from  time  to  time  amend  and  repair  a  certain 
bridge  over  the  river  Artichoke  which  they  will  have  occasion  to 
pass  and  repass,  although  thi^  same  bridge  is  not  included  within 
the  liiTiits  ol  Newburyport.' 

March  loth.  The  '  committee  chosen  by  the  town  of  Newbury- 
port report  that  at  least  three  large  schools  should  be  provided  aiid 
maintained  in  said  town,'  and  conclude  by  saying:  'as  the  inhal)i- 
tants  have  now  the  long  desired  privilege  of  being  well  served  with 
schools,  and,  as  they  have  heretofore  been  liberal  in  supporting  pri- 
vate schools,  we  think  it  proper  that  tin;  public  schools  should  be 
honorably  supported.' 

To  the  suggestion  of  the  committee,  the  town  gave  a  hi'arty  re- 
sponse, and  from  that  titne  to  the  present,  the  public  schools  have 
been  'honorably  supported,'  and  it  is  believed  by  competent  judges, 
that  no  town  in  the  commonwealth  has  done  more  for  the  cause  of 
education,  in  proportion  to  its  means,  than  the  town  of  Newbury- 
port. In  the  languiige  of  Timothy  Dexter,  'the  lamed  groueil 
strong.' 

Ma/i  2')f/i.  '  Newburyport  voted  to  petition  the  general  court  to 
have  their  limits  and  bounds  enlarged,'  and  also  voted,  two  Iniiulred 
and  sixty-two  against  fifty-four,  '  ^oi  to  petition  to  be  reunited  to  the 
town  of  Newbury.' 

1765 

On  March  twenty-second,  an  act,  passed  by  the  British  parliament, 
for  raising  a  revenue  by  a  general  stamp  duty  through  all  the 
American  colonies,  received  the  royal  a.^sent,  and  was  to  take  cflect 
November  first.      It  was  called   the  stamp  act,  was  everywhere 


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Ul 


disii|)|m)V('(l,  and  in  mjiriy  plsieos  m(n  willi  "roat 


Aiii,'iisi  lvvciilv-si\tl 
)Uty 


opposition.     On 


I,  11  moll  .'lUcrcd  !lu;  liuii.st)  of  Willijim  Si 


(i.-puty  rcirlHtcr,  unci  (I..Hlrov<-(l  the  records  and  (iU-s  of  tlu'  •idmiruliv 
court,  nuisiickod  die  li„us,.  of  n.^ijiimin  il;ill„wcll,  (H)inptroll(T  df 
llu!  customs,  and  destroyed  ilic  liousi;  of  ii.MilcniUit  gov-.-rnor  lliitcii- 
inson,*  luiuth  property,  and  many  valuable  hooks  and  papers. 

iivptv.mhn-  '.mil.  The  town  ()f\\e\vl)urvp()rt  voted  that  '  the  late 
aetol  |);iihamciit  is  very  grievous,  and  that  this  town  as  much  as 
in  thein  ii.'s  cuth-avour  the  repeal  of  the  same  in  all  lawful  ways, 
and  that  it  is  the  desire  of  the  town  that  no  man  in  it  will  aeeept\)f 
tlie  ollice  ol  di  -tni)utin-(  the  stam[)t  papers,  as  he  regard.s  the  dis- 
pleasure ol  the  town  and  llmt  they  will  (h-eia  the  person  aceepliuL' 
ol  such  olhee  an  enemy  to  his  country.' 

Ortobcr  :l\st.  J'^aeh  of  the  towns,  'Newbury  and  Newburyport, 
on  this  day  held  a  town  meeting,  and  each  votJd  to  give  instructions 
t.Mheir  representative,  'relating  to  his  acting  iu  the  general  court.' 
Ihe  uistructionsgivcn  to  .Joseph  (ierrish,  representative  of  New- 
bury, were  passetl  unanimously,  and  ordered  to  be  kept  on  file,  but 
are  now  lost.  I'^-oiu  the  instructions  given  by  Newburyport  to 
their  representative,  Dudley  Atkins,  the  following  extracts  are  taken. 

'After  n.lvertinn:  I.,  the  riyht  of  tlio  prnplo  to  instriu.t  thoir  represiMitiitives, 
ami  reinaiku.g  upon  .0  iibo.ality  of  the  Eii-lisli  constitution,  tlio  iastructions 
proceed :  ' 

'  VVo  hiivo  the  most  loyal  sontimmits  of  onr  -racious  kin-  mi.l  liis  illnstrious 
family  ;  wo  have  the  hariost  r.-vereneo  and  osteem  for  tliat  most  an-ust  body, 
the  parliament  ol  (,reat  hntain  :  and  we  have  an  aniont  atrortion  foi^our  breth- 
ren at  home  ;  we  have  alway.s  regarded  their  interests  as  our  own.  and  esteemed 
our  own  piospenty  as  necessarily  niiited  with  theirs.  Hence  it  is  that  we  have 
he  -reatest  concern  at  some  measures  adopted  by  the  late  ministrv,  and  some 
late  acts  of  parliament,  which  we  apprehen.l  iu  tlieir  tendency  will  deprive  us 
ot  some  ot  onr  essential  and  hiirii-pri/ed  liberties.  The  stamp-act  in  a  pecu- 
lar  manner,  we  esteem  a  -nevance,  as  by  it  wo  are  subjecte.l  to  a'  lieavy  tav. 
to  whwh  are  anne.ve(  very  severe  penalties;  and  tiie  recovery  of  forfeitures 
111.  urre.  by  th.>  breach  of  it,  is  in  a  manner,  wliicii  the  Kn.rijch  constituti.n 
abhors,  that  IS   withoa   a  trial  by  jury,   and  iu  a  court  of  admiralty.     That  a 

people  should  be  taxe.l  at  the  will  of  ; ther,  whether  of  on.,  mari  or  many, 

witli.iut  their  own  consent,  in  person  or  by  representative,  is  rank  slavery. 

******* 
'That  th.>se  measunvs  are  contrary  to  tli.^  constitutional  rights  of    Britons 
ciuniot  be  d..nied  ;  and  that  the  Hriijsh  inhal)itants  of  Am.-riea  are  not  in  every 
respect  euull.'d  to  th."  privileirfs  of  Britons,  even  the  patrons  of  the  most  arbi- 
trary  measnri>s  hav.'  never  yet  advanced. 

'  VV.;  hav.!  been  full  and  explicit  on  this  liead,  as  it  seems  (o  b,-  the  funda- 
mental point  in  debate  ;  but  was  the  tav  in  its.df  ever  so  constitutional,  we 
cannot  think  but  at  this  tune  it  would  be  very  -rh-vous  and  burdensome. 

lae  embarrassuients  on  onr  trad.-  are  i,nvat,  and  the  scarcity  of  cash  arisiun- 
therefrom  IS  su.di.  that  by  the  execution  of  the  stamp-act,  we  .should  bo  drained 
m  a  very  htlle  time  of  that  me.lium:  the  conso.|uence  of  which  is,  that  our 
commerce  must  sta<,mate.  an.l  our  laborers  starve. 

'These,  sir  are  our  sentiments  on  this  occasion;  nor  can  we  think  that  the 
distresses  we  have  pamted  are  the  creatures  of  our  own  imairi nation. 

*  *  #  *  :^  Jt  ^ 


*  In  Boston. 


HISTORY    Ol'    NKWIIHRV. 


2;u 


'  VVi!  Ihcrfforo  llie  IroolioldnrH  luiil  oilier  iiilmbilunUnt'  thin  lowii,  hrin;?  U'Kully 
BHscriihlftl,  liikf  thiH  uppoiliiriity  to  declure  our  just  oxnt-ctutioiis  hoiii  you, 
wliii'li  iirc, 

' 'I'liiil  yiiii  will,  to  the  utmost  of  your  iiliilitv.  use  vour  inlluciifo  in  the  trmc- 
riil  asscmlily  tluit  th,.  ii;;lils  iuiil  |)iivil('(.ri'.s  ol'  tlii-*  iMdvincc  itui\  Im'  [ircnrrvi'd 
ilivioliitc  ;  and  that  liio  siicrcil  di'|iosit,  wv  have  received  troiil"  our  aueestoiN, 
may  tie  handed  down,  without  ielriii;;eiiieMt,  to  our  posterity  ol'  the  lulesl 
geueratioiiH  : 

'  'I'hat  you  eiuleavor  that  all  measures,  eousisteiit  with  our  loyalty  to  the  best 
id  kiiijjs,  itiay  lie  taken  to  prevent  the  execution  of  the  above  grievous    iniiova- 
lioiis;  and  that  the  repeal  of  the  stamp-act  may  be  obtainecl  by  ii  most  dutiful 
ami  at  the  same  time  most  spirited,  renioiislrance  airuinst  it. 

'Tiuit  yon  do  not  consent  to  any  new  or  unprecedented  ;,'rants,  iuit  endeavor 
that  the  greatest  frni,'ality  and  economy  may  take  place  iu  the  disiribution  of 
the  public  nuMiies,  reniendieriny:  tiie  irreat  expeiisi-  the  war  has  involved  u,s  in, 
and  the  debt  iiu'iiried  thereby,  which  remains  undischar^'ed. 

1  hat  vnn   will  i>iiti.jii I 
tl  .^   ,      _ 

coinmcrce  of  the  [)rovinc(>  standin;,'  still  . 

'  That  if  occasion  shall  oiler,  yon  bear  testimony  i;i  liehalf  of  this  town  auainst 
all  sedition.s  and  mobbish  iiHurrections,  and  e\[)ress  our  abhorrence  of  all 
breachcf?  ot  the  peace ;  and  that  you  will  readily  concur  in  any  constitntiomil 
measures,  that  ttiay  bo  necewsuryto  securu  the  public  tran(|uillity.' 


'That  yon  will  consult  ami  luomote  su<'h  measures,  us  may  be  lu'Cessary,  iu 
li."  dillicult  tinu',  to  prevent  the  course  of  justice  from  bein'jr  stayed,  and  the 
oiiiinei'i'e  lit'  i)i(>  Ki'.. I  :>!..<>  .,1.1.. .1;..,.  ..iJl  . 


riio  8triiii|)   (listribiitors  wcir  cvcrvwlicro  compelled  to  resign, 
and  ill  iiiiuiy  pluees   tliey  were  Imiig  'in  <'(ligy.     in   iXewbiiryporl, 


the  eini>:v  of  a  ]Mr.  I 


II 


,  wlio  Imd  accepted  tlie  olli'eu  of 


stamp  (.li.xtrihulor,  wtis  suspended,  Sepleniber  twenty-filth  iuid 
Uycnty-si.xth,  I'roiii  a  large  elm  tre(;  which  stood  in  Mr'  Jonatlum 
Greenleaf's  ytird,  at  the  loot  of  King  .street,  [now  Federal  street,]  a 
collection  of  tar  barrels  set  on  tire,  the  rojx;  cnl,  tind  the  imai'-e 
dropped  into  the  ihimes.  At  ten  o'clock,  P.  I\l.,  all  the  bells  'in 
town  were  rinig.  '  I  am  sorry  to  see  that  substitute,'  said  a  distin- 
guished citizen  of  Newburyport,  '  1  wish  it  had  been  the  original.' 
Companies  of  men,  armed"  with  clubs,  were  ju  -  (i.stoined  to  p^arade 
the  streets  of  Newbury  and  Newburyport,  at  night,  iind,  to  every 
man  they  met,  juit  the  liieonic  (piestion,  'stamp  or  no  stamp.'  The 
conseqiiences  of  an  allirmative  reply,  were  iiny  thing  but  pleasiint. 
In  one  instance,  a  stranger,  having  arrived  in  "town,  was  "^^ized  by 
the  mob,  at  the  foot  of  (ireen  street,  and,  not  knowing  wii. it  answer 
1o  mtike  to  the  (piestion,  stood  mute.  As  the  mob  allow  no  ncu- 
tral-s,  and  as  silence  with  them  is  a  crime,  he  wtis  severely  beaten. 
The  same  (pu\stion  was  put  lo  iiiiothcr  stranger,  who  repficd,  with 
a  sagacity  worthy  of  a  vicar  .d  Jliay,  or  a  Tiilleynmd,  '  I  am  as 
you  arc'  He  wa.s  immediately  cheered  and  applaudet],  as  a  trui; 
son  of  liberty,  and  permitted  to  depart  in  peace,  wondering,  no 
doubt,  at  his  own  sndden  popularity. 

'  The  uneasiness,'  says  the  revcre'nd  N.  Appleton,  '  in  all  the  col- 
onies was  universal.  All  as  one  man  rising  up  in  opposition  to  it 
such  a  union,  as  was  never  before  witnessed  in  all  the  colonies,'  so 
that,  in  the  language  of  doctor  Holmes,  '  by  the  first  of  November, 
when  the  act  was  to  take  elTcet,  not  a  sheet  of  stamped  paper  was 
to  be  had  throughout  New  England,  New  York,  Peimsvlvania,  and 
tlie  two  Carolinas.' 


4    1', 


B-'f  - 


HISTORy   OF   NEWBURY. 


'  .Fm 


Jime  5th.     There  were  several  shocks  of  an  earthquake. 
December  Ath.     '  Great  nnriiber.s  of  wild  geese  were  cauglit  alive, 
many  were  shot,  or  killed  with  elybs,  and  many  were  found  dead.' 


1766. 

On  IMarch  eighteentli,  the  stamp  act  was  repealed.  The  joy  of 
the  people,  on  hearing  the  intelligence,  was  as  great,  as  their  indig- 
nation had  been  at  its  passage".  The  twenty-1'oin-th  of  July  was 
kept  as  a  day  of  public  thanksgiving,  on  account  of  its  repeal.  '  Our 
people,'  says  the  reverend  Thomas  iSmith,  of  Portland, '  were  almost 
mad  with  tlrink  and  joy.     A  deluge  of  drunkenness.' 

3I(U/20fh.  A  town  meeting,  in  Newburyport,  was  called,  'by 
beat  of  drum  and  word  of  mouth.'  The  upper  part  of  tiie  town 
house  was  ordered  to  be  illuminated,  at  the  town's  expense,  and  that 
'  the  selectmen  deliver  out  of  the  town's  stock  of  gunpowder  six 
half  barrels  thereof  to  be  used  in  the  public  rejoicings  of  this  day.' 
Oiu;  half  of  this  was  used  at  the  ui)per  long  wharf,  the  other  half 
at  the  lower  long  wharf,  under  the  supervision  of  Mr.  John  Ilarberl, 
and  captain  (lideon  Woodwell.^ 

The  ecclesiastical  dilHculties  which  had  arisen  in  the  first  parish, 
under  the  ministry  of  the  revcn-end  Clu'istopher  Toppan,  were,  it 
appears,  far  from  being  settled  under  his  successor,  the  reverend 
John  Tucker,  notwithstanding  so  large  a  secession  had  taken  place, 
from  the  church  and  parisli,  at  tlie  lime  of-  his  settlement.  On 
February  eleventh,  the  parishioners  held  a  meeting,  to  decide  the 
question,  whether  to  build  a  new  meeting-house,  on  land  owned  by 
John  Brown,  esquire,  or  repair  the  old  one.  They  voted  to  repair 
the  old  meeting-house.  This  called  forth,  at  a  meeting,  held  IMarch 
twenty-seventh,  a  protest  from  John  Brown,  and  seventeen  others, 
'  forbidding  them  to  lay  out  one  farthing  ol  their  interest  towards  the 
repairs  of  the  meeting  house,  and  demanding  their  proportion  of  the 
])arish  funds.'  At  tlie  same  time,  Josepli  Coliin,  esquire,  and  forty- 
three  others,  some  of  whom  attended,  and  some  did  not  attend,  the 
reverend  Mr.  Tucker's  ])reacliing,  sent  a  petition  to  the  parish,  sta- 
ting, among  other  things,  that  'as  we  cannot  adiien;  to  his  principles 
manifest  in  his  preaching,  especially  of  late,  we  cannot  think  it  our 
duty  to  ask  the  favour  to  be  frei.'d  from  paying  any  further  taxes 
towards  his  support,  or  any  other  parish  charges.  '  We  therefore 
your  petitionc;rs,  subscribers  hereto  humbly  priiy  that  you  would  take 
our  case  jointly  into  your  serious  and  most  impartial  consideration  and 
grant  us  the  relief  we  might  rationally  expect  in  a  nation  where  liberty 
of  conscience  is  indulg(>d  to  every  sect  and  denomination  of  christians 
whatever,  and  in  a  land  where!  a  love  of,  and  an  ardent  desire  after, 
liberty  is  born  with  us,  iuid  prevails  against  all  opposition  even  in 
civil,  much  move  in  religious,  allairs.     Wo  think  that  every  rational 


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person  must  oe  convinced  after  about  twenty  years'  trial,  that  \vc 
cannot  enjoy  any  lasting  peace  in  the  pari.sli  wliile  we  thus  continue. 
Wo  therefore,'  and  so  forth.  Of  tliis  protest  and  petition,  no  satis- 
factory notice  was  taken.  Accordingly,  those  wiio  felt  aggrieved, 
formed  a  new  society,  whit-h  the^  called  the  union  society,  and 
commenced  pre|)arati()ns  to  erect  a  meeting-house,  which,  it  is  said, 
they  first  intended  to  build  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Marlborough 
street,  but  finally  determined  to  place  it  opposite  to  the  old  meeting- 
house, on  land  which  they  purchased  of  John  Brown,  es([uire, 
February  twenty-eighth.  This  occasioned  another  parish  meeting, 
April  twenty-eighth,  at  which  'a  committee  of  three  was  chosen  to 
send  to  the  general  court  to  forbid  tlieir  building  a  house  so  near 
the  present  house.'  In  July,  however,  the  house  was  raised,  and 
boarded,  but  was,  for  some  cause,  never  finished.  Tradition  asserts, 
that  Mr.  Nathan  Pierce  was  once  overheard  to  pray,  that  '  Dagon, 
[the  old  house,]  might  fall  before  the  ark  of  the  Lord.'  This  in- 
duced the  wags  of  the  parish,  to  call  the  old  meeting-house,  '  old 
Dagon,'  and  the  new  meeting-house,  'young  Dagon,'  and  wlien, 
on  the  ninth  of  February,  1771,  in  a  violent  storm  of  thunder,  light- 
ning, wind,  and  rain,  the  new  house  was  blown  down,  one  of  iIrmu 
exclaimed,  as  he  saw  it  lifted  by  the  wind,  '  I  snare,  you,  young 
Dagon  is  a^oinafl ' 

We  at  the  present  day,  can  have  but  faint  conceptions,  of  the 
feelings  which  at  that  time  actuated  the  'legalists,'  and  the  'new 
liglils,'  as  they  were  then  called.  This  intensity  of  feeling,  was 
principally  owing  to  the  virtual  union  of  church  and  stale,  which 
then  deemed  conscience  a  geographical  matter,  and  made  it  the 
duty  of  every  man  within  certain  limits,  whether  he  believed  the 
doctrines  of  the  preacher,  or  not,  to  assist  in  his  support.  A  lar<n! 
portion  of  the  people  had  been,  for  many  years,  in  the  habit  of  sup- 
porting two  ministei-s ;  one  by  compulsion,  whom  they  would  not 
hear ;  the  other,  whose  doctrines  accorded  with  their  own,  and  whom, 
of  course,  they  heard,  and  voluntarily  maintained.  This  grievance 
was,  after  many  years'  endiu-ance,  finally  removed,  thus  proving  the 
ti-utli  of  the  assertion,  'that  liberty  is  born  with  us,  and  prevails 
ug'uinst  all  ujiposUkm  even  in  civil,  mvch  more  in  reliii'ious  affairs.'' 

31(1//  28///.  Captain  Joshua  Collin  and  Nathan  Pierce,  were 
chosen  by  the  union  society  '  a  connuittee  to  petition  the  general 
court  for  liljerty  for  the  inhabitants  of  the  first  parish  to  attend  upon 
and  support  ye  piiblick  worship  where  they  please  m  said  parish 
and  not  be  taxed  elsewhere.' 

June  2d.  The  union  society  chose  a  committee,  to  treat  with  the 
court's  committee,  June  tenth,  with  respect  to  the  points  of  diirerence 
in  the  first  parish.  The  founders  of  the  union  society,  held  their 
first  nieeting  January  second,  and  on  January  thirtieth,  chose  a 
connuittee  of  seven  to  build  a  meeting-house. 

The  division  of  the  Newbury  regiment,  this  year,  by  governoi 
Bernard,  caused  great  excitement  iind  op|)osition  among  the  militia, 
as,  in  their  language, '  it  di'prived  the  second  regiment  of  its  diuniiv 
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and  station  and  degraded  it  to  the  rank  of  tlie  seventh  and  last 
regiment  in  the  county  without  any  regard  to  justice  or  the  honor 
of  a  soldier.'  ihe  soldiers  would  not  train,  the  ollicers  resigned, 
those  who  accepted  commissions  were  mobbed,  and  all  attempts  to 
reconcile  them  to  the  new  arrangement,  proved  utterly  aborUve. 

1767. 

January.  It  should  be  mentioned,  as  a  gratifying  circumstance, 
that  the  separation  of  the  third  from  the  iirst  society,  was  made 
in  the  most  amicable  manner.  Messrs.  Cary  and  Marsh  had  botii 
been  candidates  for  settlement  in  the  lirsc  parish.  About  one  third 
oi  the  church  preferred  Mr.  Marsh.  The  mmority  then  observed  to 
the  minority,  'you  prefer  Mr.  i\Iarsh,  we,  Mx.  Cary.  If  you  wish 
to  settle  Mr.  Marsh  and  build  a  meeting  house  we  will  a'ssist  you 
and  give  you  your  part  of  the  church  i)iate,'  and  so  forth.  This  Was 
accordmgly  done;  the  house  was  built,  fronting  on  Brown's  square 
and  Mr.  Marsh  and  Mr.  Cary  both  settled;  one  over  the  first  church 
andjiarish,  the  other  over  the  third. 

Tliis  year  Benjamin  Lunt  built  a  wharf,  at  the  foot  of  Muzzey's 
ane,  [now  Marlborough  street,]  '  as  there  was  no  wharf  convenient 
to  JaiKl  lumber,  and  so  lorlh,  upon  in  the  town  of  Newbury.' # 

3Iarckmh.  Permission  given  to  Stephen  Crot-s,  to  set  up  a 
distillery  in  Newburyport.^^ 

June  2m.  Parliament  laid  a  tax  on  paper,  glass,  painters' 
colors,  teas,  and  so  forth.  i    i     '    &       >   i 

December  17tk.  Newburyjjort  granted  the  petition  of  Cuttini? 
Moody,  lulmund  Bartlet,  and  others,  for  the  use  of  the  town  iiousei 
lor  Mr.  ClirislopiuT  Bridge  Marsh  to  pn-aeh  in,  whose  hearers,  soon 
alter,  lormed  the  tlinxl  clnirch  and  society  in  Xewljuryport. 

176S. 

Janrnr//  irv//.     A  slight  shock  of  an  earth(|uake.t 
Jnmuy/  im.     The  third  church  formed,  by  a  separation  from 
the  first  churcii.  " 

April  ■.lOfh.  Young  ladies  met  ill  the  house  of  reverend  INIr. 
Parsons,  who  preached  to  them  a  sermon  from  Proverbs,  ;J1 :  19 
-liey  spun,  and  presented  to  !\[rs.  Parsons  two  himdred  and  seventy 
^kems  ol  good  yarn.  They  drank  lihe.-y  lea.  This  was  made 
Irom  an  herb  called  rib  wort. 

'Mn>i  \m.  An  exceeding  full  mnvkei,  [in  Newburyport,]  on 
account  ol  the  ordination  loiiiorrow.'t 

'  Mai/  Mil,.     Reverend  Thomas  Cary  ordained.'  f 

'pLiif  2--U  Comin.Miced  framing  Air.  Marsii's  meeting  house, 
which  was  dedicated  September  fifte(Milh  and  Mr.  .Marsh  ordained 
Oclober  nineteenth.' f 


*  Ncwliiirypoit  rpcoidH. 


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A  quantity  of  lioliea  tea,  so  called,  which  grew  in  Pearson  town, 
iNlainc,  'was  received  in  Newburyport  the  day  that  he  was  ordained. 
In  the  afternoon  a  dish  was  made  and  handed  round  to  a  circle  of 
genlleinen  and  ladies,  who  ])ronounced  it  to  have  all  the  character- 
istics of  genuine  bohea  tea.'  ^ 

<  June  201/1.     A  shock  of  an  carthciuakc.'  f 

September  lOf/i.  On  this  day,  as  we  learn  from  the  Salem  Ga- 
zette, one  'Joshua  Vickery  sliip  carpenter  was  seized  by  a  mob  in 
Newburyport,  carried  by  force  to  the  public  stocks,  and  there  com- 
])elled  to  sit  from  three  to  live  o'clock  o:.  a  :  harp  stone  till  he  fainted. 
lie  was  then  carried  round  town  in  a  cart  with  a  rope  round  his 
neck,  with  his  hands  tied  behind  him,  pelted  with  eggs,  gravel  and 
stones  and  was  much  woundt-d.  At  night  he  was  carried  into  a 
dark  ware  house,  hand-cutled  with  irons,  and  tUri-c.  eom])elled  to 
remain  without  IxhI  or  clothing  through  the  Lord's  day  till  Monday 
morning,  and  no  person  but  his  wile  allowed  to  visit  him.  On 
Monday  morning  the  rioters  seized  a  Frenchman,  named  Francis 
Magro,  stri|)ped  him  naked,  tarred  and  fealhered  him,  placed  him 
in  a  cart  and  compelled  Viekery  to  lead  the  horse  about  town.' 
The  cause  of  these;  outrages,  was,  IMagro's  giving  information  to 
the  ollieers  of  the  customs  at  Portsmoutli,  against  a  vessel,  the 
owners  of  which,  he  supposed  were  engaged  in  sumggling.  Vick- 
ery was  susiK'cted,  l)ut  was  afterward  proved  to  be  entirelyinnocent. 
This  was  tlu;  sec-ond  mob  in  Ainvburyport,  the  llrst  occurring  in 
September,  17()5. 

October  (il/i.  A  fast  was  kept  by  the  churches  of  Ncwliury  and 
Rowley,  according  to  a  vote  of  the  towns,  'on  account  of  the  crit- 
ical situation  of  tlie  |)rovince.' J 

_ '  Deecml)er  ofli.     ]Mr.  llichard  Noyes  fell  from  his  cart  and  was 
killed  by  the  wheel's  passing  over  him.'f 

In  the  autumn  of  tins  year,  the  merchants  of  the  province  mutu- 
ally bound  themselves,  not  to  iiui)ort,  nor  to  piu-chase  if  imported, 
any  British  goods,  before  January,  1770,  or  until  parliamejit  repealed 
the  revenue  laws. 


1769. 

Mareh  lAtJi.  Town  of  Newluuy  voted,  to  lend  .Tames  Hudson 
twenty  i)oun(ls,  to  assist  him  in  completing  his  salt  works. 

April  WHIi.  First  church  in  Newbury  voted,  that  'it  is  agreeable 
that  the  scriptures  be  read  in  publick.' 

'  April  \()t/i.  Two  boats  were  overs(>t  at  N(>wl)ury  bar  and  eight. 
persons  drowned,  uaiuely,  Enoch  Stic^kney,  Diamond  Currier, 
Nathaniel  [Moulton,  and  Simeon  Woodman  of  Newl)uryport,  atul 
Samuel  Blaisdell,  Philip  (Jould,  John  (iould,  and  Moses  Currier 
of  Amesbury.'  f 

April  'SSil.  Eyfield  church  voted  to  make  trial  of  Watts's  psalms 
and  hymns. 


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'Jiih/mi,,  about  six  minutes  before  seven  o'clock  there  was  an 
canlKiuako.' 

'  Jidijmh.     This  evening  the  northern  lights  made  an  unusually 
s])londul  appearance.'  •' 

September  Ath.     Town  of  Nevvbnrvport  approved  of  the  non- 

iinpoi-tation  agreement,  ajid,  on  8epteinb(>r  tweiitieth,  voted  to       am 

he    thanks  ol  the  town  to  the  merchants  and  others  of  Boston  for 

their  patriotic  resolution  of  nonimportation  of  goods  from  Great 

Untam,'  and  so  lortli. 


1770. 

From  the  Massachusetts  Spy,  January  seventeenth,  I  extract  the 
loJlowing  reprint  Irom  an  English  paper. 

'  The  Newbury  captain  Rose,  from  Newbury,  in  New  England, 
les  at  the  Orchard  house.  Black  wall.  The  above  is  a  raft  of  tim- 
ber  in  the  form  of  a  ship,  which  came  from  Newbury  to  soundings 
in  twenty-six  days  and  is  worthy  the  attention  of  the  curious.' 

1  his  was  one  of  the  three  or  four  ships,  ],uilt  in  the  same  manner, 

1-r;     ■    ,''''  =^,''^^^A«'i«  "^  which  was  launched  December  eleventh, 
1/by,  and  another  October  ninth,  1771. 

'Febmar,/  2Ath.  An  earthquake  in  a  smart  snow  storm.' 
march  mh.  Fifty  citizens  of  Newbury  petitioned  the  town,  re- 
questing thcin  to  choose  a  committee,  and  order  them  to  offbr  the 
inhabitants 'a  subscription  to  sign  against  purchasing  any  goods,' 
ot  certain  imjK)rters,  and  also  against  'purchasing  or  usincr  any 
loreign  tea  m  our  famihes  upon  any  account,'  and  so  forth.  ^They 
also  petition,  '  that  the  names  of  such  persons  as  shall  refuse  to  si^m 
said  subscription  may  by  a  vote  of  the  town  be  recorded  in  the  town 
oook  that  i)osterity  may  know,  who  in  this  day  of  public  calamity 
are^ enemies  to  the  liberties  of  their  country  and  their  memorial  be 
hac^  m  everlasting  detestiition,' ^  and  much  more  to  the  same  pur- 
pose. Ihe  peution  was  read  and  accepted  and  tlie  measures 
lierein  recpiested  were  adopted  by  an  unanimous  vote  of  the  town,' 
and  a  committee  'ot  sixteen  persons  chosen  to  oll'er  a  subscrii)tion 
to  ye  inhabitants  of  the  town  to  sign.'  *  The  following  is  an  exact 
copy  ol  l^his  palriolic  jiledge,  which  I  find  in  the  handwriting  of 
Joslma  Loihn,  esquii-e,  one  of  the  sixteen. 

'Whereas  it  eyidenlly  appears  to  bo  absolutely  Necessary  for  ye  Political 
welfare  ot  (Ins  Province  to  Discourage  and  by  all  Lawful  McLs  EJdeavou.  lo 
r.-event  ye  Iransportat.on  ot  (Joods  from  Great  Britain,  and  Encourage  Industry, 
Oeconornv  and  Manufactures  amon<>-st  our  Selves  u"=>.'j', 

V^a^'i  '''^''"f"^' >-^'  f^"l''^'''ibers  heim  ^Vi|li„o.  ,o  Contribute  our  Mite  for  the 
1  n  )lick  Good,  do  here  )y  promise  and  En-aire  to  and  with  each  other,  That  we 

^1  u!!^M"Si;!f  "Vr     7  T''T  ''T^  J;^"^'"!"''^"  )<^  --«  "^d  consumption  of 
all  uselul  Ai tides  Manufactured  ,n  this  ]'i-„vince.  and  that  we  will  not  (Know- 

bv^<v  >v  of"'n  ''r'*''"','f  Y'f  ^^'^T''  P'",'=li=}'^'^'  "»y  <'0"'l.^  of,  or  have  any  Concerns 
b>  way  of  liudowith  John  Bernard,  James   McMaslers,  Patrick  McMastcrs, 

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John  Mein,  Nathaniel  Rosrers,  William  Jackson  Theophilus  Liilie,  John  Taylor 
And  Amu  and  ElixiibiJth  Cummin,  all  of  Boston,  or  Israel  Williams  Es(|u;ro 
and  Son  of  Hatlu-id,  or  Hc-nry  Barns  of  Marlborough,  or  any  Person  actin"  by 
or  under  thern  or  any  of  them,  or  any  other  person  or  persons  whomsoever 'that 
shall  o.  may  import  Goods  from  Great  Britain  contrary  to  ye  ATreomcnt  of  ve 
United  Body  of  iMerchant.s,  or  of  any  Persons  that  purchases  of  or  Trades  with 
thtra,  or  any  of  them  ye  sd  Importers  before  a  General  Importation  takes  place 
(  Debts  bclore  Contracted  only  excepted.) 

'And  if  it  doth  or  may  hereafter  appear,  that  there  is  any  Ship  Builder  in 
r^iewbury  Port,  or  any  other  Town  wheresoever  in  New  England,  that  has  so 
little  llegard  tor  ye  Publick  welfare,  as  to  undertake  to  Build  any  Ship  Schoon- 
er, or  Sea-faring  Vessel  for  any  Foreigner,  or  any  other  Person  And  take  ye  pay 
tor  ye  Same,  or  any  part  thereof,  in  Goods  Imported  Contrary  to  ye  Agreement 
0  sd  Merchants,  We  promise  and  Engage  not  to  have  any  Connection  by  way 
?{  }  ''^i'«.,^"''  Commerce  (Debts  before  Contracted  only  excepted)  with  any  Such 
Ship  Bmld.T,  nor  sell  them  any  Materials  for  Building  any  Such  Vessels.  But 
we  will  look  upon  all  such  Ship  Builders  (as  well  as  Importers  and  Traders 
with  Importers)  as  persons  Destitute  of  ye  principles  of  Common  Humanity 
(Sway  d  only  by  their  own  Private  Interest)  Enemies  to  their  Country  and  wor- 
thy ot  Contempt.  And  wliereas  a  great  part  of  ye  Revenue  arising'  by  virtue  of 
ye  Acts  of  Parliament,  is  produc'd  from  the  duty  paid  on  Tea.  We  do  therefore 
Solemnly  Promise  not  to  purchase  any  Foreign  Tea,  or  Suller  it  to  be  us'd  in 
our  families  upon  any  Account  untill  ye  sd  Revenue  Acts  are  Repeal'd  or  a 
General  Importation  takes  place.  And  ws  will  each  one  of  us,  as  we  have  proper 
Opportnnitys  Recommend  to  all  persons  to  do  ye  same.  And  we  do  hereby  of 
our  Own  free  will  and  Accord  Solemnly  promise  to  and  with  Each  Other  That 
we  will  without  Evasion  or  Equivocation  Faithfully  and  truly  Keep  and  Observe 
a  1  that  Ls  above  written,  And  whosoever  shall  or  majr  Sign  these  Articles,  And 
atterwards  (Knowingly|  break  ye  same  shall  by  ns  be  esteem'd  as  a  Covenant 
breaker,  an  Enemy  to  hjs  Country,  a  Friend  to  slavery,  Deserving  Contempt. 

All  and  Singular  of  these  Articles  to  Continue  and:  Remain  in  Force  untill 
ye  s(l  Acts  be  Repeal  d,  or  a  General  Importation  takes  place. 

As  ^V  itness  our  Hands.' 

March  2'3d.  Town  of  Ncwbuvyport  voted  '  that  this  town  will 
not  use  or  buy  any  foreiirn  too.  and  do  wliat  they  can  to  discourage 
It  in  others,'  and,  on  Ai)ril  third,  voted  '  to  retrain  from  all  foreign  or 
India  tea,'  and  also  '  voted  to  choose  a  committee  of  ten  men  as  a 
committee  of  inspection  to  inspect  the  transactions  of  this  town 
resp(>ctin<,'  the  importation  of  goods  into  the  town  contrary  to  ye 
agreement  of  the  merchants  of  Boston  and  elsewhere.'  This  corn- 
imt1(>e  prepared  a  subscription  paper,  'for  all  those  to  sign,  who  are 
deterniined  not  to  bay  or  sell  or  use  any  tea  in  their  fainilies,'  and 
were  desn-ed  'to  lay  before  tlie  town  the  names  of  those,  who  refuse 
to  sign,'  and  '  it  there  should  be  any  others,  who  sign  the  agreement 
and  do  n't  duly  regard  it.'  , 

The  honorable  Caleb  Cushing,  in  his  history  of  Newburyport, 
says,  that  the  meeting  of  April  third,  was  called  on  suspicion  '  that 
a  wagon  load  ol  tea  had  been  brought  into  town.' 

Aprii  12///.  The  duties  on  all  articles,  were  repealed  bv  parlia- 
ment, except  t/i(U  OH  tea. 

Maij  2\tli.  The  town  of  Newbury  petitioned  the  general  court, 
to  pass  an  act  to  prevent  the  deslruction  of  bass  in  the  river  Parker. 

riiis  is  the  first  petition  of  the  Idnd  that  1  have  seen  from 
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BcSrfvt,il';;i;""r^-  ^•^-^--y -ted  to  ..ant  the  petition  of 
ijnij.uniu  1  cmii<,n'll,  una  nini'ty-iimo  others    \vlirwl,.>j;r<.!i    •  u 

^.o^tljat  tlu.y  .night  attend  ^blie  wc!.,^;  h '"L^p    f 'o^j^  [ 

'chose  N^uhan  Pie^:thna^ot;;n  ;;n^^i::^atc::r;fr"i:s 

nrm;'?'   f  "'■''"'   •''^'"'^^^'•'   ^''^   co^'ihy  was  visitcd  With   immense 

m-arlvVot^^^^  1  ins  worm,'  says  doctor  Dwight,  'was  a  caterpillar 
hrntl  ^''''/"f  ^^  '.»  1«"§'1'.  striped  longitudinally  with  a  very  deen 
e^'vel-l  '■'? '  ^''.'^'^  ""^'^  ^"-^'^  '^'-''^'''t  and^ercing,  i  'r  o"el 
ve  oe,^t  ''Wni!'  ^'f  ""'"'-^'^  '^^^'^--  Its  mareir'was  from 
nn?L  1  ,  ^^^^'^■^"J  f«»ces  were  no  obstruction  to  its  course 
nor  indeed  was  any  lh  no- ehe  oYr^Pnt  il„.  c,:  i  •!        .      couisc, 

X/.r^»  ;   a(Vr    ^""^  1^''''^  '"'''"  ''^^'  consumed  by  lightniig.' 
^eptembo  30lk.     Sunday  morning,  about  six  o'(dock,  died  the 


revon.,,,,  George  Wln.MJ;  irSe;^,,;;-',"?  rru,:':f  ll 
;^''^"»«-.     I;i-om  the  seveniccnfh  to  the  twentieth, 


reverend  Jonathan 

lio  i,o,7  I     1       "V""'     ^'"'"  ""-■^cvenTccniiitotlie  twentieth 

he  had  preached  every  day  in  Boston.  On  the  twenty-lirs  he  ^  ^^ 
to  Portsmouth,  where  he  i,roaclied  daily,  from  the  twentv-Tl  rd  to  he 
twenty-ninth  ;  once  at  Kittery,  and  once  at  York.  ()n  Sa  rday  t  e 
twenty-nmth,  he  preached  nearly  two  hours,  at  Exeter  i^itKe^ 
air.     In  the  afternoon,  he  rode  to  Newburvnnrt     ,    1  o  i,    i  P    , 

io  preach  in  Ne.-buryport  the  nexfZn"T  H    litS  ^^^ISf  in 

limes  as  Ml.  haimiel  Horfon  says,  in  his  diary,  'I  subscribed  five 
pounds  old  tenor  to  be  remitted  to  Mr.  Whitel^eld  in  cSderath^n 

hbo  s  of  "m  W  ' •^."Ti  "^ ,  ^''^'''^'^m^on:  It  was  owing  to  the 
labors  of  JMr.  Wintelield,  that  the  first  presbyt.n-ian  cimrch  in 
Newburyport  was  formed,  and,  in  the  langua-e  (  f  Mr  Cushin  " 

Sdt  it  i  :Tm  • '7^'"  "'  ^'^^  J^^^"'^'^^  opinicn^s^of  ^ii'^^S^ 
certain  it  J.  that  his  eloquence  as  a  preacher  was  unrivalled-  and 

his  zeal  for  the  cause  he  taught,  of  the  l.ighest  charact^    The  fruhs 

mcnt  ot  the  society  under  consideration  afforded  proof  of  the  nnr 
maneney  of  its  effects.'  f      He  was  buried  beneaT  the  plit^  i  i 

SqX!'  '  ^^  '^'''  n^umficencc  of  the  late  William  Bartlet, 


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'^■^■3AKTL£.r.lltl.         -       -        —  ■ -=^.«i-it.==E-= 

NORTH  WEST  VIEW  OF  THE  FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 
NEWllURVPORT,    MASS.,  ' 

IN   WHICH    ARK    DKPOSITED    THE    REMAINS    OF 

REV.    GEORGE    WIIITEFIELT). 

INCLUDING   A   I.ISTANT  VIEW    OF   THE    HOUSE    IN    WHICH   HE  DIED. 


1771. 

andfotrllf '■     ^  ^"''''^  ^''''^'''^'  ""'"^  ^'^""^  destruction  of  bridges, 

J^rch}iOth.      Abraham  Larkin,  an  Irishman,  was  crushed  to 

Uesn     '''r;";'^"^''''  "^f^'''»"y  i»  ^'^  top  or  the  windmiU, 
at  the  soiiUi  end  ol  Frog  pond. 

nuffZ"'^"''  /^'''^^  *o^^'" '•^.^''^'i  voted,  that  Joshua  Coirm,  esquire, 

and  others,  who  were  chosen  May  twenty-lourth,  1770,  to  preler  a 

en  ion  to  the  general  eonrt,  'be  now  instructed  to  use  their  utmost 

he  Zr   "  ^     '^"\T^  '■"''  ^r"'"^  ^'""  ^  *'^^^  °^'  »''«  province  at 
Itie  next  sessions  of  tlie  general  court.'  ^ 

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1772. 

Jammn,  mii.  Sloop  Thr(>«  FriiMidn,  ci.iXiiin  I\[iirk  Foran,  from 
Uroi'iiock,  111  Hcotlmid,  was  cast  ivwfiy  on  I'lnm  islaiitl. 

Febnmnj  Wt/i.  Cai)t!uii  'I'liomas  Parsons  saikxl  iVoni  Ncwhiirv- 
port,  111  a  schooner,  for  tlie  West  Indies;  was  wrecked  at  St.  Mary's, 
Nova  bcotia.  It  was  snpposed,  that  he,  with  all  his  cnnv,  cj.rhl'  in 
number,  were  massanrd  by  llie  iniiabitaals  there,  after  |)lunderin<r 
the  vessel,  and  setting  it  on  lire.  "^ 

3I(irch  26th.  First  parish  voted  to  erect  a  steeijlo  on  the  ineetin'"- 
house,  to  hang  the  bell  in.  * 

June  ISth,     Snow  fell  in  Newbury. 

lull/  6f/t.  The  first  parish  '  voted  to  put  up  a  copper  Aveatlier 
cock  on  the  top  of  the  pyramid '  of  the  nicetiiig-h<iuse.  This  was 
substituted  lor  the  iron  one,  which  was  made  at  llw.  time  the  meetin-r- 
house  was  erected,  from  colonel  Thomas  Noycs's  old  iron  drippji^r 
pan.  So  Mr.  Robert  Adams  was  informed,  by  Mr.  Joseph  Noyes"' 
tlu'n  ninety  years  of  age.  *^     ' 

Newburypoit  held  a  meeting,  December  twenty-third,  and  New- 
bury, December  twenty-ninth,  and  chose  committees,  the  former  of 
twelve  persons,  the  latter  of  sixteen, '  to  take  under  consideration  our 
pubhek  grievances,'  and  'the  infringement  of  our  rights  and  liber- 
ties, and  to  report,  and  so  forth.  In  both  meetings,  allusion  was 
made  to  the  able  pamphlc^  'received  from  Boston,'  and  of  their 
proceedings  at  a  meeting,  November  twciiti(;lh. 

*  December.  The  whole  of  this  month  very  warm,  rain  every 
three  or  four  days.  On  the  thirtieth  there  was  no  more  ice  in  liio 
river  than  in  June.' * 


1773. 

Jamanj  Isf.  NewT)uryport  hi^l.l  an  adjourned  meeting,  to  hear 
the  report  of  their  committee,  whose  'letter  was  read  and  accepted,' 
a  copy  ordered  'to  be  sent  to  the  committee  of  correspondence  of 
the  town  of  Boston.'  The  town  also  '  voted  that  captain  Jonathan 
Lrreenleaf,  our  representative,  be  acquainted  that  it  is  the  desir(>  ami 
expectation  of  this  town  that  he  will  i)ersevere  with  steadiness  and 
resolution  in  conjunction  with  his  brethren  in  tlu;  honorable  lumse  of 
representatives  to  use  his  utmost  endeavours  to  procure  a  full  and 
complete  redress  of  all  our  publick  grievances,  and  to  do  every  thiii.r 
m  his  power  in  order  that  the  ])resent  and  succeeding  geneVations 
may  have  the  lull  enjoyment  of  all  those  privilege's  and  advantages, 
which  naturally  and  necessarily  result  from  our  glorious  constitution.' 

Jumary  4t/i.  Town  of  Newl)niy  held  a  meeting,  and  voted, 
unanimously,  '  to  accept  the  report  of  their  c<immittc.-  and  that  it 
be  entered  among  the  records  of  the  town,  there  to  stand  us  a  lasl- 

*  HcvcMcnil  .Miises  Hale's  iliaiy. 


IIISTOUY    OF    NKWUUUV. 


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of  Uu'.rstoadydnfrniinatioM  i„  d.-lcud  thciu  in  v.vcrv  ivwLlwav 
us  oci-a.sion  may  rc(|iiir(;.'  '  ^ 

TIr;  report  of  llu!  c-(.mHiit(..(.,  wl.icli  may  In.  found  on  tl...  town 
records,  ih  an  ablo  and  .piriu-d  du.mu.-nt,  l.nt  is  loo  lon^  for  publi. 
(•a  .on  Hot  .  N.'wl.my  and  Nou  bnryport  most  cordially  ll.nnk  tho 
1  nlntl..tant.s  ol  JJoslon,  'for  tl.cir  viirii;,,..  n.id  palriolic;%..ul'  and 
<:lu)so  a  conn.uttco  ol  correspond.,.,...,  •  lo  c.o.n.sp.,nd  with  tl.c  town 
of  JJ..,ston  :u.,l  such  olh..r..  as  tl...y  shall  tlm.U  p.(.pcr,'   and  so  forth. 

lu^hruanjUh  Tl...  I.rst  parish  '  v.-t.-d  n.,t  to  release  any  of  the 
preteiKh.d  chnrchm.-n,'  [f.„n.  payin-  (ax.-s.J  ^ 

'Mp'st  Wh.  About  cifrht  o'clock  there  was  in  Salisbury  -and 
part  of  Amesbury  the  n.ost  viol,.nl  tornado,  or  short  hurricane,  ner- 
haps  ever  k.unvn  m  the  con..try.     It  conti..ui.d  about  thre..  minutes. 

ll.'.ild'ini  h  "  ''=^'"='^;-^''  "'•  ^'"""-^''y  prostrate,!,  nearly  two  hundred 
7  \  rei'u,v,..d  tw.,  vessels  one  of  Ihc.in  of  ninety  tons, 
1  wen  y-iwo  feet  hor.i  the  stocks.  The  vciii  ol'  the  tempest  was 
«;»'"!  =1  quart..r  ol  a  niile  in  uidlh  on  die  river  and  abou!  a  mile 
uiul  a  halt  in  !..n<rth.' 

.^■pfemhcr  ^L     Dudh.y  (.'oln.au  cliosen  town  clerk  of  Newbury. 

Srplrmhrr  ^m.  \nlvvHn-  court  held  in  Newbm-yi.ort.  From  the 
teal....!  l,azi.|t..,  I  niaki!  the  followins,'  extract. 

0<-tob''r,  177:1  Rxtract  of  a  l.-ttc'-r  from  N..wburvport.  October 
1«mlli.  We  have  lately  had  our  court  week  wla-n'the  novel  case 
t>l  Uesar  aira.iist  his  master  in  an  action  .)f  iifly  pounds  lawful 
money  diunaircs  l..r  (l..tainin-  him  in  slavery  was  lltii,mted  before  a 
li.ry  ol  tl.,.  county  who  foun.l  lor  the  p/mntij  eig-/Ueen  pounds 
<^»iao:es  and  costs:  The  d.-fendant  was  Mr.  Richard  Greinleaf! 
I  or  a  i.mre  lull  account  of  this  case  in  particular,  and  of  die  trans- 
ac  ions  concei-nmir  slavery  in  Newbury,  see  appendix,  II. 

November  2m.  Town  of  N..wbury  cl.,.si.  a  co,„mitt,.o  of  five 
ptTsons  to  pr,;vent  th,.  i.io.-ulation  of  the  small  pox  at  the  house  of 
JMoscs  Little  es,imr,>,  and  also  voted  not  to  suHer  inoculation  in  the 
town. 

Dcrcmher  Ath.  On  this  day,  the  first  .m..d,er  of  a  paper,  called 
tl...  Kssex  Journal  an,l  New  Hampsl,i.-e  Packet,  was  pnblish,.d,  in 
N.nv  bury  port,  by  fsaiah  Th.Mnas  an.l  Henry  Walt.-r  Tin-es  'Phis 
was  distniiuted  c^nxlis.  The  next  number  was  published  December 
twcnty-nmth. 

Darmhcr  22d.  Town  of  Newbury  m.n  and  voted,  unanimously, 
not  t,>  rc-.-ive  die  tea  s.-nt  l)y  the  l-^ast  ln,lia  company  to  America 
n])on  the  terms,  we  are  inforu.ed  it  is  now  sent  upon. 

'  Vote.l  imaniinously  that  this  t..\v..  will  use  th.-ir  utmost  endcav- 
ourst,.lii.idcr  tl..;  importa)i,.n  of  tea  in  A..ierica  so  Ion-  as  the 
duty  shall  remain  th.-reon  either  by  the  East  India  company,  or  in 
any  other  way  wl.atevf.r.  ^ 

'  Voted  to  (-hoose  a  committee  to  draw  up  what  shall  appear  to 
them  the;  sense  of  this  town  and  make  rcp,)rt  at  an  adjourned 


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'  December  M.  At  a  nutncrous  [iii((>riniil|  mcoliiiur  oftho  pcoplr; 
at  Nowhiiryporl  uiid  oIIuth,  si  coiumiltcc  of  five  wum  duwn,  who 
rf|)orf«'(l  Ihc  Collowiiiir,  wliicli  was  iicccplcd,  «  VVi-  have;  talit'n  into 
conaidnralion  tlu;  late  proccfdinjrs  of  tlio  town  of  Hostoii  rclalin^' 
to  the  importation  of  t,.,i  hy  the  Mast  India  conipaiiy  into  America, 
and  do  anpjif.scc  in  their  procci'tlini,'s  and  arc  th'tirmiiu'd  to  i,'ivo 
thorn  all  tho  aHsistuncc  in  our  power  eren  at  f/ic  risijuc  of  our  lives 
and  forlioirs.'' ' 

Decvmhrr  Int/i.  On  this  day,  the  people  of  JJoslon,  havini,'  pre- 
viously tried,  without  suceess,  to  nend  haeic  the  tliree  tea  wiiips  tliat 
luid  arrived,  and,  determined  tliat  it  should  not  hr  used,  a  parly  of 
nrmeil  men,  dis^'uised  as  Indians,  boarded  the  ships,  and  threw  their 
whole  cargoes  into  the  docks. 

'As  tht;  MohnwkN  kinil  of  tlioiiglit, 
Till)  Viiiik(>('s  hint  n't  ongllt, 
To  tiriiik  llitit  (lie  Ua.' 

December  WJi.  At  a  lesral  rneetini,'  of  the  freeholders,  an<l  other 
inhahitants  of  Newburyport,  the  connnillee  cluwen  for  that  purpose, 
'reported  the  followinj?  draft  of  a  letter  to  be  sent  to  the  commilteJ 
of  correspondence  of  tiie  town  of  Mosloi,,'  which  was  adopted  at 
an  adjourned  meeting,  December  twentieth. 

'  Gentlernpn-,  it  is  with  nstonislmient  that  we  rcdrct  on  tlic>  imromittcil  eiroif<i 
of  fho  Uritisli  ministry  and  ptuliiimcnt  to  fasten  inin  ami   intaniv  npoii  thc-e 
colonics.     They  not  only  claim  a  ri-rht  to  control  and  tax  ns  at  tiiVir  iileasnre 
t)ut  are  praetisnii;  every  species  of   fraud  as  well   as  violence  their  dclndeii 
mmdscansnpposofeasible  tosnpp.iit  and.'stal.lish  this  absurd  and   iniurioiis 
claim.     A  fre.sh  instance  we  have  i.,  tlu;  plan  latelv  a(h)ptei|  for  .'.upnb  in"  the 
colonics  with  tea.     If  tho  money  thus  uncoiisiitulionallv  taken  from 'us  was  to 
be  expended  for  onr  real  benelit  and  advantaixe  it  would  still  bo  irrievous.  as  the 
method  ot  obtaininj;  it  is  of  a  daiiirerous  uatun!  aud  most  fatal  teudeuev.     lint 
we  lose  all  patience  when  we  consider  lijal  tiie  iudiistrious  Aiueiieaus  aiv  to  be 
stript  of  their  honest  earninirs  to  i,'ratilV  the  huinonrs  of  lawless  aud  audiilions 
men  and  to  .support  in  idleness  and  lu\ury  a  parcel  of  worihlcss  parasites  their 
creatures  and  tools,  who  are  swarmiu:,'  thick  upon- us  and  are  already  become  a 
notorious  burden  to  the  community.     We  are  sorry  that  auv,  who  call   them- 
selves  Americans  .are   hardy  euoui.di  to  jiistilV  these   uiiriijliteous   iiroceediie's 
I  hey  surely  deserve  the  ntmo.st  contempt  and   iiidiirnatioii  of  all   honest  nu-n 
fhrouixhout  tho  world,  for  our  part  we  shall  endeavour  to  treat  them  accordiii"- 
to  their  deserts.     By  the  public  prints  wo  are  favoured  with  the  sentiments  o? 
several  respcctalde  towns  in  the  province,   expressed   in   a  nuinbi-r  of  manlv 
sensible  and  spirited  resolves  with  respect  to  the  evils  immediatrlv  before  us' 
We  are  under  yreat  obligations  to  our  worthy  friends  aud  brcllireu.  wlio  have 
nobly  stood  forth  in  this  important  cause.     \Ve  assure  them  that  should   they 
need  our  assistance  in  any  emerprency  we  determine  most  readily  to  e\eit  on'r 
utmost  abilities  in  every  manly  and  laudable  way.  our  wisdom  may  dictate  f(.r 
the  salvation  of  our  country,  even  at  the  hazard  of  our  lives  and  trustiu-' throu'di 
the  favour  of  a  kind  providence  we  shall  be  able  to  frustrate  all  the  dcsi-us  of 
our  enemies.'* 

December  2St/i.     Great  freshet  in  JMerriiuae  river. 
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177  4. 

Jntimin/  Wi.  'ri„>  lown  ol'  Ncwhury  met,  iicconliii.r  to  adjonrn- 
innit,  Mild  ni.iuninonHlv  !i(l,)|,i,.,l  u  |„„ir  aiul  mHv  n-nort,  cinhriuiiii' 
fourlr.-ii  rcso  iitK.iis.  „|  tl,,.  most  Hpirit.-d  and  detoriuinod  tone,  con- 
cludiii','  as  IoIJdws.  ' 

J.,Ml".l.'^''r"''  "•"■.''""';'•''"  '•'I''"''"'  "■"  \vitli  r..Ilirio,M  solrmnitv.  an.l  con.lo- 

n!.w    „        •        ["""""."-  '^'""f  ■"l'lr'-<-',  as  appearing  to  tliem  proper  upon  the 

'Helov..,l  Im.iluvn,  |pt  lis  stjMul  fast  in  the  liberty,  wherowiti,  (W\  and  tho 
hiilish  eonstiiiuion  in  .■..iijnnrtu.n  witii  our  own,  iiiive  rniule  un  free,  that  neither 

yoi^e"  of 'Z!d!e'',','''*^'     '"'' '"  '     ■""°*'  ""'^  '""""  "^  """""^  '^^  entanaied  with  tho 

Diiiiii-,'  this  piTJod  of  apprchi'iision  and  o.voitoin<«nt,  wliicli  wore 
prcparmsr  the  pcoiilc^  for  the  aniuou.s  conflict  Ix-lorc  thorr.  ihcy 
loiind  oppoiitmitics  for  amusement,  pccniiar  to  their  situation. 
Many  cases  lilvc  the  loNowiui,'  tniii:ht  be  iriven,  wiiich  [  relate  on 
the  testimony  ot  an  eye  witness,  the  hUe  Mr.  Caleb  Greenleaf,  of 
Haverhill,  and  the  public  papers. 

Frbnmn/\otl,.     (),„    Jlollaiid  Shaw,  haviiiir  Iktu  detected  in 
stealing  a  shirt,  was  iininedi,itely  taken  before-  a  sort  of  ex  tempore 
court  eouveiied  |„r  the  occasion,  was  sentenced  as  follows,  namely, 
that  he  parade  thn.ii-h  the  priiicipiil  streets  of  the  town,  accompa- 
nied by  the  town  crier  wilh  his  ,ln,iii.'     The  s<>ntence  was  forthwith 
put  into  execution.     The  town  crier,  William  Dondass,  with  his 
brass  barre  («d  dnim,  and  the  thief  with  the  shirt,  headed  the  proces- 
sion,  which  took  up   its   line  of  march.     The   paper  of  that  day 
iHlorms  us,  'that  Ik;  was  compelh^d  to  proclaim  his  crime  and  pro- 
jluce  the  evidence,  which  was  the  shirt  with  the  sleev(-s  tied  round 
lus  neck,  the  other  part  on  his  back.'     The  proclamation,  which  lie 
was  cmnpelled  to  utter  with   a  loud  voice,  was,  '  I  stole  this  shirt, 
which  IS  tied  round  my  nek  from   I\Ir.  .foseph   Collin's   house  in 
Nilisl)ury  aiul  I  am  v.'iy  sony  f,,r  it.'     llavinir  been  thus  marched 
tlironirl,  the  principal  streets,  and  satisfied  the  demands  of  tliis  new 
court  ol  jus1ic<',  he 'was  <lismissed,  and  never,  after  that  night,  was 
he  s(>en  111  Newburyport.     Anolher  person,  who  had  stolen  a  quan- 
tity ol  salt  fish,  was  compelled  to  make  atonement  for  his  offence 
by  parading  through  tli.>  stn-ets,  holding  a  salt  lish  in  his  hand, 
above  his  head,  and  proclaiming  his  crime  in  a  similar  manner: 
1  stole  tins  fish  and  five  riuintals  more.'     An  English  sailor  was 
also  marched  round  the  town,  with  a  pair  of  stolen  breeches  tieil 
round  his  neck,  intorming  the  people  what  he  had,  and  how  he 
obtained  them. 

Ai>nl  19///.     Eattle  at  T.exinirton.    /  "7  7  vT 

Intelligence  having  been  received  in  England,  on  March  seventh, 

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Iri:  i  ij 


of  Jie  manner  in  whicli  the  Bostonians  had  disposed  of  the  East 
India  company's  tea,  passed  an  ac;t,  wliiel.  w(>nt  iiilo  operation  June 
hrst,  by  which  the  harbor  of  Boston  was  closed  aj^ainst  the  entrance 
or  departure,  of  any  vessels.     It  was  called  tlie  'Boston  Dort  bill.'    ' 

June  mil.     Battle  of  Bunker  hill,    ll')  ^ 

June  22(1.  '  The  town  of  Newbury  met  to  tak(>  into  consideration 
certain  letters  sent  Ironi  the  committee  of  correspondence  in  Boston 
to  the  committee  ol  correspondi'nee  in  Newbury,  tlu^  i'ollowino- 
ansvyer  was  taken  by  yeas  and  nays  without  ont;  dissenting  voiced 

'  As  there  is  a  genonil  congress  of  llie  roloiiios  pinposf.l  to  consider  and  ad- 
vise on  ho  present  distressed  state  ot  our  civil  and  commercial  uliairs,  ^ve  can- 
not ttunk  It  safe,  decent  or  suitable  to  jro  into  any  decisive  binding  engagements 
previous  o  that  but  to  assure  our  brethren  throiigh  the  contmeut'of  our  hearty 
good  wishes  to  he  common  cause  of  liberty  and  our  country,  do  now  testify 
that  we  can  with  the  lUinost  freinlom  and  cheerfulness  aunje  to  discontinue  all 
commoi-ce  with  Great  Britain  and  with  all  importers  of  -oods   from  thence,  or 

be  dPtel^in^l  '/"fr"  '"T'^'^y  '''''^'  '^''^^'^  "^  '^">-  "^'^'^'-  '"«-"«'S  tl'at  shall 
be  determined  by  the  snid  congress  so  long  as  shall  by  them  be  iud.'ed  expedi- 
ent and  necessary  or  the  opening  Boston  harbor  and  recovering  .md  perpetua- 
ting all  our  just  rigiits  and  liberties.'*  ^     ^ 

Aifg-iist^d.  The  tov'ii  of  Newburyport  held  a  meeting  and, 
among  other  things,  '  vol.«d  unanimously  that  this  town  will  stand 
by  the  result  of  the  coi.g.rss  even  if  it  be  to  the  stopping  of  all 
trade.  \  otcd  also  to  send  two  hundird  pound.-;  for  the  relief  of 
indigent  persons  in  the  town  of  Boston.' 

Aii^irnst  m.  '  Town  of  Newbury  voted  to  send  two  hundred 
pounds  to  i)urchase  provisions  to  be  sent  and  given  to  the  suiferin" 
inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Boston.'  '  " 

September  22d.  '  The  Unvn  of  Newbury  chose  the  honorable 
Joseph  Crerrish  esquire  as  th(;ir  repres.'ntativ.?  and  voted  that  he  be 
directed  and  instructed  not  to  be  .lualified  for  his  seat  in  the  house 
by  any  of  the  cour.  ilors,  who  have  received  their  commission  by 
mandamus  from  his  majesty  but  by  the  council  chosen  l)y  the  house 
ol  representatives  agreeable  to  the  charter  of  this  province.'  # 

October  3d.  The  town  of  Newburyport  met,  and  gave  instruc- 
tions to  captain  Jonathan  Greenleaf,  their  representative,  of  the  most 
derermined  and  decided  character.  I  have  only  room  for  the  fol- 
lov/mg  extract.  '  Armed  ships  and  armed  m<')i  are  the  arguments 
to  compel  our  obedience  and  the  more  than  implicit  language  that 
these  utter  is  that  we  must  submit  or  die.  But  God  grant  that 
neither  of  these  may  be  our  unhappy  fate.  We  d,>sign  not  madly 
to  brave  our  own  destruction,  and  we  do  not  thirst  for  the  blood  of 
others,  but  reason  and  religion  demand  of  us  that  we  guard  our 
invaluable  rights  at  the  risque  of  both,'  and  so  forth 

October  2m      The  town  of  Ncwbm-yport  held  a  meeting,  and 
voted  that  all  the  mhabitants  be  desired  to  furnish  tlu>ms(>lves  with 
arms  and  ammunition  and  have  bayon(>ls  fixed  to  their  gmis  as  soon 
as  may  be.  '^ 

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f\M^'Ti  '"'"''  l''''^  ""^  ""f"^'''''  '^^  '''''''''''^  '1'^""^  <""  exhibited  on  If.e 
htlh  ol  November  or  other  time  only  in  tiie  day  time ' 

December  28lh  Town  of  Newburyport  chose  Tristram  Dahon, 
esqun-e,  captain  Jonathan  Greenleaf,  and  Mr.  Stei)hen  Cross,  'to 
represent  tins  town  in  the  provi.iciai  congress  to  be  held  at  Cam- 
bridge in  February  next.' 

1775. 

The  people  of   Newbury  and  Newburyport,  having  made  all 
necessary  ,)reparat,ons,  and  taken  all  needful  pircautions.  for  their 
protection,  and  the  preservation  of  their  invaluable  rights  and  oriv- 
ileges,  and  given  utterance  to  their  fe(>lings,  in  the  most  determined 
and  decided  tone,  ])nor  to  the  commencement  of  this  year,  soon 
discovered  that  nothing  short  of  a  severe  and  bloody  contest,  or 
unconditicmal  submission,  was  before  them.    With  tlu>m,  submission 
was  out  ot  the  question,  and  events  soon  transpired,  which  made  it 
manifest,  that  they  must  buc-kle  on  their  armir,  and  summon  a 
their  energies,  for  the  coming  conflict.     For  this,  they  were  with 
great  unanimity  prepared,  come  when  it  might.     On  Uie  twei   v- 
Kixth  of  February,   generd  (lage  sent  colonel  Leslie  from  castle 
vvn  lam  to  balem,  to  seize  some  military  stores.     This,  the  peonle 
would  not  permit  him  to  do,  and,  had  it  iiot  been  for  the  pmdent 
mterposilion  oi  the  reverend  Thomas  Barnard,  of  Salem,  (formerly 
of  Newbury )   and  others,  the  war  of   the  revolution  ^vould  have 
begun  at  balem    instead  of  Lexington.     The  light  at  Lexington, 
the  skirmish  at  Concord,  April  nineteenth,  and  the  battle  at  Bimker 
hiH  June  seventeenth,  precluded  all  hope  of  an  amicable  settlement 

In  t  mUH  7"'-     ''rr''  "^■•""  ''^""'^'^  ''''''  -^"^  the  occasion! 
in  ti le  midst  however,  of  their  excitement,  an  event  occurred,  which 

whether  arising  from  accident,  or  a  regular  preconcerted  plan        is 
impossible  to  say,,  occasioned,  for  a  time,  great  anxiety  and  distre  s 
among  the  people,  and  in  which,  on  a  review  of  all  the  circum- 
s.anceseonnected  with  it,  there  appeared  such  a  curious  commin- 
gling of   the  comie    the  ludicrous,  and  the  distressing,  as  would 
afford  arnp  e  materials  for  a  volume  of  amusement.     Thos/w  o 
witnessed  the  scene,  can  never  forget  it,  and  those  who  did  not,  can 
have  rnt  a  famt  idea  of  it  from  any  description.     I  allude  now,  to 
on'd  is  w  r'"  ;f^=;  'y.^^'^'l^'d  'the  Ipswich  fright,'  which  happened 
on  this  AX  se.     On  Iniday  afternoon,  April  twenty-first,  the  second 
day  after  the  Lexington  fight,  the  people  of  Newburyport  held    a 
informal  ineeting,  at  the  town  liouse,  and,  just  as  the  reverend 
Ihomas  Cary  was  about  opening  the  meeting  with  prayer,  a  mes- 
senger  rushed  up  stairs,  in  breathless  haste,  crying  Jut,' 'for  Clod's 
sake,  turn  out !  turn  out !  or  you  will  all  be  killed  !     The  re-ulars 
are  marching  tins  way,  and  will  soon  be  here.     They  are  now  at 
Ipswich   cutting  and  slashing  all  before  them!'     The  messenger 
proved  to  be  Mr.  Fbenexer  Todd,  who  stated  that  he  had  been  sent 
irom  Rowley,  to  warn  the  people  of  their  impendinsr  destruction 


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ilu;  news  spread  like  wildfire,  and  being  qcnorally  credited,  the 
ecmsternalion  became  almost  universal,  and  as  a  large  part  of  the 
inililia  had  nmn^hed  to  the  scene  of  action,  early  the  next  morning 
.liter  the  light  at  Lexmglon,  the  terror  and  alarn^  among  the  women 
and  children,  was  proporlionably  increased,  especially,  as,  from  all 
(luarters,  ^vas  heard  the  cry,  <  the  regulars  are  coining!     Thev  are 
down  to  Old  town   bridge,  cutting,  and  slashing,  and  killing  all 
belore    hem!     They'll  soon  be  here!'     It  is  renwkable,  thaf  the 
feamo  story,  in  substance,  was  simultaneously  told,  from  Ipswich  to 
L.003.     in  every  |,lace,  the  report  was,  that  the  regulars  were  but  a 
lew  miles  behmd  them.   In  Newbury  New  town,  it  was  said,  they  had 
auvanced  as  iar  as  Artichoke  river,  at  Newburyport  they  were  at  Old 
town  bridge ;  there,  they  were  said  to  be  at  Ipswich,  while,  at  the  latter 
jjlace    he  a  arm  was  the  same.     Mr.  Eliphalet  Hale,  of  Exeter,  was  at 
tlie  latter  p  ace,  and  waited  to  ascertain  the  correctness  of  the  report, 
i^earmng  that  it  was  without  foundation,  he  made  hasle  to  unde- 
ceivc  the  people,  by  riding  from  Ipswich  to   Newbury  in  fifty  min- 
utes.    Ln  the  mean  lime,  all  sorts  of  ludicrous  things  were  done,  bv 
men  and  women,  to  escape  impending  destruction.     All  sorts  oY 
vehicles,  filled  with  all  sorts  of  people,  together  with  hundreds  on 
loot,  were  to  be  seen,  moving  with  aU  possible  speed,  farther  north, 
somewhere,  to  escape  tlu;  terrible  'regulars.'    Their  speed  was  accele- 
rated, by  persons  who  rode  at  full  speed  through  the  streets,  crvin*-, 
flee  lor  your  lives!  lice  for  your  fives !  the  regulars  arc  coming?' 
bome  crossed  the  ri  ver  lor  safety.    Some  in  Salisbury,  went  to  Hamp- 
ton, and  spent  the  night  in  houses  vacated  by  their  owners,  who 
had  gone  on  the  same  errand  farther  north.     The  houses  at  Turkey 
hill,  were  filled  with  women  and  children,  who  spent  the  nicrht  in 
great  trepidation.     One  man  yoked  up  his  oxen,  and,  taking  his  own 
lamily,  and  some  of  his  neighbor's  children,  in  his  cart,  drove  olf  to 
escape   the  regulars.     Another,  having  concealed  all  his  valuable 
papers,  u.uler  a  great  stone,  in  his  field,  fastened  his  doors  and  win- 
dows, and,  having  loaded  his  musket,  resolved  to   sell  his  life  as 
dearly  as  possible.     One  woman,  having  concealed  all  her  pewter 
and  silverware  in  the  well,  filled  a  bag  with  pies  and  other  cdibh-s, 
and  set  off  with  it  and  her  family  for  a  safer  place,  but  having  trav- 
e  ed  some  distance,  and  deposited  her  bag,  to  make  some  imiuiry, 
she  lound,  on  her  return,  that  there  had  been  'cutting  and  slashinc^' 
not,  mdeed,  by  the  regulars  among  the  people,  but  by  the  irre<TulaTs 
among  her  provisions.     Another  woman,  as  I  am  informed,  iravin<r 
run  lour  or  five  miles,  in  great  tn^pidauon,  stopped  on  the  steps  of 
the  reverend  Mr.  Nol,l,;'s  meeting-:,ous,>,  to  nurse  her  child,  and  found, 
to  her  great  horror,  that  slu;  brought  oH'  the  cat,  and  left  her  child  at 

ho.ne.     In  another  instance,  a  Mr. ,  having  placed  his  family 

on  board  ol  a  boat,  to  go  to  Ram  island,  for  safety,  was  so  annoyed 
with  tli(^  crying  of  one  of  his  children,  that  he  exclaimed,  in  a  great 
triglit,  'd()  throw  that  s<|ualling  brat  overboard,  or  we  shall  all  be 


discovered!'     A   Mr.  J- 


s(Hjing   Mr.  C- 


II- 


very  corpulent  man,  standing  at  his  door,  with  his  musket  loaded, 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY.  0.|  7 

inquired  of  him  if  ho  was  not  gojn-.  'CJoiiiij?  no'  said  he  '1 
am  gon.g  to  stop  and  shoot  the  devils ! '  Propositions  were  nmde 
by  som.  persons  o  destroy  Th<.rla's,  and  tl.e  river  Parker,  bridges' 
whdo  many  acted  a  more  rational  part,  and  resohitelv  refn.ecf  to 
m^  a  step  or  credit  the  whole  of  ,l.e  dying  stories.  .i;i;;.n  „o 
evidence.  How,  or  by  whom,  or  with  wlial  motives,  the  report  was 
hrs  s  arted,  no  one  can  tell.  ]t  lasted  hi  N.-wbnrv  and  New.  n-y! 
poi  ,  but  one  n,ght,  and  in  the  .morning,  all  who  had  bec>n  in  S 
that  the  rumor  was  without  foundation, 

'  Retiirnnd  safe  homo.  iii;lit  ahd  to  save 
Their  jiroperty  IVom  l)illa^'e; 
And  nil  ajTreeil  to  hliinie  llie  man, 
VVho  fust  alarmed  the  village.' 

As  was   previously  remarked,   the    fight   at   Le.xingto.i  M'as  on 
W  ednesday  April  nineteenth,  and,  as  soon  as  the  news  reached  Neu" 
buryport  and  Newbury,  which  was  about  midnight,  a  large  mmd'r 
o(  so  diers  were  on  their  march  to  the-  Held  of  acTio  ,.     Two  co       a 
n.es  Irom  Ne^v^3ury,  and  two  from  Newburvport,  were  soon  o       he 
gcund,  ready  fcr  any  cnergenc-y  which  ntight  cu-cur.     In  a  ot  Icr 
l^ace  somcMhnig.  more  will  be   found,  concerning  the   par  "w  e| 
Newbury  and  Nowburyport  took,  during  the  trying  scc>  es  of     , 
revohu.on,  and  the  names  of  some  of  tin.  actors';  als,         rid  Ui^ 
mary,  o   some  of  the  events  comiected  w,th  die  privatecrin  '       <ine 
m  winch  the  people  of  Newburyport  w.-re  v<.rv'ex-,..nsiyei;  I    ;    ' "  ' 

Pau   Luiit  l";;:'?^  d  every  da^s  proceedings,  kept  b/lic-menant 
1  am  Jjunt,  1  make  a  few  extracts. 

'May  tenth,  1775,  marclied  from  N.nvlnirvport  with  ..ivty  men    cntil'ii.i   V;r. 

J^;^-s^  ;l;;sSS;t '^r? 

scription      ,,„;,";;  ''''■''''''  '"  ""■  ■"''•■^K"  <!"'  .vunrm.nts  with  thi.s  i„- 
[the  ri  iti,.  ,  t  (  1         '"'"'"'•,     •  ••  "'^'  "'"■'>--'i-;st.     At  four  P.  M.  th.y 

Hoston,  to  march  by  the  way  of  the   Keuneb-c  river    thn  n H; 
wtlderness.     As    that   detacluneut   passed   through    NV  W  a 
.mmrrr-?'"^^  "^f""'^"^  '""  ""  it«  way  to  Canada  7sh 

^uZi;?^;:r;;i:.ni^>:r"'''"'^^-  '-'^^"^-^'^^  ^^-^^  ^--'^ 


mi. ft   ■ 


ill; 


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Scptcmbc  mh.  Twenty  of  our  company  enlisted  to  ffo  to  Canadii  under  the 
command  ol  t-aptam  Ward.  Scptembor  thlrteeath.  lu  U.o  afternoon  th-  re  ? 
ment  iriarchcd  irom  Cambridge  to  Newburyport,  tl.ere  to  eu  ibXiU  Oi .  ull 
under  the  command  of  colonel  []?enedic.]  i,'„o!;i,  lielue.V^nt  cimj     Ch  i^l!^ 

enlistediS^  commanded   the   company   that    the    Newbury   men 

One  of  the  men  from  Ncnvburyport,  wlio  was  a  soldier  in  this 
disastrous  cxpeditioti,  was  Mr.  Caleb  Haskell,  who  Ivepi  a  journal 
ol  the  rnareh,  and  ollhe  hardships  and  privations  endured" by  the 
roops.  1  his  journal,  I  have  never  been  able  to  obtain,  thouili  it 
has  been  read  by  many  with  thrilling  interest.  I  shall  therefore 
make  a  lew  extracts  Irom  major  Return  J.  Meigs's  journal. 

'  1 775,  Scptcmhci- 1  (\th.  In  the  morning  continued  our  march  and  at  ten  o'clock 
A.  M.  arnvetl  at  Newburyport  and  encamped  * 

n,e,Sn!r''"n!i'.f"/'Ar''  V  V/''"-''';lp '''"'^'  ''"•''''°  ^'  ^^"^  '•''"^e^end  Mr.  Parsons's 
nieetniiT.     Dnied  at  Mr.  Nathaniel  Tracy's. 

'  Kiishlccnlh.    Dined  at  j\Ir.  Tristram  Dalton's 

'  maetccnth.  Embarked  our  whole  d.^laeliment  consisting  of  ten  companies 
ol  nmsketmen,  and  tiuve  companies  of  riUemen,  an.onnting  to  eleven  hundred 
Se  m!w  e'^m  7'  '"'^''T^  -  \  'f'^^^  "^^^^^  ""  boarcUhe  sloop  BrihZk 


I 

Kunnebeck  tifty 


lay  to  till  one  o-clock  1>.  M.  when  we' received  orders  to  sail  for 
Jeagues  irom  Newburyport/  and  so  fortli. 

In  addition  to  the  iiames  already  given,  of  persons  who  accom- 
panied the  army,  may  be  n-ntioned  the  late  reverend  Samuel 
t>|)ring,  ol  Newburyport,  who  ollieiafed  as  ehaplahi,  Matthew 
Ogden  and  Aaron  Bnrr,  of  New  Jer.^ey,  John  I.  Henry,  afterward 
judge  Henry,  ol  Pennsylvania,  captain,  afterward  general  Henry 
J)earborn  ol  New  Hampshire,  captain  Daniel  Morgan,  commander 
ol  the  riilemen,  with  captains  William  Keiulricks  and  Matthew 
bmilh,  ol  1  ennsylvariia,  and  many  others  less  known.  From  the 
iollowmg  l,.tters,t  Ir^m  general  Arnold,  it  appears  that  he  arrived 
at  lH)rt  Wesi,«rn,  as  early  as  September  twenty-seventh  The 
transports  landed  the  men  at  Pitlston,  ]Main.«,  wlu're  the  batteauv 
^^•(>re  built.  1  he  result  of  this  expedition,  which  arrived  at  C) uebec, 
JNovemLer  ninth,  is  well  known. 

cp     ,.   .   ■     AT  N-        ■■  ^Porl  Wcstcrnrrdli  September,  XIV). 

lo  ca|itain  Moses  Nowell,  i  ) 

Newburyport: 
•Sir: 

'Von  are  hereby  ordered  to  receive  from  captain  .liunes  Clarkson,  one  James 
i\Ic(  omiiek.  a  crmimal denme.l  for  the  murder  of  IJeubeu  Bishop,  and  him 

h(  ad  <  uartei-s  ""      ' ''  '"""^""'  ^"'""'''  '"  '''"  '^^'•^'""'■"''.V  J-?"'"''-^'  Washington  at 

I  am  your  humble  servant, 

B-  Arnold.' 

h,!p'"Th!"'jr"/""'"' '"'"""  .^'"'"-""   ""'■■•'"'P'Ml  in  th,-  n,.|,l  at  the  rornerof  Rolfo's 
+  ''i-i         ,  ""''^  i>.<  upMMl  two  ol  thi-  roi).-  wi.lks  in  town. 

<mUso,,      .?,!''»  ","■  "'"  "" ,""  '",r""'  V^  ""■''■  ^'■'*^'''=*  ■  «^l'ooner  Broad  Buy,  captain 
"Claiksou;  siDop  i'ritiuiiu:!  :  sloop  Ailiiuiul.  ^       i     '' 

t  .Maine  IJistoricai  Society's  fulicclioii,  volume  lirst,  page  358. 


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249 


M\:  Nathaniel  Tracy : 
'Dear  Sir: 


'Fort  Western,  28th  September,  1775. 


thlpaitiruSr^of'^ufvoy^  '/hiSi^Sef  ^°"  T'°^V"  ^'^^"^''"^  T" -"^^ 
'To  o'lniiin  rinri-  ..V,  f    ■'  '  ^^V''"  "18  been  very  troublesome  indeed 

which  he  may  very  posS  be  bhmed  r  '""''  ^"'* f-'-^e  ""••  arrival  here;  for 
has  reaUymeritecl  much  and  ii  wi  nll^  '"'"''  "^  '*'^  °'^^^  captains;  but  he 
of^his  welfare  anJuSs^^l'lllli'L^him^^lrrd^e^.i^.l"^''''^  '''''^^  '°  ^-' 

brothei-and  Mr.JackZ',  and  so  forrh      ^    '''  '''^''''  '"  ^''-  '^'^'y'  ^""^ 
^  Dear  sir,  yours,  and  so  forth, 

B.  Arnold.' 

HolmS;  miSe"m"t[.tr;"thaT''rc  "''  '^''^"\^-^}^-'^  -^  reverend  doctor 
Lamb,  accomjSiS  1  nS's  e^nediS'"'"^:,;'-^ ''''''7^  ^l"'^'^^  "'P'^'"  J°l^" 
transporting  heavy  cannon  and  balls     uni  Jfl^  ""'t  '^?  rP"'''*'^'l''y  °f 

urn  mdebted  to  the  politeness  of  reverend  William^  S  Bar tfe   mnv 

c  lion     Sher  ffr  ^  'v'  '}''''' T  '"^^'^  '"^  ^'-'  -hole  ^  W 
cation.    Other  facts  and  incidents  demand  a  passin^r  notice.     Amon^ 

hem  maybe  mentioned,  the  annual  celebration  o>an  ev;nt IXdf 

wo'hv  of  n^hf"''^"'"^  °'  ""''^  ^"S"'^"^'  '^' »'-  year,  rs  d^^med' 
u  ortliy  of  pub  ic  commemoration.     I  allude  to  the  discovery  of  the 

giinpowder  plot,' which  took  place   November  fiftl     1605^    The 

o^d^r  tnr^rj 'l     'T'*^  ''"^  y"^'-     '  '^«  P^^^'*^"^  ^"y  t"mult  or  dis- 
order  taking  place  during  the  evening  or  night,'  the  town  of  N^Z 

buryport  voted,  October  twenty-founh.  1774,^  hat  reffigies  be" 
t'ime  '  Mrve:  "f ''';"'  T  ^"^^  ^'^  «^  ^-^-^er  onW  in  &": 
hTs  ;u.tom  ^1  iol  r  ^"^  ''^f '^"'^  ^"'^""^^  ^he  discontinuance  oY 
this  custom,  which  has  now  become  obsolete.  This  year,  the  cele- 
bra  ion  went  off  with  a  great  flourish.  In  the  day  time,  companies 
o    little  boys  might  be  seen,  in  various  parts  of  tlfe  to^^^  ,  wXhei 

wh io'f  if"'  "^"''1  7  ''"  '^'  "^"^^  ^^«»^«^1"«  '^"d  fantas  ic  manne 
whicn  they  carrried  about,  some  on  boards,  and  some  on  little  car 
nages,  for  their  own  and  others'  amusement.     But  the4a  exh\bl 
tion  was  reserved  for  the  night,  in  which  young  ment  as  we     as 
boys,  par  tcpated.     They  first  constructed  a  hu|^  vehi d?,  vary hi^ 
at  tunes,  from  twenty  to  forty  feet  long,  eight  or  ten  wide''an7fiv^e 

bor  fS:,77,f  ""''""^  ■''"''  ''''"'^'■^  ^''•^«^"'"".  September  ele.3nth,  1775,  and  f  Octo- 

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or  six  high,  from  the  lower  to  the  upper  platform,  on  the  front  of 
which,  they  erected  a  paper  lantern,  capacious  enough  to  hold,  in 
addition  to  the  lights,  five  or  six  persons.  Behind  that,  as  large  as 
life,  sat  the  mimic  pope,  and  several  other  personages,  monks,  friars, 
and  so  forth.  Last,  but  not  least,  stood  an  image  of  what  was  de- 
signed to  be  a  representation  of  old  Nick  himself,  furnished  with 
a  pair  of  huge  horns,  holding  in  his  hand  a  pitchfork,  and  otherwise 
accoutred,  with  all  the  frightful  ugliness  that  their  ingenuity  oould 
devise.  Their  next  step,  after  they  had  mounted  their  ponderous 
vehicle  on  four  wheels,  chosen  their  officers,  captain,  first  and  second 
lieutenant,  purser,  and  so  forth,  placed  a  boy  under  the  platform,  to 
elevate  and  move  round,  at  proper  intervals,  the  movable  head  of 
the  pope,  and  attached  ropes  to  the  front  part  of  the  machine,  was, 
to  take  up  their  line  of  march  through  the  principal  streets  of  the 
town.  Sometimes,  in  addition  to  the  images  of  the  pope  and  his 
company,  there  might  be  found,  on  the  same  platform,  half  a  dozen 
dancers,  and  a  fiddler,  whose 

'  Hornpipes,  jigs,  strathppoys,  and  reels, 
Put  life  and  mettle  in  their  heels,' 

together  with  a  large  crowd,  who  made  up  a  long  procession.  Their 
custom  was,  to  cull  at  the  principal  houses  in  various  parts  of  the 
town,  ring  their  bell,  cause  the  pope  U\  riovate  his  head,  and  look 
round  upon  the  audience,  and  repeat  the  following  lines. 

'  The  fifth  of  November, 
As  you  well  remember. 
Was  gunpowder  treason  and  plot; 
I  know  of  no  reason 
Why  the  gunpowder  treason, 
Should  ever  be  forgot. 

When  the  first  king  James  the  sceptre  swayed, 
This  hellish  powder  plot  was  laid. 
Thirty-six  barrels  of  powder  placed  down  below, 
All  for  old  England's  overthrow : 
Happy  the  man,  and  happy  the  day, 
That  caught  Guy  Fawkes  in  the  middle  of  his  play. 
You  '11  hear  our  bell  go  jink,  jink,  jink ; 
Pray  madam,  sirs,  if  you'll  something  give. 
We  '11  burn  the  dog,  and  never  let  him  live. 
We  '11  burn  the  dog  without  his  head, 
•And  then  you  'II  say  the  dog  is  dead. 
From  Rome,  from  Rome,  the  pope  is  come, 
All  in  ten  thousand  fears; 
The  fiery  serpent's  to  be  seen. 
All  head,  mouth,  nose,  and  ears. 
The  treacherous  knave  had  so  contrived. 
To  blow  king  parliament  all  up  all  alive, 
ftod  by  his  grace  he  did  prevent 
To  save  both  king  and  parliament. 
Happy  the  man,  and  hajipy  the  day, 
That  ratched  Guy  Fawkes  in  the  middle  of  his  play. 
Match  touch,  catch  prime, 
In  the  good  nick  of  time. 
Here  is  the  pope  that  we  have  got. 
The  whole  promoter  of  the  plot. 
We  '11  stick  a  pitchfork  in  his  back, 
.\nd  throw  iiirn  in  the  fire,' 


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After  the  verses  were  repeated,  the  purser  stepped  for\vard,  and 
took  up  his  collection.  Nearly  all  on  whom  they  called,  ^ave 
something.  Lsquire  Atkins  and  esquire  Dalton,  always  gave  a 
dollar  apiece.  After  perambulating  the  town,  and  finishing  their 
CO  lections,  they  concluded  their  evening's  entertainment  with  a 
splendid  supper;  after  making,  with  the  exception  of  the  wheels, 
and  the  heads  of  the  cihgics,  a  bonfire  of  the  whole  concern,  to 
which  were  added,  all  the  wash  tubs,  tar  barrels,  and  stray  lumber, 
that  they  could  lay  their  hands  on.  With  them,  the  common  eus' 
torn  was,  to  stea  all  the  stuff.  But  those  days  have  long  since 
passed  away,  llie  last  exhibition  of  the  kind,  took  place  this  year. 
Ihe  principal  cause  of  its  discontinuance,  was,  an  unwillingness  to 
displease  the  Prench,  whose  assistance  was  deemed  so  advantageous 
during  the  revolution.  ^ 


1776. 

Febrmrij  M.  Newburyport  gave  to  the  town  of  Boston,  two 
hundred  and  two  pounds,  ten  shillings,  and  two  pence,  Mr.  Parsons's 
parish  gave  ten  pounds,  sixteen  shillings,  and  four  pence,  Mr.  Tuck- 
ers parish,  in  Newbury,  gave  forty-six  pounds,  four  shillings,  and 
two  pence,  and  Mr.  Noble's  gave  nine  pounds  and  sixpence. 
Ihese  were  in  addiUon  to  the  lour  hundred  pounds  given  bv  the 
two  towns.  b       '  "J  "'^ 

January  I5lh,  Momlay.     The  brig  Sukoy,  captain   Engs,  ninety 
ons,  from  Ireland,  was  taken  by  tlie  Washington,  privateer,  and 
brouglu  into  Newburyport,  laden  with  provisions,  destined  for  Bos- 
ton.    On  the  morning  of  the  same  day,  a  British  shin  appeared  off 
Newbury  bar      As  she  lay  olF  and  on,  several  miles  uom  the  land, 
shewing  Enghsh  colors,  and  tacking  often,  the  wind  being  easterly 
with  appearance  of  a  storm,  it  was  conjectured  by  some  persons 
who  observed  her  from  town,  that  the  captain  had  m'istaken  Ipswich 
bay,  or  that  of  Boston,  which  was  then  in  possession  of  the  British 
Un  this  supposition,  several  individuals  determined  to  proceed  to 
sea,  and  make  a  closer  examination.     Accordingly,  seventeen  per- 
sons embarked,  in  three  whale  boats,  and,  as  tliey  approached  the 
ship,  being  satisfied,  by  the  movements  on  board,  that  they  were 
right  in  their  conjectures,  they  determined  to  offer  their  services  as 
pilots,      box  this  purpose,  they  rowed  within   speaking  distance, 
when  captain  Olhn  Boardman,  whom  they  iiad  previously  selected 
to  act  as  commodore  of  their  little  fleet,  hailed  the  ship,  innuirine 
whence  she  came  and  where  bound.     The  answer  was,  from  Lon- 
don, bound  to  Boston  with  the  in(|uiry,  where  are  you  from,  and 
what  land  is  this?     The  reply  ^^■us,  from  Boston,  do  you  want  a 
pilot?     Being  answered  in  the  aflhinativ(>,  he  told  them  to  heave 
the  ship  to,  and  he  would  come  on  ])oard.     This  being  immediately 
done,  his  boat  was  rowed  to  the  sliip's  gnngway,  and  he,  passing 
up,  unarmed,  proceeded  to  the  qnart(T  deck,  shook  hands  with  the 
captain,  inquiring  his  passage,  the  news  from  London,  and  so  forth. 


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by  which  time,  those  in  the  boats  had  reached  the  deck,  witli  their 
arms,  and  were  paraded  across  the  gangway,  most  of  the  crew 
being  lorAvard.  Captain  Boardman  then  left  the  quarter  deck,  and, 
to  the  great  surprise  of  the  English  captain,  and  his  crew,  ordered 
the  ship  8  colors  struck.  This  order,  the  English  captain  told  his 
rnate,  he  supposed  he  must  obey.  He  then  observed  to  his  captors, 
that  the  ship  and  cargo  were  their  own,  but,  at  the  same  time,  hoped 
that  neither  he  nor  his  crew  would  receive  any  injury. 

Thus,  by  a  correct  conjectuie  in  regard  to  the  ship's  situation, 
and  a  well  managed  finesse  in  making  their  approach,  they  Ibund 
themselves  in  quiet  possession  of  a  ship,  mounting  four  carriage 
guns,  a  crew  ot  nearly  their  own  number,  and  containing  fifty-two 
chaldrons  of  coals,  eighty-six  butts  and  thirty  hogsheads  of  porter, 
twenty  hogsheads  of  vinegar,  sixteen  hogsheads  of  sour  crout,  and 
twenty-three  live  hogs,  intended  for  the  use  of  the  troops  quartered 
in  Boston.  Having  placed  the  officers  and  crew  under  safe  keep- 
ing, and  having  a  fair  wind  and  tide,  they  arrived  at  the  wharf,  in 
JVewburyport,  in  less  than  six  hours  from  the  commencement  of 
their  expedition.  The  ship  was  called  the  Friends,  was  owned  in 
London,  and  commanded  by  captain  Archibald  Bowie. 

The  only  names  of  those  who  composed  the  party  in  the  whale 
boats,  which  can  be  ascertained  with  certainty,  are,  Oilin  Boardman, 
Joseph  Stanwood,  .John  Coombs,  (Gideon  Woodwell,  Enoch  Hale, 
Johnson  Lunt,  and  Cutting  Lunt.  It  ought  to  be  mentioned,  that 
another  company  manned  the  town  barge,  and  proceeded  down 
river  on  the  same  design,  but,  starting  at  a  later  hour,  met  the  ship 
within  the  bar,  on  her  way  up  to  the  wharf.  Those  two  vessels, 
the  .rig  Sukey,  and  the  ship  Friends,  were  the  first  prizes  brought 
into  Newburyport.  Captains  Bowie  and  Engs,  boarded  for  some 
time  at  Davenport's  tavern.  The  former  returned  to  England, 
while  the^  latter  concluded  to  stay  in  New  England,  and  afterward 
commanded  a  privateer  from  Newburyport. 

The  preceding  information  is  derived  from  various  sources,  but 
principally  from  a  communication  from  Benjamin  Hale,  esquire 
postmaster  of  Newburyport,  whose  father  was  one  of  the  party  who 
captured  the  ship.  '      •' 

Februanj   IGth.      The  Yankee    Hero,   captain   ,  took,   and 

brought  into  Newburyport,  a  bark  of  three  hundred  tons,  loaded 
with  coal,  pork,  and  flour. 

March  1st.  The  Yankee  Hero,  captain  Thomas,  brouizlit  into 
Newburyport  brig  Nelly,  captain  Robinson,  from  Whit(>  Haven, 
bound  to  Boston,  having  two  hundred  tons  of  coal,  and  ten  tons 
ot  potatoes. 

Jfdfch  im.  A  committee,  consisting  of  Daniel  SpofTord,  Eli- 
phalet  Spoflord,  Thomas  Noyes,  Joseph  Brown,  and  Daniel  Chute, 
petition  the  governor  and  council,  to  be  restored  to  the  second  recri- 
rr.ent,  and  conclude  by  saying,  'that  your  petitioners  eongratula^'te 
themselves  that  the  military  arrangement  is  now  in  the  hands  of  a 
government,  which  will  pay  a  sacred  -egard  to  justice  and  the  honor 


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of  a  soldior,  whifh  ought  ever  to  remain  inviol; 

disgrace  damp  his  spirits,  blast  his  vigor  and  unnerve  his  arm,'  and 

so  lorth.  ' 

April  9th.     Edmund  Sawyer  chosen  town  clerk. 

^Aprif  22(1.  Council  determined  the  regiment  composed  of  the 
towns  ot  Newburijport,  Amesbury  and  Salisbury  shall  take  rank  as 
the  second  regiment.'  So  far,  therefore,  as  it  respected  Newburv 
the  petition  was  not  granted.  •^' 

Ma?/  8th.     Newburyport  voted  to  erect  a  fort  on  Plum  island,  and 
May  sixteenth,  voted  to  hire  a  sum,  not  exceeding  four  thousand 
pounds,  to  defray  the  expense,  and,  on  May  twenty-third.  Newburv 
appropriated  two  hundred  jjounds  for  the  same  purpose. 

May  21th.  Newbury  voted  to  instruct  their  representatives  '  that 
they  after  having  seriously  weighed  the  state  and  case  of  indepen- 
dence, act  their  best  judgment  and  prudence  respecting  the  same ' 

May'ilst.  Newburyport  'voted  that  if  the  honorable  congress 
should  for  the  safety  of  the  united  colonies,  declare  them  indt^pen- 
dent  ol  the  kingdom  of  Great  Britain,  this  town  wiUAvith  their  lives 
and  fortunes  support  them  in  the  measure.' 

.Tune  1th.  The  Yankee  Hero,  captain  James  Tracy,  had  an  en- 
gagement with  the  Milford  frigate,  of  twenty-eight  guns.  It  lasted 
near  two  hours,  but,  as  the  frigate  was  vastly  superior  in  force,  the 
Hero  struck.  ' 

July  lAth.     Mr.  Oliver  Moody  was  drowned  from  a  wharf. 

July  im.  The  declaration  of  independence  was  published  in 
Newburyport,  and,  on  the  same  day,  died  the  reverend  Jonathan 
rarsons,  in  his  seventy-first  year. 

'August  nth.     Independency  read  in  all  the  meeting  houses.'  ^ 

in  August,  there  was  a  state  fast. 

In  the  Newburyport  town  records,  September  second,  I  find  the 

lol  owmg,  in  the  handxvi-iting  of  Nicholas  Pike,  esquire,  town  clerk. 

Ihis  meeting  was  illegal,  because  the  venire  for  calling  it  was 

in  the  name  of  the  Brifish  tyrant,  whose  name  all  America  iustlv 

execrates.'  ''       '' 


1777. 

March  24th.  Town  of  Newbury  this  day  put  it  to  vote,  '  to  see 
It  the  town  would  settle  in  the  seventh  regiment  of  militia  and  it 
passed  in  the  negative,'  notwithstanding  it  was  stated  in  the  warnincr 
that  «o  speedy  settlement  of  the  vnlitia  is  a  matter  of  the  "-reotest 
importance  to  our  political  salvation:  This  refusal  to  do  military 
duty  in  the  seventh  regiment,  to  which  they  had  been  docrraded  bv 
governor  Bernard,  in  March,  1766,  as  has  been  mentioncnl,  the  sol- 
diers  ol  Newbury  continued  to  manifest,  throughout  the  whole  of 
the  revolutionary  contest.  The  consequence  of  this  refusal,  was 
an  entire  absence  of  all  military  subordination,  so  far  as  regimental 

*  S.  Horton's  journal. 


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musfors,  and  so  forth,  were  concernod.     This  nros.-,  not  from  nnv 

unwillingneas  to  servo  their  country,  but  Iroiu  ii  rc-sohile  (U'tcrminii- 

l.on,  not  to  train  under  any  olliccrP,  (ill  they  should  be  restored  to 

tlicir  lornier  rank,  as  soldiers  of  the  sn'ond,  and  not  the  si'vrnlh  reg- 

iment.     Ihis  restoration  was  ellected  about  the  year  17f);j.     This 

caused  the  duty  which  would  otherwise  have  devolved  on  the  niilitiii 

oilicers,  to  hv.  perlorincd  by  the  selectnien,  and  is.  perhaps,  the  only 

instance  unhe  state,  where  the  selectniei,  ■x,:-:    .iuli.-d  to  perforin 
such  a  service. 

31(1//  2UL     The  town  of  Newburvport  v',l(^d  '  to  impower  Jona- 
l»an  Boardman  to  procure  and  exhibit  the  evidence  diat  may  be 
had  ot  tlie  nuinu-al  (Jis])ositi()n  of  any  person  or  persons  towards 
this,  or  any  ot  the  United  States,'  and,  on  June  thirtieth,  the  town  of 
iNewbury  chose  Samuel  Noyes,  to  do  the  same  service. 
June  2dth,     The  Jlessian  prisoners  came  to  town. 
June  m/i.     Town  of  Newburyport  '  voted  to  allow  the  soldiers 
stationed  at  Plum  island  candles,  and  sweelciniuf,'  for  their  beer' 

Ans^r/tsL  S,„ue  lime  this  month,  the  old  church,  called  qiieen 
iV/Trn  ,"'''■''  ^"'^'"'-  been  unoccupied  as  a  meetin<,'-house  after 
17b(),  iell  down.  It  was  on  the  sabbath,  a  calm  and  sultry  day. 
1  he  pews  and  f^alleries  had  been  renu»ved  some  time  before,  and 
other  parts  had  disappeared,  piece  by  piece,  till  there  was  not 
enough  Icit  to  hold  the  frame  to<retlier. 

'Aiiir;,st2\sf.  Captain  Williani  Friend  in  a  sixteen  mm  ship, 
call.',!  the  Neptun.<,  built  in  Mr.  Cross's  yar.l,  sail.-<l,  and,  when 
about  a  league  iron,  the  bar,  overset  and  sunk  in  sixteen  fathoms  of 
water,  having  on  board  sixty  hands,  only  one  drowned.' # 

'October  2S(i.  (Jreat  numbers  of  cannon  wen-  fired  on  account 
of  Murgoyne's  defeat,  which  was  October  sevcntt>enth,  and  on  De- 
cember  twenty-eighth  a  thanksgiving  throughout  the  United  States, 
on  the  same  account.'  * 


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1  778. 

Fehriuir//  I'M.  Newbury  voted,  nein.  con.,  'we  the  inhabitants 
ot  the  town  ot  Newbury  do  hfrei^y  give  our  representatives  inslruc- 
tions  to  actiuiescc  in  and  comjily  with  the  articles  of  confederaii„n, 
as  we  have  received  them  IVom  the  hononible  contiiK-nlal  congress.' 

Marck  2m.  'I'lie  town  of  Newl)iirvport  'voted  that  this  town 
are  ot  opinion  that  the  mode  of  representation  contained  in  the 
constitution  lately  j)roposed  by  the  conv(>ntioii  of  this  state,  is  une- 
<pial  and  unjust,  as  thereby  all  the  inhabitants  of  this  state  are  not 
(Jcpially  rei)reseii(.'d,  and  that  some  other  j)arts  of  the  same  consti- 
tution are  not  founded  on  the  true  princijiles  of  governmeni ;  and 
that  a  convention  of  tlu;  several  towns  of  this  county  by  their  dele- 
gates, will  have  a  prol)a])le  tendency  to  reform  the  same  agreeably 
to  the  natural  rights  of  mankind  and  the  true  principles  of '  aovern- 
ment.'  i         i  a 

*  Mr.  Samuel  Horton's  diary. 


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liOO 


Volfd  that  the  srlcvhiK-n  be  desired,  in  b<'liair  and  in  the  name 
ol  the  town,  )(.  write  eireidiir  letters  to  tlw  several  towns  within  th,- 
county,  oroposnig  a  «-onvention  of  thos.;  towns,  by  th.-ir  del.MrateH 
to  be  holden  at  sueh  limo  and  place  as  the  sehrl'men  shal'  ilMnk 
proper:  m  said  eire.ilar  letters  to  propos.«  to  eaeh  of  iUr.  towns 
aloresaid,  to  send  the  like  number  of  d.-leirates  to  said  eonvention 
as  the  same  towns  huvc  by  law  right  to  send  representativ.s  to  the 
general  court. 

'  Aeconliufiily  die  most  eminent  ciliz.-iis  of  this  ancient  and  lead- 
ing county  assembled  at  Ip.^wich  and  insliluled  an  elabo, al.(  exam- 
ination ol  the  mtende.l  constitution,  which  was  printed  with  the 
It  e  ol  the  J  ssex  Result.  Th,-  ..Ili-.-t  of  this  pam,,hlet,  which  is  at- 
tributed  to  the  mighty  mind  of  Theophilns  hirsons.  fa  native  of 
Newbury,]  then  resident  in  N.nvburvport,  was  p.-rh^ellv  derisive  of 
th(^  (|ues1ion.  The  town  unanimously  voted  to  reject  the  proposed 
lorm  ol  government;  and  suggesl.-d  the  exp-dicu-v  of  calliuL'  a 
new  convention  lor  tli.-  sole  purpose  of  framing  a  eorrstitution  more 
wortliy  ol   Massachusetts.'  # 

Marchm/t.  Town  of  N.>\vbiiry  vot.'d  to  grant  the  petition  of 
several  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  '  westerly  part  of  the  town,  who 
are  desirous  ol  being  set  oil'  into  a  s(>parale  townshit).' 

l^roni  Alarch  tenth,  1777,  to  Aug.ist  tw.Mitv-se,.<,nd,  J77H,  the 
town  ol  Newbury  passed,  consichTed,  and  recoi'isidered,  many  votes 
respecting  inocu  ation  for  the  small  pox,  and  were  nuich  (livid.'d 
and  excited  on  the  subj..et.  A  hospital  was  for  some  time  Itept,  on 
Aent  s  island,  but,  on  August  twenty-second,  the  town  voted  to  nc- 
ulatioi  '  ^ '  ''"'''"  ''""^  ""'^  ^"'  '^'*''^*'"'"'""'^l  '"'  Newbury  by  inoc- 
Decemher  mih.     Thanksgiving  through  the  United  States. 

1779. 

Murrh  m.  The  town  voted  that  'the  unanimous  thanks  of  the 
Unvn  be  given  to  Samuel  Moody  esquire  for  his  generous  donation 
oi  one  hundred  pounds  at  this  time,  and  of  twc.ity  m.unds  some 
time  past  h.r  the  purpose  of  a  growing  fund  for  a  grammar  school 
being  kept  in  t!ie  town  lor  tlir-  instruction  of  youth.' 

Ju///  26th.  An  armanu-nt,  consisting  of  twenty  sail,  besides 
iwenty-four  transports,  appeared  off  Penobscot,  destined  to  dislodge 
Ihe  enemy  but  proved  exceedingly  disastrous.  The  Pallas,  Sky 
Rocket,  ami  so  forth,  sail<>d  from  Newburyport.  Colonel  Moses 
l.ittle  ol  Nevvbury,  was  at  first  ippointed  to  command  the  expedi- 
tion, but  declmed,  „n  aecouii.  of  ill  health.  'August  fifteenth, 
British  recruits  rame  to  Penobscot.  American  fores  ran  up  river 
and  burned  their  own  shii)ping.'  f 

In  this  year,  the  business  of  chaise  making  was  introduced  into 
Newbury,  by  James  Burgess.     The  first  regular  builders,  were  Na- 


#  i: 


*  Ciishing's  history  of  Ncwburyporl. 


f  -S.  Iloiton's  journal. 


25(3 


HI8TORY    OV    NKWflURY. 


lit 


w 


u 


1hn„u.I  arul  Ahnor  (irc-nlruf.     In  BvlUmllr,  the  business  vva«  corn- 

17iH  by  ll..bert    )..clgo,  in  17!».',,  and  by  Siinni,,!  iL^^th,  in  I79G. 

iV..r..,^r    I IM.      ^  The  ,ow„  of  >^ewbnrv  vote,!   una.iin.ously 
hut   h.|v  approve  o    and  accept  th..  pr<..u...,iin«s  „f  dw  hif  cnvcn- 
lion  licM  ai  c.uncord  m  Ddobc-r  n-gulutinfr  the  prices  of  merchandise 
and  country  produce.' 

This  alludes  to  an  nnavailino-  atlenipl,  to  fix   a  price  on  labor, 
provisions,  and  all  Uinds  o{  couuModitics,  oy  leoislative  cnaetn.ents! 
In  the  preccdiiijr  year,  the  ^'cneral  court  had  passed,  from  the  best 
ol  "»i>tiy^'s    'an  act  to  prevent  inotu)poly  and  oppression,'  and  the 
owns  o(  Newbury  and  Newbnryport,  had,  in  pursuance  of  this  act, 
dopted  and  published  a  seaJe  of  prices,  allixed  to  all  the  articles 
they  had  lor  sale,  and  also  all  kinds  of  labor.     These  prices  were 
never  to  hv  exceeded.     No  imported  «oods,  (except  hemp  and  war- 
like  stores,  should  be  sold  at  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  pounds 
sterling,  on  one  hundred  pounds  prime  cost,  and  no  retailer  should 
make  an  advance  of  more  than  twenty  per  centum  on  the  wholesale 
price      AH  these  regulations,  were,  of  course,  entirely  futile,  as  thev 
eould   not    be  enforced.      They  were   thcn^fore  abandoned.     The 
price  of  cotton,  lor  instance,  was  established  at  'three  shillings  per 
pound  by  the  bag  and  three  shilluigs  and  eightpence  by  the  single 
pound       Barbers,  once  shaving  threepence.      Dinner  boiled  and 
roasted  without  wine  one  shilling  and  sixpence.     Supper  or  break- 
last  one  shilling.     Lodging  fourpence.'     A  pound  of  cotton,  would, 
at  this  time,  purchase  two  dinners,  one  night's  lodging,  once  shaving 
and  leave  one  penny  overplus.     How  many  pounds  of  <5otton  would 
it  take  now,  184.),  to  procure  the  same  amount  ' 
December  Wt.     Thanksgiving  in  all  the  states.^ 

o'cM**"'  ^''^'''     ^'"'^'^'l'^^''*^  ^^""^y  1""^  ^l^o»i'  half  past  eleven 

Some  time  this  year,  a  wolf  came  into  captain  Israel  and  Liphe 
Adams  s  yard,  and  killed  five  sheep.  He  was  killed  by  Moses  Ad- 
ams.    No  woll  has  since  been  seen  in  Newbury. 


1780. 

The  winter  of  17S0,  was  unusually  severe.     For  forty  days,  thirty- 

one  of  which  were  the  month  of  March,  there  was  ni  pcrc'eptible 

haw  on  the  southerly  side  of  any  house,  and  so  deep  and  hard  was 

direction'  ^""^"^^  ^'^^^'''^  ''^*''  ^"""^"^  """"^  ''*-'"'''^'''  '"  ''"y 

March.  The  constitution  of  Massachusetts  was  fram(>d.  The 
first  article  in  the  declaration  of  rights,  is,  'all  men  are  born  free 
and  equal.  This  was  inserted,  with  the  intent,  and  for  the  purpose, 
^1  entirely  abolishing  slavery.     Prior  to  the  revolution,  several  slaves 


*  S.  Horton's  journal. 


HINTOKV    HI-    MOWIII'UY. 


Iliui 


♦lU'd  llH'ir  iiKisifis  lor  (Icl.-iiiiiii"  || 


K'lii  in  sh 


257 

'!:;:i::l..:iX;i't".:,:?'ii:;:'t::''^;\,j;':f'>- -v' 

:y;::;;rr;  -, ;"';," " n:,",',;,..,:;! ,',  ;:',\,',v;r;i,  rr:'.;;!;; 

■was  iihnlislinl  liv  llif  coiisliliilidii  '  •'•i^'ry 

N..ulM,ryi.ort  liH.I  a  .n.v.iM^r  o„  ||„.  sMinr  siil.j.rt,  m.uI,  after  pro- 
lion  .)!  the  .sun.-  i„  iis  piv^'iit  r.inii.'t  .ippioDa- 

I  h.'  loivnuMiiinii,.,!  oloii.l.  ,„ixiiM.-  will,  til..  VIS       ,  ,',    ,1    r  '^"ii"^"^''*t- 

by  u  -..n,.,..l  l,„nu„:r  r,|'  tl„-  w,,o  Fs    •     .  '      ,   ,   ,    '        '      ",'  '^""'^'■' '!'-i""^'one,l 

;i;"":;i;r.s;;";::;:i-;-:;;:,;;!:    r^7:-^^^ 
-•:ri:^:;:tl;:';;H';i;;i;::;'s. 

lMll.(Mnr,u<)insoril,o  Ainrmnnar:Klr,ny,   I   iln.I   tin-  following. 

^.  .un,^^s„Mos  cl,sai.,„.an.<l  an.l  lu.-anu-  sil.-nt;  tho  Cnvls  rotiml  ,o 

roo«t;  tlio  cocks  wnr  ( .cuin^r  nil  ...ound,  a.  at  break  of  day     o  .^ 

-ts  ..ovdd  not  1.r  d.sl.n^n.ish.d  but  at  very  litdc-  distance  a.uf ev c  v 

1....^'   H.n.  the  a;,pear,,n,.,>  and  n|oon,  of  id^d.K'     On  account  of  he 

i.M.,arka!de  darkness,  it  is  still  called  '  the  dark  day  ' 

JVinrmhcr  IS//,,  „velv.-  o'c-Ioek  at  night,  there  was  an  earth.iuuke 


1'     "t 


*  Newbury  town  records. 


1  Town  veoonls. 


»    • 


H 


fj* 


i-s, 


fit. 


258 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURV. 


December  Ith.     'rimuksgiviiig  in  all  the  staleri. 
September.     Tliia  month,  the  most  ilagxant  instance  of  treachery 
that  occurred  during  the  nn'ohitionarv  war,  was  discovered,  l)v  the 
ajjprehension  of  Major  Andr(>,  a  British  ojheer,  wiio  was  executed 
as  a  spy,  O.  t.Ser  second.     The  .reacliery  was,  an  attemjit,  by  gen- 
eral Arnoki,  „.  deliver  up  West  Point  to  the  enemy.     From  a  jour- 
nal kept  by  a  Newbury  soldier,  I  extract  the  lollow^ing.     '  Sei)teml)er 
twenty-fourth.     Pleasant  weather,  hard  duty,  poor  beef.     Our  men 
are  not  allowed  but  six  cartridges    jier   man  but  good  barracks, 
i  wenty-idlh,  pleasant  weather.     This  tlay  aljout  on(!  o'clock  general 
Waslnngton,  general  Knox,  maniuis   La    Fayette  came  f^  West 
1  oint  to  take  a  view  of  the  fort.     They  stav('d  about  two  hours, 
and  then  left  the  point.     We  had  thirteen  pieces  of  cannon  dis- 
charged.    This  night  Arnold's  ])lot  was  discovenul.     He  had  news 
of  the  Bi-itish  oilicer  being  taken,     lie  told  his  wife  he  was  a  dead 
man.     H(^  took  his  horse  and  rode  to  the  ferry  as  soon  as  he  could 
to  Ins  barge,  when  he  made  the  best  of  his  way  to  a  British  ship. 
I  he  ship  made  the  i)est  of  her  way  to  York.     He  carried  oif  John 
Brown  and  Samuel  Pilsbury  of  our  comi)any.     September  twenty- 
sixth.      Ihis  morning  at  one  o'clock  we  manned  our  lines  and  got 
m  readiness  for  action.     Each  man  reccnved  twenty  rounds.     This 
morning  at  three  o'clock  colonel  Meigs's  regimeiU  of  continental 
troops  arrived.    Twenty-seventh.    This  day  making  ready  to  receive 
the   ejiemy  as  soon  as  they  come.      This  night  lay  on"  our  arms. 
Large  puiuet  out.'  ^ 

1781. 

In   January,   captain  William   Friend  v.as  cast  away  on  Boon    ' 
island,  and  drowned,  with  six  men. 

Mairk  V2fk.  Newi)uryport  '  voted  that  the  selectmen  be  direetiMl 
to  cause  one  ol  the  bells  to  be  rung  at  one  of  the  clock  in  the  day 
and  at  nine  ol  the  clock  at  night  dia-ing  the  ensuing  year.'      . 

17  8  2. 

Februarif.  A  Newburyi)ort  vessel,  captain  C'alef,  from  the  We^t 
Indies,  was  cast  away  on  I'lum  island.  Seven  hands  were  lost,  in 
consequence  of  leaving  the  vessel,  and  three  saved  by  staviii"'  on 
board.  "  ^ 

'llarch  IS^Zt.  Town  of  Newbnryport  voted  to  accept  of  Union 
street  and  Fair  strcMH  as  laid  out  and  that  the  saiiu'  be  rec»>rded.' 

Marc/i.  2^{/i.     (}ie<>ii  street  dillo. 

\T„m2M.  Mr.  Edward  |}urbeek,  form.rU..f  SaJrm,  was  this 
day,  sabbath  afternoon,  inslantlv  killed  by  lightning,'  while  standin<' 
near  a  clock  m  his  chamber.  The  honsl-  in  wlii.'h  he  di,.d,  stood 
on  the  spot,  now  occupied  by  Messrs.  Richard  and  JJaniel  S, 
lenny  s  house. 

*  Joshua  Diivis'sjmiiiuil. 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


259 


August  m.      My.  Nathani,,!  Tracy's  new  house,  old  dwellin- 
iiouse,  and  barn,  were  conriunie>d  l)y  tire. 


-I 


1783. 

March  mh      Newburyport  accepted  of  Orange  street  as  laid  out. 

beptcmher  M  On  tins  day,  a  treaty  of  pe^ce  was  signed,  at 
Pans,  between  Gnnit  Britain  and  the  United  States,  l,y  David 
Hartley  and  John  Adams,  esquires,  and,  on  October  thirteenth, 
congress  issued  a  proclamation  for  disbanding  the  arniv. 

November  2S)IIl     There  was  a  small  earthcpiakc, 

December  mil.  Notice  was  given  in  tlie  public  journal,  that  two 
beacons  had  been  erected  on  Plum  island,  for  the  benetit  of  vessels. 

1784. 

'Blareh  Wl/i.  Newburyj^ort  voted  to  build  a  new  work  house 
where  the  present  work  house  stands,  unless  they  can  procure  a 
more  suita])le  ))hice.'  ^  ^ 

April  7l/t.  Reverend  Oliver  Noble  was  dismissed  from  his  church 
and  parish,  at  his  own  recpiest. 

^M>/   1th.       Daniel    H.-rry  of  Chester   an<l    Nathaniel   Ober  of 
uw'-'™'  '''''''"     ■*"''"•'''  '"  Newbury  l^ridge  by  the  upsetting  of  a 

Jutii  \lth.  General  Jonathan  Titcomb  was  chosen  naval  officer 
lor  tins  year. 

This  sunnner,  there  was  a  severe  droucdit 

The  bridge  ovct  the  river  Park.-r,  which  was  built  in  175S,  under 
he  dn-ection  ol  IVlr,  Ralph  Cross,  was  Wv,  year  repair.xl.  It  is  eight 
hundred  and  seventy  feet  long,  twenty-six  Yeet  wide,  has  nine  solid 
piers,  and  eight  wooden  arches. 

^Noeemt^er  mh.  A  twlve  hours'  storm  raised  the  highest  tide 
witlun  the  niemorv  of  tiie  oldest  man,' 


1  'Mi|ii 

I         'it 


^*l^i 


17  8  5. 

..n.m'l  I'ff"      '^''"'  ^?''"  "''  ^^'^^^^''""-ypovt  petitioned  the  general 
court  as  loMows,  namely:  " 

'That  in  the  years  J77.J  and  177(i  the  said  town  in  order  to  guard 
and  de  end  tiie,ns<-lves  and  the  neighbouring  towns  from  the  appre- 
hended myasions  and  attacks  of  tlie  en.Muv  then  infestin-  tlie  sea 
coasts,  and  inakmg  depredations  on  the  maritime  towns  of  the  state 
pr.'pared  and  sunk  a  miml)er  of  pi,M-s  in  the  channel  of  I\lerrimac 
mer  n.-ar  the  month  tliereof;  l|„.y  have  also  built  -a  fort  on  the 
J>ahsbury  side  o(  said  river  aiul  another  fort  on    I'lum  island  nciy 


;'••  •. 


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260 


HISTORY    OF    NEWBURY. 


Hi 


i  '' 

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the  entrance  of  the  Imrlxn- ;  they  eonstrnet(>(l  u  iloatin-  battery,  built 
abargeandmadeunu.nberof  j^nn  c-arrhi^n-s :  the  whole  expense 
whereof  amounted  to  th.  sum  of  two  thonsan.l,  ionr  hundred  and 
thirty-three  pounds,  ei-hl  shilliM-s  and  two  pence.' 

Ihe  petition  conehules  as  ibllows. 

'  And  as  your  j)etilioners  are  still  laboring?  under  a  very  heavy 
del>t,  eonlnieted  for  the  o^onoral  serviee  and  defenee  of  the  country 
during  lie  late  ^var,  and  in  addition  fliereto  have  be.>n  iiavin"  inter- 
est or  the  Nvhole  sum  above  menfioned,  and  ar,>  slill  paying  hilerest 
tor  the  same  they  pray  that  your  honors  will  be  pleased  US' soon  as 
possible  to  take  the  premises  into  your  wise  consideration,  and  onh-r 
the  a loremenfioned  sum  to  be  paid  them  out  of  the  public  treasury, 
and  tiius  lar  relieve  ihem  under  their  distresses.' 

Signed  by  the  selectmen,  '  by  ord<n-  and  in  behalf  of  the  town  of 
Ncwburyport.' 

April  13///.     Merrimae  river  passable  on  the  ice.     April  sixteenth, 

the  nmeteentii,  a  snow  storm. 

October  2lst.     A  Dutch  sliip.  bound  from  Amsterdam  to   N.-w 

oLtolor   '"''  ''''''•^''''   ^''""'   '''""'•      ^'•'■^^'^•■^^^•'■1'   vessel  a.ul 
J'l^'emhrr  im.     Robert  Laird  and  .Tan.c.s    Ferguson,  a.herli.e 
that  they  have  established  a  brewery  opposite  Somerljy's  landing. 

17  8  0. 

Januar//  9f/i.     In  the  morning  an  ei^-iiiqu.'ke 
M/  im.     Mr.  Htcphen  (ierrisL  had  his  skull  IVaetured,  and  Mr. 
Samuel  Kezer,  his   n.ibs,  l,y  the  falling  of  some  ro<-ks,  while  stonin-^ 

TS.  ^'r?'T  '""''f '"'""'"^''^  ^"'  -•^"■-"^t  twelfth,  wh.M,  Mr. 
Abraham  riiurlow,  on  descending  it,  fell  to  the  bottom,  and  expired 

a^;:th:  ^1'  •"  ''""'''■     "'^  ^^•^""  ^^-^^^  -----^  "y  "-  '-'l 

pJ!Z^r!7.  M  ■  ^  '""'''  ''""'  "'■  -"''  --""1-^1-^  >^t  a  .luarter 
This  y(.ar  is  rendered  memoral)le,  by  an  insurrection,  in  the  west- 
ern part  of  Mussaehusetts,  headed  by  J)ani<-I  Shavs.  ( )ne  .-ompanv, 
h  y.flve  m  all,  commanded  by  captain  Edward  Longfellow,  wen 
from  ^'-wbury  Tlu'y  enlisted  f  .r  sixty  days,  and  left  l^)me  Decem- 
ber twelfth.  Two  of  the  company  are  stiil  living-deacon  Mo  es 
Brown,  and  Silas  Moulton,  West  Newbury. 

iV?>...,/,,.    14//,.       TiK.   town   of    Xewbnrv  '  vote.l   to   settle  the 


i  i  'It 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


2G1 


1787. 

'  Tho  west  wind  blew  srea.lily  A-om  Novomb.T  tliirtiplh   17.%  lo 
.\larch  IwtMitH'lh  of  ilus  year  with  only  Ibur  slii^ht  inlcrruplions' # 

llH.s  year,  the  Jless.an  (ly,  so  deshMu-tive  to  svhvM,   made  its  first 
appearance  1,1  Aew  England,  entering  CVaineetient  from  New  Yori<.# 

Apnf  4//A.     1  Ins  day,  there  was  a  '  spinnin-  match '  at  the  hons<> 

the  reverend  A  r  INIniTay,  to  whom  were  give.i  two  hnndr^-d  and 
thirty-s,x  SKems  oi  tin-ead  and  yarn.     The  m.-eting  was  in  the  '  par- 
sonage house  every  apartment  of  which.'  says  the  Essex  Journal, 
was  lull.      1  he  music  ol  the  spinning  whe<-l  resounded  from  evt-ry 
room.     It  was  truly  a  pleasing  sight.     Some  spinning,  some  nvlino, 
some  carding  the  cotton,  some  combing  {ho  llax.     The  labors  of  tl^e 
tlay  were  concluded  about  five  o'clock."     Public-  worship  was  attend- 
cd,  and  a  discourse  dclivere.l  by  tli.«  pastor,  from  J-Ixodus  :J0::V, 
And  all  the  woinen  that  were  wise  hearted  did  spin  with  their  hancU' 
lUa//  1.)///.      l(,wn  ot  Xewburyport  voted,  that  '  Fish  street'  shall 
herealter  be  called  '  State  street.' 

This  year,  congress  rnade  a  grant  for  lights  on  Phnn  island,  and, 
on  September  fifteenth,  ^ewl,ury,.ort  granted  permission  to  WWVuun 
i^artle  ,  and  others,  to  appoint  a  man  to  five  on  Plum  island,  to  take 
care  ol  the  (ort. 

September  Mth.     Federal  constitution  unanimously  accepted. 


fiffiK.i     -' 


1788. 

From  the  Ess(>x  Journal  [  transcribe  the  following,  namely  : 

'  NnrhupiporU  Felmmry  mh,  1788.     On  Trnirs.lav  last  wo  had  tlu-  plPi.jnrr 
nc-c-o.n.t  o   th.  rn.ilicatmn  ,.f  the  now  oonstiftuion  hvthe  <'<mv..,.ti,  „    f  t       c  m 
.H..iw..a  th.     A  ii-,.ncM-al  joy  .lillu.ed  ifsolf  thn.nuk-  all  ranks  o    ,  e    ,0    u       ^ 
town  on  this  doruHis  news.     Wo  hearlih-  conu-.-atulalo  onr  road.' ,'  oh      • 

S"  xowih';:  ::t-'  '"'";""''^'  '^''''^ '" "'"  •"■"^■-^^  '^  anouis  ,1^:;  ^^:^:r 

Mate  o,  Aow  anip.luio,  whose  niKTests  and  whos,.  dispositions  rire  so  similar 
t<.  onr  own,  w.l  have  an  addi.ional  in.iueen.ent  to  add  k  seventhill  r  to  ie 
STcat  federal  ediliee  alreadv  so  far  advanced  ^ 

•  On  Friday  afternoon  th,-' principal  uentl,.meu  of  the  trade  aud  olilceix  of  the 
m, h  ,a  ol  the  ,o.n.  Wnv^  .nfomied  that  the  dele,.ates  from  this  town  and  Xe! 
bnry  wen'  on  1  nnr  way  home,  and  heinir  disposed  to  .show  .some  mark  f  tl  ," r 
snt.sfaefon  at  the  adoptum  of  the  eonstitntion.  and  of  their  warm  pp  h-  i  „ 
of  the  ..muhiet  ol  those  honorable   and  worti.v  nenlh-men    in  co   ve        n 

oTizts '  '  ^^^^'^'"'^'""'-^  "^  ■''  "•""""^'•^  <-<''l'^c.tion  of  their  appLuling  leliow- 

This  year,  a  deer  Mas  trai-ked  from  Ash  str.'ct,  in  wc-st  Xewburv 
lo  cape  Ann  wood.s,  by  Messrs.  Silas  Moulton  and  Abraham  Adam's 
who  were  unable  to  find  him.  In  the  same  year,  the  same  persons 
Killed  one  hundred  and  eighty  common  foxes,  and  two  silver  -rav 

*  Dwiulil's  tra\cls. 


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262 


HISTORY   OP    NEWBUUY. 


March  26///      Mmm,,  slr.-.-t  was  allu\v.«d  aiul  apprcvo.l  as  laid  oiK,' 
by  tlie  town  ol  Newl)urvi)i)rt. 


1789. 

_     October  2m.     Tl„.  town  of  Nc-wl,nvv|,ort  this  day  lu'ld  a  UR't-t- 

nij,Mo  luak."  sintahl.- an'MMi^MMiirnts  nnMli..  irr.-|.llonortliopr<-sid 
o(     H>  U,.„c.d  States,  gc.n,.ral  ( .Vorgc:  Wasiunytin.      Tlu-y  jlublislu-d 
a  handbiJl,  commonoing  thus: 

,  '  KriHiiiniport.  OiloJicr  'iRih,  17Si) 

unites  ■  ir  },*;*^y;j  -  ":!,^"''''>'  •"■^*  '"  '"'  '^•">"""'  ^^i'l'  -  visit  IVo,n  •  ll.o  m.n  ulio 
uiit.s  all  iKMits,'  TiK  iM.rsTiuocs  I'unsiDKNTcr'THi;  ITn,ti.;i)  Stmi-s  tiio 
yi|iab.tmits  tii.-rt-of  tliis  di.y  in  town  mcelin.  ■  <  n.n   ,  ,  a  .  .,>.  tlu. 


foil, 


owin^f  ortlci-  of  profession.' 


iisscmiilrd,  liiivo  ayTood  to  tlio 


Here  follow  the  names  of  thirty-flv(<  classes  of  p.-rsons.  with  di- 
rections  as  to  the  manner  i„  wliieh  the  procession  should  move. 
From  the  Kssex  Jonrnal  and  Neu-  I  lampshire  Paeicet,  of  Noveiiiber 
lourth,  I  make  the  following  extraet. 

ere  Who  moro  lur-ely  sl.;.r,.d  ,i,c-  .•,.l,.,.tiou  ;uul  .vst,.,.m  of  its  .■ili/..„s    '  J 
S;       it  ;:     'r        "'-'l,^^''^-'-''    "^  "';•   (-nnty  of  Esse.,   ll,e    Hononihlo 


oliiceis.   as  avc 
Oil  )iis  iliinviii 

alt(>r  wluci.  a  numL(>r  ot  yomii,'  irenlloineu  place,!  tjiem 
snn-^  as  iollow  •  ■ 


as  several  -■eiilieinen  from  this  ami  soiia-  iiei-iihonrin"  towns 
near,  lie  was  saluted  willi  lliirteen  (hscJiarires  from  the  Artillery, 

selves  lielbre   him,  aiid 


'  Flo  rnmcs !  Ho  rnnics  !  'J'ho  iiKito  corn.'s  ! 

.Soiiiiil,  sound  vciir  I'riniipets,  l)..;i|.  h,Mi  \,.,ir  Dnmis- 

i-roni  fort,  to  i'ort,  ha  Cniiioiis  roiii,      ' 

Jle's  wi'lconie  lo  .\c\v-i;iml;iri(i"s  show. 

Wolcomo.  wi'lcomc.  wclroiiie,  wi'jconio 
^^''''•-■"inc  to  NVw-JOnukind's  shori'! 

'Prepare!   Prcpnm!  your  Son-s  prep:irn, 
Loud,  loudly  rc-iid  Ihl' echoiniroir;  " 

I'n.rii  l'ol(>  to  Pole,  his  pr.iisc  rc-oiiiiil, 
For  Virtue  is  with  ylory  (-rowird. 

Virtiu>,  virtue,  virtiii>.  virtue. 

Virtue  is  with  (iiory  erowu'd  ! ' 

'The  lines  in  the  lirst  verse,  wliieh  rail  for  the  healin-  of  drums  an.i  roariu- 
01  cannon,  wore  mstaiitly  oheyed  after  tin-  pronun.datiou  of  eacdi  word  :  and  to 
tlie  vocal  was  joined  all  ih.-  mstrumental  music  in  liotli  choruses,  which  ^vere 
repeated:— 1  hen  the  j'uksii.knt,  precded  by  the  s.-vral  cmnpauies  of  .Miliiia 
.iH  Artiloryol  tins  town,  the  Musicians,  Selectmen.  Iliuli  Sllerili,  and  Mar- 
shall Jack-son,  passed  tlie  Ministers.  I'hvsicians.  Lawyers,  Mauistrales,  Town- 
ollicers.  Marine  Soci,-ty,  Tradesmen  and  Mannfacturers,' Captains  of  Vessels 
^allors,  S.diool-masiers,  with  their  Scholars,  and  .so  forth,  and  so  lorlh,  who  had 
paraded  and  opene.l  to  tiie  riiiht  and  left  for  that  purposi',  ea.di  of  whom  as  iIh- 
i"UKsn)F..NTpa,ssed  closed  and  joined  in  pro.'cssion,  which  was  t.'rmina'ted  l.y 
about  four  hmube.l  and  twenty  Schohns,  all  with  (^lills  in  their  hands,  headed 
tiyUieirl  receptors  — ■!  heir  motto,  ^Wc  ,ur  the  frc,.-h.,ra  xuhwrls  „f  ihc   Unit,, I 


IIISTOIiV    OF    NinvnURV. 


26 :{ 


I'Vii-il 


Al'icr  llic  |. 


KKSIDKNT  li;ul  iinivi'd  ill  llic 


i'-.|iiv  WHS  lircd  hv  || 


fsoiiif  Kiic-work 


house  |iii'|)aivil    l(ir   li 


S  lllKl  l'\C( 


If  M-vt'liil  i'(iiii|);iiiirs  (il    Alililiii 


'plioii, 


llrni 


])iiiisc  IS  due  to  tlio  i-ili/ciis  ol    \,.u| 


ocki'ts  \vcr<'|i|ii\,.,l  oiro[)|i()si|(.  iIhmcI 


ll     III     Ihl'  CVCIlillir 

Mii.'h 


'llly-1'OII,   lllul   OIIUTS,   lf<SC|lll)l('<l   oil   ll 


n.sH,n.  .or  ,iu.i,- onioiiy  i..h:,vion,Miuo,i;i;  .i;/.  x^ ;;,;:)  :;.;-;:'''''•'' "" "' - 

......^■ru'hi'{"""T"7'l"; '■""'":'"'  '"'"^  •""    '"'•    l'"ilsnio,iil,'V„„l,.r  III,.  s,nu, 

l.iirhl-liois,..  wlio  I'omliicloil  liiia  to  I'orlsiiioulli 

I      M      I  ...Sonoly  ol  ,  us  loWM  ,„o|uiv.l  ;umI  .I,.,.o,„I,..1  ,-,  l,;„i,lso„.,.'|i;n^,' 

""    "."     I>ll|)<)M-ol    .■iUTVIll-  tl.C    .■UKSM.KNT  ii.TOSS    Aloil  i  IMMck    Uiv.T     wllicl.   W-.S 

i-v.oMslys..Mt(..oMn,.ni,l,..ll,yo f  llu- s.,n,.U  ,  o,,|M.si,o  -o  An  ,!:;    ,       t.^,' 

Mlu;  iv  .    w;u.o.l  lus  .rnval.     Tl,..  I!a„v.„u.n  uvr/.  all  d,vss...l  „.  win..;  "  ' 

■^'^lf/l<lr  /l/"/n.//.   ol  Tennillo,  Iho  SaliMo  ol' his  Naliou,  (tin    y-nu'      Z 
"  iiK  11  was  icjicalcd  oil  tins  occasioh.  ' 


'Soon  al'lci  the  i>1!i;sm.k,m's  airi\al 
lollowinir  Aildrcss. 


ill  lliis  louiij   ll,.  was   pivscnicd  wilh   tin- 


'  To  the  PiTsiilnd  of  Ihr  United  Slalrs. 

(•■.lli^'r.o  m.'."i''l'    ''^''h    """"i'l"'"'^  sniiiauos  of   yonr  .■onntivinrn,    vou  wen, 
al    dtoj.oM.I..  ,,yrill,,.n-,,nl.lirnM ils.  ih..  rili/on.-,  of  Ihotowii  of   Wuhii- 

J|j;;;;ji;  -.ndiu.,od    l.y  ,1,0   man,   ,o  uho>,.  wisdom   and  valor  .li,:;-  ouvd   ih,' •, 

-iv.m  ihtMhoiril' l"''  '■'■'l'"'"""^-  "';'!  •"■'  ^^l'".  l'>  tl-  I'l-ssin^  of  Ileavon,  had 
n  •  •  ^  I  ,  oiH.  "  "  ";i"'"'":;'  ^™"l'l  ;'^h'"  .•.■lin.ini.li  .h,.  loii,.iti,.s  of  do  n,.s- 
III   I   UK  iiionl,  lo  Icacli  thciii  its  just  viilm\ 

of  •/  'rilofol'l""'''!  ^■""'  ^V'";''""^-  '"■"^•'-  <'"'  '!'•'''.  h'll"Wod  win,  Iho  applaiiso. 
Huro       ,       i   '■■'  '•■'"■^   ""^'y  "'.'^^-  •-""  y-'h  .■iilwininn.   ,|„.    ()|ivo     v  ,1,  ,1,,, 

jn:^:-;:;';,';::;;;;::;.;:;:;;;!;,:^';-:!;:!- 
l^=,rr;;:;;a;;;,..!-r;i;::'-^^^^^ 


.•\  cainiot  l,o,H.,  S,,-,  lo  exhibit  any  peculiar  marks  ol 


iltaclmient  lo  \iiiir 


u         t l.e'l    '  I      ''  M  ',  1    ■-■  Vr'  ""  •  ^"""""-•"'^.  ^^l'i''l^  ="•',  deeply  impressed 
e,.e     :  =lllll";'ll.'imv...il,/ei,s;   Init.  in   j„sli..e  lo  tll,.„.selves,    ||,ev 

^,'JrT.        :";'■''>''!'''''':.'■' ■''■I'-'   oflherni.ed    Slates,   are   ,|,„se'sen,^ 


enli- 
iii    the  town, 


,        .       ,.  • ,■'■■■..  lii  nil    I, IN    III      11'        ,Ue(      ^  a cs     are 

S  h  "'7!""?."'"  =-'1 -"'■'•-!-.  i.mre  eoidial  and  animated,  than 
^^lll   ll,  ut  this  time,  is  honore.l  with  yom  i.resenee 

urn  ll!'':''n     •''  ''l''>' >■""  '•»iili"no  tlie  oniament  and  support  of  these  States,  and 

'  >  ""■  ,i';'''nd  l,e  late,  ^^l,en   yon  shall  he  ralle.l  to  „. reive  a  rewaid    ade mr 
"•3'""-^Htnes,  wh.eh  I,  IS  „ol  in  the  power  of  yonr  eonn.ry  to  hes.o'v,''  ' 

'■I'-'  'hi-  loie-oin-  .Vddre.s  the  pkhmoknt  wn^  .,lea.ed  to  reply  as  lolhnvs. 

'  To  the  (',t,zr„s  of  liir  loim  of  XcirLi^nj-i,:,, I. 

'(iKViLiiMKN:  'I'lM'denioiislrationsolrn.poci.  ,.,d   alleelion  wliiel,    noii  am 

,,.:,'''•  ""•  "'  ;'  "^""'■''  '""  •■''■^tinguislied  uut  to  claim  tht- wariuc-st  loturi, 
iiuu  yi.UilnUo  eau  make;. 


r>(n 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


'My  oiult^avonrs  to  ho  usofiil  to  my  countiy  luivo  lioi'ti no  more  than  the  result 
ol  coiiscioiis  (Inly.  Uciriuds  lik(^  yours,  would  n'wjird  scr\  u'(!.s  of  tlu!  liiiihcst 
(  stiiiialiouaiul  siuTilico:  Vet.  it  is  diu' to  my  I'ci'liims,  tliat  I  should  tell  voii 
tJioso  rcirnrds  iiro  recoivcd  \\  ith  fstcciu,  ;uid  replied  to  with  sincerity. 

■  In  visitiuiT  the  town  of  .\ewhiuy-|)ort,  I  li;ive  oheyed  a  i'uvorilu  inclinutiou, 
and  (  am  mneh  uralilied  hy  the  induliicnce.  In  expr.ssini;  ii  siiieero  wish  lor 
its  prosperity,  and  the  happiness  of  its  inliabilants,  I  do  justice  to  myowasenti- 
monts  and  their  jnerit. 

0.  ^VASI;I^•t;TON.' 

Pfc^ulciit.  Wiisliiiii;loii  c'iinio  into  town,  over  tlic  river  Pjirlvcr 
bridge.  On  reaching  llit  upper  green,  lie  leCt  liis  ciirriage,  and 
mounted  his  horse.  At  South  .street,  ho  wtis  slopped,  and  the  pre- 
eeding  ode  sung.  Ih^vas  then  eseorled  to  Newburyport,  where 
he  ri'ceived  the  address,  whieh  was  written  by  John  (.iuiiiey  Adams, 
then  a  stiidiMit  at  law,  in  the  oHiee  of  Theopiiiltis  Parsons',  esquire, 
who  iiad  been  appoiiiled  l»y  the  town  oC  i\ewl)inyport  to  j)repare  it. 

'■JWiri't/i/jcr  ili/A.  This  lias  Ijeen  a  day  ol'  iiuu-h  aniiiiiiiion,  lor 
ciirriage.s  and  loot  people  have  been  eoiistantly  passing  to  see  a 
u  hale,  which  some  Jishcnneii  round  at  sea  and   lowed   ti])  to   Old 


town  britlgt 


^     It  was  about  sixty  I'eet  lon<r. 


17  0  0. 

Aeeording  to  tiicr  census  this  year,  N.^vbury  had  live  hundred 
and  ilMrly-eight  houses,  seven  hundred  and  t\veuty-(liiee  lamilies, 
and  three  thousand,  nine  hundred,  and  seventy-two' inhubilanls. 

Acwburyport  had  six  hundred  and  sixteen  houses,  nine  hundred 
mul  thirty-iiiue  lamilies,  and  lour  thousand,  eight  hundred  and  ihir- 
ly-seven  iiihaliitants.  At  this  liiui-,  the  town  (iwned  six  ships,  forty- 
live  bri-;uitines,  thirty-nine  schooners,  and  twenty-eight  sloop's. 
Total,  eleven  thoii-aiid.  el<.di'  hundred  and  seventy  tons! 

^  Jn  this  year,  only  I'l  ir  chai-^rs  were  owned  iu  the  lirst  parish  of 
Newbury,  and  were  in  the  possession  of  the  reverend  .lolui  Tucker, 
Silas  liittle,  es(piire,  Silas  I'earson,  and  deacon  Daniel  Hale. 

Mirr/i  S)flt.  New^buryport  voted  to  build  a  sehooi-hoiise  about 
Ihirty  feel  by  forty.  '  ueir'the  hay  scau>s.' 

April.  .John  Wlieelwright  was  ilrownetl  from  a  vessel  at  the 
\vliarf. 

Slephen  ( "ross  was  this  year  appointed  rolleelor,  .Tonalhan  Til- 
com!)  naval  ollicer,  and  .Aiiehael  llv)dge  surveyor  of  the  port  of 
New  bury[)orl. 

1791. 

Muir/t  22'I.     Newburyport  voted  to  accept  the  following  report. 

'The  commitlei' have  supposed  ii  necessary,:.  ,d  therelon>  report  tliat   three 
'jr  ioiu-  w (/men's  schools  .sliall  he  o[)eueil  in  som,'  rooms  iiircd   lor   the  purpose, 

*  Miss  Alice 'riickcr's  (liiiry. 


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!!r„  ,  ^^  .  "fT""/'"?  r^''^'  °'^°''-  '"  ^"^e--^"'  P^^t^  of  the  town  ;  and  that 
sooie  well  instructed  school  dames  shall  bo  appointed  for  each  to  take  cha"ge 
of  the  younger  classes  of  the  teniale  children,  to  learn  them  good  manners,  ^nd 
foT  hp'  'ir'''!^  S  ^'-^V""'^  'T^ '"  '''''^'  '^"-'"^  ^h-^"'  )«»«'-  how  to  put    hem 

s^'S:irL;sii,?^'%;!i:^.s^'^^ ''  '"^  '-'-^  p^^^-  ^^— - 

The  scholars  were  to  be  between  five  and  nine  years  of  a"e. 

Jinie  1st.  Nathaniel  Carter,  of  Newburvport,  and  eight  ""others, 
petition  ior  liberty  to  build  a  bridge  over  Merrimac  rive?,  at  Deer 
island.     June  thirteenth,  order  of  notice  was  given. 

June  and  July  A  canal,  one  mile  and  a  quarter" long,  to  connect 
two  rivers,  was  dug,  to  promote  inland  navigation  between  New- 
buryport  and  Hampton,  New  Hampshire. 

In   October  of  this  year,  a  bear  was  seen  in   Bradford  woods. 

Ti  1  ,^'u^  "'^'^''  ^^  ^'"'^^^  ^^^-  ^^'^'^t  parish  in  Newbury,  crossed 
ilsley  s  hill,  and  was  killed,  on  sabbath  morning,  by  Amo's  Emery, 
on  Emery's  hill.  •" 

November  4th.  Town  of  Newbury  opposed  building  of  a  bridge 
over  the  Merrimac  river,  at  Deer  island,  and,  on  November  thirtieth, 
reconsidered  that  vote,  and,  on  December  fifteenth,  reconsidered 
their  reconsideration,  and  instructed  their  representative  to  oppose  it. 

l^rom  May  twenty-fifth,  1790,  to  November  nineteenth,  1791,  the 
number  oi  vessels  cleared  from  Newburyporl,  was  one  hundred  and 
seventy-nine. 

In  the  Newburyport  Herald,  of  January  twelfth  of  this  year,  I 
tind  an  account  of  the  establishment  of  Sunday  schools  in  Ph'iladel- 
phta,  by  some  benevolent  persons  in  the  city;  with  this  comment. 
I  ity  their  benevolence  did  not  extend  so  far  a's  to  allbrd  them  tuition 
on  days  when  it  is  lawful  lo  follow  such  pursuits,  and  not  thereby 
lay  a  loundation  for  the  profanation  of  the  sabbath.' 


i  ll 


17  9  2. 

Jatimry  Qth.  Town  of  Newbury  sent  a  long  remonstrant^a  ^o 
the  general  court,  against  the  erection  of  a  bridge  over  xMerrimac 
river.  ^ 

Mayim.  'Newburyport  voted  not  to  have  arithmetic  in  the 
two  extrtMnes  of  the  town,  but  in  the  ceiiln'  grammar  school  only.' 

Jlay  Ibth.  Newburyport  again  voted  to  send  a  petition  to  the 
general  court,  praying  'that  the  town  may  be  reimbursed  the  expen- 
ces  oi  sinking  piers,  building  a  fort,'  and' so  forth. 

i<('ptember  lOt/i.  Town  of  Newburvport  '  voted  not  to  grant  the 
petition  of  Anthony  Mors  and  others  requesting  leave  to  make  use 
ot  the  town  house  for  the  reverend  Charles  W.  Milton  to  preach  in.' 

Mvember  26tfi.  On  this  day.  Essex  Merrimac  bridge  was 
opened  for  the  public.  '  It  consisted  in  fact  of  two  bridges  resting 
on  Deer  island  in  the  mid^t  of  the  river.'  It  was,  when  finished, 
«j4 


266 


HISTORY    OF   NEWDURY. 


one  thousand  and  Ihirly  foct  Ion:?,  Iliirly-foiir  wide ;  lioight  of  arch 
above  liii^l)  water  inark.tliirly-sevcii  (V-ct,  and  contained  hx  thousand 
tons  of  timber.  It  was  buift  in  seven  iiionllis,  under  the  direction 
of  iMr.  Timothy  Palmer,  of  Newburyport,  a  native  of  lioxford. 


1793. 

March.  A  cod  fish  was  sold  in  Newburyport,  weigliing  ninety- 
eight  pounds,  five  feet  and  a  half  in  length,  and  girth  at  the  thicivesl 
place,  three  feet  four  inclies. 

April  1st.     Newburyport '  voted  to  build  a  new  work  house.' 

Ma//  llh.  Newbury  '  voted  that  no  |)erson  be  allowed  to  put  a 
seine,  hedge,  weir,  or  drag  nej  into  the  river  Parker  at  any  season 
for  the  purpose  of  fishing  lor,  or  catcliing  of,  any  bass,  shad  or  ale- 
wives  in  said  river,  and  that  no  p(!rson  catcii  any  of  said  fish  with 
a  dip  net  or  any  other  way  from  December  lirst  to  April  first.' 

Marcli  ISlh.     Reverend  Joim  Murray  died. 

Jnue  lif/i,  1793.  A  meeliug-house  was  this  day  raised,  sixty- 
seven  feet  by  sixty,  in  Temple  street,  lor  a  society  gathered  by  the 
labors  of  the  reverend  Clituies  W.  TUiiion. 

Jii///  4fJt.  '  This  davV  says  tlie  Essex  Journal,  '  Timothy  Dexter 
delivered  an  oration  at  Essex  Merrimac  bridge,  whic-h  for  elegance 
of  style,  propriety  of  speech,  and  force  of  arguau'Ut,  was'  Uuly 
Ciceronian.' ! ! 

Jii///  (U/i.  The  town  of  I|)swich  was  visited  by  a  severe  hail 
storm,  which  broke,  in  a  few  moments,  four  tliousand,  nine  hundred 
and  forty-six  panes  of  glass.  IMany  of  the  stones  were  as  large  as 
hens'  eggs. 

October  ISth.  Captain  Timothy  Newman,  of  Boston,  son  of 
doctor  Jolm  Newman,  of  Newburyjjort,  was  taken  by  an  Algerine 
corsair,  chained,  handculfcd,  and  allowed  nothing  but  i)read  and 
w^ater. 

In  December,  doctor  William  B.  Leonard  offers  his  services,  as 
a  physician,  to  the  good  people  of  Newliiu-yport.  He  states,  that 
he  has  been  a  physician  tliirty-live  years,  and  that  'a  kind  Providence 
has  enabled  him  to  spring  out  of  the  iron  cliains  of  tyranny,  horror, 
devastation  and  murder  to  the  onlysunnnil  of  liberty  under  the  sun 
and  where  the  diadem  of  a  despot  was  hurled  down  to  llie  bottom- 
less abyss.' ! ! 

This  year,  a  hospital  was  built,  in  common  pasture,  by  Newbury- 
port, in  which  the  inhabitants  were  admitted,  by  classes^  in  order  to 
be  inoculated  for  the  smdl  pox,  under  the  ceire  of  doctor  Charles 
Coffin,  junior. 

Aug-ust  Itli.  Newburyport  'voted  unanimously  that  in  the  opin- 
ion of  this  town  the  neutrality  of  the  United  States  during  the  war 
now  waged  by  the  several  beliitr(.rcnt  powers  in  Europe  is  consistent 
with  the  honor  and  good  faith  of  our  government,  and  not  repug- 
nant to  any  of  the  treaties  now  existing  belweeu  the  United  States 
and  any  of  those  powers.' 


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267 


h 


1794. 


Febrmn/  19///.     Town  voted  to  sot  olT  iho  throe  north  wostorlv 
pnnshos  n.to  a  sopan.to  town,  by  thon.solvos,  and  to  clZ  A  S 

enth  voter  to  clu.os,.  a  coinnutt..o,  to  petition  tlie  ^nu^ml  court  to 
:m;e;;^hty 'o  f;:i  "•^^■^  ^^^•^"•^■""^^'  ---i^-^d^t,  one  hunleS 
la  June  of  jhi.  year,  the  first  incorporated  woolen  faetorv  in 
Massachuset  s,  was  erected,  at  the  falls  ol' the  river  Parker,  in7ew" 
biny.  1  l,c  machinery  was  made  in  Newburyport,  by  Messrs  Stan- 
drm£r,  Armstrong',  a,Hi  (uippy.  -^     '    .^  ^^^'•^^^J^s.  »tan- 

,,h,Y';?'  ''7  ''"'""r-     '^'l'<'  'l^'-ooks  did  not  bof^in  to  fill  up  till  Oc- 

effm'"  IW  .  f\7.'""'>'P"''^  'unanimously  past  a  resolution  to  this 
nn  1    ;  :,  ,"■  "'"'"""  ""'  ^^"'''="-go  o"«lit   to  be  continued, 

reql.;;;":'  ""'  ^'  "''^'"  '^'  ^^^  '^^^  ^^  •'-  l-'^^-  --g^^n^^les 

M'j  19///.     Eipht  persons,  beloni^ino-  to  the  third  parish  of  New- 
buy,  now  s<>cond  in  W  est  Xewbtuy,  were  drowned  while  crossing 

w  o^^n  Iwil'"  "iT  V:7  -"■'-^^-ro,  Ed.nund  Kendri^ 
7  I  u      '""'''"•''''  <-l"ldren,  Sarah    Brown,   Mercy  Pilsbury 

M  he  .  bel  Brown,  Aa  ,  by  Hale,  Polly,  liH.ecca,  a'nd  JosLa  C  Is^! 
Ihe  la.st  lour  were  children  of  Joshua  Chase.  Six  of  them  were 
c^uned  to  the  .rave  in  on."  procession.  A  sermon  was  p  'ached  on 
the  occasion,  by  the  reverend  David  Toppan.  ' 

^rpfnnhcr  im.     Newburyport  passed  two  by-laws,  the  one  to 
prohibit  anypnrson  (rom  smoking.  anV  pipe  or'ci^nir  in  any  sireeV 
lane,  or  alley,  un,  er  a  penally  of  two  sliillin^^s  for  every  oll^Le  the 
other  inllu.  in,,,  a  like  penalty  on  the  owner  of  <  every  duck  or  ^oo^e 
gander  or  drake  found  in  Fro£r  pond.'  ^        ' 

This  year,  lh.>  foiirih  religious  society  in  Nonvburyport,  was  incor- 

Ert-n,  ,"■;"'"'"'  "•"'  ^■^'^^^  i'-lividuals,  who^reparated "Z 
the  fn.sf  pr,  sbyt.'nan  socie.y,  i„  order  to  attend  the  m  ni^try  of  the 
reverend  (  harles  W.  Milton,  who  had  been  invited  to  v  it  'Xewiu! 
rypor  by  the  reverend  John  Murray,  pastor  of  the  first  presbv-terian 
church,  as  the  following  letter  and  extract  will  show.       P''^"^'"''^" 

(T,  ,    •       ,  '  ^^ewbunipurt.  April  I2th,  1189. 

tl  e"    i  iiinl  i>ra,so..  „f  many  to  Hi.n  with  u-hom  the  residne  of 

the  siiint   >      hutli  tlu's,.  tlnn-s  iKivo  con.pire.l   to  iiuluco  me  to\vi<h    i  vi.^ 

a    e,-yaar...Mbk.  prosenl  ol  hook,  from  yourself,   'in  reply  t      u  (I  Zr    p  e  sed 


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With  my  poople,  while  I  pursue  a  joumev  intpndpd  (D.  V.)  at  that  time  Mv 
hopesvvere  sans,'uint.  that  captain  Luvclt' would  have  biou;,'ht  you  with  hiin  thi; 
Jast  trip,  but  ho  ih  r.-lunipd  without  von,  nud  without  anv  news  of  yon  or  my 
Jriend.  I  am  Iho  more  alllicted  witli  llio  disnppoinlrnciit  ■I-ccim-o  it  has  ph^asfd 
Ood  to  awakon  a  numbn  in  my  c-on-rrctralion  and  aiioihcr  in  this  town,  besides 
sundry  phu-os  in  tho  vicinity.  In  this  slato  of  lhiiii,M  who  can  tell  what  mi<dit 
bo  the  consequence  if  you  .should  b(3  moved  of  tho  Jloly  (ihost  to  come  ovor 
arid  help  us  ?  I  Hincorely  lonir  for  that  priviieire,  and  if  your  other  eii"a"ements 
Will  permit  it  I  should  be  very  happy  to  receive  yon  fmrn  enpt.iin  LovelRs  hands 
when  he  returns. 

'  Althontrh  I  have  dated  my  letter  at  Newbnrvport  I  am  now  writin'--  at  Ame.v 
bury,  snatchini,'  an  opportunity  of  sendinir  it  onboard  by  an  unexpected  chance 
lest  the  vesMd  should  be  gone  before  I  n;et  hom(3 :  this  prevents  my  sendui-r 
you  three  poor  sermons  of  mine  which  I  lately  printed.  ^ 

'  Plea<.e  to  make  my  kind  .salutations  to  doctor  Calef  and  his  lady.     Tell  him 
had  I  been  at  home,  my  di.sappointment  should  not  have  prevented  mv  wrilui'' 
to  him.  •^  = 

'May  the  presence  of  Him,  who  dwelt  in  the  bush  be  ever  with  you.     I  am 
with  genuine  feelings  of  fraternal  love  and  esteem,  reverend  sir 
Your  unworthy  fellow  servant  in  the  dear  Immanuel,   ' 

John  Murray.' 

In  another  letter,  dated  July  tvventy-eighlh,  1791,  Mr.  :^Iurrav 
thus  writes:  ^ 

'From  your  principles,  connections,  and  character,  many  of  my  people,  as 
early  as  they  Ivnrd  of  your  coming  to  St.  Johns  began  to  long  for  a  personal 
acquaintance  with  you. 

'  My  own  hearty  concurrence  with  their  desires,  induced  me  once  to  trouble 
you  with  a  letter,  requestin?  a  visit  from  vou.  Since  that  request  was  known 
my  people  have  cherished  expectations  of  seeing  you  hero.  After  these  had 
been  so  long  frustrated,  it  sa\e  them  and  me  very  sensible  pleasure  to  find  the 
Lenlinel  announce  your  arrival  in  Boston  last  week.  Since  that  time  we  have 
not  been  without  hopes  of  your  giving  us  an  earlier  opportunity  of  biddino'  you 
welcome  to  ^ewburyport  a.s  well  as  to  New  England.'  ° 

In  consequence  of  these  invitations,  Mr.  Milton  came  to  Newbu- 
ryport,  preached  for  Mr.  Murray,  and  was  invited  to  settle  in  Ames- 
bury,  but  his  friends,  unwilling  to  lose  his  ministrations,  determined 
to  settle  and  support  him. 

October  6t/i.  Newburyport  voted  to  have  four  conduits,  '  in  case 
of  fire  and  to  have  a  town  watch  to  consist  of  four  men  for  the  first 
six  months,  and  two  men  for  the  remainder  of  the  year.' 

Newbury  and  Newburyport  were  this  year  surveyed,  and  maps 
were  taken,  which  were  deposited  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of 
state.  -' 

November  Qfh.  An  organ  was  put  up  in  first  congregational 
church  in  Newburyport. 

November  IWu  ^  Reverend  Daniel  Dana  was  ordained  pastor  of 
the  first  presbyterian  church  and  congregation  in  Newburyport. 
This  caused  a  secession  of  a  considerable  number  of  persons,  who 
formed  the  second  presbyterian  church  in  Newburyport. 


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17  9  5. 

il/Tr//  10//,.  Town  .,>ted,  ll,,U  il,..  inhabitants  of  Xt-wburv  l.-ivo 
.borty  to  alt.nc   pnMin  worship  wh.re  tlu-y  rho.,so,  nnd  b     /x  '  r,,' 

In  .Inly  or  ibis  yon  ti„.  rovortMul  Join,  Bo.Jdily  ca.nn  to  Ntnvlni- 
vporN  and  wns  .n.tuUcd  pa.,or  of  ,bo  secon,!  .ro.bv  .orian  c  .  eh, 
nl7U7,     llevaa  bum   m   Bristol,   EnHaud,    Vorif  l\v.  ilili     H^i 

eU(hU.     i7.S0,     |„.me    he  went  to  Wal.al,  thenc   to  Wallin-lord 
whero  lu- proach.-d  till  nna     o.    -ptomber  ninctn.mh,   18)0     „! 

This  snmmn-was   roniarkably  moist.     '  Throughout  ten  weeks 

cotrum-ncn^  Iron.  ,1.    middle  of  June,  it  rained  dtnin^r  a  ."e  ,er  «; 

I?:        I  '"^'f  ^ '^  t^vs.     The   peas  in   th.   pod   gn.ninated  sLk 

iche.,;n    I  several  other  seeds  proportionally,  and  more  rain  fell 

unng  th.    .eason  than  had  been  kiunvn    for  '.I         .„.„,,:„„      .l*^'' 


reeeding  eighty 


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..--,...    ,...,>.,„.  wiiKi    xius   |a-opornonaiiv 

clunng  tli<   reason  than  had  been  known   for 't 
years."  ^ 

M>j2ii      Newbnryport  'voted   unanimously  the  thanks  oi'  the 

own  be  g.ven  to  .Air.  Timothy  Dexter  for  the  generons  o  1   •  t  I  as 

this  day  made  to  the  town  of  building  a  mark.M  at  his  own  ,.x„en'e  ' 

in  tins  year,  the  seeond   presbyterian  soeiely  was   former!    bv   'i 

Novcihrr  2G///.  This  day,  the  bridge  ereeted  at  '  Holt's  rocks' 
betwecm  ^t=wbury  and  Haverhill,  and  which  is  called  the  'RocL-'s 
hndge,'  was  opened  lor  travelers.  It  was  one  thou.anri  feet  n 
length,  and  was  the  longest  l)ridge  over  the  Merrimac.  It  had  four 
arches,  a  draw,  and  was  supported  by  five  piers  and  two  abutme n  « 
It  was  swept  away  by  the  ice,  in  1S18. 


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'  Pleasant  street'  as  laid  out  by  the  selectmen  '   a 


_„  1  ,  Tji  --..-... ^1 — .,  .w.^   ,w  cn.xt-|ji  oi  'Harris  street' 

and  Pleasant  street' as  laid  out  by  the  selectmen,'  and,  on  April 
fourth,  '  voted  to  accept  of  '  Broad  street '  and  '  Essex  slreet '  and  to 
build  a  brick  school  hous(>  at  the  southerly  end  of  the  mall' 

Mrnj.  In  the  Newburyport  Herald  of  this  month,  appears  the 
confession  and  acknowl.>dgment  of  one  Solomon  Tde,  who  asks 
pardon  l,,r  his  imposition,  having  pretended,  during  a  part  of  his 
lourleen  years'  absence  from  hotne,  that  he  was  JohTi  Pil^,  ,1,"  son 
o  Jc,hn  and  Martha  Pike,  of  Newburyport,  and  had  called  himself 
oy  tliat  name.  His  intended  imposition,  and  the  discovery  of  the 
whole  plot,  by  the  late  John  Mycall,  esquire,  wouJd  furnish  ample 

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He  was  a  native  of  Epping, 


materials  for  an  interesting  pamphlet. 
New  Hampshire. 

In  June  of  this  year,  the  yellow  fever  commenced  its  ravages  in 
^p^'hi:::^  '•^^"^"^  ^^^^  '^^^  ^"^^  '^^  ^^'^  ^^  Octoberffor." 

December  22d.     Second  presbyterian  church  dedicated.      The 


1797. 

Ma//  Slh      Beck  street  and  Ship  street  accepted  by  Ncwburvport 

Or  nh  T  Ku'  ?"   ^^'P^'^^bcr  twenty-first,   Spring  street,  andfon 
October  twelfth,  Lime  street.  ^         '      i      &  >  ""i^,  uu 

Ma//  m.     A  large  house  on  Carr's  island  was  destroyed  by  fire. 

taken  bvVFrerf"  ^T''  f  ^''^  ^^^''^'  ^^  Newburyportf  was 
taken  by  a  French  privateer,  who  took  out  all  the  crew,  cKcept  the 
captain  and  two  men,  and  ordered  her  to  a  French  port  They  re- 
took the  vessel,  and  arrived  safe  in  Boston,  July  eleventh        ^ 

from  S:fott  '^{-  ^''"^"';  ''"^^^'  ^^-d'tweni;.three  was  thrown 
Irom  his  horse  and  so  severely  wounded,  by  a  sythe  which  h  >  was 
carrying,   hat  he  survived  the  accident  but  twentV-four  hours 

November  Si/t.  The  dwelling  house  of  Mr.  Moses  Savery  who 
was  out  ol  town,  was  destroyed  by  fire,  about  one  o'clock  afngKh 
ctsumeiTntKmr'   '^^"^^^  Bailey  and  _  Currier,  w^l' 

destySXfire.    ^'^  ""'''  ^"'  ^^^^  ™"^  ^'  ^^^  ^^^d'  -- 

1798. 

'  From  November  tv^^nty-eighth  1797  till  March  twenty-ninth   of 
this  year,  the  river  Mernmac  was  frozen  over  above  Amesbury  ferry.' 

In  January,  John  Foss,  who  had  been  taken  by  the  Algerines,fn 
he  Polly,  commanded  by  captain  Michael  Smith,  in  1^793   pub" 
hshed  an  interesting  narrative  of  his  captivity.  ^ 

April  mh.  Newburyport,  by  their  appointed  committee,  ad- 
dressed a  comphmentary  letter  to  president  Adams,  'pledgng  their 
lives  and  fortunes  to  support  the  measures  judged  necessary  by  the 
president  and  congress,  to  preserve  and  secure  the  happi/es/   he 

^S^fv  Ll^"""^!f^  ^"'•^^^^^•^  °f  ^he  United   Stat^e^     a  d  so 
forth,  to  which  the  president  made  an  appropriate  reply,  M^y  eighth 
On  June  first,  a  number  of  the  inbabimnts  of  Newburyport^  ad- 

c';rmti!:^Th::;'^^'^"^^^'^^^^ 

'Sir,  a  number  of  the  inhabitants  of  this  town  have  agreed  to  build 
and  equip  a  ship  of  three  hundred  and  fifty-five  tons  burthen  to  be 
mounted  with  twenty  six  pound  cannon,  and  to  offer  to  The  intern- 
ment of  the  United  States  for  iheir  use,'  and  so  forth,  and  so  S. 


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^.r^.^'^IK'  u'""^'  accepted,  the  keel  laid  July  ninth,  and,  on  Octo- 
ber  t,vel  ,h,  she  was  launched,  having  been  comple  ed  i^TevenW- 

Moses  Brown.     She  was  called  the   Merrimac,  and   havin-  'run 

tz^in;^^  '^  '■''  --^--'  -^--  --  ^ 

din    d^l  T  ^     ■'  f  ^f '  '''^'''  ^"-'"^  ^«  P^""^  ^«I^"d  on  the  prece- 

bv  reaso^n  nrth7      T"^  T'l  f^'  "^^  ^°  ^'''  ^""^^  ^^'^  their  boat 
by  reason  of  the  wind  and  coldness  of  the  night,  made  an  attemnt 

LisTn'in r'  '^'  ^"V^'  'r  '^""^^  ^^^'"'-^^  ^^'^"^   "^e   cold,  died'^t^ 
house." I  ^™''  ^'""'"'S  ^"'  "^^'^"^  h^^  ^  ^"^^  ^f  his  own 

1799. 

December  Uth.     George  Washington  died. 


lil 


1800. 

wa'^foZlfn  mST^^^  '^  P'''^,°"'  arrangements,  a  procession 
wa.  loimed  m  Market  square,  and  moved  thence,  through  State 

of  Rol^Prt  'iLn    P         ,    "  '   ,  •  .    '  '''''°  afterward  took  the  name 
a'iSltl/"'"'  '""^'  ^■^"^'^"'^^'  ^^  '^  -^P--^d  ^^' '  «f  having 

collr^s'of  r  'i;-"''^"  "^""^  ''''''?  ^"^  ^"  '^"^'"'^««  suspended.  The 
colors  of  the  shippmg  were  at  half  mast,  and  minute  guns  were 
fired  durmg  the  march  of  the  procession  to  the  meetEome 
Avhich  was  crowded  with  an  attentive  audience.  '^""^"'S-ho"^^. 
f^bruary  22d  IJis  day  was  observed,  according  to  a  previous 
vote  by  the  parish  of  Byfield,  in  commernoration  of  the  deJi  of 

oTallllrf nT'so^fJ^h.""^"^"  "^  '''  '-''  ^-  '^-  ^"  ^^^  -^^  an 

1^'"^  o??"    JSf  ashington  street  was  laid  out. 

Ma,,^  ^2d.  The  corner  stone  of  saint  Paul's  church  was  laid  with 
meT,r'  T™°"""  u  ^"^'''•"^^'h  it,  were  deposited  a  varktVof 
medals  and  corns,  with  a  plate,  engraven  in  Hebrew  and  mason?p 
characters  and  another,  with  this  inscription:  '  tin  corn" r  sToneTf 
saint  Paul's  church  (founded  A.  D.  173S)  was  aW  bv  the  rtht 
reverend  brother  Edward  Bass,  D.  D.  bishop  of  A  a  sac7u  etts  a1.d 

^.  "^f 'er,  the  D.  G.  master,  the  grand  wardens  and  brethren  of  the 
&.  lodge  of  Massachusetts,  on   the  feast  of  the  holy  a  cension  in 

Vhir  "^  ^Z'^^^^?^^  ^"^  °f  ^he  United  Stated  XXIV.' 
This  year,  Mi-.  Timothy  Palmer  was  chosen  surveyor  of  the  high- 


♦  Cushing's  history  of  Newburyport. 


t  Davis's  journal. 


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HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


ways,  in  Newburyport.     Under  his  skillful  supervision,  the  roads 
and  lanes  of  ihe  town  assumed  a  new  and  greatly  improved  appear- 
ance.     1  he  hrst  nnprovement  of  any  note,  was  in  High  street,  near 
-t-rog  pond,      lime  was,  when  at  the  lower  end  of  the  mall,  as  it 
now  stands,  there  was  an  eminence,  on  which  a  windmill  was  erect- 
ed, in  1703,  and  remained  till  1771.      Afterward,  on  the  margin 
ot  the  pond,  stood  Crocker's  rope  walk,  and,  at  the  upper  end,  a  pot- 
ash manufactory.     At  the  head  of  Green  street,  there  were  the  old 
gun  house,  and  a  ravine  or  gully,  one  hundred  and  eighty  feet  in 
length,  and  fitieen  feet  deep  in  the  deepest  place.    The  other  incum- 
brances having  been  successively  removed,  captain  Edmund  Bartlet 
began,  on  June  twenty-sixth,  to  fill  up  the  gully,  and  in  August,  the 
mall  as  it  now  stands  was  completed,  at  an  expense  of  about  eigh- 
teen hundred  dollars,  of  which  fourteen  hundred  were  generously 
given   by  captain  Bartlet.     For  this  munificence,  he  received  the 
thanks  of  the  town,  and  the  mall  is  called  '  Bartlet  mall.'     On  July 
tenth,  Newburyport  voted  to  purchase  the  ground  on  which  then 
sfooci  (he  hrst  parish  meeting-house.    This  was  efiected  at  an  expense 
ol  eight  t  lou-and  dollars,  of  which  the  town  paid  four  thousand  and 
iour  hundred.     The  remaining  three  thousand  and  six  hundred  dol- 
lars was  collected  by  voluntary  contributions,  and  by  an  assessment 
on  the  owners  of  the  land  near  the  meeting-house.     The  land  thus 
purchased,  received  the  name  of  Market  square. 


1801. 

Ma?/.  A  bell  was  given  to  the  second  presbyterian  church  in 
iNewbnryport,  by  Timothy  Dexter. 

Sfptemher  27f,h.       On   this   day,   the   reverend   Thomas    Gary 

preached  for  the  last  time  in  the  meeting-house  in  Market  square. 

Ihe  next  day,  the  building  was  demolished,  a  well  dug  through 

the  solid  rock,  and  the  town  pump  erected,  near  ihe  spot  where  the 

pulpit  formerly  stood. 

October.  The  new  meeting-house,  erected  in  Pleasant  street, 
lor  the  use  of  the  first  church  and  society,  was  this  day  dedicated, 
bermon  by  the  reverend  John  Andrews." 


1802. 

January  2Ath.  'This  day,'  says  the  historian  of  Havtrhill,  'the 
weather  was  so  warm  that  the  ice  in  the  Merrimac  moved  with  the 
tide,  and  there  was  but  little  snow  till  February  twenty-second.' 
±<rom  this  day,  for  nearly  a  week,  an  unusual  quantity  of  snow  and 
hail  fell,  so  that,  in  the  opinion  of  do-tor  Dwight,  had  it  been  as 
light  as  the  snow  in  1717,  which  was  six  feet  deep,  the  snow  would 
have  been  eight  feet  deep.  So  hard  was  the  crust,  that  loaded 
sleighs  passed  any  where  over  the  fences.     The  honorable  Bailey 


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273 


Bartlct,  Ichabod  Tucker,  and  some  others,  rode  to  Ipswich  over  the 
fences  in  a  large  double  sltMgli.  ■•i^^'Wicn  over  me 

Maij  nth.  Town  of  Newljury  'voted  unanimonslv  ihnt  thp 
erection  of  a  bridge  across  Mcrri.nao  river  from  sSiL  t^  n^^^^ 
par  of  Newbury  will  not  be  beneficial  to  the  public  at  3e,  but  J 

Sgolligt^^N^r  ^'^^^^^^  '-''''-  ""^"^ 

uicn  n  ])ie&eniaiives  accorcnn<'ly 

oJ^'ut;;,!""'*'- •'"''"'-'-«' ""-l  Spri„g,ttee.,vorel„id 

t<,'i,l,:mbcr  22rl.     There  was  a  violent  lornado,  tl,e  wind  blowino- 
fron,  „mh  ,vest  lo  north  easl,  in  a  vein  of  about  eirf  ty  ro  r^'i  ],? 

aw,,.,;  1-M.     Neu-bnry  voted  lo  lay  out  a  four  rod  wav,  from 

JMernmac  Humane  Society  was  insUtutcd  this  year. 


1  803. 

mf'  m;-1  ^''''^'  ^"''  ^"'f  ^^  ^"^"^^^  '■»  Newburyport. 
buryport.  ^  ^^"^  co^'Hnenced  runaing  from  Haverhill  to  New- 

A'...,/,.>-  31 ./.  The  shipping  of  Newburyport  consisted,  at  this 
teTn 'slooi;"."     "'■''         ''''"  '"'"'  ^'"^•^.^■^--  -hoo"-,  and  ^" 

yl/(ir^^./  2-Sd.  On  this  day,  the  directors  of  the  Newburvnort 
turnjnke  commenced  operations.  The  number  of  shares  wasS 
hundred  and  nmety-five,  which,  at  nearly  four  hundred  andTwemy 
dolasashare,  amounted  to  more  than^our  hr.ndred  and  sS 
tec;n  thousand  uollars.     It  was  completed  in  1806 

l^emale  Charitable  Society  was  instituted  June  eighth. 


•   1! 


«^I 


9'    h 


1  S  0  4  . 

Orfohcr  2(L  Newburyport  'voted  unanimously  that  the  town 
Will  concur  with  the  honorable  court  of  sessions  in\,lao  ng  a  new 
Sn^C^^^st!:^;:,  '''--^'  ^-^  i-''^  -^^^  ^'^^  -^irchrJSJ 

October  iOt/i.     Tl.er.^  was  a  severe  storm.     Nearly  one  hundred 

compal."'       """  ''""'•      '^''^"-'y---  f-"J  ^'old  in  a  sS 
3;", 


i#d 


274 


HISTORY   OF   NPJV/nUIlY. 


If 


18  0  5. 

In  this  y<-ar,  the  new  rourt  lioiise  was  eroded. 
Ma/j.     Newbury  a])propriutecl  two  hundred  dollars,  to  build  two 
engine  houses. 

Aiiii-iisL     Charter  street  laid  out  and  aeeepled. 
Tliis  summer  there  was  a  severe  drought. 

Plum  island  turnpike,  and  the  bridge  over  Plum  island  river,  were 
made  ihi.s  year. 

_  In  No\'ember,  tliere  belong<>d  to  Newburvpovt  ibrty-one  ships, 
sixty-two  l)rigs,  two  snows,  two  barcpies,  and  sixty-six  schooners, 
besides  sloops. 

1806. 

3Ioi/  4th.  On  this  day,  the  reverend  John  S.  Popkin  preached 
lor  the  last  time  in  the  old  mecling-house  in  the  first  parish,  New- 
bury.    It  was  lorn  down  May  sixth. 

June  mil,  the  day  of  the  total  eclipse  of  the  sun,  the  sills  of  the 
new  meeling-house  were  laid,  and,  on  September  seventeenth,  the 
new  house  was  dedicat(>d. 

This  sununer  tluu-e  was  a  sevcnv  drought. 

The  amount  of  toniiaire  in  the  shinouiir  of  Massachusetts,  this 


'fS'- 


-^    sinppmg  ...  . ....,.....,>....,,  „„^ 

year,  was  ionv  hundreil  and  filly  lliousaiid  and  sixty-one  tons,  of 
which,  thirty-one  thousand,  nine  hundred,  and  forty-one  tons,  was 
owned  in  Newburyport. 

1807. 

September  21s/.  Newburyport '  voted  that  the  generous  donation 
made  to  the  town  by  the  late  I\Ir.  Timotliy  Dexter  of  two  thousand 
dollars,  the  interest  of  which  he  directed  llie  overseers  of  the  poor 
annually  to  distribute  to  such  of  the  poor  of  the  town,  as  are  the 
most  necessitous,  avIio  arc  not  in  the  work  lious(>,  is  an  act  of  benev- 
olence, which  the  town  accept,  and  acknowledge  with  latitude 
and  thankfulness.'  ^ 

November  9lh.  Newburyport  purchased  the  county's  interest  in 
the  court  house,  for  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

December  22d.  Congress  passed  an  act  of  enil)argo,  by  which 
all  the  jwrts  of  the  United  Stales  were  closed  against' the  clearance 
ol  all  vessels.  Whatever  may  have  been  said  Or  thought  of  the 
propriety  or  impropriety  of  this  act  of  the  general  gov(>rnment.  it  is 
certain  that  the  enforc(>ment  of  the  law  occarHoiied  great  sntlering 
everywhere,  but  particularly  in  commercial  places.''  'Thousands 
of  seamen  were  thrown  out  of  emplovmeiit  and  llie  har])ors  of  our 
sea-ports  were  filled  wilh  dismantled  vess(;ls.'  In  the  language  of 
Fairfield,  '  the  grass-grown  wharves  were  beaten  with  their  decaying 
hulks,  and  the  timid  land-bird  rested  on  their  rotting  shrouds.'  The 
people  of  Newburyport  were  great  sulli'rers  by  this  measure,'  which 


HISTORY    OP   NEWBURY. 


275 


met,  boil,  in  Newbury  a.ul  Ncwburyport,  with  ^cat  opposition  i 
large  n,ajor,ty  in  both  towiis  being  <^',pos'ed  to  l^u,  00^  ^^ 
genm.l  government.  Th,.  vofes  in  Ne wbnry  were  1I  h  vcw  h  00 
mndro.  and  bl,y-bv,.  (or  C^aleb  Strong,  and  lor  Jam  .S.X^^^n  one 
hundred  and  seventyone,  and  in  Newburyporf,  five  Imndred  -md 
ninety-two  to  two  hundred  and  iifty-one.  imnthtU  and 

1808. 

fZ  07/t     V  ff ''  ;7-'i"5?-l'onse  in  Ncwburyport  was  dedicated. 

Jnnc  ,////      \  olent  tornado,  wineh  did  great  dama.^e. 

An^ust  -Id      The  town  of  Newi>ury  rnet^  and,  o.r  Auoust  ninth 
town  ol  Newburyport  n.et,  to  lake  into  consideration"    he     is! 
he  .smg  situation  ol  our  c-ountry  occasioned  by  1Ih>  g,.K  ral  emlnr- 
go,'  and  so  forth.     Each  of  the  towns  n.Kuiimously  Vo  e     to     end 
a  petition  to  the  pres  dent  of  the  United  States,  which  was  done 

^?  i::sS;zr^^  '^  ^^-^  ^^ ''-  ^^-^  --^^'  ^-  -  toots 

MfxvT"'  ?f  ^';     V''.  ^"'^°^'"^-  institution  was  this  day  op(>ned 
lis   Mr  Mos?."Er  '''";"^"  !"'"'""^^  Sivcn  twenty  thou  Jan  S  dS 

tui  tlous.uKl  dollars,  as  a  capital  (und.     The  two  former  were  of 
Newbuiyport,  the  latter  of  8alem.  ^^ 


1809. 

Janmtn/  13//,.     Town  of  Ncwburyport  had  a  mcetincr  and   after 

iJii.  „<  iiii.u  couu  res  peeling  the  ombargo,  nnd  oilier  millers  On 
Jaimary  hvciily.lliird,  ll,,-  l.nvi,  of  X.n?l,  iry  loo  l"  "™e  courao 
Willi  rosolvos  1111,1  „  memorial  of  liko  loiii,    Tl  '  o  K^dve"  aTd 

woliif  iiofifiEi'r.i':"^" '"'  """"='""■"• """  -  "•^''-™'-" 

D.?.:r'"on  /   '  tr'  ^'•''■"  ''""'^"'  Ncwburyport  was  torn  down. 

nrcMur  M/,      Merrin.ac  Bible  Society  was  instituted. 

This  year  the  baptist  meeting-house  was  built,  in  Liberty  street. 


The 


1810. 

Sepirmbrr  14///.     There  was  another  tornado  in  the  Avesterly  part 
bam,  and  did  much  damage  in  Mr.  Joseph  Newell's  Ayood  iot    ^ 


»u^ 


m 


276 


HISTORY    OF   NEWDURY. 


Novemhrr  dth.  •  In  the  evening,  ihero  was  a  severe  shock  of  an 
carth(|uake. 

In  tliis  year,  lliere  were  bnilt  on  llit;  IVFerriinae  river,  twenty-one 
ships,  Ihirleen  brigs,  one  schooner,  and  seven  otliers,  tlie  total  ton- 
nage of  which,  was  above  twelve  tiionsand  tons.^ 

Newbmyport  Athen.i'nni  was  incorporated,  and  the  town  hall 
bnill.  The  Essex  Merriinac  bridge  was  rehuill  this  year  by  a  Mr. 
Teniplenian.     It  was  the  first  chain  bridge  in  New  England. 


1811. 

Fehnmry  2(1  A  great  snow  storm  commenced,  and  continued 
three  days.  It  was  piled  vip  in  reefs,  jji  some  jjlaces  more  than  tif- 
teen  fee!.f 

Fvbruarij.  First  Baptist  Society  in  Newbury  and  Newburyport 
was  incorporated. 

Mill/  2ist.  Friday.  On  this  evening,  about  half  past  nine 
o'clock,  conunenced  one  of  the  most  disastrous  fires,  with  which 
Newburyport,  or  perhaps  any  town  in  the  state,  was  (^ver  visit(>d. 
From  a  pamphlet,  dated  Newburyport,  June  fifth,  1811,  I  make  the 
fallowing  extract. 

'DREADFUL  FIRE! 

'  On  Friday  eveniiiif  last,  at  liiilf  past  nine  o'clock,  the  oitizons  of  this  town 
were  alarmed  with  the  cry  of  iu(!,  whicli  proved  to  liave  taken  elieet  at  the 
phice  where  they  liiive  .so  repeatedly  been  snmrnoiied  in  the  course  of  the 
present  season  on  a  similar  occasion  :  'and  wliere  it  has  for  some  lime  past  hv.vn 
anxiously  feared  some  vile  incendiary  intended  to  accomplish  the  purpose 
which  is  now  ellected.  The  lire  commenced  in  an  unimproved  stable  in 
Mechanic  row,  own(;d  by  David  Lawrence,  which  at  th(>  moment  when  the  lire 
was  discovered  was  found  to  be  completelv  envelo])ed  in  ilames.  It  soon 
extemled  to  the  market  and  to  State  street,  aiid  spread  in  such  various  direc- 
tions as  to  bailie  all  exertions  to  subdur-  it.  In  a  few  liours.  it  prostrated  every 
buildinir  on  the  north  side  of  Cornhill,  and  bolti  sides  of  Stale  street  frorn 
Coruhill  to  the  market ;  it  then  proceeded  into  j^ssi-x  .street,  on  the  north  east 
side,  to  the  house  of  captain  .lauu's  KellJe.  wWk  it  was  checked into  Mid- 
dle .street  as  far  as  Fair  street  on  the  north-east  side  and  within  a  few  rods 
thereof  on  the  sonth-we.'-t  side  — into  Liberty  stieet  wilhin  one  house  of  Inde- 
pendent street,  and  down  Water  street  as  far  as  Hudson's  wliarf,  sweepiu"  olF 
every  buildiuir  within  that  circle.  The  whole  of  Centre  street  was  laid  in 
ashes,  and  the  whole  range  of  buildinirs  in  Merchant's  row  on  the  Ferrywharf 
also  all  the  stores  on  the  several  wharves  between  the  inaiket  and  IMarijuand'.s 
wharl,  mchiding  the  latter:  thus  clearing  a  lar-je  tract  of  land  of  sixteen  and  a 
half  acres  in  a  part  of  the  town  the  most  compact,  and  coulainiu'r  a  much 
larirer  proportion  of  the  wealth  of  the  town  than  any  oIIhm-  part. 

'It  is  estimated  that  nearly  two  liundred  and  iifty  buildiniis  were  burnt.  mo.st 
of  which  were  stores  and  dwelling-houses  ;  in  which  nundier  nearly  all  tlie 
dry  aoods  stores  in  town  are  included  :  four  ])rintiuir  oflices,  beim,'  the  whole 
number  in  town  :  and  inchidin:,Mhe  Newbnrv]'ort  Jlerald  ollice  fthe  cn.slom 
house  :  the  surveyor's  oliice  :  the  po.st  otlice:  two  insurance  ollices,  (the  Union 
and  the  I'lienix  ;)  the  baptist  meetinir-housi! ;  four  attoriu;y's  ollices  ;  foin- book- 
stores, the  los,s  in  one  of  which  is  thirty  thousand  dollars,  anil  al.-,G  the  town 
library. 


Newburyport  Herald. 


t  Lewis's  History  of  Lynn. 


HISTORY   OP   NEWnURY. 


277 


most „,,ii,iv »„i, cH  T : „^;  ; '  ,i.  ,V ;,'" ''"t,"""' " ■'!"'■'■',■'"'" 

=.;:,;!--;;,  „E:;'?,;:;'s  ™ -^  a^£  fi«'  ESS  ™3 

(Imu   ol  s.ru.k,.  ^^!ut■li  sl.mu.l.Hl  ll.c  ut.uosplKMt-.     Th<>  -H  ,  ,.  „  f    1.    t      ,,     ■■ . 

iillilSiiii 

'  Within  a  few  montlis  after  tlu,  fnv,  the  siinbrors  received  in  do- 
nations about  one  hunchva  ..ul  tNventy-ei..lu  thousand  dollars.' =»«= 

Arnn/n  "         r'"'''  '''T  '"""  ""  "'^  '•'•'^■•""1''  "f  ^^^tober  between 
Arcturus  and  Lyra,  and  continued  visible  several  months. 


1812. 

The  baptist  mecting.honsc  was  built  this  year  in  Congress  street. 

yipt  II  Wi.  An  enibar-o  for  nuiely  days  was  passed  by  con-ress, 
and  on  Tunc  ,unete,.nth,  w.r  was  declared  by-  the  Unfted  States 
aga.n,  .,,,,  BHtain.  _  On  June  twcnty-lifth  the  town  of  Newbury! 
port  held  a  pr.bhc  UH-etuii,^ '  to  express  their  sentiments  on  the  sub- 
ject  of  a  war  with  Great  Britain,'  and  on  Juno  twcnty-nhith  the 

*  Holmes's  annals. 


fe»  h  ' 


:'f 


A\ 


^H/t 


278 


HISTORY  OF  NEwnuny. 


f  i 


town  of  Newbnry  h(.l,|  a  pnl,li,.  mcoiinir  for  fl„.  samo  pnrnnse 

Ihc  liitter  town  '  |,ass*.cl  at  a  vry  lull  .n.vli,,^.  willu.ut  a  dissnitin-" 

vole,  a  .s(>ric.s  ol  rcsohilions  in  .l<-ci(lf(l  oppcKsiti,,!,  to  the  war.    Thv 

ormcr  rcporlccl  an  addirss  '  i..  tin,.  ,..x,-cMtivo  ,l,.partnM.nl  and  tho 

JcgiHlatnro  ol  tin.  .•...mnonwcalll.,  ..xp.vssivi.  of  ihnr  loadin.-.ss  to 

support  tluMu   in  any  constiuitional  measures,  which  thev  mitflit 

adopt  lor  the  .^aloty  and  w.-llar..  <.rtl.,>  pr,.p|,.  of  the  (•(.nnnonwiJlth 

and  also  oxprcssivo  of  th.-ir  disappn.l.alion  ..f   th..   lato  declaration 

ol  \yur.       llie  conunitt(!e,  chosen  by  Newburyport  to  draft  tho  rnc 

morial,  were  Nessrs  .TcnMuiah  Nelson,  John  Pierponf,  Joseph  Dana, 

Wjlham  JJartlet,  and  William  Fans.  i       '         1  '^> 

This  year  IIk^   Franklin  library  was  instituted,  and  the  Newbu- 

rypoi-t  bank,  and  the  Mechanic's  bank,  incorp<.rat(-d.     The  Mcrri- 

mac  bank  was  uicorporatcd  Juno  twcnly-lifih,  1795,  which  was  the 

nrst  in  town. 

18  13. 

January  21st.  Town  of  Nowbvny  voted  to  petition  .he  h-islaturo 
or  sornc  rehel  from  the  ruinous  cllbcts  of  the  unconstitutional  em- 
bargo law,  lorced  and  imposed  on  us  by  the  general  government. 

lUarr.U  M.  JMcrnmac  river  was  frozen  over  and  so  contiimed 
about  two  hours. 

Jimc  im.  The  grist  mills  of  Mr.  Silas  Pearson,  Newbury,  were 
destroyed  by  fire.  It  was  supposed  to  b.'  the  work  of  an  ine/ndiary. 
L.OSS  between  three  and  lour  thousand  dollars. 

'June  14///.  Newburyport  voted  that  the  selectmen  be  requested 
to  cause  the  bells  ol  the  town  to  be  rung  from  elev.Mi  o'clock  to 
tjvelvc  on  the  day  of  the  iifteenth  of  June  in  commemoration  of 
the  great  events  ui  Europe.' 

1815. 

Fehruarfj  im.  N.nvs  that  a  treaty  of  peace  had  been  made  at 
Ghent,  arrived  in  Newbury  this  day,  and  on  the  sevente.nith  it  was 
ratihed  by  the  jn-esident. 

September  23r/.  American  missionaries,  Messrs.  Bard  well,  Rich- 
ards,  Meigs,  and  Poor,  sailed  from  x\e\vburyport  for  Ceylon. 

1816. 

April  1st.     The  meeting-house  in  Newbury,  Belleville,  was  this 
clay  struck  by  lightning  and  consumed. 
This  summer  was  an  unusually  cold  one. 


1817. 


July  12th.    .Tames  Monroe,  president  of  the  United  States,  passed 
through  Newbury  and  Newburyport.     He  was  received  with  all 


IHHTORY   OP   NEWBURV. 


n  purpose, 
(lissciitiiif^ 
war.  'i'hu 
il  1111(1  tho 
adiiics.s  to 
u'y  mi^lit 
noiuvciilth 
Ift'liinilioii 
lit  tlie  me- 
cph  Diina, 

c  Ni'wbu- 
'Iic  Merri- 
ll was  the 


279 


1S18. 

.o  ^Zmi't  '"'''"'""■^  ™""' '"  I""™'"  "  '"'  "'  '»"<!  'o  build  a 
po/,'t:'ZS     '""^  ''■""■-"'  ''^""■*"'  ««-'y  of  Newbury. 

1810. 

aflorward  dmnsccl  ,,'.  ,l,:u  ,,!■  (v-'. ';  .Wbu,y.  "'  '''""''  '™' 


('£Tislalurc 
ioiial  em- 
rninent. 
L'ontiiiued 

iiry,  were 
icendiary. 

requested 
)'el()ek  to 
•ration  of 


made  at 
ill  it  was 

dl,  Rich- 
n. 


was  this 


1820. 

The  Ncwburyport  Savin "s  bank  wi 


S  Jiassed 
^\4lll  all 


was  ineorporatcd. 


about 
liool 


1821. 

so^iuJ^'^'-     ^'''''^'"    ^^-  ^''•^^•■'^■'   ^^''  N.nvl)urvport,   a^^ed   a 
scye    ee„  year.,  was  exc-eul,.!  at  fSalcu  lor  the  erinu  of  ar  on 

dist^^.    t.^'''V^'?^^'r^  ^"^^''^"'•y  ^^'^^«  ^l'vi<'''^l  into  lie  °ei 
tow,;        {   7  "'"  ^""''V^"*'  '•"'>^  "'"^'  '^i"^"-  the  settlement  of  the 
own   the  .e  eet.nen  reeeived  i.o  pay  for  their  serviee.      Tn  isoo 

t  &t  1^:.  t^:;s^^  ria^ ;-  ^-'-^yporN  and^;.  1I3; 

the  'middle  .hip  yard.'  '  '''"'^'  °"  ^^'''^^  ^^^^«  «»^«  called 

18  24. 

^^n  bJ'-vIril^lf  ^"■•^'"'•^  ^"^^^  *'-^  ^ho  thanks  «of 
^xertionsi^^^-ith^^^^ 

.i.who.nameii:i^:--:j-S;^e^^^^^^ 


I  •-  -n 


•♦-,1 


280 


iiisToiiy  OF  NEWDuny. 


ed,  lh.>  l.iMcr  fiiymir  11,,.  AmmT  u  ,I..,.<|  ..f  „ll  tlw  luiul  ,»wnc(l  l.v 

tJuMii  withm  I  he  li„uts„r  N.nvl.ury|u»rt  lor  hvclw  h.ui<l.r.l  dollur.i 

JuhfWi.     John    AduiiH,   in  liis  ni-icty-first   vcfir,  iuid   'I'lu.rniiH 

Ji-lorson,  in  luH  .Mj^MMy-thinl  y.^ir,  <li.uhl,i,s  ,lav  — a  rnuiu-kiil)I.M-oi 
c-Klcnr.-.     A  .•iiU.uy  oi,  tl..'  rlianicl.Ts  ,,1'  i|,',.s,.  dislin^nislxHl  nu-n 
WU3  dehvertHl  m  Nowburyport,  by  Culcb  Cu.shing,  (-.s.^uire. 


1827. 

Fehnmni  (i///  Tins  niornin-,  uhont  onr  o'clock,  as  Mr.  David 
Jackinan  and  INfr.  Frederick  Cadton  wen;  drivinir  a  licavily  load.-d 
team,  drawn  by  fonr  oxen  and  a  li(.rs<-,  over  Kssex  MerriinaV  bridire, 
llie  cliairH  broke  and  preeipilated  lli(>ni  into  tlie  river.  J^)th  the 
men  with  tht;  horse  were  saved,  bnt  the  i)xeii  were  (h-owned.  The 
mornin-  was  very  cold,  and  the  bridge  had  on  it  a  hirgu  (inantitvof 
snow  and  lee.  ' 

_  Tills  summer  the  new  brldnre,  eonnecfini,'  IVev')nrv|)()rt  M'ith  Sal- 
isbury, was  ..rect..d.  li  was  passabl.!  Au^'ust  wen'ly-seventh,  but 
was  not  completed  till  October.  The  wliol,;  cost  was  sixtv-six 
thousand  dollars.  ^ 

June  m.  .folm  Tillon,  aged  nearly  eight  years,  son  of  Mr.  Dan- 
iel b.  lilion,  Marlborough  street,  was  instantaneously  lulled  bv 
lightning,  while  standing  near  u  window. 


18  28. 

Merrimac  bridge,  connecting  West  Newbuiy  with  the  Rocks' 
village  in  Haverhill,  was  finished  this  (all.  it  is  nine  himdred  feet 
in  length,  has  (our  stone  pi<Ms,  two  abutments  and  a  draw.  The 
bridge  belore  this  was  cm-ried  away  by  a  (Veshet  in  April,  IS18. 


1829. 

This  year  a  '  breakwater,'  for  wliic),  an  appropriation  of  thirtv- 
two  thousand  dollars  had  been  made  in  IS-JS  by  con-re^^  was 
commenced  across  Plum  island  river.     It  is  nineteen  hundred  feet 

"!i  1  of.  '  "J"'^  '■""''  '"  "  "•"■'''^^'•■•■^'  direction.  It  was  not  completed 
till  ia.il,  alttT  another  aj)piopriation  had  Ixu-ii  made  by  congress, 
llie  niani  object,  for  which  it  was  erected,  has  not  been  acc^om- 
plishcd,  though  it  has  been  in  some  respects  beneficial. 


to 


1830. 

April  5th.     Newbury  voted  not  to  grant  licenses  to  any  persons 
sell  ardent  spirits. 


owned  l)y 

ctl  (lolliirM. 

I     'i'llOIIIilS 

\iil)l«'  coiii- 
islicd  men 

V. 


HISTORV    OF    NKWnUHY.  ggj 

1  8 .')  I  . 

riic  first  imiiiber  of  ih,'   I  ii.,.,.,..  .   . 

F""'li^l"vl    i„    Ho„o„ '    ,v„v,;      :  ;"*'  "",  """■•"''^v.ry  ,K,p.r,  was 


Mr.  David 

ily  loaded 
i!ie  l)ridge, 
J^>th  the 
led.  The 
[uautityof 

with  Sid- 

veiith,  but 

sixty-six 

Mr.  Dim- 
Idlled  by 


e  Rocks' 
dreil  feet 
AV.  The 
1818. 


of  thirty- 
ri:ss,  was 
h-ed  feet 
Jiiiplcted 
-■oDifrc'ss. 
I  ticeom- 


persons 


1  832. 

JlUUKini  i)t/l.     'I'll,.  TVour   I,'.,  ,1         1    .       .     , 

ol  the  .soeiefy.  o  '    ""■  IHtaiublc  to  the  coiislitulion 


"■^■^lOM  of  N„rii('  fiii.i.V     Wo 


ffiT;;::;/:L!i'"=-'-:!";'-^^ri::^ 


/"//im/vy  im.     Ah.,ut  fom-  „',.|oeIf   P  M    ^T    ir 
ness  maker,  was  found  dead  i  .     is  slw'.  in  r  1     l''"^  ^^^''^' '•^^'•■ 
'x'ryporf,  havin.i.  been  twice  stabbed     v'  '''"''^  '''""•-'''  ^^^^V" 

proved  inen;-eluaJ.        '  ^'«cover  the  murderer  have  hitherto 


1833. 


Oe 


oan  bank  of  Newbnryport  incorporated. 


1835. 

•>y1?;e  ^JitenJoi'  di^^'td;:;?;,?  irr"^  --n^ements  made 
Newl)erry,'thetu'ol    n.lr.    1  '''''*  ^"''*'   conslitut«d    'ould 

town  waJceleb  a  ,"l  A"l\r'''r V''"'"'^  r^  """  •"'"^^'"'^'"^  -<'  "' « 
sunrise,  and  a  sinular  s;l  't  .le?''  V^  ;''"'  P/"^  '''"'  ^'"•-'  '^^ 
was  formed  at  the  town  use  Wl  '"  ,"'"'''  '^  i>rocession 
past  fen,  escorted  bv  tin   IV      .        ^^^wbury,  which  moved  at  half 

-  street,  up  ^^^'^l^^'^^^^^^ 


;#-Ji 


. '  ^f  • 


♦. ;.    . 


';**  <,. 


pi 

m 

i 


If 


■  ■  *.    ■    ■ .'    ■• 


.'  .  r^' '  ■•' 


282 


HISTORY    OF   NEWBURY. 


square  to  Pleasant  street  church,  where  aa  address  was  delivered 
by  the  honorable  Caleb  Gushing,  and  an  ode  and  hymn  written  for 
the  occasion  hy  the  honcable  George  Lunt,  were  sung.  After  the 
services  ol  the  church  were  concluded,  about  seven  hundred  per- 
sons dined  at  the  pavilion,  erected  for  the  purpose  near  the  New- 
bury town  house.  The  sentiments  and  speeches  on  the  occasion, 
were,  it  is  said,  of  a  superior  order.  Lieutenant  governor  Arm- 
strong, the  honorable  Messrs.  Everett,  Phillips  Gushing,  and  Lunt, 
colonel  Winthrop  and  colonel  Swett  c*"  Boston,  judge  White  of 
Salem,  an4  several  other  gentlemen,  addressed  the  company,  which 
did  not  separate  till  sundown.  In  the  evening  the  ladies  gave  a 
splendid  tea  party  at  the  town  hall  in  Newburyport,  which  was 
numerously  attended,  and  which  added  no  little  eclat  to  the  festivi- 
ties. The  newspapers  of  the  day  furnish  us  with  a  long  account 
ot  the  toasts,  sentiraeuts,  ^peeelies,  anecdotes,  and  so  forth  -vhich 
the  celebration  elicited,  but  I  have  no  room  for  the  narration.  I 
can  find  room  only  for  the  following  ode. 

PILGRIM  SONG. 

Over  the  mountain  wave, 
See  where  ihey  con-.e ; 
Storm-cloud  and  wintry  wind 

Welcome  them  home  ; 
Yet  where  the  sounding  gale 

Howk  to  the  sea, 
There  their  song  peals  along, 
Deep-toned  and  free : 
Pilgrims  and  wanderers, 

Hither  wc  come ; 
Where  the  free  dare  lo  be  —  . 

This  is  our  home  ! 


%"%■■■! 


JK  ..^  .^    ■. 


-"S  i 


.^i    • 


-   .'f 


I    i 


England  hath  sunny  dales, 

Dear'y  they  hloom ; 
Sootia  hath  he  ather- hills, 

Sweet  thei'-  perfume ; 
Yet  through  the  wilderness, 

Cheerful  we  stray ; 
Native  land,  native  land. 
Home,  far  away ! 
Pilgrims  and  wanderers, 

Hither  we  some ; 
Where  the  free  dare  to  be  — 
This  is  oar  home ! 

Dim  grew  the  forest-path,— 

Onward  they  trod ; 
Firm  beat  their  noble  hearts, 

Trusting  in  God! 
Grdv  men  and  blooming  maids, 

High  rose  their  song ; 
Hear  it  sweep,  clear  and  deep. 
Ever  along: 
Pilgrims  and  wanderers, 

Hither  we  come; 
Where  the  free  dare  tobe^ 
This  is  our  home  1 


"I    ( 


occasion, 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY.  283 

Not  theirs  the  glory-wreath 
'^"oni  by  the  blast ; 

Heavenward  their  holy  steps, 

Heavenward  they  past ; 
Oreen  be  their  mossy  graves ' 
...P'Ts  be  their  fame; 
VVhile  their  song  peals  along, 
■Lvcr  the  same : 
rilgrims  and  wanderers, 

Hither  we  come ; 
Where  the  free  dare  to  be  — 
This  is  our  home ! 

1840. 

AT       1  ^'^'^         ^"""         I'^fl         ISIO         1S20 

^ewbury,  3970    4070     5  J  76     8071 


1279 


1S30  1840 

3771  3389 

6741  7124 

1448  1553 


1843. 


i.i  n.'r,S  JlZ"  "r"PT'  "  ""''™  "'  '^""•'^"'T.  ^vho  Imcl  boon 

o/to/;.r  iV/      'r  •     "^  ^"  ''^  ^""•'^^t'"'-  i"^:^ne  asylum, 
hn.^    fi      i  M'"^  moniin-  ubout  half   past  six  o'clock    an 

fum   after  the  worluuc.  had  commenced  operations,   he  bo  "or  of  a 
^ix  l.ur.c   power   engine   in   the   patetU  iordage  munufac'ry   of 


'I 


284 


HISTORY    OF    NEWBUllY. 


eSded  M  nf  ')'  ^""'  r  ^°"''^  ^"^  Marlborough  streets. 
W  h,  frnnt     ,\^'"^  ^''""'''^  '^'''  (engineer,  who  was  probably  standi 

ZTJl\i  """f ^  shapeless  mass.     M,-.  Loreiizo  Ross,  who 

ed  vnd  h1'"if  ;r  ^'"  ^T''^?'\  ?^  '^"  '^"Sino  roon,  was  badly  'sJald- 
let  bm  dte.in'/i"'"''  '^'r'  blackened.  He  was  taken  up  sense- 
less, but  alteiward  revived,  and  it  is  thought  may  ivcover.      The 

anfr;^.d",l  •  YT  ''""'"'^''''l^  cl.Mnolished,  a^d  the'brieks,  tiinbt  s 
and  boaids  thickly  scattered  around,  to  the  distance  of  eighty  or  a 
hundred  yards.  The  boiler  was  twenty  feet  long,  an<f  wei<d  ed 
over  a  ton  and  a  half.  The  main  body  ^f  it,  bei.ii' eight  o  the  en 
PoundrSl  7'  '"f  ""-^'""r'  '"•"^^'^'^^y'  -'^^-  twe.rty-.^ght  hund    S 

buX.T  '•' 'f'"',^'/''?  ^'"^  ?  "''^^^""^^^'  =^"^^  ^^l'"  ^he  end  of  the 
lo  bmfe  fZ  '"^'  i''  '?  '"'T  P'^"''  P^^^i"f?  «^^r  ^1»«  ^^«^nt 
lext  hlw  :  Tr';?"'  ""^,  "^''  ^'^^'•^I'^'.'^-l'ouse  and  outbuildings 
hrto  n  r  '/"  ^^="-"^°'-«"S''  ^'J-^^'^t,  and  after  sti'iking  the  ground 
on  the  treet  f  r '/  ^^'^ff-^^^^^d,  and  levekd  thcMence 
i  esidn:  -t'^'''^''^  itM^rogress  so  that  it  turned  round 

en|L  house  '^  "'"  "^  "'"'^^  ^'"■'"  ^'^^"^^''"^  ^"^'^^^  ^^'""^  ''^« 

h,ini!!"^'"''"i  "^  '^'^  ^'''^'''  siraighlened  out,  and  weighing  two 
huned  pounds  or  more,  was  thrown  about  Ibrty  yards  in  the  field 
on   the  lower  side  of    the  engine  hous<.,  and  a  smaller  fragment 

mus   Inlt         ^"''•■'•;^'^-'S'""o^  probably  one  hundred  pomuls, 

must  ha  e  been  elevated  to  a  great  height  as  it  fell  on  the  opposite 

.de  o    the  ropewalk  and  within  a  few^feet  of  the  building,  /avim' 

passed  over  the  root.'     lYcwbunz/jorf  Herald.  ^'  ^ 

been  iVu^ofiv    ^''' .'"''''''''  ^'"^i"^'  ^'^^'^^  i"  Newbury,  and  had 
oetn  in  use  nve  or  six  years. 


[ill  4  ^ 


18  4  4. 

in  T.  "'"'"'  '"''  "'  "'^'"  ^'^^''  "ncloubtedly  f/om  the  same 

ercTo.  l.o"  '"''""''■  ''■"'  '^'''-  '  ^^*'''^''  '''^  ^'1"^''  «^"tl'^^  evening  ex- 
e  e..e.  he  became  nnpafent  and  re(,uested  his  attendant  to  permit 
lum  to  retire.  His  attendant  rephed  that  th,>  services  would  .so" 
be  over,  when  not  a  moment  .-lapsed  bc-fore  he  sprang  through  le 
window  with  great  for<-e,  taking  out  four  j.anes  with  tlie  sash.'  T  le 
faU  was  about  sixteen  fc-et.  He  was  taken  up  senseless  and  'o 
remained  until  he  died,  which  was  the  third  day  after  his  fall 

b„rv  ''''Ln  '''''n''^"Tx''.''"''/'"'  >''""^'  ^'''^^^^'"  town  clerk  of  New- 
bu  y.  Deacon  Ezra  Hale,  who  had  for  thirtv-sevn  years  oUiciatcd 
in  that  capacity  dec-lined  a  re-election.  A  unanimous  vote  o  ha  Ls 
was  given  by  the  toun  'for  his  long  and  faithful  services  as  cl  .L, 


:l 


and  so  forth,  and 


HISTORY   OF   NEWBURY. 


285 


Ms  successor  in  .^"^^l  ''  ^'  '''''''"^  «"  ^^e  town  records  by 

ISS:::;;^^;^^^^ '1^^;;.  N-bu.ypor,,  built  in  1836,  1839, 
appendix.  '''^'^^  '1'*^^'^  '^^"re  particular] v  in  the 

prS^d  t'a  ^I^tdl^nn't^rT-^^-^^^   ^^^ 
sermon  in  commemoration  ohL']"i^^  1  "/  Federal  street,  a 

of  thatchurd.andcongregl!;^;tu?enrv"^^^^^^^     the  pastor 

visits.'  Prepamtions  Ld  bermii  L  7  '"^  ''''  "''^"^  ^^  '^""^ti"'^ 
the  venerable  pastor^s  numerouTftie  S  to'TV- "^'  '^'^™-^'  ^"^""? 
testimony  of  their  regard  O?,hi'o''^'  ?°  't^^'^  '"'^''^  substantial 
crowded  with  those  o  Si  no^  v  '^'^^asion,  his  house  was  literally 
^^pcet  for  the  good  and  e" iS  m  ?  SV'^/'"/^?  ^^"^^  ^^eir  re^ 
devoted  himself,  whhnSrle^rr^^^^^^^^  half  a  century,  had 
Drawing  toward  the  clo  e  of \tsli  '"  T'''''  ^'''''  ^"^i"^^^- 
more  gratifying  to  Wm    Inn  to  t-f'.r*'''"^  """'^  have  been 

of  the%w,^wiro  hadl's    n"d  tr//i''^     r'  '''^'''  ""^  g«°d  ^^^'^ 
with  the  many,  who  h  flu  <>.f     h'^fl■h^^t  mstructions,  mingled 

waMnd^d,  a  ^he^iif  a  d^S;;r^^.S^.'^lfr"'^'^"^""^-    ^^ 

ample  ovidci  of  tW  r»  „  i  o 'in-      '.  ■ '"'l  °'  '''''  ™n>rai«<'e, 

were  sorrv  to  leiivc  -i„  1  ,  ,„,       """^'^'f  "■  srasoimble  liour.     All 
stance,,  „/.„i„;';:;^';4™j';7--fo'g«  ,1,0  pleading  eireun,- 

poraSaldle'iS'!::^':;^;!!^  "°°""-  "™"''""' '"  *e  Newbury. 

with  so  much  liberalitv  his  r  n^W,  i  i  i  '"  '"i""''  ''^''''^'^v  'in J  exfcuted 
«ive.  He  can  neve^^Sk  o  o  ,1  ''o  £",1"'"''".*;^'  "^J""*  ^''''"'^'  "''nest  opp  es- 
thenche.t  blessing,  of 'rnea^uftrnf?;.!''"^  '^''^^  '^'^  ""'^  ^e  rewarcffi  ^ 


The 


c»2U>-i  i  c:,-^  -r?     ^ 


m..  ^  fi 


.t) 


a-J 


m- 


i.i 


2S6 


m' 


HISTORY    OF  NEWBURY. 


'ou^d'Ee^v'':!nd"l''^'',l^'"''  'l^""  P*^^^^^^^'  ^he  annals  of 
ouiu  i\cwbcrry    and  should  you,  without  the  perplexity  that  I  hivf» 

sometimes  expenenccd,  receive  a  tithe  of  the  pleasurf  in    eadL^ 

the  preceding  pages,  that  I  have  had  in  collecting    a^an^inT  nnS 

.ho  hi,„o,y,  and  dissatisfied  She'  mj^nl  "in"  hfchTha"ste." 
arranged,  you  can  alter  it  to  your  liking,  as  there  Tu  existe  an  atan 
danee  of  unpublished  materids,  amply  sufficient  "or  vou  to  ?nZ 

rh"etu"l™'"  y:'u°c'  '""]  "™  ^'"'«=f«°°'  -<•  *-m™semcr'of 
mo  public.     \ou  can  also  onut  reading  the  following  aiinendix 

MtlSreUheJ'in-U^-^dLgtr  '"  *- *  ^  - 


!■ '1  in 


■  t'  m 


*DOI,AVI  VT  rOTUI.'       CICERO. 


APPENDIX. 


A.    Page  19. 

names.     To  each  of  t he 'fa     wM°'°  °  """"'  "«i™''  1°  ll'»i 

lea.  fo.  ae.s,  wU,  .ItSle  .StyT  SS  f^elr^ea^^jf  "' 

Mi-    TJ.Vl 1   TV 


Mr.  Richard  Dummcr, 
Mr.  Henry  Sewall, 
Mr.  John  Clark 
Mr.  .Tohn  Woodbri.Iee' 
Mr.  Edward  Rawson, 
Richard  Kent,  junior 
William  Moody 
John  Merrill, 
Mr.  John  Cutting, ' 


1080 
6,'tO 
540 
237 
581 
131 
93 
9G 
220 


Mr.  James  Noyes, 
Mr.  Thomas  Parker, 
Captain  Edmund  Greenleaf, ' 
Mr.  James  Browne, 
Mr.  Edward  Woodman,      . 
Mr.  Nicholas  Easton,     . 
Mr.  Stephen  Dummer, 
Stephen  Kent, 
Nicholas  Holt, 


124 

90 
122 
15!) 
120 

SO 
3S0 

SI 

SO 


Ma?y  of'SeStirstSst^^  ^^-'^  f™-  ^en  to  eighty, 

part  of  their  and  hyZlZl  ZTl'  ""'^'^  °^^^"^«^^  ^'^«  P""^M>a 
Robert  Adams  canta^n  Wn  ^  '  r-  ''\^°':.'"^'^"^"*''  ^^  George  Lit  le 
Iiicha,.,a,u,  M,Xc"v^j!r!e^T^^frorcr"■  "'•  ^°""'  »^' 

B.    Page  33. 
A  SHORT  CATECHISM 


6'        ,     (?l 


COMPOSED    BY    MR.    JAMES    NOYES      I  ATP     tp 

OF   THE    CHILDKEN    THERE. 
£'r  B^tretLts's^Jlr"  ^-^^^  *^«--'-«  to  be  true. 

power  on  the  hearts  of  men  beside   fhfh'^i'   r^u  *^^  u'^^^'^^^  "^  »•>«"' 
hewing  us  to  discern  the  truth  of  them      °^  Ghost  beareth  witness, 
Q.    What  ,s  the  sum  of  the  Scriptures  ^ 

V-     What  is  Faith  ' 


OP 


John  7,  iB:  U  29 
1  John  1!,  a). 
aThii.2,  i-iir. 
Hnin.lO.aO:  10,9. 
1. Tohn  5, 1.       ' 
John  ir,  Z 
AcU8,3r. 


Jolm6,4a. 
Ijoun4,]5i3,0. 


^iM'' 


288 


APPENDIX. 


I  .Tohn  a,  7. 
Wat.  IM,  19. 


2Cor.  W,  It. 

Job  1, 1. 

Acts  ,\  3  4. 
ICor.S.li. 


£ph.l,4j6. 


Hnm.  9,  22. 
1  Pet.  2, 8. 
Jude  4. 


Mnt.  10,29,30. 
Acta  17,  'M. 

Jcr.31,3132. 


Oal.3,1112. 

Mark  16, 16. 

Rom.  5, 17. 
IJoha3,4. 

Eph.  4, 22. 


Rom.  7,  23. 
lJobn3,4. 


Horn.  H,  19  23. 
Hom.i.lSj  6,23. 

Rom.  3, 23  21. 


Htb.  12,  20. 
Kom.3.  20. 
Jolm  15,  5. 


J. 

Q. 

A. 

Q. 
J. 

Q- 
Jl. 


-j.     By  his  Names,  and  Attributes. 

Q.     What  are  his  Attributes  ? 

Jl.  ,  Kis  Independeney,  Unity,  Immutability,  Eternity  InfinitpnP« 

anJ  V^Hty   ""=""^''  ''""'^'"^^'  ^'"'^y^  ^^'-'''--.  ^'''-"'nency,  Justice 
Q.     How  many  Persons  are  there  in  the  Godhead  ? 

Got  an^J'ptLll' is'bt'or'S.^-^'^"^^^  ^"^  ^"^  "^  "^"^^^  '» 
Q.     How  many  told  are  the  acts  of  God  ' 
Twofold,  eternal  and  temporal 
What  are  the  eternal  acts  of  God  ? 
His  Decrees. 
How  many  fold  are  his  Decrees  ■» 

iln'"'"'^''  «'^'''-''''»'  =»n<l  particular. 
What  IS  the  general  Decree  of  God  t 

worid,tdl;:?l^  1  tSi^tS ""' ""'  '"''^™'-  *°  -^«  '^>« 

Q.  What  are  the  particular  Decrees  of  God  » 

.^.  Election  and  Reprobation. 

Q.  What  is  Election  ! 

A.  An  eternal  act  of  God,  whereby  ho  did  determine  to  elorifie 

Q.     VVhat  are  the  Temporal  acts  of  God  ? 
Creation,  Preservation  and  Government 
How  many-fold  is  his  Government  ? 
Twofold:  general  and  special. 
What  is  the  general  Government ' 

A  temporal  act  of  God,  whereby  he  doth  dispose  of  all  ciea- 
tures  according  to  a  general  Providence.  "'»Pose  oi   au  ciea- 

Q.     What  is  the  special  Government  of  God  ' 
A.     A  temporal  act  of  God  whereby  he  doth  dispose  of  the  reason- 
able  creature  according  to  a  special  Covenant 

Q.     How  many  Covenants  hath  God  made  with  man  t 
Golpel  Covenant  of  the  Law,  and  the  Covenant  of  the 

Q.     What  is  the  Covenant  of  the  Law ' 

wr^""'",?  °^.y'^°  °"  P"^'"^'  ""'•  personal  Obedience. 
What  IS  the  Covenant  of  the  Gospel » 

A  promisa  of  Life  upon  Faith  in  Christ. 

Sims  S?n  °"^''°"  °*'  *^«  Covenant  of  the  Gospel  1 

What  is  Sin  ? 

A  breach  of  Gods  Law. 

How  many  kinds  of  Sin  are  there  ? 

1  wo  :  Original  and  Actual. 

What  is  Original  Sin  ? 

A  Being  contrary  to  Gods  Law. 

What  is  Actual  Sin  f 

A  Doing  contrary  to  Gods  Law, 

What  are  the  effects  of  Sin  ? 

Guilt  and  Punishment. 

What  is  Guilt? 

A  liableness  to  Punishment 

What  is  Punishment  ? 


Jl. 

Q. 
J. 

Q. 

A. 


A. 
Q. 

A. 

Q. 
A. 

Q. 
A. 

Q. 

A. 

Q. 
A. 

Q. 

A. 

Q. 

A. 

Q. 

A. 


elelal^"  '""'"'°"  °'' ''"  ^°'  ^'"'    "^'"'''y-  ^eath  temporal    and 
Q.     How  may  we  escape  eternal  Death  i 
A.     By  the  covenant  of  the  Gospel  onlv 

f    Nn"  Zt ""' '''''''"'  '^"'''^^^  ''y  ^'>«  Covenant  of  the  Law? 
n/rL.  ni'  ^.'-'^'""'«  "••-' P'ni'ot  perform  the  condition  of  it,  which  is 

an.fgoo?  thing""  '"'  ''  ^'^"^''"  °*'  ^^«  ^^'^  ''*•  •^'''"".  -e  cannot' do 

Q.    Can  we  perform  the  condition  of  the  Covenant  of  the  Gospel  ? 


A  P  1'  E  N  /)  I  X  . 

What  is  Clirisi  y  '    I'Liloiin  tho  condition  of  it. 


289 


Q 
Q. 


iris  Natur.'  ,  I  fs  p  "  oS  ,"/  •'"■'*"«  Cluist  r 


.^d  u.rDij;;;oS;;:e*:/ny;i  Snl^::.^=^'"-  »^  ^^-^  otherwise 

,;.,.;!!'"  •''"''•^'^"""•e  of  the  llnniano  natuio  in  .1... ■  ._ 


JlT..1l,.V). 
,7..llli  I,  11. 

llili.J,  ii;. 

rualiili  !l,  (I. 
liuiu. !), ,'). 


the  Ueity, 

Q- 

Jl. 

Q. 
^. 
Q. 


'mane  nature  in  the  second  person  of 


WhataretheO/ricos  of  Christ? 
a      ]^'''\'  ''^  Redemption  ? 

.f  ch.4Ss:^°''  ^'"  ^'^'^^  ^"- «"'  -Hi 

iwoiold  active  and  passive 
Wlmisliis  active  Ohedionce? 
A  A„»n-the  willof  God. 

„;rv':l''l»P"'sivo  Obedience? 


misery,  by  tho  price 


l'llil.2,8  7a 
ITIiii.  •.>,.•,. 

ZJ'rh.  IP.  II. 
J'^nlin  III*, ■). 
IX'ut.  IS,  15. 


Titus  2,  II. 


Jl 

Q 

./I. 

Q. 
JL 

<l 
Jl. 

Q. 
Jl. 

Q. 
Jl. 


.   .   -  •■■-  -M'l""  "'lion  oi  nedo 

w^^:aar;;rS5'-"^v.;,hu 

^aSVoSif  "'•  ^''"''"""  -J  Glorification. 


t--e  4tS"i:^2t  o2:''^  ""^^^'^'•^  «-•  '•"<•>  =ive  Faith  and  Repen- 
Q-     WhatisKaiih? 

<y.     Wiial  IS  Ilopentancp  J 

J  uC  i"r is;;- !;;?•  •"  '•'""■'  •■■".  -•«'  ..r,o,v ,.,  .i„. 

all' til 

'^  _,__. 

•i'^"is!|r;'on:;:;  t,fi:E.dn:;:::''^  «"'•  ^^^^^  '--'^te  a  ...a,,  ont  of 

■f.  iv ri, ".v;:.;?£!;i:?;:;';:^  '^•'■•'■-■••i.;.. mad.. known ? 
--  "'-^j;.-  spirii  ...i;;. :;;;:',:':  -i-Hiie  t^;;i,r[:r;i'  "■"'  ''^  ^^^  "■'^• 

Uhatan.  llie.Mi.nsicrial 
1  leachiii-,.1'  ilie  \\;,|,| 


o|n:at  a^can;K<?l;;;£'S£;'  t";  h"^-'^^  "•"•  p— 

What  is  (Jloriiicalion  ?         ^'"W'^"-  ami  heirs  unto  eternal  litb. 


Horn.  R,  -1. 
Miit..1,  i.v 
Isil.  .VI,  U'. 


Eph.  L',  5  (i. 
y  Tim.  1,11. 

Honi.  S,  a). 


Mat.  1(1,  M. 

Arts  L',  ;w. 
Slnik  1,1,5. 

''»iilni  .'l",  2r. 
Zirli.  11',  1(1. 
Ilus.  14,a,1. 


Iloj(i.H,.-)(l. 


lii'iil.  S  u  lo  l(i  17 


Hoiii.  8,  .■!(). 


<l 

./. 
(^ 
,1. 
(>. 
.}. 

M'llN 
<c'. 


I  Th, 

llolK, 


.1.4.' 

1,  I.-,. 


■•  •nid  Disciplin. . 
^^Int  isa  Sacraiiieiil 
A  visible  siyjii  instiiuit 
toveiiant. 

Q.     flow  many  Sacranieiils 
J  wo,  Baplism  and  ihi 
What  is  Ih,-  si 
W  iicr 


iiislry  and  private  duti,.s. 
I'r'i.ver,  Administration  of  tjie 


Sai 


li"ni.  Id,  1.1  u  |,-| 

M.'t.LN,  1(1. 

•  I'Mii.  -J,  1. 

-■^lilt.  I.M,  1,-;  111, 


''I   h'   <"'d  lot   the  confirmation  of  tho 


10. 


Jl. 
Q- 
.1. 

Q- 

Jl. 


!iic  llicro  ? 
f.onls  Slipper 
,'lsii;„ifyiM^.  i„  liaplism? 

\Mi.il  islhethin-si[,r„i||,,,|  , 
llie  blood  of  Chri.st  ua^hin.' 


.-37 


uvay  our  sins  unto  eternal  life. 


I  Pot.  .1.  21. 
Horn,  (i,  4. 


^^  M  [' 


'hri 


I- 


4 


Jiiii 


111 


•,;l 


290 


A  r  !■  li  N  D  I  X 


I  Tor.  n.»242l, 
John  U,. '.I. 


M»t.  18,  ir. 

ArlM  ai,  7. 


Mat.  Jt,  J. 
Hoi.  11, 14. 
lui.  63,  .U 


Dcilt.  4,  l.X 
Mat.  LI',  a?  3S. 


Mat.  W.  Ill  41). 
Hum.  13, 1). 


■X 


Piaiiii  r.'i,  as. 

I  Cor.  1.'),  l.s. 
Dent.  6,  i. 


Doiil.  (i,  i.i. 
lleb.  l^,  -JH. 

Kj)h.4,n  I'.'. 
Mil  28, 19. 

1  Cor.  11,  2.124. 
M«t.2S,17. 


neb.  I2,2S. 

PaiUm  1.32, 7  i  110,,x 


P«aItnl4I,2i  ,V,  17, 
Acta  20, 7. 


1  Pel,  H,  S. 
Phil.  2,  8. 

Horn.  12.  111. 

1  Sam.  ,W,  2G;1I. 

2Sam.0, 1. 

1  Pel.  2,  la. 


1  Cor.  1.1.  4. 
LukcU,  .'I(i. 


JN'uinb.  12,  ;t, 

1  Pet.  .1. 4. 
I.okcL'l,  10. 
Col.  1,  II. 


Tit.  .■>,  1. 


9'    .)Jl'''"[,'*  ''"^  '^'«"  siS"iiyi"ii?  i"  tlio  r-onl.s  Supper  ? 
.//.      Ih."  Bread  aiKi  Wine:  the  Bread  broken,  and  the  Wine  poured 
out,  Ilu!  mvmj;  and  receivint;  of  it. 

<j.     What  is  the  thin;,'  sijrni/ied  in  the  f.onls  Supper  1 
.-'/.      Ihe  Body  of  Chri.st  broken   on   the  Cross,  hi.s  Bhiod  .shed  for 
our  .-ins,  otleied  to  simiors  in  tlie   way  of  believing  and  lec.dved  by 
faith,  for  assurance  of  eternal  life. 
Q.     What  is  Diseipliuo' 

A  Correction  of  scandalous  Professors  by  Church  Censures. 
V\liat  IS  the  season  of  attendiui,'  the  I'ublick  Ministry' 
V.^ppcially  on  the  (iist  day  of  the  week,  or  Lords  Day. 
When  IS  Kedeinplion  consummated  f 
of  Ch    ■  ""''  ^"'*'-"'"^'^''""  '^  "^e  last  Judgment,  at  the  second  coming 

Q.     How  many  Commandments  are  there  ? 
Ten. 

Into  how  many  Tables  are  the  Commandments  divided  ■? 
Into  two  Tables. 

What  doth  the  first  Table  contain  .' 

Our  duties  towards  tJod,  or  Duties  of  Religiou.s  Worship,  in  the 
four  lirst  Commandments. 

Q.     What  doth  the  second  Table  contain? 

'^'     ?iu^  Duties  towards  the  Creature,  in  the  six  last. 

^.     \\  hat  js  contained  in  the  first  Commandment  i 

Woi'da^dl'myex"""''"^'   '"    ^''''^-    "°P°'  ^"^''   ^^'""'^   ^''''""8  ^^" 
Q.     What  is  Ho])e  > 

A  cleaving  to  (Jod  as  our  chiefest  good,  for  Blessedness. 
What  IS  Love '! 

A  cleaving  to  (iod  as  the  chiefest  good,  and  deserving  all  Glorv. 
What  IS  Fear  1  o  j 

An  admiring  and  adoring  of  Gods  Holiness,  and  all  his  perfec- 


Q. 
Q 

A. 


A. 

Q. 

A. 

Q 
A. 


What  is  contained  in  the  second  Commandment  ? 
Irmitiitcd  Worsliip;  in  ilinistry,  Sacraments,  and  Discipline. 
What  IS  contained  in  the  third  Commandment? 
A  due  maniiei  of  Worship,  in  reverence,  devotion  and  alacrity. 
Wliat  IS  contained  in  the  fourth  Commandment  ? 


A. 

Q. 

A. 

Q- 

A. 

tions, 

Q. 

A. 

Q. 

A. 

^.     A  due  time  of  Worship,  a.s  all  due  seasons,  Morning  and  Eve- 
ning, especially  on  the  Lords  Day. 

Q-     What  is  contained  in  the  fifth  Commandment? 
-^.     A  due  respect  to  the  gool  name  or  dignity  of  our  Neighbour,  irf 
humility,  gratitude  and  obedience.  b         ', 

Q.     What  is  Humility? 

A  grace  which  moderateth  the  love  of  e.Ycelicncv. 
What  is  Gratitude  >  •' 

A  grace  whicli  disposeth  us  to  recompense  benefits. 
What  IS  obedience? 

A  grace  which  disposeth  us  to  honour  all  such  as  are  in  author- 
ity, by  oeing  subject. 

Q.     What  is  contained  in  the  sixth  Commandment? 
A.    A  due  respect  to  the  life  of  our  Neighbour,  in  goodness,  mercy, 
meekness,  and  patience.  '' 

<l     What  is  Goodness? 

A  grace  which  disposeth  us  to  shew  kindness  to  all. 
What  IS  Mercy? 

A  grace  which  disposetii  us  to  relieve  all  such  as  are  in  misery. 
\V hat  IS  Meekness?  ^ 

A  grace  wiiich  moderateth  anger  and  revenge. 
What  is  Patience? 

A  grace  which  moderateth  grief  in  Affliction. 
What  IS  coiituiiied  in  the  seventh  Commandment? 
A  due  respect  to  the  purity  of  our  Neighbour,  in  temperance, 
chastity,  modesty,  gravity. 
Q.     What  is  Tenipeiance  ? 

i<     ui^'^'''^  which  moderateth  affection  to  all  sensual  pleasures. 
Q.     What  IS  Chastity?  ' 


A. 

Q- 
A. 

Q. 

A. 


A. 

Q. 
A. 
Q. 
A. 

Q. 
A. 

Q- 
A. 


A  P  P  E  N  1)  r  X 


.n. 

Q. 

J. 

Q. 

./i. 


291 


1  TliPM.  4, 8  4  4, 
1  Miii.  3, «, 

lPi't.;i,23. 


Horn.  1,1, 7, 


iloin.  VJ,  la. 


l'rov.31,27. 


What  is  contained  in  tho  i-i.rV.ti   /'  ■'' 
•  -     A  due  respect  to  th  ".,«    i     T   ''  <-"i"man.lmont  ? 
lil^eralitv,  and  tnSity.  '^^  """''^  "'  ""•'  ^^-^'t'''"t.r,  ,„  righ,oo,.,nes, 
Q-    What  ia  Ri-htoousiiess  ■» 

Q.     wg^i^Laill^'r^"^^"  «'-«"-"  their  duo. 

..uf  Nct'hbrr."'"*'  ""''"^"^  -  '^  communicate  our  good,  freely  to 

Q-     Whatis  Fruffality^ 
Catng^  .-race  which  inclineth  us  to  be  provident  and  diligent  i„  our 

1    rjuJi^srcurfi  '■ -""^  "'"'^  Commandments 
fidelity.  "^'''''=' '"  ^'-  ""'-ency  of  our  Neighbour  in  verity  and 

Q-     What  is  Verity  ' 
bot,lr'^^^'"^^'"^''-^'-«tospe,lc  the  truth  for  our  Nei.h- 

Q-     What  is  Fidelity  1 

^-    A  due  respect  t?/h™         ''  ^""^"^"d'nent  ? 
in  his  r-perityrS'^cle  n*^  rour  o'w':;  Z/^^'^r^  '"  -.i"ycing 
Q-     What  is  Contentation  '<  P°'''""  ^''''  contentation. 

Sood  oAf^'::i^?i:!:^i;;;:j;  -  to  accept  our  own  portion,  whether 

Tho  T  Phil.  4,  if. 

I  have  ever  seen  in  Ncwbiirv    oi  i  .^"'^"-    ^^  is  the  onlv  codv 

Mr.  Ichahod  Coffin."  As  I'StiStSllv""'  ^™",^S  the  papersTf 
hundred  years  ago,  I  have  thot'^  ^  t  wohS  '^"^I'°^«^1  '^o^e  thin  two 
of  the  style  of  the  'olden  time  'and  of  tb^  Prc^sorvation  as  a  specimen 
the  nsmg  generation.  Its  aiUho  Mr  n.f'"^^*"'  ^'^^'^  incnicated  on 
second  of  October,  165G.  in  hi^  Lj^^iS^'e^^y^^'  ^''^  ^^^  ^^^"^^ 


Zech.8,ia. 

P»aliii  IJ,  4. 
Rom.  12, 14. 


1  TIm.B.B. 
Hi'h.  l.'l,  J. 
Phil.  4,  a. 


C,     Page  38. 
Forthe  list  of  graduates,  and  other  inform 


ation,  see  letter  I. 


e  in  misery. 


D.     Page  38. 


mZlX^r''"  ""''  °f  -°*.  folio  for,y.f„„,  ,  „„t,  .,, 


Mr.  Richard  Dummer, 
Mr.  Henry  Sewall, 
Mr.  Edward  Rawson, 
Mr.  Stephen  Dummer, 
Mr.  Ldmund  Greenleaf, 
Mr.  John  Clarke, 
Mr.  John  Cutting, 
Henry  Short, 


Mr.  Thomas  Parker, 
Mr.  James  Noyes 
Mr.  JohnLowle,' 
Mr.  Percival  Lowle, 
Mr.  John  Spencer, 
Mr.  John  Woodbridge 
Mr.  James  Browne.     ' 
fhomas  Cromwell, 


«.,!' 


292 


A  I'  p  r:  N  I)  I  ,\ , 


I'  i .  f 


Nieholn*  Flolt, 
Henry  Roliit, 

Jnlm  Morrill, 
Thomas  Hale, 

Joseph  IVnslnv, 
VViifinm  Mors, 

John  Goff, 

.fohn  Stevens, 

Antiioiiy  Short, 

•lohn  P('ml)(!rlon, 

.'ohn  Pike,  senior, 

.lolin  MusHohvhite, 

.'ohn  Kniery, 

Anthony  Sornerhy, 

Richard  Rartiet, 

^^'iilialn  Miioily, 

Williatii  Franklin, 

Ahraham  Toppan, 

Henry  Sonierhy, 

Waller  Alien,  ' 

'I'homas  Silver, 

Henry  Travers, 

Archelaus  Woodman, 

Richard  Knight, 

Mrs.  (.lohn  I  Oliver, 

Stephen  Kent, 

Hichard  Badsjoi, 

William  Thomas, 

Widow  (William I  Stevens. 

John  Kelly, 

Francis  Phimor, 

Robert  Coker,  , 

AVilliam  Palmer, 

Thomas  Colem.in, 

Nathaniel  Badger, 

William  Berry, 

Mr.  [Kdwardj  Woodman, 

Richard  Kent,  junior. 


Richard  r.illlelmlo, 
'iiles  ILidifer, 
Samuel  Scullurd, 
.'ohn  ONijood, 
Ahel  I  fuse, 
.loseph  Cailer, 
.'ohn  Kiiiyht, 
Henry  l-nnl, 
'I'hnnias  Urowne, 
.'"hn  HuIchinH, 
I'aniid   I'hurston, 
.'oliii  Poor, 
.lolin  Pike,  junior, 
Henry  Palmer, 
William  Tilcond), 
Nicholas  liall. 
'I'homas  Sniilli, 
William  White, 
Thomas  Davis, 
William  llsley, 
Samuel  (;ile, 
Thomas  Mow, 
.l<din  Swett, 
Christopher  Rnrtlet, 
Ivichanl  Ijrowne, 
John  CUieney, 
Anthony  Morss, 
Nicholas  Noyes, 
Nathaniel  Weare, 
.'ohn  Fry, 
John  liarllet, 
Richard  Kilts. 
'I'homas  Rliimlield, 
(leori^fe  Rrowne, 
.'ohn    liond, 
.'ohn  Russ, 
J\fr.  j.lohM(  Miller. 
A'inetj'-one  in  all 


'  It  is  declared  and  ordered  hereby,  Deeember  seventh  Ifi  |o   nnr^nr,!;..,,  t^  d  „  r 

ZTJr  1  ';,•'  ":"'"''  *^"S""-'  ^^^^^^  o"ly  aborme'uoned  .  .  a  P^w^e  1  d  toT 
freeholders  by  the  towne  and  to  have  proportionable  ri^ht  in  all  waste  a  ds  eomr^o  s 
and  nvers  undisposed,  and  such  as  by,  Iron,,  or  under  then,,  or  aV'y  o    t    r^  T  U^^ 

Sirtit^u^ a  Sell:-" ''''''-'' '--  ^"-'  -  -^  '^^  ^^n:^:-rrg/z 

TIic  number  of  proprietors,  ninety-one  originally,  was  snhscniicntlv 
mercascd,  cither  by  grant  or  purchase,  tu  one  hiin.he.l  and  thirteen  to 
whom,  and  then;  heirs,  belonged  all  nnapproj.riated  jnn.ls,  and  so  forth 
inchuln^- Phim  island,  which  was  sold,  in  l,s-7,  by  the  proprietors,  to' 
Mc^es  rettingell,  osquire.  Of  the  original  j^ropridors,  some  returned 
to  Lngland,  some  removed  to  other  towns,  and  some,  who  remained 
sold  their  '  privilege  of  freehold,'  as  it  was  called,  to  others 

Those,  who  are  desirous  of  more  minute  infbriimtion  rospectinn-  the 
first  sett  cr.s  of  Newbury,  whether  grantees  or  not,  and  do  not  plnco 
implicit  laith  m  the  almost  universal  tradition,  that  Ihey  are  descended 
from  one  of  just  'three  brothers,'  who  came  over  with  the  lirst  settlers 
may  gratif^y  that  curiosity,  liy  examining  the  subsecjucnt  geuealon-y  It 
contains  all  the  names,  which  arc  to  be  found  on  record  'in  any  of' the 
town  books  prior  to  1700,  with  much  ad(htional  information,  which  has 
l)een  collected  from  various  sources,  with  more  care  and  labor  and  at- 
tended witu  greater  perplexity,  than  any  other  part  of  the  book.  Mtinv 
people,  I  suppo.se,  will  look  on  the  whole  collection  of  names    as  so 


A  P  P  E  N  I)  I  X 


2!i;j 


1  mm  piw     11   i'7/-wi    ,.. ■  i'ii'i(,s,    1101 


<'*<s  gi.'uciiJo-'ic.s,'  for 


«"mo,  will  bo  .hsmmoi,  '       '  ";.'n„lcllc  n(  n.  ru,„ily.      .So,„n,  1  pr,- 

tradirio,,  „u,l  o,lH  i,  ,  "      ,  ^  ■    ,  :'^'"^"  ^^/'-"'^  ''^^---^^  will.   .I...ir 

-ttor  pleasod  wi,i.  , ' s  ;^'  '^Z^^Z^''-  '''"?-.  "'''«  would  bo 
iHuuan  mrc,  aud  ou..  ut  Ihc  s  u  Uu  ^  o 'r""''''''^"^  •^*'  ^''^^  ^^'''°'" 
"<nth  cbuptor  oC  (;ouc^si  ^SI  cun  U^  /'rrrV'^  '•^=^''  ^''" 
wns  the  wl.olo  earth  ovorsprcu  '  ^s  I  v^  i  '''""''  ""''  °''  "'^"^ 
tho  Avhole  lino  of  do«,.,.„f Mr  . i      r  '^  ""^  ''""'"  «ii(.u£r|i  to  tiaco 

wi.idu.owiiuiadiuuros;dr;c;\:^';.'r'^ "'"'  '^^  ^'^-'^'^-^  ^^"■ 

1.;00  lieniamin.  ;m  Jan~SS"'  ~''  ^"S^"  ^"^''''  Samuel,  8  April.  1058,  Joseph,  IS  March 

aIS.  Vh':^l'l'  ''S'  '"T^  r'f'^^y ^--  ^"-^o to  1050. 


Ill 


294 


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l\( 


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ATKINSON,  .loihv 


lliic.  ItiSO,  ,1, 


Jilll.  |ii(>l.,ililv    ,.i,i  ,.|  John 


I'lAtnroli,  nt!M,. ».,(,„,, M,  {,,,.,„„„ 
t^,^'\Z;*  •'""°   '^"".  who,!.  .T  J 

•"IM.   I  /0,t. 

AVKR,  JOHN  tn.  Ruth  B 


IV.  ir,7;i,  s 

"f'lill,  I   Aliiy,  HIS'.' 


imiii.l,  n;  .fan.  I<;7(!,  NalhnnW,  i'^ 


I.  ItU).-),  Th.',..l, 


«<'ii.  ni.  Siun 
ri',  s  Oct.  lii'.is.     If 


'iwi.  171).'..     Chil.— Sii 


Chil,— ThouiiM, 

I)    111.    willow     ll.lllllilh 


rii,  (1  Nov.  1700,  lliiMimh.ai 


A  VKR,    rilO.M.AS  m    I  1^"     "'^'^VV'Tf  K  '^  ^'"•'  '"'^"• 
l''!'<».  M-lH-f.hol,  .1  April    ••"•(        "    *^'"'— Abmham,  18  June,  1.188,  Sara,  29,  Ai.<r. 

BACI||Ij.;r,  Rp,V  sTl'i>iiPvi   •    i-     i     , . 
went  to  r.ynn,th,u,r,.i„  K  I  'ir,;!?,  ,""'''''1'"',  ''">".  r'xno  to   Hoston  .',  Juno,  1033. 

ho  livod  iu  I'nrl^n.oulh,    I  L"o    i  Fn!        1    "  """I"'"!."'  I''"-';     I'.'.m  1.;.17  to  um 

John  VVin^'ofSan.lwich  \V    .  L       '""''"Pl'"r  IImssov.   Dnhonih,  who  tn 

aM.IVVilli.^„gNXV.     '^ 
BACHILKR,  JOIi\  „      ,, ,      r  ,^   L  Mf  lion.     f,,.,.  Lo\vi.s'.s  History  of  Lynn. 
BAIXJFR    (  ir  !.'<   V     «'Miliiii;,  m.  Siiru  I'ooro  10  Xov.  lUDti,  '  ' 

Jlui^'^'ol-  ";^X:S;.:;:;;l,J'••;l■.^•-^    "'•'•  'ii^  win.  F.:ii..h..th  w«, 

nAD<;EH,  RIc/l\R|)TuI  N'AT    ANIEI  h^  Y."?  '""■"  =*"  •'"'"''  l'"^- 

Nathr.niel'.s  wile  was  Hannah  ^'°"'"''  '"  ^''''■'•'  ^«"  »"  Newbury  1033. 

Ch.i._.rohn,  b.  1  April,  u;r  ,  nd;i \    '■    , hn  1  ' /^r"',  "''"•  »«"''  '"""ly  ■^^■ 

1(1  .Ian.   I(,7(J,  Marv    -  \Uv    i,."vim  i         ''''''"''''''-'' ^'         7'1,  Nathaniel 

'^"!;>!^ir^;;?r;:;;:?H?;.„^;::lr'-r;^:;.^  o-  >'^oi.  chii,-,T„hn. .0 

liail  sii  chil.lrcn  '""  °''  "'"**"'  ""■  ^^'''y •  ^'^'^  moved  to  Charlestown  and 

'cESh?;^^j;;^;!i5^;P;f  j;;|y  -  ^-nt  27  March.  1003. 

10U8,Mehotubel,Au,^17().,   Kdi    3    .^.W  '^'lio'     m"''  '«''«'  ""'"*"•  ^'  ^^'^''^h. 
nos,  Samuel,  14  A.i.M?      'Ann        '  I.      Wi o"'-^-      l'^'"'  \^^  ^''^'y-  ^'^ 
He  then  moved  to  Norwich   Con.    vvl  ,.  n  I'l  ."  ^^'^°''^'  P'ol'^'bly  in  17M. 

BAILEY,  JOHN  .sen.  weuvc'  nom  Ch    ,  L       V'"^  ''","'  -■'  ^^'^f*-'''-  l^'^- 

quid,  now  Bristol.  Me.    ^Au  I  ui'W      T'    rs^  ^'"^  shipwrecked  at  Pern- 

where  he  died  3  Nov.  1C„51      ="  '  '"  ^ilisb.iry,  thenco  to  Newbury  in  lOf.O, 

Chil.-Rebecea,  ICll,  Jolul    ^M^  ,    n  Z7^i  '-?•  r  ""  ''''■''  ^^"''^  ^' »'  "^"-'d  'S- 
lOr.2,  Sara,  17  Au"  H  .M  Josmih    1  ^4,  ,  I   ,',    c   ,'^'  "  •'""''•  '•'"^'^'  •'"^^ua  d.  7  April 

1053,  Isaac,  oo  Jufy,  105,'  Ra£l  l^^'oit  Ifir  .'  tT/!'  '.r  f'^'"'  ^'''•'"'  •'"^''"''-  ^^  J^'  b 
lOtiS,  Rebecca.  '  '  ^     "*='•  ^'^°''  ^"^"1',  3  Aug.  Kiiir.,  and  d.  20  Sept. 

1723,  aged  75.     Chil.-R;becca  "t  Or,^'i"p'^ ''',''"''  ''''"''''  ''y  the  Indians,  Oct. 
1078,  Joseph,  2S  Jan.  lOsT,  Eat  'ist,"irs^,"n '''"■,■'  n'^.'^''  ''''^-  "'"''n,  10  'Sept. 

Mary,  o' J^l^-  lot^'Lac"  "oe^'VI^Vr''' SW  ''"'  'l^'^  ^"^  i7  «^P'' ' «'--^-     Chil.- 
BAILEY,  ISA\C  sorrnf  Tnhn    •  c  *"-'^3'Pcndi.v,  letter  C. 

1094.     He  m"  R^cTL'    et'5' Sep^ no5'  ""^VV'  ^"".?A  ^If '  ^^o  died  1  April, 
Oct.  1685,  David,  12  Dec  1087  luZh   i     f„i     V^^^^^^^       '*"  ^'-•^-  1''^^.  Joshua    30 

BARBER,  THOMAS  ™.  A»o  Cl,a,.  sv  AoSi,  leVL^fs  „„  Thorn.,  b.  ,6  F.b 
BALLARD,  WILLIAM  b.  in 


estown  and 


A  I'  ••  i;  .N  u  I  X . 


2{);> 


17. 


,  III  Api 

1*  N..c„n.f  wKi..,  Mary  Hoyi', 
(h,-.Vhify,   in  (),t.   I, if, 

I  .h  II  ui  >t>tl..._      lit  ' 


Cli. 
July, 
Altty, 


<!■  I  iM.iicli,  |(iS7 
S.'|)|       - 
17,- 
BA 

"-.vrs  -iiri^r;!.;;  ,?i-"S.i ■ " .,.    : ; TT'" 

icfco    I  1        ..  .        '  ' '"V,  1  /  I ,  iiL'ciM      n.      II         .-   ''"""'i    in.  fliiirv   Rust  oo 
BATi;  iVirilor  l7>f ""  "'"^  "^■'""  '"  '"''••  "  '  ""'^  ''^'^  3'ears  old 

"ft'-.S!;:;!'  ■'"™-  - "»'.  «.■  *.»..  K,„„ ,..  .„„„ .,«, '  ' '  •  "T 
^'^;:;i s^^ir^p"^^f?'^d^:i „.,.,  ,„ ,  , 

anna  ■>!  Ami)    i,  -.i   ;.         ,    '-''•— ''"I'li.  ll)  .Sent   lois   TJ„i,       "■•-nj.  n"<l  widow  of 
.  la  KI^,  JOJLN  d.  01  the  small  po.v  ^1  July.  1678. 


f 


<ii? 


39G 


'V  IM'  E  N  D  I  X  , 


""'v^k  '''''^^^"'  ■"•  ^'-''^'h  P-^t-  27  Feb.  mo.    His  son  William  o, 
'' M^^SS  J"°^^^  -"•  -  -^'y  -ttlo,  died  in  1.30.     Ch.-Tho.as  and  a 


li^-ni,  b.  27  May,  l(i,i,'5.  Rull  '  1  "^^^^  ir„r/  T^^ii^  I  ^';""i^°n.  ^^  Nov.  1050.     Wil- 
1071,  Elizabeth    8  Nov      fill    s' n    ?  Ar^^     fr- ;'''t!?''  ^^'7'  ^'^''-  '>"''  ''•   '^  J"-'e. 
,^  July,  lOSo      William  ,1.  .'lo  M  Ir ch     0-'  I   tt     '.;/a,""",'"^-  '^'  ''"'y'  ^O^'"^'  Joseph,  8 
BOND,  JOHN  m  H.wtnr  t  ,1        "' ,       '      ''*  '"■  '"  ^'ari^li,  101*  .  *    ' 

HaveVhill"X.  t  U  7  '"'^h     " 'h^'Vii  T  ""''V')^  "='^ ""  ^^^'^y.  thonco  to 
May,  ifi.r:>,  Joseph,  M  A,  d  '  ir^5' T]'!     .'  I-Vr-,  '-'-"'. ?'"'""^'-'^^^'"<^h  '""i  'I-  -'■■' 

BOYNTON,  CALEB  m.  Mary  Mooro  .1  J.,„e,  107:3.     His  son  William  b.  .4  July,' 
BO  nrrON,  JOSHUA  m.  Hann.h  Ba.net  0  April,  1078.   His  son  William  b.  .0  May! 

'SP  'S'^A^jS^^^Zn^''  ''"'■    ^^ -^-'^""'  ^  ^^^y.  ^^^^'.  and 

b.^y  5^!f:S,  ilS''  hIs  ti^'::,i:'Sb'K  r'^^^  ^°  "'^^^^^  ^^-^•>'-  "^  ^ew. 

BRAUING,  JAMES  m.  Ha  nah  Jjoc V  11  Op    1  ■  -  "''T"  V  ^"'^'''^"''  J*''- 

<tnnvned  17  Oct.  10S7  ''  '^  ^•"'^'  ^"'h'"!"-''-  ~':J   i^cpt.  1083,  and  was 

i'Kl  "-Sia  !i:^  jine'  i'fi^f ''  "^  ^'^^"^^  ^"^^y-  daugbterVibhn  Emery  -1  May, 
BC.'^BY    \TrrMn    \«  ,         ;.  '  ?''^^' l'"'''- Ki'th,  27  Dec.  1070 

witi! M iy d'2 ii!^' ,;^5:"  Ch !::^.:;;^S"i^ '"  "^? ^""^ ^'^'"""''  ^^■'^•-^'-  "i« 

Jan.  |r,S7;a-,.,lM)  -^'ai),  lo.J.,  l.a.ie  a„j  p,.,„,^,j^_     Ho  d.  by  a  liill  S 

K-a  Snn     10  ^Inv^;:?^^;;    .;';!:  ;      ;;Z:  -!'  ^'-  '^  Apn!  1070.  Hannah  b.  .^Il'd. 

I'iSO.  .Joseph.  2S  Sept.  1.171    F  a.ie  s    7  ^    t h    u-  "'l^  '•''"'y'  "'^^-  ='"^'  ''•  "  ^''^^'^h. 
BROWNMO,  FK  WCIS  son  of    ',;';,  n       ', ''  '^'•".I'lmn.,  22  .Xp.il.  JOM. 

BROWNE,   RICHARH   Neuhmy,  io.i5     His  will.    r.Mi.i     ,     ,     ■, 

S:™JlJ;'i^'iS?;i";;rS,:;r?:V''^""'-"-- 

11I!(1\V\,   IIKV.  lilCHAiiilmiinl    IJirl,,,,!   ,„    M,.    11     ,i      „,  ■      , 

Martha,  10  Feb.  170 ,.  .,oh„, .  'mI:;:;:;  "i^^t^^i^i^;^  ?. '  j!;i:'' K^^a;:';;!- 


1005, 


Ch 

Dee.  1700 
l!RO\V\.  JOH.V  son   of  — 

li'i'O.  Mmtv.  s  Maieh,  10.;-> 
BROWN,  JOSH  I'A  son  of  JJichai, 


"••  Maiy  Woodman  20  Feh.  lor,0.     Ch.-.ludilh,  3  D,,.c. 
-ni.  n,.  Sara  Sawyer  15  Jan.   lOtlO.     Ch.-Joseph, 


'.o,^'I-?^5J"«h"n,18Ma 


P  Oct.  J 678,  S 


iiilOWN,  ISAAC 

''^7.1.      Cli._R 


'fimiicl,  4  S( 


APPENDIX. 

1C7I,  Tristram,  21  De 


so 


'|)l.  UiS7, 


n  of  Thomas,  ni.  R 


e-  1(372,  Sara,  5  D 


PROWN,  THOMAS.     '^'  '''"■•'  '^'^"' 


hpcca  Bailey  oo  ^ 


297 

'ec.  1676,  Rutl,, 


~'lJ  Apr.  ,  lii!i7   Ahiv   ,    V"'''"^'"' 


omas,  (5  Sf.pf.  loo-l,  R 


"ff-  JOGl.     He  d.  13 


'II  no,  170: 


Ly( 
BKOVVn;7ames  m.  „.„, 

BROWN,  JAMK 
Rchckab  B 


29  J 


Ch.~h 


May, 


aac  b 


i;.,    r7.„       "■  -'■^  June 

iia  tniery  1090.     Ch.— J 


"HP,  1700. 


^fbecca,  l.J  March,  1607 
'  and  d.  June,  10<J6,  Sara, 


:inna(i 


'one 


Ch.— He 


•^seph,  1  Nov.  1609,  Fra 


ncis,  23 


■I'h.iyMay.'iuSo,  ii 


;  m.  3rary  Edwards  28  An 


Mjaniir 
'i  Hannah,  16  No 


i    AFarch,   lOSl,   Abrah 


lam, 


V-  16S7,  John  d.  18 

„,f  July  ]700^'^''""'*°""'-^°«huasen.m.  Elizabeth—      n       u 

BROWN,  JOSE  rrirn  Sir.  «      .  '     Daughter  Elizabeth. 

CAI.KE,  MR.  JOHN  „;  D,.rr-i,   ^'"'  '^^^'h^'ii^i-  1  Au^  (7oo 

c.?sr:;'i,i;5;; si"  "  ""'  "'■ ""'- "-  S.-«„, , .,.,  „„, 


-  daughter  Elizabeth  b.  5 


■•<  Jan.  1079   I'hilin  ■  ■'  S  '     '?'.  ""•  ^'•''^^beUi  Bin--  ev  ^T  \, '  "  ^f '^-  J^"''- 
^HASK,  I)A.\IFrs.;n  oFa  'T"'  ^''='^'''^-  ^"        ^'  ''"'■     Ch.-Willia,n, 

,,^,, ;,   M  e.abei,  I9,Jan.  U;.:,,  Judi.h,  ,0  ^h^mS^J'';}'>^OJa,.  mi,  S. ; 
i'l^SR,  JOSEPIf  son  of  '     '  °''  '•'^^^  ^''^^ei.  13 


.n.Al.ignil  Thurston,  8  Nov.  1699 
^l'-lhun.as,20Nov.  l700,Abel,25Feb. 


"!A-;Si;5rrL    Sa 

CHEATHR,\j()[(v  v' '"■•^"•■''i"''  '"'''"Tof  Bradford   I-n■^ 

VI  1  1.      I  ,   ri,.  ■-  _'  I'miii    —      —  I  'I,  C  _ 

1C96 


m 


Cyprian ru      c 

'  •     *-"  — Sara,  10  ter 


'«nnah,  7  Aug. 
Abimil.  13 


298 


APPENDIX. 


■S    . 


^S^^rh'^^n^'t"'!?!?^".    Ro'^bury  1035.     Newbury  ICM.    His  wife  was  Mir 
w       w.J^:.  li-  ,    ,    ^°"  of  John,  m.  Hannah   Noves   11  Mav    IWi      rii      Pnfor   r 

'Au,^m'/Bfnj2n.^0jTn.S  —     ^'-^-^^^■'^'    ^^  March,  1003,  and  d.  7 

CUFN^Y    mnl^^  'm  "'■  ^rt'^' •"■•  ."^-  "''"""^ •     Son  Daniel  b.  ir  July,  i099 

Mary  M  Nov  n,,'r  ^^'^^  ^"^""^  '   ^'"'^^'  l^^".     Ch.-Edmund,  29  June!' 1696,    ' 

rr  Fr^'  nR"?t^^\?(  ^°''^'y-  '"■  A""  Cheney  170Q. 
5o'^.?wh^r^;he  "e'^?„To04t:ritic!''^^i'^'"^  to  Newbury  1038, moved  to  Boston 

'DtSefE'iJzJblt'h'b'I^V  J^'ly^'IcSr'-   ^^"-   ""■   ^"^^^^'^    '^°i^P-'   ^^  D-'   1«85. 
CLARK,   THOMAS   son  of  !\ath.   sen.   m.   Sara  .     Ch-Sara    '>,   d^,    ,,00 

^Mt'cb'^S/^H/f^'^'  ""■   ^^""i^    ''°^«  '"  M"ch,    ieS3.     Son  Edmund  b    3 
COATFS  THOMA^       iTf°'.t'  ^^  """P^""^  N.  H.  and  had  seven  other  children 
COLEmI'n   TH Am a%"  I  f'"^^  ''?i"  '■""  ^'^'"P  l^'  '-'^  March,  1099. 

K  rxT.X° 'Strsr '■sriS°^r ^°'»"i'*^^ 

''Kcl.^h^.r^^'^^'  "'•  S-a-a— .     Ch-Ephraim,  3  June.  1701.  Hannah, 
CO?ff-«^-vm"^>^/J.^t?'^  Salmon,  0  Jan.  1703. 
in'D™ons'  .re  G^eaV    iH^i ^^?i?r  't?  ''"'  V^'^'''  .^f  "^»>-  ^-"  "^  ^'vmouth 


!  wife  was  Mar- 
,  10  Nov.  104',>, 
348,  John,  Mary, 

—Sara,  11  Sept. 
b.  10  July.  1070, 
t.  lOiU. 

Ch.— Peter,  f> 
KUiO,  Nathaniel, 
Oct.  1081,  Han- 

d.  7  Jan.  1073. 

29  June,  ICOO, 

,  1093,  and  d.  7 

b.  l<'July,  1099. 
29  June,  1096, 


jved  to  Boston 
eian  in  Boston. 
Iter  of  Henry 
005,  Nathaniel, 
V,  T)  July  1073, 
ibeth,  15  May, 
ed  on  board  of 
g.  1090  aged -10. 

15  Dec.  1085. 

25  Dec.   1C90, 
Mary,  10  Aug. 

f  7  Nov.  1095. 
1700,  Sara,  7 

,  0  Feb.  1084, 
Elizabeth,  10 

Edmund  b.  3 
;r  children. 

was  born  in 
Fames,  which 
)•  The  same 
11  July,  1051, 
U'ter  ICSO  he 
1  May,  1040, 
rhe  last  was 


• — Dorcas,  b. 
701,  Hannah, 


of  Plymouth 
in.  Tristram 
England  in 
sisters,  Eii- 
,  James  and 
r,  thence  to 
bury,  where 
659,  a  com- 


APPENDIX. 


399 


pany  was  formed  in  Salisbnw  „  u 


COFFIN  MARY  dai     f  T  ■  ^^' 

a  Mav  i7ni    r  ,"  ^^^'*'  l-'anie  ,  Mav  10  Uiori  pi„      ■'^  i,      ^°>  ^^^1,  Lvdia 

c6ffYn' STeI'Tifn"''  ^'r.'?"'  J'*"'  ^'  1^05.  '  ''"''  ^^""'°''  M«y  16,  1098,'joaLa: 

-May,  1  .s,  a  per.od  of  «ve  years  and  nine  ^^^^^i  ^^^.i^ri/Sl^i'l^ 

1723  172S 


Peter,      -        .       '. 

Tristram,    - 

Elizabeth  Greenleaf, 

James, 

Mary  Starbuck,   - 

John, 

Stephen, 


118 

-  319 
251 

-  187 
119 

■   04 
19 

1138 
444 


S3 
225 
200 
102 
90 
53 
53 

871 


50 
127 
89 
100 
30 
17 
19 


103 
336 
259 
241 
117 
fi!) 
04 


114   )i-js 


300 


A  P  P  E  x\  D  I  X  , 


The  first  column  shows  Iho  number,  who  were  horn  before  Au-nrst  hot  the  second 
^and'd^^^^^,v'VrJ,/''"'V•-',•  ^"ii^  '"  l*^"^"-  '^'™''^''  Newbury  with  the  first  settlors 

^mfn^'l^S  Spn!^"'uftf,'^ir'°"  f  ^^"^T^  '"^  ^'^'"^'^  ^^^'-^y  31  May,  1078.  Ch.-Benii- 
fr««  M  "^ VoV'^"'  """""^'  10  -March,  1083,  Moses,  4  An./ 1080  Sara  I'JAnHl 
loss,  Mary,  IS  Sept.  1091,  Mercy,  2.  Oct.  1093,  John,  0  Juner VS^'judUh,  J  j!..'.'; 

1701  InilSl.SI'oT'''''''^'^-  '''"'  ^"'^'^^''^h'  ~  ^'^^-  '''''  Sara,  19  Feb. 

L.uuKlJ;,OUb,  WILLIAM  tl.  ;n  Doc.  10*1 

CROMLON  alias  CROMWELL,  GILES  an  early  settler  in  Newbury 

wile d.  .4.T„n„  uu^     Ho  m^ Alice  Wiseman   10  Sept.  1048,  who  . 

"ram  25  Nov.  1CG2,  and  Philip,  who 


His  first 
<l.  0  June, 


wife 

1009.     Cb.— Argentine,  who  m."  Benjamin   Cr 

was  a  butcher  in  Salem.     (Jilos  d.  25  Feb  107,3 

iiVtts^rlJ.^'  ^"  ^^^^^ '"  "--'""^  "•'-^he':;ici^ni^s3,i^'^^"£";;i;^ 

B»^Nri/Sn:^s'--s-^'t."i,i,!^  s^ls;  TZ: 

abeU,  15  July,  1097.     His  w.fc  Sara  d.  0  'yi.rcU,\,,^'iieT^ll^jLZ  hII (d<^t 

^■^T^^^\^,^^-'^^^'  '°"  ^'^  J°h"'  •"•  ^'lizabeth .     Ch -Elizabeth  7  Anril  iMn 

John,  17  May,  1092,  Mary,  20  July,  1C94,  Ephraim,  20  MaVch ''"97!  Joseph, "'o  S. 

DA\IS,  ZACHARY   son  of  John.  m.  Judith   Brown    4   Feb    insr      ru      t„^-.u  1 
r,  A?,V  W.fVVi-.'J  ^"•-  1 '"■-•  ^'''^^'^^'l''  •''^■'  ApriU0S7      ''"^-  ''"'•     Ch.-Juduh,  7 

Sa\f^)rVh    vr/M.'lr'"''''.''  '"•  ''V  ^''">'  ^'^  ^'''- 1 'O*^' 

early  as  1007     He  m  ^        was  born  .n  London  in  1053,  and  came  to  Newbury  as 

Thnrlow      Ch      W  ii^ T7~'  n'  '", '^'''','  1^  9'^t'  '078.    His  second  wife  was  Sarah 

0^^-o"T1  '','"'"•  ,'^'"y'^\'.'^''''''^'-''l  J''"-  l*^^^".  John,  8  Dec.  1081  and  d 
Oct.  1,  1 ,  ,2.  aa;cd  92.  Jonathan,  ]S  May,  1085  Thoma';  1 1  Spnt  inaa  v^  ■  ,  r 
March.  1691,. Joseph   IMh.y   1001  Gliomas,  11    bept.  1088,  Francis,   15 

"SSSM~ -^"^^"^":  ^-^'^ 

^fh'y'hl^^^^'}yP'°^''^b-'^Vrenchmnn,cam(>  to  Newbury  from  Portsmouth  in 

lit  V      ^i'„'""-  -'"'■-?,'•>'  ""'^  t"'"  children.    His  wife  <lied  20  A^-  lo'l     In  ioo" 

09"pauT  fJ  Oct'ooo"  o:;fr."' r'-'"  '""!,'  V-^'-'K.Charles,   Oct^and  died  in  IS 

DOGGETT.  JOHN  m.  22  Juno'  \<?<i' 

^Hem   Hanilh  Ro]fT."A^"'ir;i"  »r''*f'- ^"«''^"''' ^''^4.  came  to  Newbury  10,39 
We  w.  Hannah  Rolfe  3  May,  J  617,  who  d,  10  Nov.  1078.     His  second  wife  was  Haa 


APPENDIX 


301 


oi^^io^lf  •  JS^i  °:i^    S-J^:^.  -- P"y--n.     He  m.  Mrs.  Mnry  Gerrish  03 
;-.  Sa.  n  Bee,  lOSo/^oUA^IpJ^'^sSr  bi^^^^^oJ^i'lJ,  ^^  ^C^ 

Hannali.  5  Dec.  IGsOohn  "  Feb     184  st'    ,   ,P'''  ^''^"'  ^»™.  H  Feb.  UISI 
(^Dec.  inso,  Ma,.v',  1  JuK-  loai    '  '"''•  ^"'P''^"'^  ^''-  J'^*^^.  Stephen,  1C87,  Joseph, 

m'^Lfc^Ja^-^h'wT^-^fi^^^^^^  Ha.„p,on,  N.  IT     Ho 

B5!£?'Si!i:vLiro;'iH?^^^^^^^ 

lOOi.   Beni.mi„,2July  170,        '   '''^'•^''  ^PP^'"- 13  Way,  1U90,  Samuel,  IJune 
^.  ?Slr  S^^^^S  SuS"^^  ^'■-'^'^''^"^'     CH-Apphia,  .S  Feb.  lOSs! 

Joh„,S££^/oS;rndtw^^^''C"ir7"'s— •,  l^h-J-eP^.-  ^^9  Sept.  1693 
John.  2^"6i  noo  mI4  ">°m'  t'T  'o-w^m'"'"""  Huntington  28  Dee.  1099      Ch 

thence  to'Newb '!;.'^1^;4^^^^h  "^e^i  IJ^Se'"^,? \';'  ^""'-,^' '"  ^^'^^^  *o  Roxbury. 
n,.i:  .  Ch.-Shnbael,  17  Feb.  lO:'  T  em  ail  14  Sen["'l r^ "ii''"'  '^^  '"«"'«''  "^o^ 
Richard,  13  Jan.  1050,  William   isjan    inw   PiM     '1       ^'^f'    Hannah,  7   Nov.  1047 

1?S  iif 'h^5S';^i"  ^Hlfsoi;^';"''  ""^•'^^  *°  =-*-'  -here  he  died  25  M.v 
;5-.e„t  I.  Mas^eJ^ri^E.^^^  H^d^^-^S-aanJ^^ 

^i^'J^  J'J^^^eaT^  ?lr""S'  "'^  ^^  f  "-^-^  Ap;,o:  1.  n1  ' 
Richard,  -21  July,  and  d  Serft     079  hI  rV'"^'.'"!-  ^'"^  ^ug-  1674,  John,  s  Au^  i]°l' 


pr"';ri'"  "'^"""'.  sen.     Thomas  live'  in 
Ch.-Mehetabel,  1.  Jan.  1640,  and  Jane,  v.  no 

Sr    li.st  of  graduates. 


DUM.lTEIi ■  THOMAS  ,, ,1  STt'pm r v  r''i.'° ■'"'■  '«"■ 
EMERY,  JOHN  „,po4;,''S^°  "Tn'.h'r.'lC'S  l^'J.";'  t  "..""y  ' 


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'Hry  in  1035. 


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He  died  ,'t  Nov.  108:!,  nijed  fir).  Ch.— John,  born  in  England,  about  1639.  '  Ehmtzfr, 
ii  daughter,  10  Sept.  1048,  being  Monday  morning  two  houres  before  day,'  Jonathan. 
]3May,  10,V,>.  o  j  a  :, 

EMERY,  JOHN  son  of  .Tohn,  sen.  m.  Mary  Webster,  widow  of  John  Webster,  of  In- 
swich,  yO  Oct.  lOno.  Ch.— Mary,  31  June,  1053,  Hannah,  3(i  April,  lil.')l,  John,  13 
Sept.  1050,  Bethia,  15  Oct.  1058,  Sarah,  30  Feb.  1001,  Joseph,  3;i  .March,  100;t,  Stephen, 
0  Sept.  1000,  Abigail,  10  Jan.  1009.  Simucl,  30  Dec.  1070,  Judith.  0  Feb.  1073,  Lydia, 
19  Feb.  107.5,  Elizabeth.  8  Feb.  1080,  Ji  siah,  38  Feb.  1081.  John  Emery,  d.  in  1093, 
aged  05.  Mary,  his  widow,  d.  38  April,  UiOl. 
EMKRY,  JONATHAN  son  of  John,  sen.  m.  Mary  Woodman  39  Nov.  1070.  Ch.— 
Mary,  35  Sept.  1077,  Jonathan,  3  Feb.  1079,  David,  38  Sept.  1083,  Anthony,  13  Nov. 
lOSl,  Stephen,  13  Jan.  10S7,  and  d.  8  Oct.  1088,  Sara,  18  Dec.  lOSS,  Stephen,  31  June, 
1093,  Edward,  10  Nov.  1094. 
EMERY,  JOHN  son  of  John,  jun.  m.  Mary  Sawyer  13  June,  1083.  Ch.— Mary,  25 
Dec.  1084,  John,  39  Sept.  1080,  Josiah,  19  Dec.  1088,  Daniel,  15  June.  1093,  Lydia,  39 
April,  1098,  Samuel,  35  Oct.  1099.  His  wife  Mary  died  3  JVov.  1099.  He  then  m. 
Abigail  Bartlet,  37  May,  1700. 
EMERY,  STEPHEN  son  of  John,  jun.  m.  Ruth  Jaques.  39  Nov.  1C93.  Ch.— Anna, 
10  Oct.  1093,  Sarah,  1  Jan.  1090,  Ruth,  10  June,  1098,  Mary,  15  Dec.  1700,  Judith,  35 
Feb.  1703,  Abigail,  4  May,  170.5. 

EMERSON,  LT.  JOHN  m.  Judith .     Ch.— John,  25  June,  1090,  Daniel,  15  Jan. 

1093,  Benjamin,  2  March,  1090,  Samuel,  3  Nov.  1099,  Jonathan,  10  Aug.  1703. 
EWILL,  JOHN  d.  31  July,  lOSO. 

EVANS,  PHH^IP  m.  Deborah .     Ch.— William,  13  Oct,  1087,  Elizabeth,  8  Nov. 

10S9,  John,  30  April,  1093,  born  in  Ipswich. 
FANNING,  WILLIAM  m.  Elizabeth  Allen,  24  March,  1668.     Ch.- Joseph,  1  Jan. 
1609,  Benjamin,  3  April,  1071,  William,  10  Nov.  1673,  James,  24  July,  1670,  Elizabeth, 
6  March,  1081. 
FAY,  HENRY  weaver  d.  30  June,  1655. 

TOLL ANS BEE,  THOMAS  m.  Sara .    Ch.— Francis,  22  Oct.  1677,  Hannah,  10 

April,  1680. 

FOLL ANSBEE,  THOMAS  jun.  m.  Abigail .   Ch.— Mary,  4  April,  1695,  Thomas, 

38  March,  1097,  Francis,  13  ilune,  1699,  William,  14  March,  1701. 
FOLLANSBEE,  SARA  d.  0  Nov.  108;). 

FIELD,  JOHN  m.  Sara .     Son  John  b.  19  Jan.  1095. 

FIFIELD,  WILLIAM  came  early  to  Newbury,  and  in  1039  removed  to  Hampton, 

where  he  'died  18  Dec,  1700,  aged  above  80,' 
FITTS,  alias  FITZ,  came  from  fpswich,  to  Newbury.    He  m.  Sara  Ordway  8  Oct. 

1654.     Ho  died  2  Dec.  1072.     She  died  24  April,  1067. 
FORMAN,  JOHN  had  children,  Abigail,  10  Nov.  1076,  John,  5  Oct.  1678. 
FLOOD,  PHILIP  came  from  Guernsey  to  New  Jersey,  thence  to  Newbury  about 

1680.     He  m.  Mary .     Ch,— Joseph,  12  May,  1684,  Hester,  15  May,  lOSO,  Mary, 

IS  July,  16S8,  Henry,  14  Aug.  1689,  John,  11  Nov.  1093,  Richard,  25  Feb.  1090,  Ra- 
chel, 18  March,  1608,  Philip,  24  April,  1700,  Benjamin  2  May.  1705. 
FRAZER,  COLLIN  m.  Anna  Stuart  10  Nov.  1085.  Ch,— Symon,  19  Aug.  1080,  John, 
1  April,  10S8,  Hannah,  31  Aug.  1693,  John,  12  June,  1094,  Ebenezer,  37  July,  1096, 
Gershom,  8  Aug.  1097,  Nathan,  8  Jan.  1700,  Abigail,  31  April,  1701,  Lawson,  14  Sept. 
1704.  a  1  .  .  1 

FRYER,  MR.  NATHANIEL  of  Boston  in  1657,  then  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.  m.  Mrs. 
Dorothy  Woodbridge  of  Newbury  Oct.  1679. 

FRY,  JOHN  wheelwright,  came  early  to  Newbury,  thence  to  Andover  in  1645,  where 
he  died  in  1098,  aged  93  years  and  7  months.  Ch.— John,  Samuel,  James,  Benjamin, 
and  Elizabeth. 

FREEZE,  JOHN  m.  Mary  Merrill,  3  June,  1097. 

FRANKLIN,  WILLIAM  blacksmith,  in  Ipswich,  1034,  Newbury,  1635,  in  Boston, 
1643  or  3,  in  Roxbury,  1644,  and  was  hung  for  murder  the  same  year.  He  m.  Alice, 
daughter  of  Robert  Andrews.    Ch.— William,  John,  Benjamin,  Eleazerand  Elizabeth. 

GARLAND,  JACOB  son  of  John,  of  Hampton,  m.  Rebecca  Scars,  17  June,  1683. 
Ch. — Jacob,  30  Oct.  1083,  Rebecca,  3  Dec.  1083,  and  eleven  others  born  afterward  in 
Hampton. 

GAGE,  SARA  widow,  died  7  July,  1680. 

GALE,  DANIEL  of  Salem,  m.  Rebekah  Swett,  1700. 

GERRISH,  CAPT.  WILLIAM  came  from  Bristol,  England,  to  Newbury,  about  1640. 
He  m.  Mrs.  Joanna  Oliver,  17  April,  1645,  widow  of  Mr.  John  Oliver.  In  1078  he 
moved  to  Boston,  and  died  in  Salem,  9  Aug,  1687,  aged  70,  His  wife  Joanna  d.  14 
June,  1677.  Ch.— John.  15  May,  1646.  Abigail,  10  May,  1647,  William,  6  June,  1648. 
Joseph,  23  March,  1650,  Benjamin,  13  Jan.  1652,  Elizabeth,  10  Sept.  1054,  Moses,  9 
May,  1656,  Mary,  0  May,  I  '158,  Anna,  18  Oct,  1660,  Judith,  10  Sept.  1662. 


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GOODALE,  MRS  ELIZABETH  from  Yarmouth,  died  in  Newbury   8  April    1647 

gSoDR 'nrP 'VVI?  /"r-A^^^T^?""  "^"tP""'  J"^'"na  who  m.  M.  John  Oliv^?     '  ' 

hnavf  ^d'j^ohn  nln^'^*'  '^'^  ^°"^  ^^"J^'"'"-  J-^Ph,  and  Jeiemiah,  who  were  sons 

mund  14  r.mp  lAo  'ak-  Y'/i'o'''-^°^"'  ^•'  ^^P''  ^'^^'''-d.  0  Mar.  1750,  ag.  89,  Ed- 
^?wTS'  m-^uni^"  1°".°^  ^'"''""'  "^-  ^f"y  Adams  h-^  Nov.  1G60.  Ch  _ 
""se^Jfrna^^'  EI^MUNDm.  Hannah  D^le,  10  Nov,  170=.    His  son  Edmund  b.  2 

GOODRIDGE,  DANIEL  m.  Mary  Ordw^,  1098.     His  daughter  Mary  b.  19  Sept. 
^Jo1.?uVt°S  Wn-'''''^^^''="^^'J"'y'^''"^«-     Ch.-Susanna,  6  Oct.  1608 

io59,'iiL"„l*h,'SKmL:T'ilf"'^' '''''  ''''^^'^'^' ''  ^-^p^- 1*^'^--'  ^'-y.  ^-^  S 

gSoSwm'  f  SwARn  "''^^'^^';!^y  "••  «"^"""»  Wheeler  5  June,  1608. 
Jul,  S  ^^WAK^  '"•  Martha—.     Ch.-Sara,   30  April,' 1703,  Lazarus,  11 

^?r^^^  r'^''  ^\?,^^,^^  '"•  """"«'»  ^'^f'-.i^r  20  March.  1092.     Ch.-Hannah    18  Jan 
GRANT  JOHN  .n"'^'  '  K "'  ^''^'"^t  '  ^"'^y-  l^''^-  8"^^""^,  1 5  Jan.  "oi       '  ''  •^""• 

GRANTHAM.  ANDRE  Wd.  15  Dec  1008 

''fo™^^^'  ^^'  "^^^^  ''^'  ^"^  '"  162S.    He  resided  in  Newbury  from  1063 

GRANGER,  LAUNCELOT  m.  Joanna,  daughter  of   Robert  Adams    4  Jan    1014 


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11  Feb.  10158,  Edmund,  10  May,  Ui70,  Judith,  13  Oct.  167,1,  and  d.  19  Nov.  1078  M; 
0  Dec.  ir)7(i.     Mrs.  Eliziiliclli  Oreenlenf.lipd  19  Nov.  I(i7N.     Cunt.  Grrot 
Esther  Swett,  31  March,  ll'.79,\vho(l.  Hi  Jan.  1718,aKcd8l).     Hod.  1  Dec  1 


HIT, 


GRKENLEAF.   STRPHKN 


Ch.— Elizabeth,  l'.>  .fan.  1(178,  D 


pt.  Grrenleaf  m.  Mr? 

1.1  Dec.  ItliH),  aged  tiO. 

snn   ol  Stephen,  iti.   Elizabetii    (Jenish   !-'.'!   Oct.   U'lH). 


lie),  10  IVb.  l()8n,  Stephen,  ,"1  Aiii;.  and  d.   15  Oct. 


1(588,  William,  1  April,  and  d.  1.")  April,  lOSI,  .Joseph.  l"j  April,  UiSC,  Sara,  lU  July' 
1088,  Stephen,  'Jl  Oct.  IC.IM),  John,  -Jl)  Aug.  1093,  Benjamin,  14  Dec.  i(i95,  JVIoses,  '^4 
reb.  Ui08. 

GKEENLEAF.  JOHN  son  of  Stephen,  m.  Elizabeth   Hills,  V2  Oct.  1085.     Ch.— 
Ehzabelh,  .'iOJiily,  llihtUane,  10  Nov.  I(i87,  Judith,  l,')  ,Tulv,   ItiSO,  and  d.  .30   Sept 
If.iM)  Daniel,  •.'1  Dec.  l(i!»(),  I'aiker, -,'0  Feb.  1(195,  Martha,  ','3  April,   ltJ99,  Benian.ln; 
^'Jl  Nov.  1701.     He  died ','1  Jnne,  1734,  air.  7;.'.  »      >  '  J  i 

GRRENLEAr  SAMUEL  son  ol  Sleplien,  m.  Sara  Kent  1  March,  108(1.  Ch.— 
l)aniel,  JS  teb.  1087,  John,  13  Oct.  1088,  Stephen,  :J7  Aug.  1090,  Sarah,  3  Nov.  1092. 
He  d.  0  Au?.  1094.  aijed  'J9. 
GREENLEAF,  TR1STRA:\I  son  of  Stephen,  m.  Mai:?aret  Piper  1','  Nov.  1089 
Ch.— Nathaniel,  -,'5  Jan.  109-.',  and  d.  19  Dec.  1775.  ag.  84,  lOlizabeth,  10  .March,  1093, 
Stephen,  10  April,  1094,  Edmund,  ^fi  June,  1095,  Sarah,  27  March.  1097,  Judith,  ->8 
Sept.  1098,  Mary, -JS  Sepl.  1 1;99. 
GREENLEAF,  EDMCNI)  son  of  Stephen,  m.  Abigail  Somerby  'J  July  1091.  Ch  — 
Judith,  15  Dec.  109:.',  Rebecca,  b.  and  d.  -Jit  Sept.  109;t,  Abii;ail,  0  March,  1095,  Mary. 
19  Sept.  1097,  Rebecca,  :."J  Feb.  1700,  Edmund,  iO  i'el).  171)3 

GREELEY,  JOHN  m.  Eli/.abetli .     His  son  Parker  b.  20  Feb.  1095. 

HALE,  THO.AIAS  plovor.  with  his  wife  Tainosin,  alias  Thomasine.  came  to  New- 
bury in  1035     He  d.  21  Dec.  1082,  aged  78.     She  d.  30  Jan.  1083.     Ch.— Thomas   b 
]0.!.3,  John.  1030,  and  Samuel. 
HALE,  THOMAS  jun.  son  of  Thomas  sen.  m.  Mary  Hutchin.soii  of  Danvers    26 
Mny,  1057.     He  died  22  Oct.  108S.     Ch.— Thomas,  U  Feb.  1058,  Mary,  15  July  1000 
Abigail,8  April,  1002,  Hannah.  20  Nov.  1003,  Lydia,  17   April,   1000,  Elizabeth,  16 
Oct.  1008.  Joseph,  20  Feb.  1071,  Samuel,  0  June.  1074. 
HALE,  JOHN. son  of  Thomas,  sen.  m.  Rebecca  Lovvle  5  Dec.  1000,  who  d.  1  June 
1002.     He  m.  Sarah  Somerby  8  Dec.  1003,  who  d.  June.   1072.     His  third  wife  was 
Sariih  Symonds,  who  d.  19  Jan.  1099.     Ch.— John,  2  Sept.  1001,  Samuel,  15  Oct 
1004,  and  d.  1072,  Henry,  20  Oct.  1007,  Thomas,  4   Nov.  1008,  Judith,  5  July,  1070 
Joseph.  24  Nov.  1074,  Renjamin.  11  Aug.  1070,  and  d.  Aug.  1077,  Moses,  10  July,  1078! 
HALE,  SAMLEL  son  of  Thomas,  sen.  m.  Sarah  Ilsley,  21  July,  1073. 
HALE,  JOHN  jun.  son  of  John,  sen.  m.  Sarah  Ja(inos  10  Oct.  1083.     Ch  —Rebecca 
18  Feb.  1084,  John,  24  June,  1080,  Richard,  21   April,  and  d.   Sept.   Iii88,    Henry  28 
Aug.  1089,  and  d.  1092,  Richard,  9  Nov.  1090,  Stephen,  12  April,  1093,  Anne  and 
Mary,  3  .Ian.  and  d.  0  .Ian.  1701,  Anne,  24  Oct.  170,3. 
HALE,  CAPT.  THO.AIAS  son  of  Thomas,  jun.  m.  Sarah  Northend  10  May,  1082 
Ch.— Thomas,  9  iMarch,  10S.3,  Edna,  21  Nov.  1084,  Mary,  28  April,  1087,  Ezekiel,  13 
May,  1089,  Nathan,  2  June,  1091,  Sarah,  9  March,  1093,  Ebenezer,  21   April,  1095 
Daniel.  22  Feb.  1097,  Hannah,  7  June,  1099.  Joshua,  17  March.  1701. 
HALE,  HENRY  son  of  John,  m.  Sarah  Kelly  11  Sept.  1095.     Ch.— Thomas  15  Nov 
1090,  Sarah,  21  Oct.  1098,  Enoch,  11   Oct.  i702,  Enoch  and  Edmund,  7  Oct.  1703' 
Edmund  m.  Martha  Sawyer  JO  May,  1728.  and  d.  May,  1788  a^'ed  85 
HALE,  MR.  JOHN  alias  REV.  JOHN  of  Beverly,  m.  Mrs.  SaTah  Noyes  31   March 
1081,  and   Mrs.  Elizabeth    Clark  of  Newbury,  8  Aug.   1098.     She  was  widow  of 
Nathaniel  Clark,  and  daughter  of  Henry  Somerby. 

HALE.  JOSEPH  son  of  John,  m.  Mary ,  who  d.  10  Apr.  1753,  aged  75.     Ch.— 

Judith,  22  Sept.  1700,  Mary,  25  March.  1703.     He  d.  24  Jan.  1755,  aged  SO. 
HALE,  MR,  MOSES  m.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Diimmer  1704. 
HALL,  JOSEPH  m.  Mary  Mondy  1700.    Judith  was  born  22  Sept.  1700. 
HAYNES,  JONATHAN  m.  Mary  Moultoa  Jan.  1074.     Ch.— Mary,  14  Nov.  1075 
.Mary,  2  Oct.  1077,  Thomas,  14   May.  ]OSl),  Jonathan,  3   Sept.  1084.     He  afterward 
removed  to  Haverhill,  and  was  there  killed  by  tlio  Indians  22  Feb.  1098. 
HART,  MR.  LAWRENCE  m.  Dorothy  Jones  12   Feb.  1079.     Ch.— Lucy    31   Dec 
1079,  Mary,  17  July,  and  d.  2  Aui;.  1081.  Anne,  20  Sept.  1082,  Charles,  12  May,  IO84' 
Anne,  12  Oct.  108.5.  Lawrence,  10  April,  1087,  John,  18  April,  1089.  ' 

HARDY,  or  HARDIE,  GEORGE  m.  Mary .     Ch— Mary  b.  2  Feb.  1693.     He 

d.  0  Dec.  10',)4. 
HAZELTINE,  SAMUEL  of  Bradford  m.  Emma  Kent,  .Ian.  1,  1701. 
HEATH,  BARTHOLOMEW  was  born  in  1000.     His  son  John  was  born  15  Aui 
1013.  * 

^^''^^i.^Vir^'^'^'^'  ^'ewbury,  thence  in  1040  to  Salisbury,  thence  to  Ipswich.     He  m. 
Sarah  Wyatt  of  Assington  m  England.   He  d.  in  1047  leaving  sons  Edward  and  John. 


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.l^im''s,.uwl,t„l,M,vv..n.  homiii  AihIov't  '  "•     "'''">'   ^"'''"1"". 

.'fori        Kr;';''.VApnr','r.i::  "'.V'  '•"-"•.^""'""•y-"!  m.  A*,w.MluMlau.h- 
April,  J>1S7  J<'/i,.>OMi)li,  lU.lan.  1(,77,  llaiiiiali,  :i  Jan.   Ids,),  ,|,i,|ii|,_  .^ 

uS-'i:^;  !ii;^'i;;'^  ;-,-!'■-  S;- -  ^--i'.  'i>"^-  i'^  d... ..  s,.,.,. ...  c,..- 

Sarah.  ,S  Dec.  ;  '  '    t  „    '      -•,'   /''"'"''r'J'  •■^"-  "■""•.  ^Vill.am,  O.t.  l,„;7 

KI.enez,.r,  .  .i:,....  "ir.         '       '^''  '  '  "'"'  ^'^'■''  "'"'  ''•  ' '^  ^"^'^OS   I'lT-". 

HUSK,  AMELs.in...   .  '  M.iliVli 

Nov.  17I)'.',  Sarimrl,  D  .  -   -, 

HUSH,  TIIOAIAS  son,,  i,    .iainial. n,       M  ,.  ,,       , 

-'.•I  Oct.  ICii;)   J.:i„M,e/i.r  M      ,'         I      ;,      ''— •^'•"y,--''i  M;nvli,  ir,!i|,  |.,a,.|, 

Hu.h,  M  |.VbY70,         '  •  ■  ■■         ^     "'  •'""'"'  •-'  •^"'"■-    "■''•'N   '""""^'l'-  ■'  'N"V.  J7l)(i; 

"IviLri;;',;;',;^;  "^  ^"^''  "'■  ^^-^   l^--ll-  ^'-'.     ••l..-An.,.,  ...   May,  1700, 
''li'm:iJ.i!.'t,S;iS!:::j^;!;',[/^'\,^--^!-^      norKi,,.  S„rr..,,  ,.:,.,a„.,,  ,„  r,vnn, 

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His  wife  was  Harbarn.     lie  tl.  '.''J  July,  K'lSI,  aged  7.').     Cli.— .lohii,  11   Sept.  lHII, 
William,  -r.i  Fel).  KilN,  Joseph,  ;iil  Oct.  IC.l'J,  Isauc,  'j;!  June,  UIW,  Sara,  8  Aug.  Iti.Vi, 
Miiiy,  iitiil  KILslin. 
ILSLKY,  JOSKl'M  son  of  Williani,  ni.  Sara   f.itllo  1   IMarcb,  K'lS'i,  only 'Iniiijhtpr  of 


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C'li. — Sarah,  JO  .Ian.  li 


Joseph, 


iMay, 


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June,  I 


liuorije  j.,inie.     in.- 
Sarah,  Ki  July,  liiM). 

ILSLEV,  ISAAC  sou  of  William,  m.  Ahijjail .  Ch.— Sarah,  H  Oct.  108;),  Wil- 
liam, •J.')  April,  U\M,  Isaac,  :i  July,  ICNli,  Lyilia,  is  June,  Ki'JI,  Hannah,  -Jil  Dec.  ItlU;), 
Klizaheth,  ->.')  Oct.  Kid.''.,  Ahijiail,  Ji  Anu'.  iViUS,  Juiiith,  'J  Frii.  I70:t. 

ILSLKY,  KLISMA  son  of  William,  m.  Ilaunah  I'oor  II  March,  ltic.8.  Ch.— Klishn, 
U'l  N'ov.  KiCiS,  William,  ID  Nov.  KIT.'.  Sarah,  :JJ  Dee.  I('i7."),  anil  8  ,lan.  IfilH,  William 
or  Hnnjamin,  19  March,  HiM),  Hannah,  h  Dec.  lOM,  Baihara, '.'li  March,  U\>ir>,  Mary, 
who  (i.  0  Nov.  KiHO.     He  il.  Hi  .(an.  Ki'.ij. 

ILSLEY,  JOSEPH  jr.  m.  Hannah  Pike,  1701. 

1  VIE.  JOHN  son  of  John,  h.  Nov.  Kil.t. 

JAC()|},  MR.  SAMUEL  (I.  1(1  June,  lil72. 

JACIvM.\N,  JAME.S  nephew  el'  Henry  Short,  came,  it  is  said,  from  E.voter,  Kny;lanil. 
Iliswil'e  was  Joanna.  He  d.  liO  Dec. 'UiiM,  asied  h:i.  Ch.— Sara,  IH.lau.  Id  IN,  lle.ster, 
1'^^  Sept.  li).')l.  .lames,  1-.'  June,  lii.')J,  Joanna,  I  1  .luiie,  1(1')7,  Uicharil,  15  Eel).  MlilO. 

JACKMAN,  JA.MES  .son  of  James,  m.  Uachel  Noyes.  Ch. — .loan na, 'JO  April,  ltlS,1, 
Joanini,  L'.")  .\Iav,  liiS7,  .lohn,  ;i  I'.'h.  li^l,  and  d.  1)  Dec.  1709,  JIary, 'JJ  Jan.  109r),  Sara, 
19  .May,  l<i97,  Esther.  .'»  Nov.  lll'.i'.l. 

JACK.MAN,  lUCHARD  son  of  James,  m.  Elizabeth  Piumer  ','ii  June,  IfiS-.'.  Ch.— 
Richard,  17  Aug.  IdM,  James,  r>  Sept.  U1!?0,  Elizabeth,  12  May,  1GS9,  Joseph,  17  April, 
lliKN,  'II  17 

JACK.MAN.  RICHARD  Jun.  m.  Elizabeth  Major  170.1. 

JAFFREY,  GE0I{(;E.  was  born  about  ir,;;7.  m.  Elizabeth  Walker?  Dec.  UiG').  Sarah 

b.  'Jii  F'Vb.  ]ti(i7.     He  moved  to  Creat  M.ind,  j  New  Castle,]  \,  H. 
JAMES,  EDMUND  d.  in  1072  or  107:).   Ch.— Edmund,  Feb.  1070,  Benjamin,  15  April, 

1071). 
JA(iL'ES,  HENRY  carpenter,  came  to  Newbury  in  1010,  m.  Anna  Kni'dit  8  Oct. 
Hi  IS.     Hod.  21  Feb.  Ii;s7,  aired  09.     She  d.  22    Feb.  no."..     Ch.— Henry,  DO  July, 
Hil'.t,  JMary.  12  Nov.  1051.and  d.   2:)   Oct.   lO.''.:),   Mary,  2:!   Oct.  Kir.:;,  Richard,  lO.W, 
Stephen,  9  Sept.  Kilil,  Sara,  20  March,  lOOi,  Daniel,  20  Feb.  1007,  Elizabeth,  28  Oct. 

I(i09.  Ruth,  11  April,  1072.  Abiinail,  11  Marcii,  Ki7-1.  Hannah. 

JAQHICS,  HENRY  sort  of  Henry,  ni. and  d.  before  ltiS7.  loavins:  one  son  Henry. 

JA(iHES,  RICHARD  son  of  Henry,  m.  Ruth  I'lumer  IS  ,lan.  K.S2  and  was  drowned 

2S  May,  10S:i.     Ch.— Richard,  5  Dec.  KiS2,  Richard,  li  Jan.  KiSl. 
JA(iUES,  SERJ.  STEPHEN  son  of  Henry,  m.  Deborah  Plnrner  1,1  May,  1081.     Ch. 

— Stephen,  28  July.  HiSO,  Samuel,  19  March,  1092,  :Mary,  2(i  Sept.  I(i91,  Sarah,  2;i 

Sept.  1097,  Richai-d,  1  April,  1700.  Benjamin,  2:)  Sept.  1702.  Ann,  25  Feb.  1705. 
JAQUES,  DANIEL  son  of  Henry,  ni.  .Mary  Williams  20  ^larcli,  109:).     His  second 

wife  was  Susanna .     Ch.— Daniel,  27  Dec.  109:!,  Richard,  2  Feb.  Iti90 

JEPSON,  JOHN  of  Boston,  m.  Apphia  Roile  1  April,  li;9ii. 

JEWEL,  THO.MAS  m.  Ruth  Badycr  17  Feb.  1702. 

JONES,  THO.MAS  Newbury,  ]0:!7,  Hampton,  Ki:)9.  A  Thomas  Jones  was  in  Kittery, 

]ii52.     A  Thomas  Jones  d.  in  (iloucoster,  Ki71. 
JORDAN,  STEPHEN  d.  S  Feb.  1070.     .His  two  daughters  m.  Robert  Cross  and  John 

Andrews. 
JORDAN,  SrSANN.Ji  widow,  d.  25  .Ian.  107'). 
JOHNSON,  MR.  WILLIAM  .'hipwright.  came  from  Charlestown  to  Newbury  after 

10,90.     He  m.   Mrs.   Martha   J'ierce  9   Nov.   1702.     Ch.— Elizabeth,  17   Au".   1701, 

Martha.  17  Nov.  1701. 
KENRICK,  JOHN  m.  Lydia  Cheney  12  Nov.  1057. 
KELLY,  JOHN  came  t'rom  Newbury,  Eniiland.  to  Newbury,  Mass.  in  10.1.5,  and  died 

28  Dec.  1011.     Ch.— Sarah,  12  Feb.' 1011.  .lohn,  2  .fuly,  1012. 
KELLY,  JOHN  son  of  John.  m.  Sarah,  dauuhter  of  deac.  Richard   Knight  25  May, 

1001.     Ch. —  Richard,  2S  Feb.  lOiiOi,  .lolin.  17  June.  lOOiS.  Sarah,   1    Sept.  "10.70,   Abiel, 

12  Ih-c.  1072,  Rebecca.  15  .May.  107.'),  Mary,  2  1  May,  lti7S.  Jonathan,  20  March,  1081, 
_.lose|)h,  I   Dec.  I0S1,  Haiinali.  17  Nov.  lOSO.     He  d.  21  March.  171S,  aired  75. 
KELLY.   RICH.\RI)  son  of  .h.hn.  m.  Sarah,  dauuhler  of  Lt.  James   Smith   1092.  His 

second  «ifi'  was  llannali  (irecnouirli.  scho(i|irii:..ress.    He  died  ISJnne,  1  7:;.l.  aired  OS. 
KELLY,  ABIEL  son  of  John,  ni.  ReI.ecca  Davis  5  Jan.  1097.    Ch.— Riciiard,  'li  Oct. 

1097.  Sara,  14  Ausr.  1009,  Rebecca,  20,  Sept.  170.3,  and  five  others.     He  removed  to 

Methuen. 
KELLY,  JONATHAN  son  of  John,  m.  Hester  Morss  July  0,  1702.     Ch.— Ruth,  15 

April,  1701,  Jonathan,  Samuel,  and  Benjamin. 


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ll(^  ri.  Oct.  ir,r,s,    Ch.— .^r,■|^y,  19 


m   Nov.     ,  '  1      n       •'  i'"  >'v"l,^^'?'7— ■,  "^  -"■'•"'"'  ^vir,.  Kli/,alM.th  K.nery  h„ 
S^r  h   •  I    V,,      I,  -,     M-     '""!"'  '"•""  '•'  *'■•'•   "'■'•'•     I'll  — II^Muial,,   I.'  S,.,t.  l.i.i.| 

K'IMI)AM.,,l()||.\'n..  .\r;.ry  Hol.lis -1  V„h    \Mr, 
•'illy.  Mii;?.    .lolrn.  1.-.  Ort.  inr,s 

kmJImt 'n;';"!!lrM\ I^.':'"''' t-  ^"" •'"''" '•■  '^ ^-11. i.^^,. 

si  lorn    ^  "'"""'  '""-'  ""'  '^""  •'"■"■"'"il.  "  i'l"w  of  Riclmrd  In^^ersoll  of 

n  .    1,  --   \  '        Z'c  ^■''— ■'<'l"'.  I'-  II'  Aiiu-.  KilS,  .losrp|,,.M  .liiiw.  ir,.-,:.    i;ii/nl,cl|i   IS 
.i(  .July  l.,l,|,  Ih.nnah,  U)  Am«.  ICiil,  Kirh.r.l. 'JH  .Inly.  \m\.  Honjami  .  ' 't  Aii'-MO  IS 

^s'^!",?"-,''V,",''''   '""  "''  •'"''"   i''-  '"■   Heliocra   Xoyes  1  .T.in.  1C.7"      Ch  — Tam..<!    1 

''ES^^S.^I^iV^JJ^l.T,;;''^"''''-  ■"■■  '^"-^-'*  J^iues.     Ch.-He„,y,  0 

^^oI.?'lV'VVl'''^'.mr''':'>'''''""''^''^'''''=^''^''''ll''>  'il    Oct.   I. -,77.     Ch.-J,ulith    23 

l)ec.    OS..    )ol,orr.l..-.;  April,  ICM,  S.n.l,,  ;i   N„v.  ICNi,   Eli/i,l,otli    IS    Api"      J   % 

i;mpVl.r      M?  ^?';  ■''''''''"''"'''""-*•' '^^"■''■•h  ">  It':*-"'.  lli«nco  to  Newbury  the 
Toh?H?'V'     ['';••'*  J'"";  V'"'-     H'-It-boc,.,..  (who  n,.  San.uol  Scullar d    th on 

in  me  lo  v>  'o<  i.inl^rp,  v  j      His  second  wilo  Ann  d.    n  If.liO.     He  then  in    Fleanor 
V  dow  ol     \,  ham  Scadlook,  0  May.  Hi,;,..     t:i,-i:iix.abelh.  1  M and  ,     u"'  IlaZh 

IVJ.A  i ,  KIC  HARD  ]r.  Aowhnry,  liVM\  i„.  .Inne ,  who  d.  'J(l  .June.  107"$      He  m   his 

nnd  1    M  [  ,^  *"i'  °^-'^"'r'  '"^  '^'"•^  ""^''^^  -'  l'^''''  1'"'5-     Ch.-,Tohn.  S  April,  1005 

KF\T     rV HV     ''■  "  ^.""'■^''  ^ '"•'•  •^'"""'  ■■  ^'-P'-  "'''•'■  '^'«>'V  J.  n  March.  170:i 

I.Ts'r     h     .■''■;T''*  '•"•  ^"'""^  Woodman  i:i    March,  1000.     May,   lO   Sept 

A nHM'"  n'--'''l'"''''c'"-  '^''^'''''"''  '^  ■'''"•  '•■•-•■'■  Mary.  21   Oct.   1074,  \:mmn    'i 

kA  r'  in'n  v'"'"''^''  ".^'''"'  "''"'•'■  ^'"^'''•'^'•'  ••"'  I'-'b.  lOM.  .lame..  ,-.  March     ™' 
iVur'T      '   ,  J'-'""   °' f"-   J^el'ekah   Somerby.     Ch.— Hehekah  4^hv 

jvr,M,  KMMA  widow,  .1.  Id  .Ian.  1077. 
tS.";;;  No;:nlM^  '"•  ""■  ■■""""  —     ^''-^\Wg«"-  1^  Aug.  1093,  Living,  his 

I    I'^f  n'^^d  si     ■'''"''  '"  ''  "'"'  ^'-  "  ^P"''  ^^^*^>  ^-  ^''  S'-'P'"^".  "-^^  ^>'Hl  d.  Jan. 


noM 


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I  M.inli.  If.  II 

Mi'ii-K,  (;r.(iii(;H  liiiior,  c 


I.KU'IS.  Honr'.llT  c;iriic  (Vciiii  Bnilol.  Kii:,'I;iikI,  t(i  S.iUmii,  llicnco  to  Ni'wbury.and  d. 

niMi-  IVorii  I'liiforii  slrnct,  l.onilon  to  Ncwlmry,  in  It'ilO. 
Ill"  Ml.  Alici!  I'cior.  ("Ii.— Siiiiili.  S  May.  and  cl.  I'.i  Nnv.  lH.'iJ.  .liiNcpli.  v,'\!  Si'pl.  |t'i,"i:l, 
l,.lm,-.'S.liily,  lii.-i.-.,  iinil  il.  ■.'()  July,   Iii7:.'.     .Miwes,   II    Much,  lti.'i7,   Siinih,  •,'!   Nov. 

«  srcnnd  will',  MIcanor  ll.iiiiiinl,  of  Aini'it- 
,   Id'.i'l,   niid  d.   Ih'I'oio   Nov.  !J7, 


imil.     His  will'  Aliri',  d.  1  Doc.  lUsi).     ||i 
bury,  hi!  m.  I'.Miily.  li'NI.     Ilr  wiis  livinu'   I')  .M 
Iti'.M.  as  Auii'ijiiuv  iiTiiidM  ..<.iy  '  vvidow  Mli 
1.1  ri'I.K.  .\|(IS|;Ss,>n  nic; 


S.lllll.   IllMI,     \ 
ImM 


;inor  l.itllc  d,  '.'7  Nov.  liHU.' 
ii;i',  ni.  l.ydia,daMi;liti'riil"riiMlriiiri  Collin.     Cli. — .lolin, 


I.  .'J 


risliiHii,  !i  Doc.  li;s|.  Sai'.iii,  '.'s  Apiil,  Hisi,  Mary.  |:i  Jim.  UIS7,   Kli/.u 


il.  S  March,  li.'.M. 


.May.  1ii^\  .MiiscM,  'Jil  I'Vh.  hUH,  and  d.  Ill  Oct.  HMI-aued 


■d  .11. 


LI  i'i'i.i;,.i(»si:i'ii  sohi.n, 


II 


gud  near  W),  Aloneit,  nun. 

coi-i;!'.  ni.  Mary  ("oniii.  si.stcrof  Lydin,  Ml  Oct.  11177.     Cli. 
-.Iiidith,  I'.i.liily,  ir,rs,  ,l,isc|)li, -.'.I  {■'(d).  Kiso,  anil  d.  11   Aui;.'   lii'-tM,   (Jcorijc,   P.!  Jan. 

ir.s.'.  Sarah,  j:1  Oct.  liiSl,  Knocli.  Ill   Doc.   M.sr.,  'J'ristiani,  7  April,   UKSS,  Mosca,  5 

May,  li.'.Mi,  Daiiiid,  l-i.l.iii.  Hi'.i.',  Joscpli, '^7  Dec.  liin:t. 
LCr  TLKilALi;,  UICII.VIID  m.  Miry  l.ancton  IT,  Nov.  HV17.    lie  died  in  HavorhilllS 

Kci>.  hir,  I.     III.  liaii  lu-clvc  ciiildicii,'  John,  1).  -^7  Nov.  Id.')!). 
LONd,  DKA.  KOliHIi  r  lived  in  Chailcstov\  m  lioni  lii:i7  to  liU','.     Ho  m.  Alice  Ste- 
vens in  11117,  who  d.  17  Jan.  li.'.il.     Ho  d.  VI7  Doc.  l(i'.M),a!,'od  li'.i.     Ch. — .Mary,  'Jl  Feb. 

ItllS,  Almd,  111  Fob.  Jul',),  Snsunna,  4  Nov.  lil.jil,  Siiiibael,  14  Ainil,  1001,  Martba, 

Jolin,  and  Itobci'oa. 
LONt;,  AlilKL  son  of  Rcdmit,  ni.  Haiiiiali  Hills  t'7  Oct.  lllV.'.     He  d.   I'l  April,  ITI'!, 

aired  '.».').     Ch.— Abiol, '.'  1  Jul)  and  il.  10  Nov.  lllh:),  Hannah, 0  Nov.  1,  IILSI,  iiuniamin, 

I  Sept.  Min.  '       .      J       . 

l.O.Nti.  Sliri3AF.L  son  of  liohort,  in.  Hannah  Merrill  W  An?.  lHO.'i.  Ch.— Robert, 
','0  .May,  Kl'.iO,  Abifjail,  .'I  ,laii.  ir.'.i?,  and  il.  ,".)  .Ian.  AbiL'ail,  :;1  Jan.  lOSM),  John,  2  Nov. 
1701.* 

LON(a.'F,LLOW,  WILLIAM  horn  in  Hi.")!,  in  Hampshire,  F.nsland.  came  to  Newbii- 
ry,  ni.  Anno  Snwnil  10  Nov.  10711.  Ho  was  diownod  at  Anticosli,  10'..M).  Ch.— VVil- 
liaiii, !.'.'»  Nov.  lir,;i,  Sloplioii,  II)  Jan.  IH.^I,  and  d.  l.'l  Nov.  lOSlt,  Anne,  3  Oct.  10«3, 
Kli/alM'lh.:i  .Inly,  loss,  Naliian.  .')  Fob.  H.'.K). 

LT.  STKI'IIKN.'h.  li;s.-,,  uud  d.  17  Nov.  1701,  a;;.  7!). 

LOWLK,  MR.  l'F,KC|VALd.S,)an.  lOr.-l.     His  wife,  Rebecca,  died  IMS,  Dec.  28. 

LOWLK,  MU.  KICHAlvD  canio  from  Bristol,   F.ni,'laiid,  in   lO.'l!),  to  Newbury.     His 

second  wilo  was  .Maryarol .     His  (list  wifo  died  in  liilJ.     He  died  .O  All),'.  lO.si, 

asod  so.  Ch.— I'crcivul,  10:j'J,  Rebecca,  '21  Jan.  101'  Samuel,  10-1 1.  Thomas,  ys 
Snpt.  hill). 

LOWLK,  MK.  JOHN' brotlior  to  Richard,  ami  came  with  him  to  Newbury.  Ch. — 
.Inseph,  2S  Nov.  lO.tH,  John,  IVtor,  Mary,  anij  James.  His  second  wife  was  Elizabeth 
Goodalo,  who  (I.  April  Kl.'.l.  Ho  d. '.".)  Juno,  1(117.  His  other  children  were  Uenja- 
min,  \2  Sopl.  \i;\->.  'rhomas,  -1  Juno,  li.n,  Klizahoth,  10  Feb.  1010. 

LOWLK,  RK.\,1AMI\  son  of  John,  m.  Ruth  Woodman  17  Oct.  100(1.  Ruth,  4  Sept. 
1007,  Elizaholh,  10  Oct.  Kli.H.  ficnjamin,  .0  Feb.  1071,  Sarah,  1.0  March,  1070,  Joseph, 
1'.'  Sept.  ICSt),  ,lnhii,  -J-)  Fob.  10s:i. ' 

LOWLi;.  I'KRCIVAL  son  of  Richard,  m.  jAIary  Chandler  7  Sept.  1001.  Ch.— Rich- 
ard, '.'•'.  Doc.  Kills,  and  d.  21)  May,  HIU,  aged  80,  Gideon,  :i  Sept.  107V.',  Samuel,  13  Jan. 
1(170.  Kilmund.  'J  I  Sept.  KlSl. 

LOWLK,   (MUEON  son  of   Percival,  jun.  m.  Mary .      Daughter  Mary  b.   1 

March,  1  111):!.  =  / 

LOWLK,  inCHARn  m.  Sara  Brown  8  April,  lOOf).  Ch.— Hannah,  11  March,  1000, 
Sarah,  10  April.  17()5. 

LUNT,  HEN'UV  canio  to  Newbury  in  KVir),  m.  Anne .     He  d.  10  Jnly,  1002.     Ch. 

—Sarah,  8  Nov.  10:!!),  Daniel,  17  .May,  Kill,  ,Tohn,  30  Nov.  1(113,  PrisciUa,  10  Feb. 
101(1.  Mary.  13  July.  KHs,  Eli/.aliotlK  20  Doc.  lO.lO,  Horny,  20  Feb.  1(153. 

LUNJ",  DAMKI,  sou  of  lloiuy,  m.  Hannah  Coker  10  .May,  1(104.  who  d.  21)  Jan.  1G79. 
His  soioiid  wile  was  Mary  .Mondv,  widow  of  Samuel  Moody.  Ch. — Hannah,  17 
May.  KiO.I,  Daiiiol,  I  .May,  1(1(17.  Henry,  23  Juno,  KidH,  ,Iohn,  10  Feb.  1072,  Sarah,  18 
Juno,  1074,  Mary  21  July,  1077,  Joseph",  4  March,  lObl,  Anne,  28  Jan.  1083,  Renjamin, 
1")  March,  ir.so. 

LUNT,  JOHN  son  of  Henry,  m.  Mary  Skerry,  19  Nov.  1008.  He  d.  17  Sept.  107S. 
Ch.— .John,  22  f)ct.  KKlli,  Elizahotli.  l"2  Oct.  1071,  Honry,  22  Feb.  1074. 

LUNT,  HENRY  .son  of  Henry,  rn.  ,lano .     Ch.— Skipper,  29  Nov.  1079,  Mary  IS 

Jan.  1082,  Abraham,  10  Uecemlior,  lOs.t,  .John,  1  Feb.  1080,  William,  4  Jnly,  10S8, 
Daniel,  1  .Jan.  1(191,  Jano.  9  November,  lOlCi,  Samuel,  20  March,  1090. 

LUNT,  HENRY  3d,  m.  Saiah  lirickot.  1  .Ian.  1701. 

LUNT,  THO.MAS  m.  Opportunity  lloppin.  of  Roxhnry.  17  Tan.  1079. 


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MAUCII,  ,MI{.  (M'.dUdi: 

— (JiMir;,'!',  Ci  Oct.  ir,7  I,  .1: 
:)li('ii,  111  .s,,.|,t,  ii;7ii,  ;,,|| 


uiie,  M,')H, 


son  or  lluijh.  ni.  Mrs,  Mary  Foiilsham  l2.Tnnn,  1C,7.'. 


E! 


'liii.  IS  Aii«.  |(i7('i,  ,Ma 


nil' 


VI).  Ills  I,  , lames,  l',i,l 


arah.  r,  .July,  ics.-),  Sleplieii,  ID  Nov.  Ki'sV  llei 


Iili's,  .hiii(<,  N  .May,  li'i',i!i 


,         -     Ch. 

ry, '-'N  Aiii,',aiid  (I,   I,',  Nov,   l(i7S,  Sin- 

1  April,  lii,s:i, 
i)rge,  'Jl  Ajiril, 


line,   Hihj,  Fsr 


ry,  Ml   July,  i(;ii7,  (ii, 


IMAUCII,  AIA,I.,I()||.\ 


.'!   ,M, 


icli,  H'lV.',  ,M,i 


SUM  of  HiiL'h.  ni.  .I( 


mima  Tnio  1   March,   |(i7!i.     Ch.— Judith 


■::^cf'l;'■'':J:rl;;!:!;:':l^':,^''y:':^^••'''hn,.^ 


AlTl'iMI^'^;'|."miiv''~'''^;'""'  "■'"'•  i:ii^"l'"'li,"  Sepi.  U;<JH. 
M.M.tir  .MU.  JtHIN   1,1.  ]\i,s.  Ahiry  A 


I'eh,  170-.' 

MARCH,  CAPT.  HTUJH 


— Sai;i 

Oct,  ICiHI,  Haili 


ry  Anj,'ifr,  of  Wutcrtown,  1700.     Son  John  b.  'J7 
«r>n  of  Hiiiih.  m.  Mrs.  Smah  Moodv  20 


17  April,  li.s.l.  Henry,!.'-.'  Sept.  li'.Ml.  ,Sariiii«d   •.' 


Ill,  17l);(,  Tr 


I,  1  Sept,  and  d.  li  Oct.   liiul,   1) 


oody  20  March,  MS.').     CJi. 
Alaich.  ICiSl),  Eli/aheth.  27 


lemiiii,  I  1  Nov.  170.'). 


iiiiiid,  1.10  Oct.  1(105,  Meht'tahle.  3 


IMARCII,   Mill   r.  J.AAIF.S 


lilOll,  Nalhaiiii 


son  ..|-  Iluiili.  m.  Mnry .     Ch.-Denjamin,  23  Nov. 


J\IAI{TI.\,   RICIIARI) 


Sept.  ;i;',i;;,  Taliilha.  2i)  .liine,  liioi 


JIA.IOR,  (;i:oU(;i.; 


S(H1  of    I 


ucliaid,  1),  ,s  ,laii,  |i;7l. 


N(;ul 


'Miry,  and  ni.  Susanna 


ciiino  tioni   the  parish   of  St.   Lora,  in  the  island  of  .Tc 


20  Nov.  IC 


.'1  Aiij;.  1(172.     Ch.— H 


r.sey,  to 


]\IAl{Sr()N,  AVIM-IAM  Salem  ir,;i7,  tl 
wheie  he  died  ;ii)  .liino,  li;7'.     His  v'vil 
H->.'.iy.l>>\'"'"<>\'A-^  '1.  2S  ,\ov.  HI.-,! 


imniih,  IS  May,  iG7;i,  CJoorg 

(?nco  to  Newbury,  thence  to   Hampton,  ICIO, 
le  was  Sabina.     Ho  lolt  five  children. 


MATTHKWS,  HltiH 


Judith,   :il)    A 


M; 


V.  I  mill 


pril,    liiv.i,  J. 


JMARSIIALL,  F.DMPNDsh. 
MARSIIAJ.L,  MR.  I'ETER 


m.-Mary  Kmerson  28  Ainr.  1(1S;).     Ch,-John,  2rf  Feb.  108S, 
i   1"   -Mini,   Ji.'JO,   Hugh,   15  May,  1(101,  Hngh,  lii 

ipwriiiht.     Ch,— Edmnnd.  5  Oct.  1077,  John,  7  July.  ir,S2. 


Dec,  iri'.M). 
MAVO  JOSETH 


111. I 


line,  liiSil 


m.  Mrs.  Abigail.     Ch.— Thomas,  1  July,  Kisii,  K„th 
m.  Sara  Short,  20  INIay,  1(170.     Ch.-Sarah,  Ojuly,  1070,  Thorn 


iQsine, 


MERRILL.  .1(1  (IN 


H 


one  of  the  first  selll 


led.  12  Seiit,  l(17;i.      He  h'ft 


'IS.  ni.  V. 


Iizaheth 


MERIHI.L  NATHAMEI.  hroll 


a  (laii'di 


— — ,  who  d.  14  July,  1C82. 


ter  Hannah,  who  m,  Steven  Swett 


HViS,  Job 


]M 


Abr 


lor  to  .lolin,  m.   Sii.s 


inna  Jordan.     Ch.— Nathaniel. 


arch.  111.').'). 


luu.i,  Susanna,  Daniel,  20  An-   1(112,  Abel,  20  Feb.  KLlJ 


lie  a.  1(1 


MERRILL,  NATHANIEL  son  of  Nathaniel,  m.  .Toanna  Ki 


d.  I  .fan.  Kls.l.     Ch.— John,  Id  Fel 


Ibiiiiiah.  12  July,  lil7<.  ;\I,.| 
MERRILL,  MR.'JOHN 


1I1S7.  John.  I: 


■y.  IS  Sept,  K 
>n  of  .\aihaiiiel 


,.,.,,.,    .  ,   ""''y.  i-")  Oct.  1001.    Ho 

).  I I'd.l,  Nathaniel,  8  Feb.  1005,  Peter,  Au".  1007 


y  sccoikI  wile  Mary,  h 


MERRILL.  ARRAIIAM 

Abiijail.  l:i  All;;.  |i;il.->.  ^\ 
lH71,,loliii,  l.'i  Oct.  Iil7:i. 
l(17ii.   S 


m.   Lii 
Pel),  1702 


'y •     Ch.— Nathaniel,  20  July, 


son  of  Nathaniid,  m.  Abigail  Webster   1   .Tan.  1 


iry,  5 


July,  1 


I'rnd 


001.     Ch.— 


ice,  20  April,  10,10,  Hannah,  0  ,Tan. 


Oiialhan,  1 0  ,laii.  1070,  David,  20  Feb.  107S    Sar 


MERRILL,  ABEL 
28  Dec.  1071,  Si 


iisanna.  (1  Dec,  and  d.  1.7  Dec.  lOSl.  I'riidenco,  1 '(kt.  lO.SII 


■a,   0  Oct. 


■son  of  Natlianiid,  ni.  I 


riscilla  Chase  10  Feb.   1071.     Ch.— Abel 


"^?w)''Jr^''- .":'•';  ^^'!''^'"-  •'  ^1"-'''   1"'''.  Thomas;  1  Jan 


.         ,     .   '  ;  , '  ■  ■  ""••  1"'..,  naiiian.  .)  i\ nrii,   I 

Joseph    12  July,  lOsi,  Nathaniel,  0  Feb.  lOS-l,  I'riscill 


1079. 


Jan.  lOSO 
]\IKRRILL,  DANIEL 


13  July,  1080,  James,  27 


7  Oct.  1071,  Sar 


son  of  Nathaniel,  m.  Sara  Clon<rh  M   May.  100 


Slepl 


icn,  10  Sept,  loss. 


5  Oct.  1077,  Ruth.  7  I 


Ch.— .Tohi 


MERRILL,  AHET 


'eh.  lOSl,  Moses  and  Afartha,  .'t  Sept.  IC 


183. 


son  of  Abel.  m.  Abigail  Stevens  10  .lime.  1001.     Ch.— Sa 


cpt'  H'!'''.  Abel,  20  March,  lOOS.  Ahii' 


an.  1700, 


mnel,  13 


jlU 


W-i    '  .lii  If:.' 
It  '  ? 


310 


APPENDIX 


— .     Cli.— :\Iiiry,  i:t  Jan.  1(MI3, 
Ch. — Abraham,  2',i  Aug.  1(198, 

0  Feb.  lOi")?,   Abigail,  5  Sppt. 
0  Jan.  Kidf),  Timothy,  2S  Sept.  10(50,  Susaiiim,  ,'0 

Ch.— E/ra,31i\Iaich, 


]\n:nUlLL,  IVATIIAX  son  of  Abel,  m  Hannah  Kent  0  Sept.  1090.     Ch.— Hannah,  7 

.liilv.  1700.  .lohn,  :tO  Xov.  1701,  Priscilla,  10  Oct.  1703. 
jMKKKUJ.,  NATIIAMKL  son  of  Xiithaniol.  jiin.  m.  Pvebeora ,  who  d.  9  T)cc. 

Ii;s9.     His  serond  wile  was  Sarah .     Ch.— iNathaniel,  ■,';)  Nov.  1(JS.S,  Hannah.  30 

Dec.  ICi'.l:.',  S:inili.  -JO  Dot.  liiOj 
I\n';rxRir.L.  PKTKR  son  of  Nathaniel,  jun.  m.  :\Iary  - 

Peler,  10  Maieh,  1090. 
iAIKRUILU  ABRAHAM  jnn.  m.  Abiiraii  Barllct  1090. 

Al)ii:ail,  ;')  .May.  1701,  i;iizabeth,  ','  .May,  170d. 
]\fH.Li;R,  ,MARV  (1.0  May.  loO-;. 
MILLKR,  .lOSKPII  d.  VlJuly,  lOSI. 
JMIRICR,  JAMKS  was  born  in   lOL'J.     Ch.— TFannah,  0  Feb.  10r)7,  Abigail.  5  Sept 

1058,  .Joseph,  ~'7  April,  1001,  Isaac 

Alls;.  ICTO. 
MIRICi-:.  TLMOTHY  son  of  .Tames,  m.  Mary  Lancaster,  lOOO 

10't7,  Abiirail,  L'C)  Nov.  lOOS. 
MIRICK.  JAMES  son  of  James,  jr.  b.  10  April,  10S3. 
oMIRICK.  JAMKS  jr.  m.  Hannah .     Ch.— Benjamin,  10  April,  10S3,  James,  10 

July.  10S1.  John.  10  Sept.  lOSO. 
MITCHELL,  WILLIAM  m.  Mary  Sawyer  7   Nov.  lOlS.     He  d.  0  July,  lO.jl.     His 

widow  m.  Robert  Savory.     Ch.— .Niarv,  111  Aug.  1010,  John,  :*1  jMay,   liiul,  William, 

1  March.  105.!.  Elizabeth,  1 ')  .March,  I'O.j-'). 
INIITCHJOLL,  JOHN  son  of  William,  m.  Hannah  Spafford  20  May,  lOSO,  who  d.  24 

April,  los;).     He  m.  Constance  ^Moores  IT)  Nov.  1097.     Ch. — Hatinah,  12  April,  1081, 

Sara,  20  Sept.  1082.  John,  17  June.  1085,  Sara,  10  April,  1089. 
]\IILWARD,  3IR.  THO^IAS,    mariner,  came  to  Newbury  1030  or  7,  was  in  cape  Ann 

10-10,  and  d.  in  Boston,  1  Sept.  1053,  aged  53.     Ch. — Ann,  Nov.  1012,  Rebecca  and 

Eliznbelh. 
MINGO,  ROBERT  m.  Elizabeth .     Ch.— Thomas,  2  June,  10S9.  Robert,  11  Oct. 

1007. 
MOODY,  WILLIAM  saddler,  came  from  Ipswich,  England,  to  Ipswich,  10,34,  then 

NeAvbury.  103-5.     His  wife  was  Sarah.     Ch. — .loshua,  Caleb,  William. and  Samuel. 
I\I0ODY,'REV.  JOSHUA  son  of  William,  graduated,  settled  in  Portsmouth,  moved 

to  Boston  and  there  died.     See  appendix. 
MOODY,  CALEB  son  of  AVilliam,  m,  Sara  Pierce  2-1  Aug.  10.59,  who  d.  25  Aug.  1005. 

His  second  wife.  Judilh  Bradbiav,  he  m.  9  Nov.  1005,  who  d.  21  Jan.  1700.     He  d.  25 

Aug.  1()9$,  aged  01.     Ch.— Daniel,  -1  April,  1002,  Sara,  23  July,  1001,  Caleb,  9  Sept. 

lOOi;.  Thomas,  20  Oct.  100,S,  Judith,  23  Sejit.  10(39,  and  d.  at   Salisbury  28  Jan.  1070, 

Joshua,  3  Nov.  1071,  William,  15  Dec.  1073,  Samuel,  -1  Jan.  Iij70,  Alary,  23  Oct.  1078, 

Judith.  12  Feb.  1083. 
jMOODY  WILLIAM  son  of  William,  m.  Jlehetabel  Sewall  15  Nov.  108-1.    Ch.— Mary, 

30  May,  108.5.  deac.  Samuel,  21   March,  1089,  and  d.  25  May,  1707,  Mehetabel,  15 

Feb.  1091,  and  probably  others.     William,  son  of  It,  Wm.  died  23  Feb.  1700. 
JNIOODY.  SAMUEL  son  of  William,  m.  .Mary  Cutting  9  Nov.  1057.     He  died  4  April, 
■  1075.     Ch. — .Mary,  10  Nov.  1058,  William,  22  July,  1001,  Sara,  20  June,  1003,  Mary, 

18  Feb.  ](;(i5,  Lydia.  5  Aug.  1007,  Hannah,  4  Jan.  1700,  Samuel,  Dec.  1071,  Cutting, 

9  April,  1074,  William,  John  and  Sarah, 

MOODY,  SAMUEL  son  of  Samuel,  m,  Sarah  Knight  10  April,  1700. 

MOODY.  JOHN   son  of  Samuel,  m.   Hannah  .     Ch.— Apphia,  23  June,   1003, 

Sarah,  7  March,  1007. 
MOOD  Y,  CUTTING  son  of  Samuel,  m.  Judith  Little  25  March,  1090.     Ch.— Hannah, 

10  :\Iarch,  1009,  .Joseph,  20  April,  1701, 

MOODY,  DANIEL  son   of  Caleb,  m,  Elizabeth  Somerby  29  March,   108,3.     Son 

Daniel  b.  27  Feb.  1084. 
MOODY,  THOMAS  son  of  Caleb,  m.  Judilh  Hale.  Ch.— Ezra,  11  April.  1093,  Sara,  11 

Feb.  109.5,  Caleb,  10  March,  1097,  Judith,  G  Aug.  1099,  Oliver,  7  Oct.  1701,  Thomas, 

11  Jan.  1701. 

JIOODY,  CALEB  son  of  m.  Ruth  Morse  9  Dec.  1090.    Daughter  Judith,  10 

Sept.  1091. 
MOODY,  ]MR.  JOSHUA  son  of  Caleb,  m.  Mrs.  Mary  Greenleaf  ]()00.     Ch.— Mary, 

20  June.  1007,  Elizabeth,  4  Dec.  1098,  Joshua,  11  Nov.  1700,  Abigail,  30  Sept.  1703, 

Judith,  20  Oct.  170.5, 
AlOOUING,  JOSEPH  d.  8  May.  lOSO, 
MOORES,  EDMUND  was  born  in  1014,  came  to  Newbury  1040,  m.  Ann ,  who 

d.  :  .lune',  1(370.     Ch.— Martha,  12  Dec.  1013,  Jonathan,  23  April,  1040,  Mary,  30  Nov, 

1018,  Edmund,  ^vho  died  8  Nov.  1050,  Richard,  3  Nov,  1053,  Sarah,  1  April,  lOGl. 
MOORES,  EDMUND  jr,  m.  Sarah  C 3  Jan,  1077.    He  d.  19  April,  1099.    Ch.— 


A  l>  P  E  N  D  I  X 


311 


"ir Ji-i^^^i:,;^;,;,?;:,  ii^ri!.  sjr-;^;  ^'^^^  ^'^^^'' '-'"  '■  ^  ^--  "^^'- "- 

^",!,^.*!^ES,  .MATTIIKW  m.  Saia  Sr.voiy  ^7   March,   UMVi.     Ch.-Sara  15  Dee  ICG') 
\Vi!'iam,  20  May.  IUCI,  William,  10  Fcl).  \W,r,.  '  '  ^  ^ '' 

?1*^^R^\^^?.^,'^t",'^^/c",V;''  ''-'"'r'"'"'  "'•  Constance  Loni^l.orno,  10  May,  1070. 

HnVc   urn  ^^'  '  '  '"  ^'-■^'-  ^'^^'^'  '^'*'""'^''  ^  ^'^''V-  I'Sf'S.  iiovothy, 

MOORES.'hANNAH  (1.05  March,  ICG.l 
iMORSS,  ANTHONY  shoemaker,  came  from   IMarlboroiio|,,   K,,,rlan<l.   in   the   ^hin 

Jarnes     o    Newbury,   lOM.     His  ^viie•s  name  was   .Mar^.  '  His  Second  !vi'e   May 

Barnaul   whom  he  m.  K,  Nov.  lOtiO.     He  died  25  Feb.  ir,7S,  a-e,l  ilO      Ch— Kenia- 

Joh/::ie!e?:;:;'iho^"^'  ^'^"''  ''-'''''  '  '"'^^  l'^^Uoshna,2.Uu.y,  1053,Josep^; 

^^ni^^^'vr 'V;V^-^'  shoemaker,  brother  to  Anthoi.y,  came  with  him  to  Newbnry, 
He  m.  Llizabetb .     He  d.  2!)  Nov.  108;i,a<;pd  W.     Ch.-Hannah  0  March    1011 

.hrS'l'lii),^''"'""'''-''^'^'^'^'^^^''^'^'^'''''  ''   ^'"''  l^^^Jonai'haS;   oit 
MORSS,  ANTHONY  jnn.  m.  Elizabeth  Knight  8  May,  1000,  who  d.  2(1  .Tiilv    1007 

He  also  m.  Ann ,  whnd.  !)  .Alarch,  1080.     He  d.  12   Oct.  lOSO      Ch  -liuti  ■() 

?S['}r70' pt'-Tl^'y'^"S?^''J'"y-  '"'''  Elizabeth.  2l)  Jul;,  S,     oh    '  i 
MORSS   Rnmi'V''^  ^T'-  'f ''  ^"'•'''  -'  ^'"^■""i'"e--.  KwO.  Mary,  :U  Aui;.  1072.      ' 
JMORiiS.ROBL Rl  m.  Ann  Lewis  .•)()  Oct.  1051.     Ch.— Kli/abo  h   ''5  Sent   ir,V)  Mt 

.MORSS,  BLNJA.AHN  son  ot  Anthony,  sen.  m.  Rnth  Sawyer,  27  An-  1007  Ch- 
Be_njamin,2.tAng.]r.iS,R,,,h,8  Dec.  100,0,  .Toseph,  5  Feb.  1072,  William.' 2;)  Jan. 
A   .''^"aVm     r;J,'''Ar'''"','':'lr-^'''"'  ^'''"''^'  ''•'  f^^^t-   "''^'  Sara,   19  Jan.  lOSO, 

MORSS  ANTHONY  m.  Sara  Pike  4  Feb.  lOSO.  Ch.-Sara,27  Oct  lOSO  and  d  I'i 
Mareh  Ti'l^"^'  ~''  ^^^'^''  ^''■'•"'^  •^°''^'''  '^  '^P"''  ^'^"  '•  «"'l'h«".  -^S  Dec.  100.3,  Thomas,  25 

^^'a\'^'?^;  5.''- '^'•^^^"'^' .!'""•  ^""  of  Eenjamin,  m.  Susanna  IVferriH  2S  .Tan    lOO-^      Ch  _ 

;^'^°';*-^'^!:^'^'"h.^5Sept    10!,|.   P,iscilla,  22  Apnl,  1097,' Judith,  13   Jhrch, 
ivinD-',^7"'''^^'''''-'''''™''-^f=''-'''c'.Jl  April.  1702.  ' 

JMORSI^,  JOSEPH  son  of  Anthony,  jun.  m.  Lydia ,  who  d.  8  Nov.  IfiSO.     His 

second  wife  was  Elizabeth .     Ch.-Lvdia,  2  Nov.   10,V),  Joseph    28  Oct    loSj 

Mnwllr'  ^o'Y,';'?',^'''''''  •^°'^"'  "  ^^''-  l'''"VMary.  10  Jan.  lOOa         ^   '  '^^' 

TT        ;  ■^   -  J"/'^  ""•  '^?","^ • "'''"  ''•  J "  April,  1001 .  He  d.  2S  :Nrarch,  1001.  Ch  — 

mSrsF   Wrr  m'A^'^'  ^"^^''W  AV"''  '^"''  '''  ^  J"'>''  l'''"'-  Anthony,  1.3  Apr  i,  iL. 

SSh'lSJIi'S"-'"'  """"   ^'  ''='>'•  ^^■''-     Ch.-Danie6o   Ajrii;  1007, 
^I"«SR.  JONATHAN  m.  Mary  Clarke,  ,3  .May,  1071 
MORSE.     BENFAMFN    tertius   m.    Susanna^: .      Ch.-,Toseph     or,    An-     1001 

^,;\„ll^  i    '  ^"'■''^' '  ''"^'  :Mnr!,'aret,  11  April,  1702,  Marv,  S  Sept   1 70:1 

MORSE.  ANN  wilb  of  Anthony,  d.  0  AFay  losi 

'^^n'mS^^^\i\^^''P^  "'•  '//*"""'' ^'^vnod.O  Oct.  1700.     Ch.-Daniel,  1    A„. 

Mar;h     '"'  '  '      '"""^''  -'  ■^""-  ''^''"'''  Kbenezer,  0   Oct.  1007,   .Mary    JJi 

Moif 'i-f!v  ToH^^  Nnwhury,  1037  Hampton.  1030,  where  ho  died  18  Feb.  1005. 
W  I  .-n.n    Tl  ,r    ''"■''l',''^';    '"■''■, 'f^'"Pt"n,   10,30.  and  there  died   1051.     Ch.- 

— -  a"ed  O-r^''  '^'       '''''■'  '  ^"■''"'  "■''°  ''■  ""'  '"'^'^  ^"y'  l''^   '^'"^'•''1, 

.AIOFL'rON,  WILLIAM  m.  Ahi-ail  AVebster  27  May,  108,5.  Ch.-Ab.i-ail  13  June 
l-N.    Bat  ,  .1  ,  u  y,  10S8,.lonatl,an,  7  Sept.   1092.  .loseph,  25  Nov,  1TO    1  lar-aret    21 

•M;SSL()WAVDA.\IFL  alias  RO,;eR  WALDRO.V'an  Iri;hman  was  born  in 
101..,  m,  Anne  Chase  1  ,  „ne,  1072,  who  d.  21  April.  10^7.  His  sermfd  wife  wis 
;;'?'^~^,•.,  Ch,-I)^u„el.  lO  .^lay.andd.  !:•  .Mav,  loss,   T)aniel,  0  Sepl,  l.iOO \hn 

MUH'ET,   WILLIAM  m.  I\h.hetabel  .     Ch.— William    11  Feb    lO'i't     inlin    is 

WLSSELWHUE,  came  from  Laoufnrd  in  the  ship  .lames,  to  Newbury,  in  10,3,-,.     Ho 


't 


It  t.jSI 


•  >  I  .) 


A  P  1'  K  N  D  I  X 


(lied  30  Jan.  1071,  leaving;  estate  to  sister  Kda,  biotlior  Tlioinas,  and  l)iotl]tM  Joliii.  in 

BeavorstoL'k,  in  \Viltsllilt^ 
MLFSSK  Y,  JOSKI'II  son  of  Uolicrt,  of  Ipswich,  was  lunii  in  lil>,  m.  Kstlier  .fackniau 

ItFeb.  ](171.     Hod.  :H)  Doe.  II ISO.     (Ii.— Mary,  -J.')  Nov.   til?.',    lOstiier,  s  ,(an.   Ui7;5, 

.loseph,  ■-'!  Dec.  1(177,  ISonjaniiii,  17  Am;.  Iiisil'. 
MITSSKY,  .lO.SKPlI   son    of  .losoiili,   m.   Joanna    PottiiiL'ell.   17IM).      Ch.— Joseph,    t 

March.  17();i.  .Alary,  2  Anij.  170.1. 
NKFF,  WILLIAM  Newlnirv,  tiionoe  to  Ilav.-rliill,  ni.  Alarv  CnvVu 


died  Fob.  1H.V1,  aijed  17.  Mary  iVodwas  with  Mrs.  Ih 
the  Indians,  in  1(107. 
KKLSON,  IMIILIPof  Punvley,  in.  Fh/abolh  Lowle  1  Jan.  Pliiy. 


.Jar 


ll( 


ail  Dnnstan,  wlioii  slie  killei 


iMSBITT,  MR.  WILLIA.M  ni.  Hannah  \Voo,hnau  .l  Ji 

11  March,  KlOl. 
NO  YES,  REV.  JAMES  was  born  in  Choulchnton,  ^Viit^ 


I (.00.     Danijiiter  Sarali  li, 
in  UIO'^,  m.   Miss   Sa 


Brown,  of  Southampton,  Eni,'.  eaiue  to  New  Enyland    l(i:U,  and  to   Newbnry  1(1:;.:). 
He  d.  22  Oct.  l(j.')(j,  n^.  IS.     Ch.— .Toseph.  l-T  Oct.  1H:17,  .hinios,  11  March,  hllo',  Saral 


1-J  Aug.  1(111 


->!  Feb.  111.3:1,  Mosos.  11  Dec.  lilCl,  Ji 


.Iiino,  111].'),  Thonias, 


10  Aui,'.  Kiis,  Robocca,  1  April,  lO.jl,  William,  22  Sept.  lil.'i:),  Sarah.  2')  March,   liirMl, 


NOYES,  COL.  THOMAS  son  ol 


.lame 


3  Sept.  1(17  1.     He  then  m.  Eli/abefh't.'roenleaf  '.'l  Sept.  H 


.Martha  Piercers  Dee.  lUilU,   who 


Ch. 


It    Sept. 
Oct. 


1070,  Martha.  2[  Feb.  I(i7'l,  Daniel,  '!()  Aiii;.  1(17  1,  James  :(  July.  l(17S,']'h 

1(170,  Parker  29  Oct.  lilSI,  Elizabeth.  20  Fob.  ir,s.|.  J„s,.ph,  0  Aug.  lOsS,  .Moses, 

.Tan.  1(102.  Rebekah.  10  April,  17110,  .liidith,  17  April.  170 


20 


NOYES.  NICHOLAS  broihort 


James,  b.  in  1011,   m.  Alarv  Ciittiiiu:,  sist 


capt.  .John  Cnltins.     He  died  2.'i  Nov.  1701,  a'icd  ,s:i.     Ch.— M 
nah,  :)0  Oct.  10i:!."John,20  Jan.  1(110,  Nicholas,  22  Doc.  1017,  Ciitl; 


Sarah,  13  Sept.  1051,  Sar; 


Anu.  lO.'i.'i,  Timothy,  23  June,  PI')."),  .(amos,    10  Al 


or  111 
1')  Oct.  lilU,  Han- 
nir.  23  Sept.  101!), 


10.37,  Abii,'ail,  11  April,  10.30.  Rachel,  10  Alay,  lOiU,  Thomas,  20  June.  1(303,  Rebecca, 

IS  Alay,  lOil-).  and  d.  1  Dec.  10S3. 
NOYES,  JOHN  son  of  Nicholas,  m.  Mary  Poore  23  Nov.  lOOS.     Ch.— Nicholas,  IS 

]\Iay,  1071,  Daniel,  23  Oct.  1073,  iMary.  10  Dec.  P175,  John,  1.3  Feb.  I(i78,  Alartha,  24 

Dec.  1079,  Martha,  19  Dec.  KlSO.  Nathaniel,  28  Oct.  1081,  Elizabeth  15  Nov.  lOM, 

Aloses,  22  May,  10'^'^'.  Samuel.  3  Fob.  lOOO. 
NOYES,  MR.  WlLLIAAI  son  of  rev.  .Tames,  m.  Sara  Coi;,s\velI  0  Nov.  IOS.3.     Ch.— 

John,  27  July,  lOSO,  William,  1  Sept.  lO.SS,  Sarah.  10  Alay.  1001.  and  d.  3  Dec.  170:i 


Aloses,  27  .Ian.  1001,  and  d.  10  Fob.  Susanna,  23  Fob.  1 
d.  10  Dec.  1703,  Sarah,  .3  Doc.  1703,  Parker,  17  .Tan.  1703. 


Mary,  21  May,  1099,  and 


NOYES.  CUTTING   son  of  Nicliolas, 


■lizabolh  Knight.  2-3  Feb.  1074.     Ch.- 


,Tohn,  15  Dec.  1071,  Cnltins.  2S  J, in.  1077,  Elizabeth,  2  Jan.  1079.  Nicholas,  22  May, 
lOSl,  and  d.  5  Doc.  1091.  Joseph,  21  Jan.  1(1S9,  Alary,  27  Alarch,  1093. 
NOYES.  TIAIOTHY  son  of  Nicholas,  m.  Alarv  Knight  13  J.m.  losi.     Abigail.  2S  Feb. 


1085,  Alary,  8  Doc.  10%,  Sarah,  20  Alarch.  17S0,  Timolh 


1094.  John.  10  Feb.  li 


NOYES,  JAA1ES  son  of  Nicholas. 


Alartha,  14  Alarch.  1097.  \i 


,lan.l091,  Rachels  Feb. 
las,  7  March,  1701. 


Hannah  Kiiiu;ht  31  Alarch,  lOSl.     Ch.— Rebecca, 


12  Jan.  1083.  .Toseph,  20  Sept.  lOSO,  Hannah,  1.3  Alarch.  loss.  Nicholas,  9  Feb.  1(190, 
Nathan,  5  Feb.  1092.  I-',i)hraim.  20  Nov.  and  d.  19  Doc.  1091.  Lydia.  30  Nov.  109.'i, 
Ephraim.  25  Dee.  1098.  Benjamin,  22  I'eb.  1701.  Alary,  13  Alarch,  1703,  James,  10 
Ausr.  1705. 
NOYES,  THOAIAS  jnn. 


R(d)c 


'oca.  20  Jn 


of  Nicholas,  m.  Sarah 


2s  Jan.  P191 


Ch.— Bethia.  20  Oct.  1091, 


NOYES,  NICHOLAS  jun.  sonof  Joh 


1.7  Aug.  1090.  Sarah.  15  Sept.  M07,  John,  Doc.  0,  lo99 


NOYES,  DANIEL  m.  Judith  Knight  29  Dec.  1 
NOYES,  JOHN  m.  Alarv  Noyos  1700. 


n.  m.  Sara  Luiit  109.3.     Ch. — John,  21  July,  and 
■  ■      D 


;o:: 


NOYES.  CFTTINtini:  E 


'.aboth  Toppan  8  ,I;in.  1703 


OLIVER,  AIH.  'OHXbornin  I3rist(d,  Knu:land,  in   1013,  came  to  Nowburv  1039.  m. 


Airs.  Joanna  (.ooilalr 
and  daus;h1er  Alary  bori 


■  d.  in  111  12,  a"od29. 


II 


IS  wioow  m.  ca 


ORDWAY,  JAAlEScan-e 


I  in  1010,  m.  Sainuid  Applotc 


af  Ip 


pt.  Wil 
ieh  8  Dec.  l(1.3ii. 


tiam  (Jerrish, 


1020.  mar.  Ann  ]•", 


ery  2:: 


ition  says.  iVom  \Vales  to   Newbiny.     He  was  bori 


Nov.   lOls.  who  d.  :il    March,  1087.     Ch.— Eohrai 


April,  1030.  .lames,  10  Ajiril.  1051,  Edward.  14  Sept.  1        ,   _  .   .   ,  ..  . 

17  Nov.  1  A.38.  Isaac.  1  Doc.  HHIO.  and  d.  HI  Jan.  1009,  Jane,  12  Nov.  10i'l3,  Hi' 


til. 


Sarah,  M  Sept.  1050. , loin 


2  Dec.  1 1 


Anne,  12  Fob.  1070,  AI 


ORDW.W,  JOHN  son  of  .Tamo 


irv. 


.\pril,  P 


H 


e  died  after  1702 


1I1S2.  Joh 


19  Oct.  lOS  I.James.  I  ,1 


sin.  Mary  (nidfrey  5  Dee.  1081.     Ch.— Alary,  18  Sept. 
■y.' Pl''7,  Peter,  15  Sept.  1(19],    Hannah,  20   Nov. 


and  d.  5  Dec.  109.1,  Hannah,  (1  Alarch,'  109.3,  Sleohoii,  8   April,   1097,  Ann,   13  AI 
1099,  Nathan,  2>s  April,  17U3. 


''.V> 


A  P  P  E  N  I)  1  X 


OKDWAY,  JAMi:S 
Jiiri.  ll'.Dl!.     His  M'ci 


jiii).  fifin  nl'  Jiimi^s,  rri.  '.Firzah 


dwil 


l--'.riily,  ir.'.i'l,  Lydiii,  1 1  July,  lii'.lli,  J 


I'.  S;ir;iii  (>liirk,  ol'  Rii 


313 

Ch.  }'i  Oct.  UiOI,  whod.  10 


u;iliil:i, 


I'y,  III!  m.  Miiy,  Itjl 


Ch.— Lvdii 


-'.s  ,\piil,  17(1 
OJU)WAY.  i;!)\VAI!l)s(.ii  of  .iMmos.  ni,  Miiry  W( 

A'uv.  li;s.'),  RucliL'l,  14  Jan.  Ktes,  Jacoli,  1  1  J;i 

J  in.  ItiO.l. 
ORDWAV,  FTANAMAH  son  ofJamos.  m.  Al.i 


lay,  lCiU7,  John,  '.'L'  June,  101)9,  Mary, 


■nipc.  lCi7S.     Ch 


-.To 


lO'JO,  Isaiaii,  U'S  Jan.  Ki'.lli,  D. 


anna,  28 
iniel,  13 


ir.iK).  Ahi-;iil,  -j  All-,  low,  Nil 
I')  Im'I).  nil-.'. 


lianii.'l,  .".  Jtilv,  Iti'.i"), 


I  .     Ch.— Ri'liocca,  2''  Dec. 

loaniia,  1.')  Aiiril,  Ki'JS,  Elizabeth, 


ORDWAV.  SAMF'KL 
O.SCiOOl),  JOHN  was! 


His  .son  Isaac  h.  -1  (■'el).  ICiSO. 


Ill 


onc(>  to  N 


as  horn  in   Andovor.  Kiij,'!anil,  Si  July.   X.Vjr-i,  camo  to  Ips 


(■whiiry,  thi'iu-n  to  AniloviT  1G15.  and  there  died  in  1051 


Joliii.  Stephen,  Miiiy.  and  l':iiz;il 


a.'ed  50.     Ch.- 


PAL.MKI}.  IIKNRV 


15.lnl\',  ICSO.      I|(>  had  two  dau.dilei 


eanie  to  Xcwhiiiy  about  10:;7,  moved  to  ilaverhill,  and  there  died 


PALMKR,  \VILMA:\I 


line  to  .Xewbniv  about   ](i:i7,   n 


dauijhtei-  ^larllia  ni.  John  Sherman  oC  \\'ateitii 


moved  to  Piscataeiua.     Hi 


PAL:\n:K 


lOSKl'H 


James.  IS  Dec.  Idlu,  J 


ira  .lacknian 


oseph. 


PALM:;R.  JOSEPH  sonof.h.s, 


s.r 


IS  Ma 


iilv,  lii70. 


100.").     Ch.— Sara,  5  Dec.  1605, 


cph.  in 


His  second  wi/'e  was  Hester- 


loseph,  ■>[  Oct   ir.oc,   Williaip,  .May.  1700,  Joseph,  10  Nov.  1702 


Ch 


PARKER.  NATIFAXca 


Shoit  10  Nov.  10-lS.      Ho  dieil  ii'i  lOS 


mecMily  to  Newlniiy,  thence  to  Andover  in  10.).'),  m.  Sara 


PARKE 

.Mil 


lOSEl'H  c;ime  earlv  to  Nevvl 


1012,  Stephen.  Johr 


iiiry,  thence  to   Andover.     Ch. — Joseph,  15 


PARKf:i{,  NATHAN 

d.  0  April.  10 


m.  .Alary  iiiowiie  15  Doc.  107.5.     Daughter  Mary  was  born  and 


PARKh:i!,  NATIIANIML  had  a  daughter  .Alary  b.  11  .rulv,  107S. 


PAitKI'.U,  REV.  THO.MAS 


only  son  ol' rev.  Robert  Parker,  of  Wiltsh 


irn,  was  born  in 


15'.10,  came  to  Ipswich  May,  10;M,  thence  to  Newbury  in  10:i5,  and  there  died  u 
ried  21  April,  li"i77. 
PEARSO.N,  BEN.IAMIN 

M  July,  10S2,  Daniel,  25  Dec.  lO.v],  Al 
mil  d.'5  April,  1771,  Sarah.  10  Dec.  1001,  .\| 


mar- 
on  of  .Tobn,  of  Rowley,  m.  Hannah  Thurston.     Ch.— Phebe, 
March,  lOS!),  Benjamin,  12  Anjr.   UiOO, 
tabcl,  18  .May,  10'J5,  Joseph,  4  Dec. 


y,m\[.  1(1  Dec.  lh\ii,  .nelielaLic 
1000.  David,  IS  .Fan.  1702,  Oliver,  14  Au;;.  1704. 

PEARSON.  SAMl'I'.L  m.         Poor  0  J}ee.  1070. 

PEASLEV,  JOSEPH  an  early  settler  in  Xewburv,  thence  to  Salisbury,  now  Ames- 
bury,  where  ho  died  li  Doc.  1000.  Ch.— Sarah,  20  Sept.  1042,  Jaseph,'9  Sept.  1040 
Elizabeth.  ' 

P]'..N(iRIN.  MOSl'.S  married  Abi^'ail .     Daunhter  .Miiirail.  11  Nov.  109.5, 

PE.MB1:R  I'O.N,  JA.MKS  was  in  Newbury  in  1010.  Ch. — .lohn  b.  in  Newbury  1(5  Feb. 
lOls.  Thomas  and  Joseph  were  born  in  Boston,  where  a  James  Pcmborton  died  11 
Oct.  1000. 

PEMBKRTON.  JOHN  was  dismissed  from  Boston  to  Newbury  church  24  Nov  1040 

His  wile  died  22  reb.  li,  10. 
PERKINS.  I5E.N.IA.MIN  had  a  son  Daniel  b.  IS  Dec.  lOiSl. 

PI;RKINS,  LVDIA  of  Newburv.  m.  Eliakiin  VVardwell,  of  Hampton,  17  Oct  1059 
PENrilE,  WALTER  m.  Anne  15  April.  1700. 
PERRY.  JOIEX  and  wilo  Daniaris  were  in  .Newbury  in  1051.     Ho  sold  his  farm  to 

S.'imnel  I'lnnier. 
PE  TTLNGllLL.  RICHARD  born  in  1021,  came,  tiadition  savs.  from  Staffordshire  to 

Weuham.  where  he  was  in  ir,ls.     In  10,72  he  came  to  Newburv  with  his  wife  Joanna, 

(who  was  daiiu'liler  of  Richaid  Innersoll,  of  S;ilem.)  and  several  children.     Mary  was 

born  in  .Newburv  0  .liilv.  1052,  Nathaniel,  21  Sept.  1051. 
PETTINtnil.L.  NATHANIEL  son  of  Richard,  m.  Hannah  Goodrid-?o  170,3.     Ch — 

Miirv.  died  0  March.  Hl'.lS. 
PE'1'1TN(;ELL,  SA.MI'I'.L  son   of  Richard,  rri.  Sarah   Poore   ]i'.   Feb.  1074.     Ch.— 

Samuel,;!  Feb.  1070,  Richard,  20  .Xuir.  1077,  Richard,  24  .fan.   1070,  .John,  20   Sept. 

10X1.  .Maiv  and  Sara.  20  Jan.  lOsr,.  .b.anna,  10  Feb.  KiSO,  Benjamin.  18  Dec.  1092. 
PE'I'TIN(;F.LL.  .AL\TTIII:W  son  of  Richanl.  m.  Sam.  Noyes  i:}  April.  1074,     Ch.— 

Nalhaniel,21  Jan,  1070,  Millhew,  is  Sept.  107s,  ,Toanna,  27  .Ian.  lOSl,  Nicholas,   15 

Nov.  10S,5.  Sarah,  19  April,  lOs.s,  Ji,|,njr,  Feb.  1094,  Abraham,  2:i  Sept,  1090,  Abigail, 

17  Oct.  ir.'iii,  Marv,  d.  :i  March,  IHOS.     His  second  wile  Jemima  French  he  m.  in  1703* 

P1'.TTIN(;ELL,  M  ATTHEW  jr.  m.  .Toairua ,     His  son  Al-     liani  b.  4  Dec.  I704' 

I'ET  i'lNtillLL,  DANIF.L  m.  Marv  SlickiievF)  .Nov.  1099.    s   ,i  Daniel  b.  5. Tan.  no."! 
PETTINC;  FLL,  RICHA  Rl)  son  of  Samuel.'  m.  Jemima  Ch     .  v,  10  Oct.  1701 


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APPENDIX 


■<  ds 


PETTINGELL,  NATHANIEL  jr.  m.  Margaret  Richardson  1702.  Daughter  Anneb, 
2'2  Dec.  17();i. 

PHELPS,  EDWARD  m.  Elizabeth  Adams.  Son  John  b.  15 Dec.  1057.  He  moved  to 
Andover. 

PIKK,  JOHN  laborer,  came  from  Langford,  Ensland,  in  the  ship  James,  to  Newbury, 
in  lf;;i5.  He  d.  in  Salisbury  ■■>(>  May,  KmI.  Ch.— Robert,  b.  in  Kiir),  John.  Dorothy, 
Ann,  Israel,  a  daughter,  Sani'.i,  who  d.  Nov.  ir,.'i().  Dorothy,  who  m.  Daniel  Hondrick. 

'  The  worshipful  maj.  ROBERT  PIKE,'  son  of  John,  died'  in  Salisbury  12  Dec.  1700, 
in  his  OJd  year. 

PIKH:,  JOHN  son  of  John,  m.  Mary .     Ch.— .Joseph,  20  Dec.  10;iS,  John,  12  Jan. 

1011,  and  d.  2S  May,  lOlU,  Hannali,  20  April,  10l:i,  Mary,  11  Nov.  1017,  John,  ,'iO  Mar. 
1050,  Ruth,  17  July,  10.52.  Sarah,  Vi  Sept.  H).55,  Thomas,  7  Doc.  1057,  Saniupl. 

PIKE,  JOSEPH  son  of  John,  jr.  m.  Susanna  Kingsbury  2'.)  Jan.  1002.  Ch.— Sarah,  12 
Oct.  lOtiO,  Mary,  lU  April  1070.  John,  28  Dec.  Iii7l,  Joseph,  17  April.  1074.  He  died 
1094,  aged  73.  Benjamin,  21  Si'pt.  1070,  Hannah.  24  March,  1070,  Thomas,  4  Aug, 
1G8] .  He  was  probably  the  Joseph  Pike  killed  by  the  Indians  in  Ilaverhill,  4  Sept. 
1004. 

PIKE,  JOSEPH  son  of  Joseph,  m.  Hannah  Smith  Dec.  1005  Ch.— Joseph.  4  Nov. 
1000.  John,  24  Feb.  1000,  Thomas,  25  Sept.  1700,  James,  1  March,  170;f,  Sarah,  2 
April,  and  d.  20  June,  1705.    Joseph,  d.  1757,  aged  84. 

PIKE,  JOHN  son  of  John  jr.  m.  Lydia,  widow  of  Moses  Little,  IS  March,  1005.  Ch. 
—Judith,  4  Dec.  1005,  Susanna,  3  April,  1097,  Lydia,  23  Dec.  1098,  Joanna,  17  Dec. 
1700,  Dorothy,  23  Sept.  1702. 

PIKE,  HUGH  m.  Sarah  Brown,  17  Juno,  1085.     Son  Hugh  b.  28  May,  1086. 

PILSBURY,  WILLIAM  came,  tradition  says,  from  Stairovd,shire.  He  m.  Dorothy 
Crosby,  in  Dorchester,  about  1041,  thence  to  Newbury,  where  he  d.  10  June,  1080. 
Ch.— Caleb,  28  Jan.  1051,  and  d.  4  July,  1080,  William,  27  July.  1050,  Experience,  10 
April,  1058,  Increase,  10  Oct.  1000,  Thankful,  22  April,  1002,  Joshua,  20  June,  1074, 
Moses.  Job,  Abel. 

PILSBURY,  WILLIAM  son  of  William,  m.  Mary  Kenny  13  Dec.  1077.  Ch.— Wil- 
liam,  22  March,  1080.  F,xpericnce,  10  April.  1082,  William,  7  July,  1087,  Lydia,  25 
Dec.  1080,  Increase,  5  Jan.  1005,  Apphia,  8  May,  1700. 

PILSBURY,  MOSES  son  of  William,  m  Susanna  Worth,  1008.  Ch.— Joseph, G  June, 
1070,  Dorothy,  0  April.  1075,  Susanna,  5  Feb.  1077,  Judith,  10  March,  1079,  Caleb,  27 
July.  1081,  Hannah,  3  May,  1080. 

PILSBURY,  JOB  son  of  JV'iUiam,  m.  Katharine  Gavet  5  April,  1077.  Ch.— Daniel, 
20  Se,-)t.  1078,  Josiah,  17  April,  1080. 

PILSBURY,  ABEL  son  of  William,  m.  Mary .     Ch.— Joshua,  12  April,  1079, 

John,  13  Sept.  1082,  Jacob,  20  March,  1087,  Abel,  12  April,  1000,  Elizabeth,  20  March, 
1004. 

PILSBURY.  DANIEL  m.  Sarah  Allen  1703. 

PILSBURY,  CALEB  m.  Sarah  Morse  1702. 

PILSBURY,  JOSEPH  son  of  .Moses,  m.  Sarah .  Ch.— Joseph,  16  Jan.  1695,  Mo- 
ses, 10  Sept.  1007.  Nathan,  3  June,  1009. 

PILSBURY,  MOSES  jun.  m.  Abigail  Rolf  1008.  Ch.— Moses,  16  Jan.  1099,  Abigail, 
0  Aug.  1700. 

PIERCE,  DANIEL  black.smith,  came  from  London  to  Watertown,  thence  to  Newbu- 
ry about  1037.  His  first  wife  was  Sarah.  He  m.  Anne  Milward.  20  Dec.  1054.  She 
d.  27  Nov.  1000.  He  d.  27  Nov.  1077.  Ch.— Joshua,  15  May,  1043,  Martha,  14  Feb. 
1018,  Daniel,  15  .May,  1042,  and  'son  in  law  Thorpe.' 

PIERCE,  DANIEL  .son  of  Daniel,  m. .  Ch.— Joanna,  who  d.  10  Sept.  1090,  Dan- 
iel, 20  Dec.  1003.  who  d.  2  Sept.  1000,  Anne,  22  ."May.  1000.  Benjamin,  20  Feb.  1000, 
Joshua,  10  Oct.  1071.  IMartha.  20  Feb.  1077.  Sara,  ,3  Oct.  1070,  George,  5  March,  1081, 
Mary.  14  April,  KiS.'i.  John,  10  Oct.  10S7,  Catharine,  18  Sept.  1000. 

PIERCE,  MR.  TllO.MAS  m.  Mehetabul  Frost  5  Jan.  1008.     Son  John  b.  5  Nov.  1098. 

PIERCE.  BENJAMIN  son  of  Daniel,  jun.  m.  Lydia .     Ch.— Daniel,  0  Aug.  100.3, 

and  d.  25  Aug,  Charles.  .3  Feb.  1005,  Elizahotli,  14  Nov.  1090,  Daniel,  11   Oct.  1008, 
Benjamin,  1.3  June.  1700.  John,  7  Nov.  1703. 

PIERCE,  MR.  JOSHUA  m.  :\Irs.  Joanna.    Daughter  Anne,  14  Oct.  1704. 

PEABODY.  WILLIAM  ni.  Mary  Browne  S  Dec.  1080. 

POORE.  JOHN  came  from  Wirtshirc  to  Newbury  in  103.5.  He  d.  23  Nov.  1684,  aged 
00,  Ch.— Jonathan,  .(ohn,  21  June,  1042,  Ilaniuih,  14  Oct.  1045,  Elizabeth,  8  Nov. 
1047,  Mary,  15  July,  10  IS,  Hannah,  25  M;irch,  1040,  Henry,  13  Dec.  1050,  Mary.  0 
March.  10.52,  and  d.  8  Sept,  Joseph,  4  Oct.  10.53,  Mary,  12  Dec.  10.54,  Sarah,  5  June, 
105.5,  Lydia,  5  Dec.  10.50,  Edward,  4  April,  1058,  Abigail,  20  March,  1000,  Abigail,  5 
Aug.  1001. 
POORE,  JOHN  son  of  John,  m.  Mary  Tilcomb,  27  Feb.  1000.     Ch.— John,  7  May, 


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«nd  d.  4  Oct.  1068,  Mary,  9  Aug.  1009,  Sarah,  27  Oct.  1071,  Elizabeth,  00  July,  1074, 
Hannah,  10  Aug.  1077,  Jonallian,  T)  Feb.  1(179,  Judith,  •:i3  Jlay,  iOSl,  John,  '.'0  June, 
108;).     Hedied  1.")  Feb.  17lJl,ai,'.  .59. 

rOORE,  JONATHAN  son  of  John,  m.   Rebecca  .    Daughter  Rebecca  b.  10 

May,  1705. 

POORE,  HENRY  son  of  John,  m.  Abiijail  Hale  ]-2  Sept.  1079.  Ch.— Abigail.  9 
Sept.  IGSO,  Henry,  -'A  Jan.  IC.K-.',  .feionniali.  10  Jan.  1081,  Marv,  H)  April,  ] 08(),  ^Marv, 
20  Sept.  1087,  Hannah,  19  J'jly,  1092,  Sarah,  18  Jan.   1091,   Benjiimin,  1090,  Daniel, 

1700.  1  J  1  1 

rOORE,  HENRY  jr.  of  Rowley,  m.  Mary  Holmes  1703. 

POORF,,  SAMUEL  |)erhaps  a  brother  to'John,  sen.  m. .     Cli. Rebecca,  7 

Feb.  1019,  Jlary,  21  March,  10.51,  Samuel,  14  Oct.  lti,5:!.  Edward,  27  May,  1050.  EiIk- 
abeth,  21  Jan,  10.59,  Joseph,  10  June,  1001,  Sarah,  4  June,  1004.  Benjamin,  22  Feb. 
1007,  Mary,  21  Feb.  1071.     Ho  died  til  Dec.  lOSI),  aired  00. 

POORE,  JOSFH'H  son  of  Samuel,  sen.  ra.  Mary  Wallinijton  0  Au?.  lOSO.  Ch.— Jo- 
seph, 2.5  April,  10.S3,  Benjamin,  7  Nov.  1087,  Sarah,  12  May,  1090,  Mary,  12  Aug. 
li!92.  Abigail,  1  Aug,  1095,  Hannah,  3  April,  109S,  John,  1  Aug.  1701,  Lydia.  14 
March,  1704. 

POORF.,  BENJAMIN,  son  of  Samuel,  sen.  m.  widow  Mary  Hardy  13  April,  1G9G. 
Ch.— Sarah.  0  Sept.  1097,  Ann,  31  Oct  1700.     She  d.  S  Aug.  1707. 

POORE,  SAMUEL  son  o.  Samuel,  sen.  m.  Rachel  Bniley  10  Feb.  1080.  Ch.— Re- 
becca, IS  Jan.  lOSl,  Samuel.  3  Jump,  1082,  and  d.  11  July.  1709.  aged  8.5.  Judith  d.  12 
Dec.  1083.  Sarah,  12  July,  1080,  Eleanor,  25  Dec.  ! 0)89,  Rebecca,  1  March.  lOO-l. 

POORE,   EDWARD,   m.  Elizabeth .     Stephen,  20   April,  1088,  Elizabeth,  21 

March,  1090,  Joseph,  15  April,  1701. 

POORE,  JOSEPH  jun.m.  Anna  Johnson  1098.  Ch.—Katherine,  18  Feb.  1C99,  Joseph, 
b.  9  April,  1701.  >         i    . 

POORE,  S.\RAH  widow;  of  John,  d.  3  Dec.  1702. 

PLUI^UCR,  FR.^NCIS  •  linnon  weaver.'  came,  some  sav  from  Woolwich,  Eng.  others 
from  Wales,  about  1033.  He  was  in  Newbury  1035.  '  His  iirst  wife  Ruth  d."l8  .\ug. 
10 17.  He  m.  widow  .\nn  Palmer  31  March,  id  IS  or  9,  who  d.  18  Oct.  1005.  He  then 
m.  Beatrice,  widow  of  William  Cantlebury,  of  Salem,  29  Nov.  1005.  He  d.  17  Jail. 
1073.     Ch.— Samuel,  b.  1019.  Joseph,  1030,  ami  Mary,  who  m.  Cheney. 

:'LU.MER,  SAMUEL  son  of  Francis,  m.  Mary .     Ch.— Samuel.  20  April,  1047, 

Mary,  8  Feb.  1050.  John,  11  May,  1052,  Ephraim,  10  Sept.  105.5.  Hannah,  10  Feb! 
1057,  Silvanus,  22  Feb.  105.8,  Ruth.  7  .\ug.  1000,  p:iizabeth.  19  Oct.  1002,  Deborah, 
13  March,  1005,  Joshua,  Lydia,  2  July,  1008,  Bathshua,  31  July.  1070.  He  died  1702 
aijed  S3. 

PLUMER,  JOSEPH  son  of  Francis,  m.  23  Dec.  10,53.  Ch.— Joseph,  11  Sept.  1054, 
Benjamin,  23  Oct.  1050,  Sarah,  13  May,  1000,  Francis,  23  April.  1002,  and  d.  5  Dec. 
1003,  Francis,  25  Feb.  1004.  Nathaniel,  31  Jan.  1000,  Jonathan,  13  May.  1CC8,  Abigail, 
10  July.  1009,  and  d.  11  Dec.  1083. 

PLU.MER,  EPHRAIM  son  of  Samuei,  m.  Hannah  Jaqucs  15  Jan.  1080.  Ch.— M.uy, 
19  Feb.  1081,  Hairnah.  12  Oct.  1082,  Samuel.  27  Oct.  10.'^4,  Elizabeth.  21  Nov.  1080, 
John,  7  Nov.  1088,  Ruth,  5  Nov.  lO'.M),  Daniel,  'ii  :\Iarch,  li'93.  Richanl,  3  Av  1005, 
Billield,  12  June,  1007.  Sarah,  20  July,  1009,  J  uima.  "1  June.  1704. 

PLU.MER,  SILVANUS  son  of  Samuel,  sen.  m.  Sarah  Moody  IS  Jan.  IC^Q.  Ch.— 
Mary,  22  Oct.  1083,  Samuel,  12  Nov.  1084,  and  d.  2  Aug.  1085,  Samuel,  Lydia.  Sarah, 
and  Benjamin. 

PLU.MEIi,  JOSEPH  jun.  son  of  Joseph,  sen.  m.  Hannah  Swett  20  Jan.  1GS.5,  '  Ch.— 
Samuel.  4  May,  1080,  Abigail.  11  Dec.  1087,  Miriam,  10  June,  1090,  Aaron,  10  Jan. 
109.3,  Eleazer,  29  ,Jan.  I(i04.  .Joseph.  12  .Ian.  100.5,  David,  10  March,  1090.  Sampson,  14 
March,  1099,  Hannah,  17  July,  1700,  Sarah,  17  April,  1702,  Deborah,  19  Dec.  1703, 
Eliphalet,  1  April,  1705. 

PLU.MER,  JOSHUA  son  of  Samuel,  m.  Elizahelh  Dole  0  Nov.  1099.  Ch.— Samuel, 
3  Sept.  1700,  Stephen,  0  Dec.  1702.  .Joshua,  22  .\ug.  1705,  Nathaniel,  19  June,  1708, 
Enoch,  3  Dec.  171 1,  Elizabeth,  22  March,  1710. 

PLU.MER,  SAMUEL  son  of  Samuel,  sen.  m.  Joanna  Woodbery  5  Dec.  lilTO. 

PLUMER,  JOHN  of  Rowley,  m.  Elizabeth  Smith  1700. 

PLUMER,  FRANCIS  sou  of  Josej.h,  m.  .Mary  Ellitrop.    Daughter  Mary  b.  15  May. 

1701.  J  I  ..  J  J, 

PLUMER,  JONATHAN  son  of  .Joseph,  m.  Sarah  Pearson  10  June.  1090.  Ch.— John, 
25  March,  1097,  Daniel,  7  .Jan.  lOOi).  Mary,  0  Dec.  1701,  Jonathan,  14  Aug.  1705. 

PRICE,  WALTER  born  17  May,  U;:;o,  lived  in  Salem. 

RANDALL,  WILLIAM  was  born  in  1018,  m.  Elizabeth 2  Oct.  1049.     Ch.— Eliz- 

abeth,  13  May,  1050,  William,  2  March,  1053,  John,  5  March,  1655,  .Mary,  20  Mareh, 
1056,  Hannah,  7  Jan.  1059. 


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RANDALL,  WILLIAIMjun.m.  Rcbrcia ,  who  d.  IS  Tch.]C,:~.     Son  F.nocli  h. 

Der.  1('.7ii. 
RAVVSOX,  MR.  KIIWAIU)  (■(inin  (rom   (nlliii^'linm.  Ddisclsliiip.  was  in  Nowlmry 

about  JCi.'Ki  or  7.  and  loiiioxorl  lo  notion  U'l.'.o,     ll(-  ni.  Ilii'lii'l  rcriio.    Cli. —  I'.ihvaii'l, 

Rarhcl,  David,  r.  M;iy,  111  II,  I'rrnc.  ICi  lii,  Susan,  wlio  d,  in    l{nxl)iiiv,  I'l-'l,   d'rindal, 

•J.T  Jan.  ICi.lii,  William,  born  in  liostoii.  lii.')l.  itchrcra,  and  .foliii.     lie  <l.  liliHi,  a;;.  77. 
RKMIXGTOX,  .lOilXwasin  Xi'wlniry.  Iii:i7,  llii'nco  lo  Andovor  and   Uowley.  and 

finally  to  Roxbnrvor  lioslon.     His  \\ilif>s  naino  was  Ahiirail. 
RICIlAl!l)S,,l()HN' in.  Hannah  ( ;oodrii I i;c  :.'■.'   .March,   ICi'.il.  wlio  dird   '.'0  Jan.  100.1. 

Ho  tliPii  ni.  Sarah  Cliiinrv  Hi  July,  li'iiid.     Ch.— Sarah,  l,'!  Sepl.  U'i'.i7,  jMrlieiahol.  -,'5 

June,  ll'.'.l'.l,  Sarah.  10  Teh'.  1  7o:. 
RICHARDSOX.  WILLI.AM  ni.  Klizahcth  Wisrnian  '.'.'1  An;:.  1t;.Jl.     Jle  d.  M   :Marrh, 

\M8.     Ch.— Joseph.  IS  .Mav,  H'-.V),  B(Miianiin.   in  March,  lii.u. 
RICHARDSOX.  KI)\V.\K1)  m. .     Ch.— I'.dward,  Jl  J)oo.  ir,iri,   Caloh,  IS  Aiii^. 

lC,rr2,  Ruth.  :.'.".  Nov.  l(;.').'i.  .Moses.  I  Aiiril.Hl.'jS.  Mny,  -.2  Sept.  HHiO.     He  died  11  Nov. 

108.3.     Another  Kilward  Ricdiardsoii  died  :.'.'>  March,"  Id.').'). 
RICHARDSOX.  KDWAIJI)  jr.  m.  ]:iizaheih  Hale  II  D,.c.  1000. 
RICHARDSOX.  KDWAUD.jiin.  m.  Anne  Hartlet.  -JS  Oct.  ICw.L     Ch.— :\iaf'  .• 

107.'),  and  d.  ;i  April,  107S.  Kllward.  ■,'  Sept.  107  1.  Mary,  2.")  Aug.  1070,  Moses,    ■     .    n. 

lOSO,  Margaret.  7  Jnlv.  li'iS'.>.     He  d.  II  Xov.  lOSJ. 
RICHARDSOX.  JOSiHMI  rn.  ■Ahu-aiet  (JodiVey  1-2  Jnlv,  10S|.     Ch.— Marv,  10  ,\pril, 

IOS'3,  William,  -.'i  .March,  lOS],  .T„seph.  :!!  Dvc.  lOSil,  Kli/abelh, '.'S  Feb.  lo'so,  Daniel, 

4  April,  100-i,  Saiah,  10  Juno.  100  1,  'I'hoinas.  1.3  l-'eh.  1007,  Caleb,  0  June,  170-1. 
RICHARDSOX,  JOSHUA  m,  .Alarv  Parker  :J1   Jan.  1070,  who  died  7   .Marcli,  108:3. 

He  then  m,  Jane ,     Ch,— I'.slln'r.  1-3  .March,  lOMj.  Judith,  23  June,  los.s,  Hannah, 

9  Oct,  1000,  Ahi-ail,  (i  Aug.  1002,  Klizahelh,  4  JN'ov.  1004,  Joanna,  0  .March,  1007, 

Jo.shua,  -JO  Mav,  I'O'X 
RICHARDSON,  CALEB  m.  :Marv  Ladd  ;il  Julv,  lOsj.     Ch.— Alarv-  12  Jan.  108.3, 

Ruth,  1  March,  n;s:!, 
RICHARDSOX,  MR,  JOH?rm, .     Ch,— Sarah,  0  Sept.  1074,  Mary,  22  July,  1077, 

Elizabelli.  20  April.  lO.SO,  Katharine.  13  Se|it.  lOiSl.  and  a  son  John. 
ROEIXSOX,  RORERT  b,  H.-jS,  m,  Mary  Silver  2(>  Oct.  lOcl.     Ch.— Mary,  IS  Nov. 

1005,  Daniel,  0  Oct.  Ii'iiw,  John.  12  Dec,  1000,   Samuel,  'I'homas,   Sarah,   Ilannah,  21 

Dec.  ]i;s:),  Robert.  .3  .Mav,  loso, 
ROBINSOX.  JOHN  m.  Susanna  ,     Ch,— John.  0 

1002,  Daniel,  14  .Alaicli,  100.3.     He  died  .Alarch.  1000. 
RIDGE.  JOHX  il.  :tO  Dec.  1000. 

ROBRIXS.  THO.\L\S  m.  Priseilla  Mallard  170:?      Son  Thomas  b.  12  March.  1701. 
ROGERS.  ROBERT  tn.  Susanna ,  was  in  .Xewhury  in  1031.     He  died  2,1  Dec. 

100;i.     Ch.— Robert,  28  April.   10.30,   Thomas,  9  July,  10.32,  .John,  lli  3Iurch,  1054, 

Susanna,  0  Feb,  10.37,  .Joshua,  1  .\u<;.  10.38. 
ROGERS.  THOMAS  son  ol'  Robert,  m.  Rnlh  Brown  IS  ^lay.  1077.     Ch— Thomas, 

14  Aui,'.  107S,  Ruth,  10  April,  lOSO.  Sn-anna,  17  Murh.  1082',  Robert,  5  April,  1084, 

.John.  11  July,  10S0,  Isaac,  21  June,  1001,  Stephen,  20  Aug,  1093,  Daniel,  14  Nov.  1095, 

•Jonathan,  18  June,  1702, 
ROGERS,  THO.M.\S  ni.  Hannah  Long  IS  .Aug,  1702. 
RAWLIXS.  NICHOL.AS  in.  Rebecca  Lonir  :il  Oct.  ir,70. 

Daniel.  21  March.  10S2.  .Mary.  10  April,  ir.s:l,  .Joseph, 

March,  1087,  Rebokah,  1  Oct.  lOSO,  .Martha.  3  Nov.  1002. 
R.^WLLXS.  JOHX  m.  .Mary  Thoinas.  of  E.Neter,  9  Oct.  1702. 
Rf*LFE,   HENRY  son  of  Honour  Rolle,  came  to  Newbury  among  the   first  settlers. 

He  d,  1  March,  1043,     His  only  son,  John,  died  bclbie  him.     His  grandson  Benjamin 

was  born  in  10  10, 
ROLFE,  JOHN  brotlier  to  Henry,  m.  IMary   Scnllard    1   Dec,  1030.     Ch  — :\Iary.  10 

Jan.   1000,  Rebecca,  9  Feb,   10ii2,  ."\Iarv,  2  Nov.  and  d.  10  Dec.  1058.     He  d.  8  Feb. 

1001. 
ROLFE,  SAMUEL  ni.   Sarah  Jcpson  of  Cambridge,  lOOP.     Son   Samuel,  10  Au". 

170.3. 
ROLFE,  BEXJA5TIX  m.  Apphia 3  Xov.  1039.  who  d.  24  Dec.  1708.     He  died 

Aug.  1710.     Cli.— John.  12   Oct.   1000,   Renjamiiu  13   Sept,   1002,  Apphia,  S  March, 

1007,  Mary,  10  Sept.  lOOO,  Samuel.  1  I  .Jan.  li'>72,  Marv,  11  .Xov.  1074,  and  d.  IS  June, 

1077,  Henry,  12  Oct,  li;77,  Elizabeth, 15  Dec,  1070,  Xathaniel,  12  Nov.  1081,  Abigail, 

5  May,  108  |. 

ROLFE,  JOHN  m.  Doroihv .     Son  .Tolm  b.  24  March,  10,01,, Jonathan,  2  Aug.  1095. 

ROLFE.  JOHN  (1.30  .Sept. "lOSl.  '  » 

RUSS,  JOHN  born  in  101 1,  camo  early  to  Newburv,  thence  to  .Andoverin  1045,  where 

he  d,  1092.    Ch.— John,  24  June,  1 04 1 ,  .Mary,  1 0  Feb.  1 044,  Jonathan.  Thomas,  Josiah, 

and  Joseph, 


•>cpt,  luOO,   Samuel,  2   Dec. 


Ch,— .John,  1   Dec, 
3Iarch,  108.5,  Ronjai 


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SADLKI},  AXTIIOW  l.n.l  a  sn,i  Al.irl  1,.  'j  Nov.  \i\r,l) 
SAL.MOX.  \Vll.r,l AM  m.  Ann,.  U<.!.-i,.r  "i  S.-pt    MM) 

o'^Mv '^V-^'  ^^  i'-'-'-^^'  '"•  I  inisiimi  i;iu..|i,  ,.r  (;i,M,r,.si..r,  nn-.'. 

SAI  .\I)K  lis,  JOHN  l,„m  in  KV.C,  j,,  WWks  .•mnity  of  Wilt.lm..,  w;,-i,in  X.u  hnrv  in 
Itio.i,  niid  (I.  1o.ll,  |.,li/:,|ii.|||,  oc, till,.  )(;.-,.',,  "  '  '  '     ■ 

^■■^y.*"\}-,'''*'"'"''''""'-'^^"'""'  •'^''"'v  .■\lil(li..|l  S  Dp,-.  IC.V,.  f'i,_S;inil.  1  >  .\ov 
1»M/,  \\,ll,,,m  15  So|.l.  lil.V.s  Smm„.l,  l.S  M,ych,  IOC,--.  ll..l«.<Tn, -o  Jan.  ICui-i,  liui,..,!' 

SAIUJI'.XT,  Wir.T.IAMonoof  ihnUvHvo  M.PM  win.  sHllcl  ]n<^v■u■U  in  H.:!:!  thmro 
In  Xcu'hiirv.  Ilinncp  lo  AiiKvlimy  in  HH'I,  wIump  IkmII..,!  al.onl  |i;-,l  a-cd  7:;  Ch — 
J  lioiTias,  William.  :\Iarv,  and  |;|i/,iil)rlli.  ~ 

SAVKR   now  SAUVKIi,  WILLIAM  was  in  A\Vul,am  ir,|:!.  ll„.nrP  to  Xowlniry.     IT.- 

n-,r,,    \,^ ''—';:'',"•  '-'  •^"-  "■''■''•  ^^"nn..|,  -'  Xov.  Kiw;,  Un,|,,  i,;  s,.,,l.  ir,;s' 

jmiiold  -— ,  ?rarv.  7  iM'b.  l(;.-,(l,  and  d.  Kl.")'!.  Sarali,  -JO  Nov.  If,-,)  Hannali  ■':i  I',.!. 
inol,  ;.nd  d.  ICiiO,  William,  1  |-Vb.  M'M,  Franris.  -1  Alurch,  ir..-.s,  and  <l.  7  Fob.  I(i.;i)' 
f ''"7\r' ''".'•^'  ";'.'"•  •^"■I'lion,  :-'^'>  April,  ir,0;j,  Hannah,  11  ,l,ni.  KiC.l  and  d.  -S  An- 

^'onV''l''  ^^''J'l^'A.M  son  oi-  William,  m.  Shivv  llmeiy  10  :\Iai(h,  1(171.  Ph.— Mniv 
20Jun.  II,,-,'  Sannud,  .-..hn,P  l(,7l.,Iol.n,  15  .AJaich,  U!7(i,  liuth,  20  Sept.  1077,  Han- 
nah, ]:.>  .Ian.  1(,/'.».  ,I(,.siab. '.Ml  .Tan.  Kisj. 

^-))-'7';;!^;,'.'*^^"'^' *"'""''  '^^''"i'"Ti' '"■  ^''I'l'i  1'"'"-''  !■'*  Frb.  ir,7r,.  Ch.— Rnth  Sptit 
1m''  ^  ''';.':"-•  7;' ^V')"-  ";''■'.  Sarah. -.'O.Mav.  li.S|,,Iohn,  :.'.-,  April,  KlS.'l,  .Jonathan" 
4Ma,ch  «,s.,,  Dam.d.KMan  1HS7,  .loi.n,  10  Sept.  Kiss,  and  died  19  March,  IdSli 
John.  d.  .10  May,  HiSO.  a"i'd  l-l  ^jhwi,  i, .., 

SA  W  VK  R,  STI-i  I'll  KX  s7,n  of  \Villia„>,  rn.  Ann .     Ch.-Ann,  1  An-.  1(1S7  ])an- 

lol,  2S.Tan.  lUMt.  I'.norh.  :.".Mniio.  l(i!M.  '  ""  ' 

SAVVVK K,  ,I()|(X  m.  Marv  M.'nill  l'',  Dpc.  1700. 

^'noT'"'''  ^^''^'^''^^'^f  m.  Lydia  Wehster  7  .fan.  170:j.     Dau-hler  Klizabeth  b.  1  Oct. 

^'nff '^^'Tn^^^;i',''-|?^!^^^  ""■  ^■■"'"^"■"' •     f^li-T-Kvnrd  and  Ebonezor.  b. 

u'^^rri    1      o,'if'''^'''''',':''''^'''"'^''J-''''   '•■"^^'   Kli/abch.    I'o.lsmonlh,  li   Oct. 
.lline   1701  '''■^'      '        '  "*  ^''''  "''^'''  ^'■■''"'""'.  'J  -^"S-  i'"':   Abigail  JG 

^'■;'.';!}^;,'';'f^-^f'^^."i'  ^''"y  Hilton.  alias  Downc^r,  11  Dec.  ICin.  Ch.— IMarv,  ;iO  Oct 
li.r)7.  Rcherra.  .',  .\ov.  1(1(11.     Ho  (I.  -.'11  .Mav,  Midi.  ^ 

SF.WALL  IIKXRV  sen.  b  in  Coventry  in  l.'-,7(l.  m.  Anne  Hunt,  came  lo  Xcwbnrv 
an(  in  K.K,  removed  to  Rowley,  where  he  died  ,A[areh,  l.l.-,7,  in  his  Slst  year  He 
bad  one  son.  Henry.  |nn.  -    j    w.     m. 


;1 


i.Lsi  mice  were  oorn  in  iNevvhnrv,  the  others  in  Kii'.'land. 

i)-;'^'"^V  -^''^•, •'!^"^'  ""'  ''''  ''•'"■>•  ™-  Hannah    Fesseiulen,  of  Camlirid.rp,  27  Oct 

w.j.  ^  "^ 'li'^'l  ^  Anfl.  I''''.'0,a.e,l.|.-,.     Ch.-Hannah,  21   Dec.  1(175.  and  d.  -1  July" 

1'-//.  Hannah,  2(,  I)(^c.  l(w7,.Iohn.  10  April.  Kiso,   Heurv.  7   Sept    l(lS->    Steve-i    17 

.    ,;  .;      ni'  ^"Vy  f  I'-f^""  c^i'ly  settler,  m.  Rebecca,  danditer  of  Richanl  Kent,  and 

S; 'Su.  .PS-MaSi^'i;;,'^"' ''"'  ^^'■"'■'^^"''  •'  '''■ '"'  •'  «-^^'''  ^^  J"-'  ^'^  '^.  ^-"'=' 

SH  ATS  WFLL.  RICHAIM)  of  Ipswich,  m.  Eleanor  Cheney  17  Dec.  inor,.     Son  Rich- 
ard  b.  1  Feb,  l(i|(S,  •'  '-uo  ivilu- 


aiu   o.   I    iMMi.    in;'.'\, 

MiOlvl.  III'.XL\  brother  to  Anthony,  m.  Elizabeth .  who  d  •'•'March  KUS      I 

m   a  second  wile.  Sarah  Gh.ver.  0  Oct.  Id  IS.     Ch,-Sar,.h.  IS  D,,,..'  id  10.'  Henrv    1 
March,  id.,-.',  .lohiK  :!1  Oct.  1(15:1,  and  d.  Idol.     Sarah,  :JS  Jan.  Iddo.     He  died   5  Ma 


Ho 

11 


318 


APPENDIX. 


SILVER,  THOMAS  Ipswich  1037.  then  Nowhiiry. 
1)0  m.  IS  Aii^'.  l(ll(t,  who  il.  ','3  Jiilv,  irili5.     He  ilinl 


His  soroiid  wife,  Knthaiine  C — , 

(i  Sc))i.  If.S'.'.     Ch.— M;iry,  Uiir), 


Kii/:ilu'th  and  Muilhii.  M  Mirch,  ilir)l,  Thoinus,  ;.'(!  Marcii,  JCiO.I,  ^iiid  d.  KirKl,  Thnrii 

as,  -'ti  ^liirch,  U1.')S,  John,  -'1  Aujj.  UiiJO,  Siirnuol.  lii  Feb.  IOOl',  Haiiimh  and  barah,  If 

Oct.  1(1.")5. 
SILVKU.  THOMAS  horn  in  lij;!'.',  m.  Mary  Willliams  1  Jan.  lOSa.andd.  1005.    Daii^'h- 

tor  Sanih  b.  2  Oct.  lilSJ. 
SIMMONS,  SAMHKL  was  killed  with  the  fall  of  a  horse,  IS  .Tune.  1083. 
SLOW.MAN.  SVMOX,  son  of  Syiiioii  and  Hannah,  h.  M  .Inly,  Um. 
SlN'(;Li':TKURY,  RICHAUn  was  bom  in  l.'is;.,  was  in  Salem  lO.'.S,  thence  to  New- 
bury, Salisbury,  and  llaveriiill.     Ho  d.  l'5  Oct.  10S7,  in  his  lOiid  year.     He  Inul  a  son 

.John,  and  perhaps  others. 
SAHTH.  THO.MAS  weaver,  from  Romsoy.  England,  came  to  Newbury,  lOMR,  from 

Ipswich.     His  wife  w,is  {{ebecca.     Ch. — Thomas,  Ki.'lO,  and  drowned  in    lOlS,  Dec. 

0,  Rebecca,  _'l)  Feb.  ICjIO.  .lames,  10  Sept.  U>1,J,  .lohn,  H  Mardi,  ir.ls,  .\hilthias,  '-'7  Oct. 

hurl,  Tliomas,  7  July.  l(i.')l,  and  was  killed  by  tlie  Indians  at   Bloody  Brook,  in  1070. 

Thomas  Smith,  sen.  d.  -J'J  April.  1000.     A  Th<imas  Smith  d.  11  May,  10,0;).     Another 

Thomas  Smith  had  a  son  John.  b.  11  Sept.  lOOS. 
SMITH,  LIEUT.  JAMF.S  son  of  Thomas,  rn.  Sarah   Coker  20  July,  1007.     He  was 

drowned  at  Anlicosti  Oct.   lOdO.     Ch.— Sarah.  12   Sept.   lOOS,  James,  10   Oct.  1070, 

Thomas,  i)  March,  107:!,  Hannah,  ',':!  March,  lli7.5,  Joseph,  S  June,  and  d.  I'.i  July,  1077, 

John,  1  Nov.  1078,  Samuel,  ;il  ,lan.  K'jSO,  Benjamin,  21  Aug.  1081,  Mary,  27  Feb.  lOSl, 

and  d.  IT)  Dec.  10S5. 
SMITH,  JAMES  son  of  James,  m.  .lane .     Ch.— James,  25  Nov.  1090,  Sarah,  21 

Juno.  lOlW,  Marv.  2:1  .May.  1701.  Hannah,  1  March.  1701. 
SMITH,  RICHARD  m.  Mary  Chandler,  17  Oct.  1000. 
SMITH.  JOHN  m.  Rebecca  I'oore  20  Nov.     ;m.     Ch.— ,Tohn.  M  Sept.  and  d.  11  Oct. 

lOiiiS,  Uebecca,  1  Am,'.  100'.),  John.  20  Oct.  1071.  and  d.  .'U  Auj;.  1077,  JMary,  21)  Dec. 

]07:i,  .lohn,  17  Alar.'h,  107S,  Samuel,  ;)1  .Ian.  lOSO,  and  d.  Nov.  10S5,  Josiah,  28  March, 

10iS7,  Hannah,  27  Jan.  lOdI),  Dorolliy.  20  Au^'.  1002. 
SO.MIIRBV.  A.NTHONY  schoolma,<tcr,  son  of  llichard,  who  was  son  of  Henry  Som- 

erby  of  Litlle  Bylham,  in  Lincolnshire,  cam('  lo  Newbury,  in  lO.l'.i,  in  the  ship  Jona- 
than.    His  wife  .\bi;rail  d.  11  June,  107J.     He  d.  01  July,  lO.SO,  ayed  70.     Abiel,  his 

only  child,  was  born  S  Sept.  10-11. 
SOMERBY.  ABIEL  son  of  Anthony,  ni.  Rebecca,  daughter  of  (knic.  Richard  Kniu'ht, 

13  Nov.  1001.     He  died  27    Dec.  1071.  aged  JO  years^     Ch.— Ileniy,  13  Nov.  1002, 

Abiel,  20  Dec.  1001,  Abiel,  2-1  Aug.  1007,  Abijjail,  25Jan.  1070,  Antlionyand  Rebecca, 

7  June.  10w2. 
SOMERBY.  HENRY  son  of  Al)iel.  ni.  Marv  Moody,  20  June,  10S3, 
SOMERBY',  ABIEL  sou  of  Abiel,  m..Tane  Brocklebank,  20)  Jan.  1003.     Cli.— John,  7 

July.  1093,  Sarah,  23  Jan.  and  d.  S  ilarch,  1095,  Sarah,  12  Feb.  1090,  Jane,  S  Dec.  1098, 

Abiel.  3  .Ian.  17112. 
S0MI:RB\',  ANTHONY  son  of  Abiel.  m.  Elizabeth  Heard,  of  Ipswich.  1090.     Ch.— 

Elizabeth,  2S  March,  1099.  Anthony,  1-J  March,  and  d.  22,  1700,  Abiel,  b.  in  Feb,  and 

d.  in  March.  1703,  Elizabeth,  29  June.  1701. 
SOMERBY,  HENRY  brother  to  Anthony,  sen.  m.  Judith,  daughter  of  capt.  Edmund 

Greenleaf.     He  d.  2  Oct.  10.'i2.    His  widow  m.  Tristram  Collin.    Ch. — Sarah,  10  Feb. 

101.5.  Elizabeth,  Nov.  1010,  John,  21  Dec.  lOlS,  and  d.  M  Dec.  lO-M,  Daniel,  IS  Nov. 

1050,  and  d.  in  the  army  in  107ii. 
SNELLING.  DR.  ^VILLIA.M  came  from   Chaddlewood,  county  of  Devon.     He  m. 

in  September,  1010.     In  1018,  July  5.  'he  m.  Margaret,  eldest  daughter  of 

Giles  Stague.  of  Southwark,  Barnaby  street,  at  the  sign  of  the   Christopher'     Ch. — 

William,  21  June,  1049,  Ann,  2  JVIarch,  1052.     He  removed  to  Boston  about  1051,  and 

there  died. 
SPENCER,  MR.  JOHN  came  fiom  London  to  Ipswich  in  1031,  thence  to  Newbury, 

in  103.').     He  dieil  in  Englanil  about  H'>,50.     In   his  will   he  mentions  nephew  John 

Spencer,  brother  Thomas  Spencer,  and  cousin  Ann    Knight.     His  nephew  and  heir, 

John  Spencer,  sold  his  farm  to  his  uncle.  Daniel  Pierce,  in  105!. 

SQUIRE,  PHILIP  m.  Mary .     His  son  Thomas  b.  31  Oct.  10'J4. 

STAPLES,  THOMAS  m.  Elizabeth .     His  daughter  Mary  b.  0  Jan.  1702. 

STEVENS,  WILLIAM  m.  Elizabeth 19  .May,  1045.     He' died  19  May,  1053.   Ch. 

—Bitfield,  b.  10  March,  1049,  John,  19  Nov.  1050,  Samuel,  18  Nov.  1052. 
STEVENS,  JOHN  came  early  to  Newbury,  thence  to  Andover  in  1045,  where  he  died, 

April,  1002.     Ch. — John,  20  June,  1039,  Timothy,  23  Sept.  1041,  Nathan,  Joseph, 

Ephraim,  and  Benjamin. 
STEVENS,  THOMAS  m.  Martha  Bartlet  15  April,  1G72.    A  Thomas  Stevens  m. 

Mary  Mighill  13  Oct.  1081. 


05.    DuiikU- 


ice  1o  Now- 
lo  Inul  a  sou 


G,  Sarah,  21 


]li. — John,  7 
S  Dec.  1098, 

.000.  Ch.— 
,  in  Feb,  and 

ipt.  Edmund 
I  rah,  U)  Fob. 
liel,  1!5  Nov. 

/on.  lie  m. 
(huiyhter  of 
her'  Ch.— 
)Ut  1001,  and 


Stevens  m. 


APPENDIX. 


^'!i'rI7' '^1070  ^^"^  *"■  *''"^  ^'^'''*°  ^^"'"^  °'  "''^"-    Ch.-JIary,  0  Feb.  1071,  T 
STKVi'lNS,  wiihnv  .\NN  diod  Juiy,  1050. 


319 


liomas, 


STICKNKV,  A.MOS  son  of  Will 


i.>m,  a  native  u(  Hull,  ]• 


tlieiice  lo  Kowh-y,  thoiiro  lo  Nowhnry.  and  ni.  S;irah  .Mors,',  lm'j 


riKJanil,  rnmn  to  Boston, 


A  us;.  l';7S.    Ch.— .Job 


III  .1 


"no,  Hii;n,  Andiow,  Doc.  |i;.')7,  A 


ioo:i.    He 


II  .Ainil,  1071,  liniianiiii,  \  April.  li;7;j.  d.  5  M,ir.  17.-.o'  Sara! 


nrios,  ;i  All};.  100!),  Jo.soph 


107.'),  Hannah,  :ii   .Maroh,  lii70.  M 


STICKNKV,  .lOlIN 


son  of  .\nin.s. 


,  'JO  N 


i)v.  1077. 


li,  1'.'  Oct.  107.1,  and  d. 


lO'.M,  .lohn,  ;!l)  Jnlv.  I01i:i.  Sii 


ni,  M.iry  Poor  10  Dor.  lORtl.     Ch.— .Mary,  1  July 


son  of  Amos,  m.  Rebecca 


STICKNKV,  ANDRKW 

Daiiu'htor  Kebocci  b.  10  ,1 
STKWAUT  or  STCART,  DINCAN  shin  1 


h,  So|)t.  lOiiN,  J„sopli,  10  Doc.  1 


00. 


iin,  10!i;t. 


v.iio  dieil  'M  Jan,   100^ 


R( 


iwloy  pri<ir  to  lOSo,  and  wa-i  I  ho  si 


l>nil(lo 


Cli,— iSliutlia,  1  April,  lO.'iO.     C 


up  bnililor  in  ihat  pi 


Miiy,  1000,  all  1    .. 
STUART,  JA.MKS 


Nowb 


5  J 


1001,  .1 


Ho  removed  to 


H'o.     He  d.  1717,  niied  100. 


iry,  and  ihroo  others  born  in  Rowley 


jinii's,  8  Oct.  100.1,  Henry,  1 


Charles,  10  .Ian.  1000 
S'J'I'ART,  JOHN  in.  Kli/aboth 

11  Dee.  lO.S!). 
SUTTON,  W  H.IJAM 
SWKT'I',  STKVKN  oor.iwai 


son  of  Dniican,  m.  Elizabell 


.     Ch,— .fames,  'i<J  July,  1088, 


who  d.  I  April,  lOiV 


1070.      Cli.— John.  -JO  Ocl.  ir.lS, 


,whod.  I'O  Dec.  1080.    Daughter  Elizabeth  b. 

m.  .Mary  fialloll  ,!7  Oct.  1079.     He  d.  7  May,  1090. 

"■' '"'I'  was  horn  in  Hi.'d.  in.  Hannah  ]\Ierrill  '.M  May   1017 

" "■■' ''  -"^"'ilh    1   Auj;.   lOOli,  who  d.  1  March! 


Ho  then  m.   Rel 


10.70,  Hannah,  7  Oct.  lO.'il,  Sti 


<l.   l.'i  J 


m.   li'i.jj,   Stov( 


Nov.  10.77,  .Alary,  17  .M 
d.  ;U  May,  1000,  Rohor 


von, -,'8  Jan.  10.71.  K.lizabolh.  10  J 


n,  L'O   Aui;.  and  IM   Sept. 


irch,  100-.>,  Ronjan 
•J7  Fob.  1070. 


II.  KJ.JO,  Joseph,  ','8 


in,  20  .May,  1001,  liebecca,  ■!  Dec.  1005,  and 


SWKTT,  widow  I'HKBK  d.  May,  1005. 
SVVETT,  SARAH  d.  11  Dec.  1050. 
SVVKTT,  JOSKIMI  m. in,70 


^V'.'fri;  ■'^'\'''^'  5""  "'■  '^"''■^•"-  f"-  '^''"-.v  I'iumor  0  Doo.  1070.     Ch.-.AIarv  10  Anril 
107,',  Hannah,  15  Juno,  107-1,  John, -JO  Feb.  1077,  San, net    10  S.m,     IOW    Vnvn„    07 
^J;'n-  '.;:  '-.'"■^^■l''>' -'  '•>''•  "■"^'-  lieniamiii.ll  April,  loss  '         ^''''-  ^'*'"'  ^^'''"'  ^^ 

SVVEl  J,  CAIT.  BKNJAM  N  m.  Ho.ster.  sister  of  Natlianiol  Weare,  Nov  1047  who 
m.  ensign  Steven  (iroeulcf  ;il  March,  1070.  and  d.  10  Jan.  1718  a  ad  80  Ch 
Hester,  7  ,h.ne,  10 IS.  Sarah,  7  Nov.  1050,  Mary,  7  ,Ian.  IOg],  Mary  •'  Mw  lO^;? 
Benjamin,  5  Anj;.  10,70  Joseph. -1  Jan.  10,70,  Moses,  10  Sept.  10(  1.  I^iVr  lo  1^104  he 
moved  to  Hampton,  and  had  five  other  children.  '  He  was  slain  at  B  ack  Po  u  bv 
the  barbarous  Indians -JO  June,  1077'  "laLh.   1  oini  oy 

SYLK.  MR.  RICHARD  m.  Hannah  Scott  Au-  11,97 

^"i^^Sl^^^r-^^^i.:^^!--^^ '  '^^^-  ^««=.  Henry,  15  Dec. 
''uStoof'  "^^'"^'^'^  m.  Sarah -1.  Ch.-Samuel,  1  Sept.  1091,  Edward. 
THOm'psON,  SYMON  m.  Rachel  Glover  21  An-  ]0.70 

Tn  CO.VIB,    WILLIAM    c.ime  early  to   Newbury,  m.  .Toanna  Bartlot,  daughter  of 
R  chanl.  sen      He  also  m.  1    izabelh  Ste^ens  ,!  March,  1051.     He  d.  24  Sept    1076 
Ch.— Sarah,  22  Juno,  1010,  Hannah,  S.Ian.  li;42.  Mary   17  Feb    1044    AliM,    7    i 

lun^  )r''' 'l-V  ']  '!r''}'; rV''^'  ■'""'  •'•  ~  ■'"""'  I'i^U^nieh'Io  dSoJ^  ''Lai  JT"^ 
June,  10.<,,Lh/.abeth,  12  Dec.  1054,  Rebecca,  1   April,   1050.  Tirzah    ''1    Feb    1058 

TITCOMB.  MILLKSKNT  d.  20  .Tan,  1001 

'^' iT^'-!i^Ll''  i'KNUKL  son  of  William,  m.  Lyilia  Poore  S  Jan.  IOS4      Ch  -Sarah  00 

TH^Cn^'  ^FN-a/x H  "  "•';■  ^''i^'"'  '  -^'■'''  "'''^  ■^"'"''  2'  Sept.  So.    "'"^'  ~^ 
IIJ  COMB    BENAI.XH  son  ol  William,  m.  Sarah  Rrowne  24  Dec    1078      Ch      Bp 
naiah,  24  Oct.  1079,  .Joseph,  25  J.an.   lOSl    ' "     i  i^oc.  i.,„s.     cn.— Be- 


P^.' 

[! 


I 


t     'I 


;■*£ 


830 


A  P  P  K  N  I)  I  \  . 


"Pirn 


rVVCOMn.  TJIO:\rAS,  kw  of  AVillimn,  tn.  :Mnr.v  nam  30  Xov.  H'l'.n.     Ch— Ilamuih, 

.')  Si'pl.  Hi'.i-i.  .Iii.liili,  :|i),|ii|y.  IC'.is,  IM;iiy,  17  Aii,'.  K(M),  Amik',  ■^7  Jan.  17(i:i. 
'J'OIM'AX,  A  lil{AII AM  ii'(i|icr,  ciinii'  Id  Ni'wlnnv  in  Id:;?,  iii.  Siisiiiiiia  Comliilc  of 

ViintlDillll.  Klliihliil.  who  il.  •.'()  .Miiirli,  H>!l,      ll('>  d.  .")  Nov.  1H7'.'.  Mucil  lil.      t'li. —  IV- 

tcr, ').  ill  |('i;!|.  Aliraliiiiii.  |ii|  I,  .faculi,  IHIJ,  Sii>aiiiui,  i:i  .Iuih',   M'll'.i,  .lulin,  -'3   A|iiil, 

lli.'il.  iMac.  Kh/alii'lli.  Hi  Oi'l.  Iiir.j. 
TOI'I'AN,  nil.  l>i;'ri:Ks(.ri  o|-  Aluiliam,  m..Taii.',  (Im-lilrr  of  Mr.  Ciirisloplipr  Bait, 

.'I  April,  H'lCI.     ("II.— I'ctcr,  Di'c  liiiij,  Kliz  il.fil,,  |.;  Oct.  Iiiri.'i,  Peter,  'J.'    Dec.  Ititi7, 

Saiiiiicl.  .')  .Ill I II'   |ii7().  Cliii>lopli('r.  1 .1  Drc.  1 1.7 1.  .I.iiic>.  I  Jan.  Hi7l. 
'lOIM'A.N'.  AliKAIIA.M  .•^oii   of  Abiali.mi,   in.  IJiitJi  I'lj;,..     Hi-  il.  1701,  \villii)iil  is-tii'. 
TOl'I'A.V.  .lACOIJ  son  of  Al)iahaiii.  iii.  Ilaiiiiali  ScumII  .'l  Aiii;.  HWO,  wlio  il.  II  Nov. 

IC.'.i'.'.      lie  (I.  l:i  Dec.  1717,     ('h.— .I.icoli.  '.'O  .May.  It>7l.  SiniiU'l,  .'10  Sept.  1(17J.  iilid  (I. 

!.'•')  An;;.  li'lH,  Jain-,  -.'s  Sr\it.  Iil7  I.  .Inliii,  '.".i  ,lan,'|i;77,  llaiiiiali,  i  .M.irrli,  107',i,   Jiliza- 

l)i>lh,'-'o  |)i.('.  icso.  Alirahani,  •,",)  .fiiiic,  liiM.  Ann,  hi  .May,  Hisil. 
TOI'I'.W,  .HMI\  spn.  .<on  of  Ahialiam.  in.  Marllia  .     lli'   was  woiiihIpiI  liy  tlm 

Imliaris  at  Blooily  IJrook  in  l(17(i,  uiul  d.  in  Sali>liiiry  Jlj  Doc,  I'-'.'t,  a;;ed  7-',  loavin^ii 

soil  .lai.ii's,  I).  1.')  March.  170-.'. 
TOI'I'AN,  JACOB  jr.  son  of  Jacol),  in.  Suali  Ki.'iit,  ICSIil.     Cli.— Sarali,  211  Sept.  1097, 

Hannah.  'J.'!  Nov.  Id'.V.i,  Sainiicl,  (i  .l.iii,  l70-.>. 
TOI'I'AN.  PK  TKli  jiin.  in.  .Sar.ih  (Mcciilcaf  .'S  April.  KiOii.     Ch.— Pctcnuid  Timothy, 

•J  TpI).  liiOS.  J.ine.  -.M  Jau,  170(1.  I'llizahclh,  '.'.")  April.  I70J. 
TOPPAN.  SA.MI'KL  son  of  Poter.  son.  in.  Abi^'ail  Wi^'ijleswortli  in  170:i.    Son  Sam- 

licl.-Jl  Nov.  17(l'.'. 
TOPPAN.  MR.  CHRISTOPHER  son  of  Peter,  sen.  m.  Mrs.  Sarah  Ansier.  of  Carn- 

briilije.  whod.  -.'0  Feh.  17:i'.>,  in  her  (illli  year.     Ho  died  •.':!  .Inly.  1717.  in  his  7(ilh  year. 

Ch.— Christopher,  •.' 1  Pel).  1700,  Kdiniind.  7  Dec.  1701,  Rezileid,  7  .March,  170.1. 
THO.MAS,  WILLIAM  an  early  settler,  in.  Snsaniia,  widow  of  Roherl  Rogers,  SMarch, 

liiHil.  who  d,  ■-",»  Mari'li.  Iii77.      He  died  willioiit  issue  :!0  Sept.  KiOO,  aijed  80. 
THORLA,   RICHARD  came  from  Rowlev  to  Newlnirv,  P'')!.     His  wifo  Jano  (1.  19 

March,  ItiSI.      He  d.  10  .Nov.  HIS.-).     Ch.— Francis  h.  l'r,;m,  Thomas,  10:i:.'. 
THOIvLA.  FRANCIS  son  of  Kichard.  in.  Anne  Morse  ,')  Feb.  Ki.').').    He  died  20  Nov. 

no:),  a^ed  7.'!.     Ch.— I'.li/abeth,  li  June,  Hi.'.r,.  INIary,  M   May,  Hif),'^,  and  d,  20  Ana;. 

lO.'iO,  John,  2-')  Mar(h,  liiiiO,  Jonathan,  M  !Marcb.  li'iV.',  a  son  and   daughter,  20  July, 

Piiil.  Kicliaril.  •-'.')  .\ov.  Hiii.').  Tliom as  and  Francis,  20  April,  1000. 
THORLA.  THOMAS  son  of  Richard,  ni.  Judith  March   1070,  who  d.   11  July,  lOSO. 

He  d.  2.'t  June.  17|:),  aired  S2.     Ch.— (Jeor.'o,  12  Much,   1071,   Simon,  20  Feb,   1073, 

and  d,  1  July,  1000,  a  dainrhtor.  Fl  Dec.  Iii7.').  Judith,  d.  2',i  July,  1077,  Judith,  12  Nov. 

107'.i,  Marv,  1  .Miv,  ir^2,  Judith,  II  April,  His."). 
THORDA.  JONATHAN  son  of  Francis,  m.  Alary  Merrill  22  Dec.  lOR.-i,  who  d.  11  Oct. 

17o:j.     Hod.  22  Sept.  17o:i.     Cli.— Fli/ahelli.  20  Nov.  ItiSii,  Abraham,  20  Oct,  1()88, 

Francis.  -JO  April,  10,02,  llichani,  20  June,  liinl.  Ahiizail,  10  Fob.  KiOiJ,  Mary,  1  July, 

ICi'.is,  Jonathan.  VO  Ansinst,  MOO,  Prudence,!  Sept.  1701,  John,!  March,  171);). 
THORLA.  (;i;oR(;F.  son  of  Thomas,  in.  Al.iiy .     He  d.  17  Jan.  1711.     Ch.— 

Judith,  (i  Si'pl.  lO'.Ml,  Alarv,  1  1   April,  PiU9. 
THORLA.  JOHN  son  of  Francis,  iii.  Sarah  How.  2  .March,  lOSf).     Ch.— Mary, 

liiS7.  Sarah,  :i  Oct.  lO'-'J.  Anne.  29  Feb.  ir,ii2,  and  d.  U   Sept.   1703,  Lydia,  ; 

liiOf),  Belhia,  3  Alarcli,  109S,  H.ninah,  9  Sept,  1701, 


10  Feb. 
20  Aug. 

i  o'. t.j.   i>ri  ma,  ->  .Ma  i  rii,  io; 'o,  i  i.iiiu.iii,  ;'  ,:3e(n,  i  nii , 

THRFSHKR,  ARTHUR  m.  Mary  Goodrid!,'c,  21  April,  lOSl,     Daughter  Dorothy,  4 

Feb.  liV.I-J. 
THFRSTON,  DANIEL  son.  an  early  settlor,  rn.  Anno  Li^litfoot  29  Aug.  1018,  for  his 

second  wile,  his  first  wife  liavins;  died  2.')  Mav,  Pil8.     He  d.  10  Feb.  1000,  without 

issue,  leaving'  his  estate  to  liis  'kinsman.  Daniel  Thurston.' 
THURSTON.  I)ANII:L  juii.  ni.  Anne  Pell, 20  Oct.  lO.V).     Hodiod  P  Feb.  1093.     Ch. 
-Daniel,  2  .fiilv.  and  d.':i  Nov.  l(i.')9.  Hannah,  20  Jan.  lO-TO,  Danie'.  18  Doc.  KiOl,  Sa- 


— ^  l_/i)lll<.l,     --    i'Ml\,    illMI     Ht    < '     .n»»,     i^'*'•■.      li'iilllilll,    — '»    ifHii.     I'l-/!.',      •-/■■•.mi        ,      ii'     j-^i-v.     iwvi,      ..^t„ 

r.ih,  8.Jaii,  tiiO,!,  Stephen,  2.')  Oct.   |i>(i'),  Joseph,   M   Sept.   lOl'':.   .\iine,  0  Sept.  1009, 

James,  21  Sept.  1070,  Stephen.  2j  Oct.  1072,  Stephen,  .">  Feb.  107 1,  Abigail,  17  March, 

ir,7.'<. 
THURSTON,  JAMES  son  of  Daniel,  in.  :^rary .     Cli.— Hannah,  l.')  Nov.   1091, 

and  d.  8  Nov.  1701.  Dorcas,  20  Oct.  lOOii.  Abri'er.  28  Feb.  1099,  Phebe,  20  June,  1702. 
THURSTON.  DAMI:L  jr.  son  of  Daniid.  m.  Mary  .     Ch— Daniel,  20  June, 

Hi'.iO.  John.  12  .luiio.  1002.  .Mary,  7  Jan.  Hi'.M,  nenjaniin,  i  May,  1095,  Hannah,  20  Jan. 

liiOS  .Martha,  27  Nov.  1700.  Jonathan.  Hi  .March.  1  701 . 
THURSTON.  JOSEPH  son  of  Diiiiol.  m.  .Mehetahel  Kimball  109,'). 
TRAVFRS,  HENRY  an  early  settler,  m.   Bridged  .     Ch,— Sarah,  1636,  James, 

28  April,  1015. 
TRUi: WORTHY  or  TREWORGY.  .MR.  JOHN  m.  ]\Irs.  I' Spencer  15  Jan. 

1040.     Sou  John  b.  12  Aug.  1049.     lie  removed  to  Saco. 


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TROTTER,  WTLLTAM  m.  riithiiry  (Jihbn  0  Dec.  lOTO.     Ch.— Murv,  22  Jnn.  10.13 

TnCkKH,  ,MU..(()I1.\  ,n.  ,M  uy  l{.rlmi(N,.n  II  .riily,  Hijo.     Ch.— Miny,i:i  Mi.v  1077 
-rn.'.Ti',' >'•?•''"'■  "'"'•'•  '^''^''•'"l.  '•'  -'^'"'^•li,  "■"'^1.  .Inlin.v!)  July,  ICX).  "^  '' 

1  JHKILL,  l  HOAIAS  tanner,  d.  «  May,  Ki"?,  Jiidiil,  lii»  wife  d.  II  July,  1081).  He 
lofl  no  issue.  />  ••» 

^A  f'',''".M'J'.'l;J!v,^'^'^'''^^'  Iliimptori  innt),  .-amo  to  Novvbury  in  ir.lfl. 

WAMJi.((.10N,  scamuii,  m.  Sarah  Travurs  ;!()  Aui;.  HI.-,!.  Mo  was  takon  rapfive  «t 
sea  aiK  ncvnr  roturnnd  home.  Ch.-.l.,hii.  Hi  S,.pt.  ir,.-,r,,  „,„|  ,|.  ,•>  .fan.  1(15-5,  Nich-.tas, 
vn"f   uur'u^"'  V':!''<,"'''?'.'^^'^':lV.,T."  '■^'"y'  ""11.  ''^'■'ry.  ^0  August,  l(i.i;),  .(arncs 

WARRANT.  .lOHNd.'.'S  Oct.  Kic.n. 

WARIIA.M.WILM AM  sometimes  Worm,  b.  1051,  m.  Hannah  Adams  10  Feb.  1083. 

Son  I'aul,  I).  •}  Oct.  l(is;i. 

■WAKNKK,  DOliO'l'MVd.  12  Nov.  lOSO. 

VVASS,  MR,  THOMAS  sclionlniastcr,  d.  IS  May.  1001. 

WATSON,  WILLI  A.M  m.  Sara  IViley  0  Dec.  1070. 

WKARF';,  I'KTKR  d.  I,'  Oct.  Itl.Vt. 

^\'?.')j^';'  NATIIANIKL  m.  Kli/ahrth  Swain  3  Dor.  in.r,.     Th.-Nathaniel.  .'.  .Tan. 

•  '•.'     il'''-.'','   ,"/  "''''"'  "'"'  ^'-''"H"''s  '•""'  ill  llairiplcMi,  vvhiiiier  he  removed  about 
Kill.).     He  (!.  1,1  May,  171S,  ayed  nearly  S7. 

WI':BSTKR,  .(OIINson  or.lohiK.r  Ipswi.-li  was  born  10:i>,  came  to  NVwbnrv  with 
his  mother  and  l.rnthers,  m.  Anna  Hntt  l.'t.riuK-,  lti.7;i.  C:h.— ,!ohn,  11  Fed.  IC.-iii  .Ma- 
ry, yj  March,  KmS,  Sarah,  1  .(uly,  l(i,-.!l,  Abi-ail,  10  .Much,  KUli.  Lucy.  lH  Dec.'lOU.l 
Mary  'Jl  May,  1007,  Stephen,  S  May,  10G!»,  Anna,  7  Sept.  1071,  Nicholas,  )!•  Oct.  1073 
Jonathan.  'Jl  .May,  lti7('i.  ' 

"^/i'^i^  ^T'^-,"^'*-^''"'^'  '"■'"*"''•  t"  'Tolin,  was  born  in  lO.M,  ni.  Kh/.abeth  Brown  .'1  .fan. 
U.  ..,,  who  d.  II)  Oct.  ICils.  He  d.  7  D,'c.  \>\Ki.  Ch.-Kli/.abeth.  7  Oct.  IOCS,  Anna. 
July  !(./•,',  Joseph,  10  March,  lt;7(i,  and,!.',' May,  ICS'j.  .Maiv,  IS  Mav,  lf,7'.i,  Lydia 
A       '','-■;.,',''''■•      ''"*  second  wile,  Klizabeth  Lunt,  he  married  'J  Nov.'iOiiU,  who  d.  3 

AUi;.  IhSS. 

WJi:nSTKR  STEVEN  probnblyson  of  John,  m.  Sarah  Clark,  1  Nov.  lOOS.     Ch.-Jo- 

aiiiia  and  Sarah,  10  Dec.  1701. 
WKMSTKR,  .MARY  d,  i  .May,  lO.IS. 
^}^l'i!'R'  THO.MAS  m.  Sarafirowno  1000.     Ch.— Rarnb.  0  March,  10W 

Tvmn'LV    rA   v  .'\'^ ' '' ^'  "'  Aineslmry,  m.  Sarah  Slicknev  •-'7  Oct.  1701. 

.cr.,  ''''  \,  \-  ''-\'^'''  ''"'"''  ''"""  retnacpiid,  now  Bristol.  .Maine,  to  Newbnry, about 
10..,!,  m  Mrs.  Ann  .tones  wid,.vv,  It  .March,  lOO,.'",  Mrs.  lirid-et  White,  probably  his 
hrst  wile,  d.  11   Dec.  1001.     He  died '.'0  July,  107'.i,  a.r,>,|  Si)  '  ^ 

nol''''  ^yilt'^'i}^'  Ipswich,  then  Newbury,  tlien  Haverhill,  where  he  d.  28  Sept. 
1000.  aged  SO.     Son  .lames  b.  about  |0  10.  ' 

WHITTIRR,  THOMAS  b,.rn  in  10-.>i),  went  to  Haverhill  from  Newbury  about  lOr.O 

.and  d  2S  Nov.  10:i,i      Ch-Richar.l,  b.  l.;o:t.  John,  •.■.i  Dec.  IO,;o,  .nd  others.     A  John 

wrr  I    ''','/  pn\  '>;;^\'',",''>V-'"  '■''••  "■'•"■'•     A  Thomas  Whillier  died  at  sea  -.'0  Feb.  1070. 

WlLLLl,  [•KA\(, Is  b.  in  lo.'il.m.  -Martha  Silver  20   Dee.   1000.     Ch— .Mirllia   "4 

fo  fJi'.'T^sVtT''"  ''f!\,''''^'.'i'rM''''^-''!"'  "''^•''  •'"^'■•''''  "   '^'^y-  I'- 1.  William, 
w  r  T  t^  i-   n,  \  ^':V;';'''  ~ '  ^?';'-"-  "'^'-'  ll'"i"'''i.  •>  An;;.  lOS.j,  John,  0  ,luly,  10h7 
WH.LEl,  I'RANCIS  son  of  Francis,  m.  i:ii/ab,th  Low ■  ■ 

20  Sept.  lOOS,  .fuilitb,  10  May,  1702.  Rnlh.  2  Mav,  1704 

WILLIA.MS,  .fOH.X  m.  Rebeca  Colby,  1001.     He  d.  1074. 

WILLIAMS,  JOIIX  d.  ;!0  April,  lOiiS.^ 

^vl?i^T'V,\^i;  T'.^^^^'A^  "f  <^'""bridKe  m.  Hannah  Cheney  17  Dec.  1090. 

wrvr-V.-r   ,kE  I  ,-  ''^^.7''  '^^'"■y-  ''•""•''"•''f  "•'  l5<-niamin  Lowle  15  Jan.  ICOO. 

WLNt.Ll,  JOSHUA  01  Hampton  m.  iAI.  .y  Lnnt  10  \ov.  1702. 

.    *''^/;t'.''-^^'  'l*^^  "'  '"";",'"  S"li^l>iiry,  Knxlaiul,  102.'-.,  came  from  Hampton  to  New- 
bury lOdo.     Ho  m.  .Sarah  Wise   11    -May  lor,o.     Ch.— .lolm,  5  Dec.   10,-.;i,  Abi-ail    •> 

^MJlch'  loof    "''  "^  ■'"'"■  ^^^^'  ■^'"'''^"-  ~"  ^'"'-  ^^■^'-■^'  Mia.  7  May,  1002,  J^eihro' 

WHEELER,  GEORGE  m.  Susanna  Stowers  30  April,  1000.     Ch.-Ephraim  "1  Oct 

W  HLELER,  R()(.LR  m.  J\Iary  Wilson  7  Dec.  10.'.:),  who  d.  27  Dec.  1008.     Ch  —Ma- 
ry,  12  Veh.  VJCr,.  Joseph,  29  Auir.  lO'.O,  and  d.  V\  Oct.  1059. 

WHEELER,  NATHAN  son  of  David,  m.  Rebecca .     Ch.— Sarah    4  J'j'-    lOQo 

•HfSli'n  ,"'  T^^  ^"'"-  ^'''•'■''  ''^''■'■''y'  '"^  ^"''''  "^•"''-     Abigail.  10  Dec.  100,s. '  ■"  -   •  -> 

WHEELLR,   JOHN    came  from  Salisbury,  England.     Cli.— Adam,   Erlward    and 

41 


Ie29  .Ian.  100(i.     Ch.— Mary, 


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■William,  whom  lin  loft  iti  Knxlanil,  Diivid,  who  m.  Sarah  WiHC,  and  Anne,  who  m. 

Aiiiiila  ('li,iM(\     111!  d.  lii7U,  ami  liiK  wiCi',  Aimo,  1.')  Ain{.  liiiV,', 

WI1I:I:M:I{,  JOSKIMI  son  of  ItOijcr,  m.  Siiiiih  Uiidgcr  21  Sept.  108.1.  Daughter 
Mary.  '.'•.'  Si'|)t.  liVSil. 

\V(»()i)HIUI)(;K,  MR.  .lOHiN  was  bom  in  Stniiton,  Wili-ihiie,  in  IOi:t,  ram.-  to  N.  K. 
in  li'i:tl,  to  Nfwliiirv,  liia.'i.  lli- tn.  Mi-rcy  Diulli-y,  li.iualiior  of  (iov.  'riioniao  Dud- 
joy.  II.'  (I.  17  iM.nrli,  lilli.').  (Ui.— S.iiah,  7  .Finif,  IHIO,  Luria,  Kt  Manh,  IHI',',  Mary 
](i.''r,>,  'riionias^t, ID,  Jiihii,  BfMijaniin,  Dorothy,  Aiini',  Tiiiiotliy,  Josuph,  Mailhu,  and 
one  inori"  niinfi'  unknown.     'I'lii'sc  last  were  lioru  in  Eiiijland. 

WOODBUIDGK,  MU.  .lOSKlMl  son  of  John,  m.  Mrs,  M.iriha  Roifors  30  May,  lOSn. 
Ilo  di.'d  rii  -^oijcph,  7  May,  Ui«7,  John,  l.t   I'V-h.  Um,  NiUhuniel,  -'8 

,Ian.  li'ilH'i,  Mariiarcf.  lii'.iN, 

WOODinUlXiK,  Mil.  THOMAS  son  of  .Tolin,  m.  Mrs.  ]\I;uv  .Tones,  only  danghtpr 
of  Mrs.  Ann  Whiti-,  li  .liirif,  U;7I.  Ik- dii'il  ;i(l  March,  H'M,  ay«sl  ;i:).  In  .liid^ju 
Sowall's  diary  IS  tho  Ibllowini; :  ' 'I'honias  VVnodhrid^jn  is  so  burnt  in  his  own  fno 
that  lit?  (lirtli  of  insupportabit!  torment  in  about  I'J  iiours  limn.'  Ch. —  Paul.  \2  Feb. 
l('.7;t,  Mary,  •,'()  Feb.  ItW,").  'I'liomas,  ','8  Jan.  li)77,  John  and  Hcnjariiin,  'J-l  Feb.  lt>79. 

WOODM.VN,  AKCIIKLAL'S  m.^rccr,  came  from  Malford,  Hnijland,  to  Newbury,  in 
the  James,  Juno,  Ki.l.').  His  wife  Klizabeth  died  1?  Dec.  li>77.  lie  ni.  Dorothy 
Chapman  IM  Nov.  ir,7S.     He  d.  7  Oct.  I7(l.'. 

WOODMAN,  MU.  FDWAKD  came  from  .Malford  with  his  brothnr  Archelans.  Ch. 
— Sarah,  lu' Jan.  ICilJ,  Jonathan,  .')  Nov.  lUl.t,  Itulh,  'Ub  March,  10  W,  and  perhaps 
others. 

WOODMAN,  EDWARD  jr.  was  born  in  UV.'H,  m.  Mary  (Joodridge  20  Dec.  10.5.1. 
Ch.—,Mary. -J!)  Sept.  Ui.51,  Klizabeth,  II  July,  Id.')!),  and  d.  ','7  Dec.  Ki.V,),  Edward, 
lii.'jS,  Rebecca,  17  Sept.  ItKil,  Rebecca,  ',".•  .Iiily,  Kid:),  Sarah,  IS  July,  lOO.'i,  Juilith,  IH 
Nov.  Ii>tl7,  Edward,  'JO  March.  I(i7l),  Archelaus,  1' June,  107',',  Marsiaret,  Itl  Aug.  l(J7t'>. 

WOODMAN,  JOSHUA  ni.  Elizabeth  Stevens  22  Jan.  lOOii.  Ch.— Mehctabel,  20 
Sept.  11177,  .lonathan, 

WOODMAN,  J( )     \  m.  Mary  Field  \r,  July,  m.-JO. 

WOOD.MAN,  .lO.NA'riFAN  in,  Sarah  Mi^liill  of  Rowley  1700. 

WOODMAN,  JOSlll'A  m.  Mehetabel  Wicotnb  1703. 

WOODMAN,  AUCIIKLAL'S  jr,  ni.  Ilanimh  .  Ch.— Mary,  20  Feb.  1C90,  Ed- 
ward. \-l  .May,  liV.iS,  Archelaus,  1.0  May,  1701). 

W()01).MAN,EDVVARD  m.  Marv  Sawyer  •.",»  June,  1709. 

WOODMAN.  JONATHAN  ship  builder,  m.  Hannah  Hilton,  2  July,  1008.  Ch.— 
Hannah,  S  March,  It'MW,  Sarah,  1'.)  Oct.  Iii7l),  Ruth,  1 1  July,  107'.'.  Jonathan,  10  April, 
1071,  Ichabod,  W  April,  U'wO,  Mary,  2.')  April,  K'uS,  William,  2H  March,  lOSl. 

WOODMAN,  JONATHAN  .jr.  son  of  Jonathan,  sen.  ni.  Abii,'ail  Atkinson,  1000. 
Dautihtor  Hannah.  21  Aui;.  \k>i\. 

WOOLCOTT  or  WOLCOTT,  carpenter,  born  in  10')2,  m.  Mary  Thorla  20  Nov. 
105:i.  Ch.— Mary,  IC.'il.  Sarah,  23  Aug.  l(i.')7,  John,  2."<  Oct.  lOiio,  .Toseph,  2  Feb. 
1001,  Elizabeth,  21  Feb.  1007,  Martha,  13  Sept.  1070,  Lydia,  15  Jan.  1071,  Hannah,  IS 
April.  Ifi7(>. 

WOOLCOT,  JOHN  m.  Mary  Emerson  4  Jan.  lOS."). 

WORSTER.  TIMO  TIIV  m.  Hiildah .     Son  Samuel  b.  23  Oct.  1091. 

WOOLERV,  RICHARD  m.  Hannah  ihiirgins  21  Dec.  1078.  Ch.— A  daughter  1  Feb. 
10MI,  Hannah,  10  Feb.  lOSl,  Mary,  22  Feb,  10S3. 

WOOLSWORTIl.  RICHARD,  weaver,  Newbury.  1079. 

WORTH.  LIONEL  m.  Susanna,  daughter  of  .lolm  Whipple.  lie  d.  29  June.  1007. 
Tlie  widow  Susanna  ni.  Moses  I'ilsbury  10(18.  Ch. — Susanna,  Mary,  Judith,  Surah, 
Oct.  Id."),!.  John,  18  Sept.  lOiU.  and  perhaps  others. 

WORTH,  RICHARD  m.  Mary  Pike  11  Sept.  1007. 

WORTH,  JOHN  son  of  Lionel,  m.  Elizabeth  Webster  17  March,  10,S7.  Ch.— Eliza- 
beth, 17  Aug.  lO.Ss,  .Tohn,  7  Feb.  1090,  .losoph,  7  Aug.  1093.  Edmund,  22  Oct.  1090. 

WRKHIT.  JOHN  had  ch.  .lonathan,  7  Dee.  1(1.11),  Ruth,  .31  May,  1052. 

YOLNfJ,  .MATTHEW  m.  Eleanor  Hayes  23  April.  1090. 

YOUNG,    EDWARD   m.  Hannah  .     Ch.— Thomas,  17  Jan.  1091,  Richard,  7 

Sept.  109.3. 

WYATT,  JOHN  m.  Mary  Badger  15  Dec.  1700. 

AVEBSTER.  JOHN  jun.  son  of  John,  m.  Bridget  Hoggins  9  March,  1C81.  Ch.— 
Anno,  9  Juno,  1GS2,  John,  2  Nov.  l(iS3,  Sarah,  28  Dec,  1085,  Israel,  9  April,  1088, 
Hannah.  5  Oct.  1092,  Stephen,  11  Jan.  1098. 

W]-:LLS,  JOHN  m.  iMary  fire'tileaf  0  March,  1009.  Ch.— Mary,  10  Dec.  1CG9,  and 
d.  1070,  Mary,  10  Feh.  1073,  W.'iiam.  15  Jan.  1075. 


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E.     Piiiic  -17. 

As  a  sppoimon  of  the  nmnncr,  in  which  history,  so  rnllod,  is  some- 
tunes  wnttiMi,  I  iim  iiidiiccd  to  nmkc  au  cximct  IVuin  tlu;  first  iiurnhcr 
of  IJK! '  ll('iniiii.sc«'iu-e.s '  of  the  ii;-iit  rcvcrnul  rhiliuidcr  (,'iinsc,  formerly 
hisiio|)  of  Ohio,  hut  now  hislK)|)  of  Illinois,  a  dosrciidiiiit  from  Aijuiia 
(,'linso.  To  lliis  rxtraet,  I  shall  n|i|iend  a  few  notes  (indiciited  l.y  ti^r- 
iires,)  desi-jiied  to  correet  some  of  tjio  mistakes,  into  wliieli  the  Insiiop 
lias  liillen.  As  tlieso  niistakuH  nro  not  of  any  ^roat  eonso(iuence,  it 
really  seems  a  pity  to  spoil  so  irood  a  story,  hut,  as  the  hisliop  lias  on 
the  authority  of  others,  asserted  in  his  '  rennniscences,'  cirenmstanocs 
that  no  person  ever  rianendxMi'd,  for  the  very  eoncliisivo  reason  that  they 
never  happened,  1  have  thought  proper,  lijr  the  honor  of  'ould  New- 
berry,' to  state  that  there  is  notliiiifr  in  the  town  or  elnireh  records, 
which  'put  tosfether,'  atliirds  any  materials  for  llie  followim,'  'siuffidar 
story,' as  it  is  V(>ry  properly  styled.  On  the  ehmch  re.'ords'^  the  name 
of  A(piila  Chase  is  not  found,  and  the  lollowiiij^  grant  comprises  all 
that  the  town  reetnxis  say  conceniin;r  him.  Who  the  ])erson  might 
be,  whom  the  hisiiop  employed  to  examine  the  town  records  I  know 
not;  ho  imist  have  heeu  of  thiit  class,  who  jirefer  fiction  to  fact,  and 
lind  it  easier  to  invent,  than  to  examine.  The  following  is  a  co|)y  of 
the  grant. 

'  (Jranted  to  Aipiila  Chase  anno  KVIH  four  acres  of  land  at  the  new 
towne  for  a  house-lott,  ami  six  acres  of  upland  lor  a  planting  lott,  where 
it  is  to  he  had  and  six  acres  of  marsh,  where  it  is  to  he  liad  also,  on 
condition  that  he  do  goc  to  sea  and  do  service  in  the  toivnc  with  a  hoato 
for  four  years.'     Proprietors'  records,  page  (i7. 

The  following  is"  the  extract  from  the  '  Eeniinisecnces,'  nubli.shcd  ia 
1841.  ^ 


1GC9,  and 


Aqi'ila  CriA^K,  accoidiiis  to  a  tradition  nmnri!^  his  ilcsoendants.  was  a  native  of 
Coniwiiji,  in  Kntlliiiul,  and  \v;is  liorn  in  MIS,  |t  is  c-crt;iin  I'mni  the  (I )  records  of  thu 
town  ot  Nfwliniy,  at  tlio  mouth  of  Mpiiimack  river,  thai  'i'>  was  the  lirnt  laplain  wlio 
in  a  re;;nlar  vessel  ever  sailed  iiao  tliat  port.  Rv  reason  oi  iiis  nautii'a!  skill  and  enter- 
prisin;,'  eliaraeter,  he  received  an  invilation  I'rorn  ihe  inli  ihitants  of  tliat  infant  settlement 
to  hriiif,'  his  I'atnily  from  Hampton,  not  far  o/C,  wiiero  thoy  had  lived  a  low  years  on 
comin;;  to  America,  and  make  his  home  aniontj  them  ;  and  to  ensure  his  compliance, 
the  'sdi'vt  mm,'  who  acted  as  (what  is  called  in  other  places  than  New  Kn;rliind)  -.xtown 
(•nuncil,  tendered  him  the  donation  of  several  lots  of  land  and  some  other  •  .nunities.  (J) 
He  complied  with  their  wishes  and  became  an  inhabitant  of  that  tneii  promisins 
maritime  village.  (D) 

'It  appears  from  the  records  (-1)  whicli  the  writer  caused  to  be  examined  in 
IVewhuryporl  in  IS.V,,  that  captain  Acpiila  Chase  had  several  children  and  an  allec- 
tionatn  wife,  who  made  homo  to  him  more  than  onlinarily  agreeable.  Connected  with 
these  facts  and  circumstances  there  ,iro  recorded  on  the  town  books  (.'■>)  many  events, 
\vhich,  heinji  put  together,  hilly  jnstiiV  in  its  main  features  the  truth  of  the  following 
Bingular  story  of  this  vxMieralde  ancestcM'  of  most  of  the  New  England  Chases. 

'  It  appears  that  the  captain  and  his  industrious  lamily  had  improved  the  lots,  which 
had  been  presented  to  him  by  the  'select  men,'  into  a  pretty  garden  ;  (C)  nnd  while  the 
eiilerprisingand  hardy  parent  was  at  sea.  butl'etini;  the  waves  and  endurini;  Ihe  hardships 
of  a  voyage  across  the  Atlantic,  the  wile  and  children  felt  that  they  could  do  no  less 
than  try  to  make  him  comfortable  on  his  return  and  during  liis  stay  (short  enough 
always)  on  stiorc. 

'  It  happeiw}d  on  a  year  of  peculiar  vernal  (7)  forwardness  in  gardening',  after  the  captain 
had  been  absent  a  great  jmrt  of  thi'  winter,  and  had  dclaved  his  ri'lurn  ii.'voiul  the 
expected  lime,  that  this  most  aireclionate  family   mutually'conlerred   tojiflher  on  the 

fieat  question  how  they  could  most  acceptably,  bv  their  skill   in   gardening,  welcome 
is  return  whom  of  all  earthly  beings  they  loved  most.     The  bjys  propotod  to  force 


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forward  the  potatoes;  (8)  the  girls  thought  that  the  sweet  flowers  of  May  would  please 
him  best;  but  the  mother  observed  that  she  knew  of  something  which  would  gratify 
him  more  t!>aii  all.  '  (ireuu  peas  are  your  father's  favorite,'  said  she;  'and  it  is  my 
wish  that  we  try  to  force  I  hem  forward  to  the  utmost  of  our  power.' 

'  There  was  something  ni-  >■  than  that  which  met  the  eye  in  this  expression.  Mrs. 
Chase  had  often  heard  her  liusband  complain  of  the  danger  to  bodily  health,  in  long 
voyages  at  sen,  from  the  want  of  vegetable  diet:  for  acids  (9)  at  that  era  were  not 
known  as  means  to  obviate  this  evil.  She  therefore  could  not  but  mingle  with  the 
motives  which  prompted  her  to  treat  her  husband  with  kindness,  in  presenting  him 
wilh  the  first  fruits  of  her  g.irden  on  his  arrival,  something  beside  the  mere  pleasure  of 
seeing  him  regale  his  appetite,  and  that  was  a  settled  conviction  that  the  same  would 
be  for  his  health.  'He  must  have  been  a  long  time  at  sea,' said  she  to  her  children, 
when  cultivating  the  favorite  bed  of  peas  ;  '  and  who  knows  but  this  precaution  may 
not  prevent  some  deadly  disease  ?' 

'  Never  were  children  more  mindful  of  a  parent's  commands  than  were  those  of  captain 
Chase  in  all  things  relating  to  the  cultivation  of  the  garden  peas  meant  to  greet  him 
on  his  expected  arrival.  The  dark  green  vines  of  this  delicious  vegetable  grew  apace ; 
the  flowers  put  forth,  and  the  i~oils  formed  and  swelled ;  and,  just  as  they  were  ready  to 
pluck,  a  vessel  was  seen  crowding  all  her  sails  to  get  into  port. 

'  It  was  Sunday  morning.  The  news  came  that  she  had  passed  the  bar ;  then  that 
cai)tain  Chase  himself  had  been  descried  as  if  giving  cheerful  orders  to  his  men;  again 
it  was  reported  that  he  had  arrived  and  laid  his  s,\\i\-)  -loiiir  siilf  of  Ncwhunj  old  wharf.' I iO) 

'  This  indeed  was  a  reality,  and  the  grateful  father  was  soon  on  shore,  surrounded  by 
his  sons, —  full  of  talk,  of  (luestious,  and  of  glee.  'But  it  is  the  Sabbath,' said  the 
youngest  boy ;  '  we  must  not  talk  loud  ;  the  deacon  will  hear  us  if  we  do.'  '  Suppose 
he  do  my  child,'  said  the  father,  tenderly  embracing  him;  'God  hears  us,  too,  and 
knows  our  hearts  and  thoughts,  and  how  thankful  we  all  are  for  being  permitted,  after 
so  long  a  voyage,  to  mi'ct  in  peace  and  he.iltli.' 

'  As  they  were  walking  to  their  home,  another  of  his  sons  said,  'dear  father,  it  will 
give  mother  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  to  see  yon.'  '  1  ho|)0  so,  my  son.'  '  But  she  will 
be  additionally  happy  when  she  sees  you  eat  her  f^rccit  pens'  '  What  green  peas,'  said 
the  captain.  '  Some  that  we  have  all  been  raising,  at  mother's  particular  recjuest,  to 
regale  you  on  your  arrival.  No  one  else  in  Newbury  has  any  half  so  forward.  Yes, 
they  are  ready,  mother  s.iid,  to  pick  this  moment;  and  when  we  came  away  she  said 
she  \vishe<l  you  had  cotno  on  a  week  day,  tor  then  you  should  have  them  for  dinner.' 
'  Suppose  we  were  yet  to  have  them  V  said  the  father.  'Did  not  the  disciples  of  our 
Lord  pluck  the  ears  of  corn,  and  rub  them  in  their  hands,  and  eat  them  too,  on  the 
Sabbath  day;  and  may  we  not  pick  and  eat  the  green  peas  without  incurring  the  divine 
displeasure  ? ' 

'  This  was  reported  to  the  ears  of  the  mother,  and  consent  was  obtained  to  prepare 
the  peas.  And  now  comes  the  difilculty.  Some  one  who  was  going  home  from 
'meeting,'  (lor  it  was  thought  sinful  to  say,  'going  home  fiom  diunli'  in  those  days, 
SAW  the  captain's  fatnily  in  the  garden  on  the  Sabbath  day,  and  that  they  were  gathering 
peas  !  (11)  The  next  day  he  was  cited  to  appear  before  the  minister.  The  captain  pled 
hi.s  own  cause, —  it  seems  one  against  many, —  and  cited  the  passage  alluded  to  in  his 
juslilication.  At  the  close  he  alleged  that  he  had  been  long  at  sea,  and  that  the  peas 
were  necessary  to  his  bodily  health,  and  would  be  adjudged  so  by  the  physicians.  It 
was  unfortunate  for  him  that  he  attempted  to  draw  a  contrast  between  his  accusers 
and  the  anciejit  Scribes  and  Pharisees.  This  shut  the  door  of  uieicy  on  him,  and  they 
pronounced  him  'guilty.'  (I'i)  They  did  not  pmiish  him  corporeally,  as  in  those  days 
was  common, '  with  forty  stripes  save  one,' but  they  laid  a  heavy  line  upon  him,  and 
compelled  him  to  pay.  (Ki.) 

'  It  does  not  appear  that  captain  Chase  retained  any  ill  will  toward  the  people  of 
Newbury  on  account  of  this  treatment:  on  the  contrary,  all  his  descendants  have  had 
and  still  have  a  traditionary  atl'ection  for  the  place  and  its  inhabitants,  where  that 
venerable  ancestor  was  invitt'd  to  reside,  and  where  he  sjient  so  many  of  his  happiest 
days.' 

Note  (1.)  Nothinir  of  the  kind  i.s  on  tho  records,  nor  is  there  the  slightest 
evidence  that  Aiiuila  Chase  wiis  ever  inu.ster  of  a  vessel.  Had  that  be(;n  the 
case,  he  would  have  been  called  on  the  records,  captain,  or  ina.ster,  especially 
in  those  days,  when  a  title  of  any  kind  was  a  mark  o.f  distinction,  and  never 
omitted. 

Note  (2.)  This  is  a  mistake.  There  were  no  'other  immunities,'  than  the 
grants  of  land  above  mentioned. 

Note  (3.)     '  ProinisinH  murilime  villas,'     At  this  time  there  was  no  \'i!I."irra 


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in  what  is  now  Newburyport.  As  late  as  1700,  fifty-four  years  after  Aquila 
Chase  came  to  Newbury,  there  were  but  two  dwelling  houses  and  one  fish 
house  between  Mr.  Daniel  Pierce's  farm,  and  Chandler's  lane  on  Water  street. 
One  of  these  houses  was  Mr.  Daniel  Pierce's,  and  the  other,  doctor  Humphrey 
Bradstreet's,  which  stood  near  Hale's  wharf.  Newburyport  market  was  then  an 
alder  swamp,  and  boats  came  up  near  where  the  town  pump  now  stands. 

Note  (4)  and  (5.)  The  town  'records,'  so  far  from  '  fullv  justifying  m  its 
maur  features  the  truth  of  the'  preceding  'singular  story,'  con'tain  no  allusion  to 
anj;  '  event,'  in  any  way  coimected  with  it  except  the  grants  and  condition  on 
wliich  they  were  given. 

Notk  (0.)  '  Improved  the  lots  into  a  pretty  garden.'  If  this  were  the  fact, 
the  '  garden '  must  have  been  large  as  well  as  '  pretty,'  as  the  lots  contained 
sixteen  acres,  of  which  six  were  '  salt  marsh.' 

Note  (7.)  '  Pevulmr  vernal  forwardness.'  The  county  records  state  'Sep- 
tember 16-46,  Aquila  Chase  and  wife  and  David  Wheeler  of  Hampton  were 
presented  for  gathering  peas  on  the  Sabbath  day.'  David  Wheeler  was  brother 
to  Aquila  Chase's  wife. 

Note  (8.)  '  The  6oi/s  proposed  to  force  forward  ihe  potatoes.'  This  cannot 
be  true,  as  there  was  not  a  potato  raised  in  New  England  till  1719,  which  was 
seventy-three  years  after  Aquila  Chase's  family  are  said  to  have  tried  their 
skill  in  gardening.  There  is  am  iher  difficult  v.  '  The  boys,'  at  that  time  were 
not  in  being.  Aquila  Chase's  oldest  son,  Aciuila,  was  born  26  Sept.  1652.  and 
his  oldest  daughter,  Sarah,  was  probably,  at  the  time  of  '  gathering  pease,'  about 
a  year  old. 

Note  (9.)  This  is  an  error.  Acids  were  as  well  known  'as  means  to  obviate 
the  evil '  of  which  he  speaks,  as  they  are  now.  See  Winthrop,  volume  first, 
page  forty-fifth,  anno  1630,  and  several  other  places. 

NoTH  (10.)  ^Loiig  side  of  Newbitry  old  wharf.'  This  cannot  be  true,  as  the 
first  wharf  in  Newbury,  now  Newburyport,  was  not  erected  till  1655,  which  was 
nine  years  after  the  '  peas  were  gatliered.' 

Note  (11.)  '  Cited  to  appear  before  the  minister.'  There  are  two  objections 
to  this  statement,  supposing  all  the  remaining  parts  of  the  story  are  true.  First, 
Aquila  Chase  was  not  a  member  of  the  church  in  Newbury,  and  consequently, 
he  was  not  amenable  to  an  ecclesiastical  tribunal.  Secondly,  if  he  had  been 
a  member,  'the  minister'  was  not  the  person  to  settle  the  difficulty  with  the 
ollending  brother,  but  the  brethren.     See  Matthew,  ch.  18,  v.  15,  16,  17. 

Note  (12)  and  (13.)  '  They  pronounc-d  him 'guilty,"  'laid  a  tax  on  him 
and  compelled  him  to  pay.'  These  statements  are  not  correct.  As  fiie  case 
was  a  civil  one,  they,  i.  e.  his  accusers,  had  no  pov>-er  to  do  either.  The  county 
records  state,  that  Aquila  Chase  was  ordered  to  be  '  admonished,'  but  the  usua'l 
fines  for  such  an  olience  were  '  remitted.' 

It  will  readily  be  seen,  that  the  evidence,  on  which  the  bishop  founded 
his  story,  and  which  he  presumed  was  correct,  will  not  bear  a  very 
rigid  examination.  It  is  proper  to  add,  that  the  errors  were  pointed  out 
to  the  bishop,  who  expressed  his  gratitude  for  the  information,  and  de- 
clared that  the  mistakes  woidd  be  corrected  in  a  second  edition,  should 
one  be  printed.  Mistakes,  in  some  respects  similar  to  the  preceding, 
are  very  numerous  in  historical  works,  and  authors  and  compilers  will 
find  it  difficult,  if  not  impossible,  in  all  cases  to  avoid  them.  Thus,  for 
instance,  there  was  published  many  y(>ars  ago  an  amusing  account  of 
an  inteiTiew  between  the  reverend  Nathaniel  Ward,  of  Ijjswich,  and 
the  reverend  Cotton  Mather,  of  Boston,  the  writer  pro])ably  not  know- 
ing tliat  Mr.  Ward  died  in  England,  several  years  before  Mr.  Mather 
was  born.  In  Abbott's  history  of  Andover,  page  150,  it  is  stated  that 
John  Kittrcdgc  was  grandson  of  John  Kittredge,  '  a  physician  from 
Germany.'  Now  it  so  happens  tliat  tliis  German  doctor  was  born  in 
Billerica,  in  Itifitj,  v.'ho  married  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  and  died  in  1711. 


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I  once  received  a  letter  from  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  first  settlers  in 
Newbury,  in  which  he  in  minutely  tracing  his  pedigree  back  to  old 
Eng  and  made  his  New  England  ancestor  five  years  older  than  his 
±.iiglish  ialher,  the  latter  being  born  in  1G09,  and  his  son  in  1604,  a 
very  forward  youth,  certainly.  In  a  printed  book,  now  before  me.  the 
writer,  in  one  case,  makes  the  father  about  120  vears  of  age,  when  his 
first  son  was  born.  In  the  life  of  president  Ilolley,  "there  is  an  anachronism 
f^  hiindred  years,  which  makes  the  genealogy  of  his  family  utterly 
worthless,  because  it  cannot  be  fue.  Other  instances  might  be  pointed 
out  and  pernaps  some  in  this  very  book,  which  will  remind  the  reader 
of  the  assertion  made  by  the  insane  patient,  mentioned  by  doctor  Hush. 
He  declared  that  his  father  was  Alexander  the  great,  his  mother  was 
queen  Elizabeth,  and  that  he  was  born  in  Philadelphia.  Persons,  who 
are  not  insane,  sometimes  make  ludicrous  mistakes,  and  should  the 
compiler  of  this  work  be  found  in  that  class,  'he  reader,  as  in  all  other 
instances  of  the  kind,  must  be  as  charitable  as  the  case  will  admit 


F.     rage  03. 

The  following  ballad  is  tlie  one  alluded  to  page  f,3,  and  was  first 
published  some  years  ago,  in  the  North  Star,  a  Philadelphia  annual 
Its  republication  will,  I  doubt  not.  gratify  many  of  my  readers,  who  will 
have  an  opportunity  of  comparing  and  contrasting  tlie  facts  of  the  his- 
torian with  the  beautiful  embellishments  of  the  poet. 

The  goodman  sat  beside  his  door 

One  sultry  afternoon, 
"With  his  young  wile  sini^ing  at  his  side 

A  quaint  and  goodly  t'.ino. 

A  glimmer  of  heat  was  in  the  air, 

The  dark  green  woods  were  still ; 
And  the  skirts  of  a  heavy  thunder  cloud 

Hung  over  the  western  h.ll. 

Black,  thick  and  vast  arose  that  cloud 

Above  the  wilderness, 
As  some  dark  world  from  upper  air 

Were  stooping  over  this. 

At  times  the  solemn  thunder  pealed, 

And  all  was  still  aual.i, 
Save  a  low  murmur  in  the  air 

Of  coming  wind  and  rain. 

Just  as  the  first  big  rain  drop  fell, 

A  weary  stranger  came, 
And  stood  before  the  farmor'.i  door, 

With  travel  soiled,  and  la.r  e. 

Sad  seemed  he,  yet  sustaining  hope 

Was  in  his  quiet  glance, 
And  peace,  like  autumn's  moonlight  clothed 

His  tianquil  countenance. 

A  look,  like  this  his  Masior  wore 

In  Pilule's  council  hall: 
It  told  of  wrongs,  but  of  a  love 

JMeekly  forgiving  all. 


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'  Friend !  wilt  thou  give  me  shelter  here  1 ' 

The  stranger  meekly  said  ; 
And  ieanin"  on  his  oaken  staff, 

The  goodman's  features  read. 

'My  life  is  hunted  —  evil  men 

Are  following  in  my  track; 
The  traces  of  the  torturer's  whip 

Are  on  my  aged  back. 

And  much  I  fear  'twill  peril  thee 

Within  thy  doors  to  take 
A  hunted  seeker  of  the  truth, 

Oppressed  for  conscience'  fke  ' 

O,  kindly  spoke  the  goodman's  wife, 
'  Come  in,  old  man  ! '  quoth  she, 

'We  will  not  lea  o  thee  to  the  storm, 
Whoever  thou  mayst  be.' 

Then  came  the  aged  wanderer  in, 

And  silent  sat  him  down  ; 
While  all  within  grew  dark  as  night 

Beneath  the  storm  cloud's  frowh. 

But  while  the  sudden  lightning's  blaze 

Filled  every  cottage  nook, 
And  with  the  jarring  thunder  roll 

The  loosened  casements  shook, 

A  heavy  tramp  of  horses'  feet 

Came  sounding  up  the  lane. 
And  half  a  score  of  horse  or  more 

Came  plunging  through  the  rain. 

'  Now,  goodman  JMacy,  ope  thy  door, 
We  would  not  be  house  breakers; 

A  rueful  deed  thou  'st  done  this  day. 
In  harboring  banished  quakers.' 

Out  looked  the  cautious  goodman  then, 

With  much  of  fear  and  awe, 
For  there  with  broad  wig  drenched  with  rain, 

The  parish  priest  he  saw. 

'  Open  thy  door,  thou  wicked  man. 

And  let  thy  pastor  in, 
And  give  God  thanks,  if  forty  stripes 

Repay  thy  deadly  sin.' 

'  What  seek  ye  t '  quoth  the  kind  goodman, 

'  The  stranger  is  my  guest; 
He  is  worn  with  toil  and  grievous  wrongs 

Tray  let  the  old  man  rest.' 

'  Now,  out  upon  thee,  canting  knave  1 ' 
And  strong  hands  shook  the  door, 

'Believe  me,  Macy,'  quoth  the  priest, 
'  Thou 'It  rue  thy  conduct  sore.' 

Then  kindled  Macy's  eye  of  fire, 
'  No  priest,  who  walks  the  earth. 

Shall  pluck  away  the  stranger  guest 
Made  welcome  to  my  hearth.' 

Down  from  his  cottage  wall  he  caught, 

The  matchlock,  hotly  tried 
At  I'reston-pans  and  Marston-moor 

By  tiery  Ireton's  side; 


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Where  piiritaa  and  cavalier, 

With  shout  and  psalnn  contended  ; 

Anii  Rupert's  oatli,  and  Cromwell's  prayer 
With  battle  thunder  blended. 

Up  rose  the  ancient  stranger  then; 

'  My  spirit  is  not  free 
To  bring  the  wrath  and  violence 

Of  evil  men  on  thee; 

And  for  thyself,  I  pray  forbear 

Bethink  thee  of  thy  Lord, 
Who  healed  again  the  smitten  ear, 

And  sheathed  his  follower's  sword. 

I  go,  as  to  the  slaughter  led  ; 

Friends  of  the  poor,  farewell ! ' 
Beneath  his  hand  the  oaken  door, 

Back  on  its  hinges  fell. 

'  Come  forth,  old  gray  beard,  yea  and  nay,' 

The  reckless  scoffers  cried. 
As  to  a  horseman's  saddle  bow 

The  old  man's  arms  were  tied. 

And  of  his  bondage  hard  and  long 

In  Boston's  crowded  jail. 
Where  suffering  woman's  prayer  was  heard 

With  sickening  childhood's  wail, 

It  suits  not  with  our  tale  to  tell. 
Those  scenes  have  passed  away— ^ 

Let  the  dim  shadows  of  the  past 
Brood  over  that  evil  day. 

'  Ho,  sheriff!'  quoth  the  ardent  priest  — 

'  Take  goodman  JIacy  too; 
The  sin  of  this  day's  heresy 
His  back  or  purse  shall  rue.' 

And  priest  and  sheriff  both  together 

Upon  his  threshold  stood. 
When  Macy,  through  another  door 

Sprang  out  into  the  wood. 

'  Now,  good  wife,  as  thou  lovest  me,  haste ! ' 

She  caught  his  manly  arm  : 
Behind,  the  parson  urged  pursuit, 

With  outcry  and  alarm. 

Ho !  speed  the  Macys,  neck  or  nought, 

The  river's  course  was  near: 
The  plashing  on  its  pebbled  shore 

Was  music  to  their  ear. 

A  gray  rock,  tasseled  o'er  with  birch, 

Above  the  waters  hung, 
And  at  its  base  with  every  wave 

A  small  light  wherry  swung. 

A  leap  —  they  gain  the  boat — and  tnere 

The  goodman  wields  his  oar ; 
'  III  luck  betide  them  all,'  he  cried  — 

'  The  laggards  upon  shore.' 

Down  through  the  crashing  underwood 

The  hurley  sheriff  came  :  — 
'Stand,  goodman  Macy  —  yield  thyself; 

Yield,  in  the  king's  own  name.' 


APPENDIX. 

'  Now  out  upon  thy  haneman's  face ! ' 

Bold  Macy  answered  Ihen, 
'  Whip  M'077i((?  on  the  villnire  green, 

But  meddle  not  with  men.' 

The  priest  came  panting  to  the  shore, 

His  grave  cocked  hat  "was  gone; 
Behind  him,  hke  some  owl's  nest,  hun" 

His  wig  upon  a  thorn.  " 

'Come  back—  come  back,"  the  parson  cried, 

I  he  church's  curse  beware.' 
'  Curse  an'  tliou  wilt,'  said  Macy, '  but 
Thy  blessing  prithee  spare.' 

'Vile  scoffer  I'  cried  the  baffled  priest,— 

'  Thou 'It  yet  the  gallows  see.' 
'  Who's  born  to  l)e  handed,  will  not  be  drowned," 

Quoth  Macy  merrily; 

And  so,  sir  sheriff  and  priest,  good  bye! 

He  bent  him  to  his  oar, 
And  the  small  boat  glided  quietly 

From  the  twain  upon  the  shore. 

Now  in  the  west,  the  heavy  clouds 

Scattered  and  fell  asunder, 
And  feebler  came  the  rush  of  rain, 

While  fainter  growled  the  thunder. 

And  through  the  broken  clouds  the  sun 

Looked  out  Sr>vene  and  warm. 
Painting  its  holy  symbol-light 

Upon  the  passing  storm. 

Oh,  beautiful !  that  rainbow  span, 

O'er  dim  Crane  neck  was  bonded: 
One  bright  foot  touched  the  eastern  hills 

And  one  with  ocean  blended. 

By  green  Pentucket's  southern  slope 

The  small  boat  glided  fast, 
The  watchers  at  the  block  house  saw 

The  strangers  as  they  passed. 

That  night  a  stalwart  garrison 

Sat  shaking  in  their  shoes, 
To  hear  the  dip  of  Indian  oars  — 

The  glide  of  birch  canoes. 

They  passed  the  bluffs  of  Amesbury, 

And  saw  the  sunshine  glow 
Upon  the  Powow's  winding  sti 


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And  on  the  hills  of  Po, 


ing  stream, 


The  fisher-wives  of  Salisbury 

(The  men  were  all  away) 
Lookeil  out  to  see  the  stranger-oar 

Upon  their  waters  play. 

Deer  island's  rocks  and  fir  trees  threw 

Their  sunset  shadows  o'er  them. 
And  Newbury's  spire  and  weathercock, 

Peered  o'er  the  pines  before  them. 

Around  the  Black  rocks  on  their  left 

The  marsh  lay  broad  and  green. 
And  on  their  right  with  dwarf  shrubs  crowned 

Plum  island's  hills  were  seen.  ' 

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With  skillful  hand  and  wary  eye, 
The  harbor  bar  was  crossed  ; 

A  play  thing  of  the  restless  wave, 
The  boat  on  ocean  tossed. 

The  glory  of  the  sunset  heaven 

On  land  and  water  lay, — 
On  the  steep  hills  of  Aitawam, 

On  cape,  and  bluff  and  bay. 

They  passed  the  gray  rocks  of  cape  Ann 

And  Gloucester  harhor  bar; 
The  watch-tire  of  the  garrison 

Shone  like  a  setting  star. 

How  brightly  broke  the  morning, 

On  Massachusetts  bay ! 
Blue  wave  and  bright  green  island, 

Rejoicing  in  the  day. 

On  passed  the  bark  in  safety. 
Round  isle  and  headland  sleep; 

No  tempest  broke  above  them. 
No  fog-cloud  veiled  the  deep. 

Far  round  the  bleak  and  stormy  cape. 
The  venturous  jNIacy  passed, 

And  on  Nantucket's  naked  isle 
Drew  up  his  boat  at  last. 

And  ho^w  in  log-built  cabin, 

They  braved  the  rough  sea-weather ; 
And  there,  in  peace  and  quietness, 

Went  down  life's  vale  together ; 

How  others  drew  around  them, 

And  how  their  fishing  sped, 
Until  to  every  wind  of  heaven, 

Nantucket's  sails  were  spread; 

How  pale  Want  alternated 

With  Plenty's  golden  smile; 
Behold,  is  it  not  written 

In  the  annals  of  the  isle  ? 

And  yet  that  isle  remaineth 

A  refuge  of  the  free. 
As  when  true-hearted  Macy 

Beheld  it  from  the  sea. 

Free  as  the  winds  that  winnowr 

Her  shrubless  hills  of  sand; 
Free  as  the  waves  that  batter 

Along  her  yielding  land. 

Than  hers,  at  Duty's  summons. 

No  loftier  spirit  stirs  : 
Nor  falls  on  human  suffering, 

A  readier  tear  than  hers. 

God  bless  the  sea-beat  island  ! 

And  grant  for  evermore, 
That  Charity  and  Freedom  dwell, 

As  now,  upon  her  shore  ! 


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>  i' 


Joseph  Barllett,  the  author  of  the  following  narrativo,  was  a  native 
of  Newljiuy.  He  was  the  fiftli  son  of  Ilicliard  and  Hannah  Bartlett, 
nntl  was  born  18  November,  1G8(5,  and  died  17o4,  aged  68.  For  a  copy 
of  the  ])amphlct,  which  was  published  in  1807,  I  am  indebted  to  one 
of  his  descendants,  doctor  Levi  S.  Bartlett,  of  Kingston,  jM.  H. 


NARRATIVE. 


'  In  the  year  1707,  in  November,  I  Joseph  Bartlett,  was  pressed,  and  sent  to  IlaverhilL 
My  quarters  were  at  the  house  of  a  capiain  Waindret.  August  29,  1708,  there  came 
about  100  French  and  50  Indians,  and  beset  the  town  of  Haverhill  —  set  tire  to  several 
houses;  amonjj  which  was  thai  of  captain  Waindret.*  The  family  at  this  time  were 
all  reposin<;  in  slei'p;  but  Mrs.  Waindret  wakin^;,  came  and  awaked  and  told  me  that 
the  Indians  had  come.  I  was  in  bod  in  a  chamber,  having  my  gun  and  ammunition  by 
my  bed-side.  I  arose,  put  on  my  small  clothes,  took  my  gun,  and  looking  out  iit  a 
window,  saw  a  company  of  the  enemy  lying  upon  the  groiiiul  just  bclore  the  house, 
with  their  guns  piesented  at  the  windows,  that,  on  discovering  any  person,  they  miyht 
fire  at  them.  I  put  my  gun  to  thu  window  very  still,  and  shot  down  upon  them,  and 
bowed  down  under  the  window  ;  at  which  they  fired,  but  I  received  no  harm.  I  went  into 
the  other  chamber,  in  which  was  Mrs.  Waindret,  who  told  me,  we  had  better  call  for 
quarter,  or  we  should  all  be  burnt  alive.  I  told  her  we  had  better  not;  for  I  had  shot, 
and  believed  I  had  killed  half  a  dozen,  and  thouuht  we  should  soon  have  help.  After 
re-loiiding  my  gun,  I  was  again  preparing  for  its  discharge,  when  I  met  with  a  Mr. 
New  marsh,  wiio  was  a  soldier  in  that  jilace.  He  questioned  me  concerning  my  desti- 
nation. I  answered,  that  I  was  going  to  shoot.  He  told  me  if  I  did  shoot.^ve  should 
all  be  killed,  as  captain  W'aindret  had  asked  for  quarter,  and  was  gone  to  open  the  door. 
I  asked  him  what  we  should  do  in  this  situation.  lie  said  we  must  go  and  call  for 
quarter;  and.  Jtting  our  gnus  in  the  chamber  chimney ;  we  went  down  and  asked  for 
quarters.  The  entry  was  filled  with  the  enemy,  who  took  and  bound  us,  and  plundered 
the  house.  They  killed  no  one  but  captain  Waindret.  When  they  had  done  plunder- 
ing the  house,  they  marched  oil";  an<l  at  no  great  distance  coming  into  a  body,  I  had  a 
good  view  of  them,  so  that  I  could  give  a  pretty  correct  account  of  their  number,  ex- 
pecting to  escape. 

'  After  a  short  stop,  they  proceeded.  When  they  had  travelled  a  short  distance,  the 
Indians  knocked  in  the  heacl  one  of  their  prisoners,  whose  name  I  think  was  Len- 
dall,  a  man  belonging  to  Salem.  They  then  max'iied  on  together,  when  captain  Eains 
with  a  small  company  waylaid  and  shot  upon  thetn,  which  put  them  to  flight,  so  that 
they  did  not  get  to;;ether  again  until  three  d:\ys  after,  as  the  French  afterwards  informed 
me.     The  small  company  which  had  me  in  keeping,  I  believe  did  not  fire  a  gun. 

'  At  first  I  was  taken  by  the  Fiencli,  and  was  with  them  till  this  fight  was  over;  du- 
ring which  an  Indian  came  to  me  in  great  fnry.  with  his  hatchet,  I  suppose  to  take 
away  my  life;  but,  through  the  niercie.s  of  God,  the  French  put  him  by:  and  so  I  was 
spared.  I  heard  many  bullets  hum  over  my  head,  as  we  marched  away.  After  the 
iight  was  over,  the  French  gave  me  to  the  Indians — for  the  Indians  killed  their  prison- 
ers. How  many  were  killed  in  the  light  I  do  not  know.  T  saw  one  Indian  that  had 
his  thigh  broken,  whom  two  of  them  carried  away  to  a  pond  of  water,  where  I  thought 
they  put  him  in,  but  alter  a  great  while  the  French  told  nic  that  another  Indian  staid 
with  and  took  care  of  him.  and  about  three  months  after  he  brought  him  to  Montreal; 
but  he  was  ever  alter  lame.  We  travelled  hard  all  that  day  till  nearly  sun-set,  when 
they  camped  for  the  night.  They  tied  me  down,  and  laid  each  side  of  me  upon  the 
strings:  and  so  they  did  almost  every  subse(|uent  night.  The  next  morning  they  arose 
very  early,  and  led  me  —  my  arms  being  tied  behind  me,  and  another  scjuaw-line  about 
my  neck.  I  was  led  by  an  Indian,  who  had  a  hatchet  in  his  hand,  and  a  pistol  in  his 
giiille.  In  this  manner  I  was  led  the  most  part  ol  the  way.  They  travelled  hard  the 
three  first  days.  I  had  not  as  yet  eaten  hardly  any  tiling,  for  they  had  little  besides 
horse-meat ;  and,  carrying  a  heavy  pack.  I  was  very  much  fatiitued.  Ascending  a  steep 
bill  a  little  before  we  came  to  Winnipesorkel  pond.  1  was  almost  ready  to  give  out; 
but,  tlirough  the  goodness  and  help  of  (lod,  I  was  enabled  to  proceed  this  third  day; 
but  at  night  I  was  extremely  faint.  The  Indians  made  a  little  water  pottage  without 
salt  or  sweetning,  and  gave  ine  some  to  drink.     I  drank  a  little  draught ;  and  with  the 

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blessing  oJ"  God.  it  vnry  miirh  revived  rrif,  and  proved  the  best  cordial  I  ever  took  in 
my  life.  I  slept  very  well  that  ni'^lit,  and  tlio  next  moniiiii;  was  very  cold,  mid  so  hun- 
gry that  I  eould  e;\t  almost  any  thins{.  Marehin?  ii  short  distance,  we  eamo  to  tho 
pond,  where  Ihe  French  and  Indians  all  took  their  canoes,  which  were  a  little  way 
from  tho  pond.  Here  the  French  and  Indians  parted;  the  former  Roin-,'  northerly,  and 
tho  iatier  westerly.  Before  we  ha<l  crossed  the  pond,  we  saw  a  hear  swimminic,  which 
they  kdled.  and  hauled  to  shore.  We  then  fared  sumpluoualy,  and  tarried  at  the  pond, 
about  a  day  and  a  half  Leavini;  their  canoes  a  little  way  oti',  we  travelled  for  live 
days,  with  very  little  sustenance,  except  a  .small  (piantity  of  pounded  corn,  which  they 
had  procured.  In  these  five  days  the  Indians  scattered,  so  that  there  were  but  fourteen 
or  htteen  with  me.  From  VViniiiposocket  pond  we  came  to  n  river  which  runs  into  the 
lake.  Hero  the  Indians  in  a  day  and  a  half  made  canoes,  in  which  we  proceeded  down 
the  river  Ihre.-;  days ;  havini;  nothing  to  eat  but  a  few  sour  j:rapes  and  thorn  plumbs  for 
four  days.  They  then  killed  a  hawk,  which  they  boiled,  and  pa>-ted  among  fitleen  — 
giving  the  head  for  my  share,  which  was  the  largest  meal  I  had  in  these  four  days;  but 
with  the  blessing  of  (iod  I  was  stiengtheiied,  and  had  my  health.  The  Indians,  when 
much  reduced  by  hunger,  would  gird  up  their  loins  with  a  string,  which  I  found  very 
usetiil  when  applied  to  myself 

'  Going  down  the  river  to  the  lake,  wo  met  several  companies  of  Indians,  who  gave 
us  some  corn  and  pom|)kins;  and  when  we  came  to  the  lake  we  met  ten  Frenchmen, 
who  came  to  jjive  us  provisions.  After  this,  tho  Indians  Idllod  live  sturgeons,  which 
gave  us  a  good  supply  of  food.  One  of  tlio  Indians  being  taken  sick,  we  camped  for 
two  or  three  days.  They  then  .set  out  for  another  island  in  the  ni^'ht ;  and  the  wind 
and  waves  were  very  high,  .so  that  tho  water  beat  into  tho  canoes.  Sitting  on  the  bot- 
tom of  or  of  these,  I  was  very  wet  and  cold.  When  thoy  came  to  the  shore,  we 
camped  for  a  short  time ;  and  in  about  throe  days  we  piocce<!ed  to  Chamblee,  a  French 

fort  upon  the  river  that  runs  from  the  lake  into  the  St.  Lawrence,  or  Canada  river 

where  we  obtained  an  additional  supply  of  food.  I  here  saw  an  Englishman,  whose 
name  was  Littloficld  — taken  I  think  from  Wells,  We  had  a  little  talk  with  the  Indi- 
ans, and  tarried  there  thrc  or  four  hours.  Wo  made  two  encampments  within  a  short 
distance;  the  last  of  whi  :i  conlinuod  four  days,  in  conseiiiienco  of  the  indisposition 
of  one  of  the  Indians.  Some  of  the  Indians  carried  those  who  were  sick  upon  their 
backs.  Ucfoio  we  reached  Montreal,  we  came  to  Caprcdia,  a  French  fort  I  think  about 
fifteen  miles  from  Chamblee  — where  the  Indians  cut  tho  hair  from  one  side  of  my 
ho.id  — grease  1  the  remainder  and  my  face,  and  painted  the  latter. 

'  We  then  v,  eiit  over  the  river  to  the  governor  — where  they  examined  and  ouestioned 
me  concerning  th'?  allUiis  ol  our  land  — whether  the  English  talked  of  invading  Cana- 
da or  not.  At'torwanls  Wl  we, .1  to  the  seminary,  t'lat  is,  the  jiriest-house,  where  wo 
tarried  that  night.  Next  morning  we  set  out  for  tin  Indians'  fort,  which  tho  French 
called  S.idrohelly.  apri  which  was  .d)oiit  nine  miles  from  3Iontreal.  When  thoy  had 
proceeded  about  half-way,  they  made  a  stop,  and  marked  a  tree  with  the  picture  of  a 
man's  hand  and  some  scalp.s.  They  then  led  me  along  a  littlt  further  to  a  place  where 
wa^  a  lire  and  about  fifteen  Indians  and  thirty  boys.  Here  they  made  a  stop,  and  tied 
me  lor  a  short  time:  during  which  I  believe  thoy  held  a  coun.sel  whether  to  burn  me 
or  not.  But  God,  who  hath  tho  hearts  of  all  in  his  haiid.s,  spared  my  life.  The  Indi- 
ans that  took  ine  and  tho  boys  marched  away,  and  left  me  with  the  others,  who  led  me 
along  a  little  way,  and  permitted  a  squaw  io  cut  off  ono  of  my  little  fingers,  and  anolh^ 
er  to  strike  me  severely  'vith  a  pole.  Passing  throuijh  a  large  company  of  Indian.s,  we 
entered  the  tort,  where  they  hound  up  my  linger  with  plantain  leaves,  and  gave  me 
some  roasted  pompkin  to  eat.  Hero  there  came  toirothcr  a  great  company  that  filled 
the  wigwarn  which  was  nearly  forty  feet  in  length,  where  they  sung  and  danced  a 
greater  part  of  the  niiiiit,  as  many  at  a  time  as  could  stand  from  one  end  of  the  wigwam 
to  the  other.  In  this  manner  they  danced  round  their  tires.  They  often  invited  nio  to 
dance;  but  I  refused  from  time  to  time.  However,  they  pulled  me  up,  and  I  went 
around  once  with  them.  Ne.vt  day  they  came  together  again  with  their  scalps,  which 
they  presented  their  squaws.  One  of  them  then  took  me  by  tho  hand,  and,  after  a 
lengthy  speech,  gave  me  to  an  old  sipiaw,  who  look  mo  into  another  wigwam.  Hero, 
after  a  little  c.ying  and  whimperin;;,  she  made  me  put  ..ff  my  Indian  .stocTvings  and  iny 
blanket,  and  gave  mo  others;  and  she  warmed  some  water,  and  washed  tho  red  paint 
and  grease  from  my  face  and  hands.  There  was  another  family  lived  in  the  same  wig- 
wain.  An  English  woman,  who  belongc'd  to  one  of  the  French  nuns,  came  in,  and 
told  me  I  need  not  fear,  ibr  I  was  given  to  this  sipiaw  in  lieu  of  one  of  her  sons,  whom 
the  English  had  slam  ;  and  that  I  was  to  be  master  of  the  wigwam;— but  she  being  a 
papist,  I  placed  little  reliance  on  her  assertions.  The  old  .S(iuaw  was  very  kind  to  me. 
I  staid  here  about  two  weeks:  and  then  winit  to  another  fort  about  eighteen  miles  dis- 
tant. While  I  was  there,  the  Indians  brought  an  English  lad,  whom  they  had  taken 
at  Quabog,  whose  name,  was  John  Willet.    He  vvas  very  glad  to  see  me;  and  I  tarried 


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APPENDIX. 


with  him  about  a  fortnight,  when 
■  atfcctcd  at 


returned  to  the  fort  from 
my  departure,  and  wit-i  very 


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The 
me; 


roor  Doy  was  sensiL.y  ..,.,. l,,,,  ^  mjr  uirii.iiiinc,  uim  wusf  very  loui  lo  pan  wiin  me; 
but  I  spake  as  comfortably  to  him  as  I  could,  and  told  him  that  ho  sliould  hope  and 
trust  in  (.od  for  deliverance;  fur  ho  was  able  lo  keep  us,  and  return  us  aijain  to  our 
homes.  I  hade  him  farewell,  and  told  him  J  hoped  wc  should  sec  each  other  in  hapiii- 
ness  in  another  world. 

'After  I  had  been  a  short  time  at  the  other  fort,  there  was  brouiiht  in  by  thr  Indians 
an  Englishman,  named  Martin  Kelcock,  wiio  lived  in  the  same  wigwam  with  me  I 
lound  him  of  great  benefit  to  me,  as  he  understood  and  could  well  explain  their  lan- 
guage. He  had  been  taken  by  them  some  years  previous ;  but  escaped,  and  was  after- 
wards re-taken.  We  lived  together  till  February;  but  we  endured  much  from  the 
seventy  of  the  weather,  being  poorly  clad,  and  destitute  of  proper  food.  They  wouhl 
sometimes  soak  corn,  and  break  it  between  two  stones;  then  boil  it  with  the  flesh  of 
beaver  — sometimes  with  the  inwards  of  cattle  obtained  from  the  French;  and  fre- 
quently they  would  kill  a  dog,  and  cut  and  boil  the  flesh  with  squatted  corn  ;  of  which 
they  would  make  a  feast.  They  had  a  meeting-house  in  the  foit,  and  a  French  priest- 
they  made  me  attend  their  meeting  at  times;  but  1  could  understand  nothing  that  was 
said. 

'  Sometime  in  February  after  I  was  taken,  I  went  to  live  with  the  French.  The  man 
with  whom  I  resided  they  called  Mr.  Delude:  he  was  a  captain,  and  a  rich  man.  He 
being  incapahle  of  walking,  by  reason  of  a  gout  sore,  it  was  allotted  to  a  Frenchman 
and  myself  to  attend  upon  him.  At  times  of  leisure,  I  wrought  at  shoe-making.  I 
lived  here  about  flfteen  months,  during  which  lime  I  fared  well  fo,-  food.  I  had  a  great 
deal  of  talk  on  the  subject  of  religion,  and  the  diflerent  modes  of  worship.  My  mistress 
used  to  ask  me  why  I  did  not  attend  meeting.  I  answered,  that  I  could  not  understand 
what  they  said.  She  said  she  could  not.  I  asked  her  what  she  went  for.  She  an- 
swered, to  say  her  prayers.  I  asked  her  why  she  could  not  understand  them.  She 
said,  because  they  speak  in  Latin.  For  what  they  say  the  most  in  Latin,  I  do  not 
know.  The  mass  commences  the  services  :  after  which  they  attend  to  praying,  reading 
and  singmg;  the  priest  receiving  the  sermon  with  abundance  of  bowing  and  kneelin". 
The  altar  is  built  up  in  the  meeling-house,  and  makes  a  fine  appearance;  at  one  end  of 
which  they  have  a  small  cupboard,  where  thev  keep  :licir  sacramental  bread  and  wine. 
While  the  mass  is  saying,  their  broad  is  formed  into  liltle  wafers  about  the  si/e  of  our 
copper  pence.  Thev  then  put  one  of  them  into  a  thing  about  the  bigness  of  the  palm 
of  the  hand,  which  has  a  handle,  and  is  covered  with  a  glass.  AVhcn  they  say  mass 
the  priest  takes  this  out  of  the  altar,  and  turns  around,  making  a  sign  of  a  cross  to  the 
people,  who  all  fall  upon  their  knees  and  say  their  prayers.  The  priest  tells  the  people 
that  this  bread  or  water  is  Christ's  body  — tlesb,  blooil  and  bone,  after  it  is  consecrated 
Hence  they  worship  it  as  much  as  if  Christ  came  bodily  among  them.  The  priest' 
when  he  says  mass,  has  two  hoys,  one  on  his  right  hand  and  the  other  on  his  left ;  one* 
ot  them  rings  a  bell  when  the  priest  is  going  to  take  that  which  they  call  Christ  to 
give  notice  of  his  approach.  ' 

'  They  were  very  civil  to  me,  not  compelling  me  to  knoel.  On  my  coming  to  reside 
with  the  French,  Mr.  JNIeriel,  a  French  priest,  came  ami  brought  mo  an  English  bible. 
As  I  sat  at  shoe-making,  he  came  and  sat  down  beside  me,  ami  questioned  me  concern, 
ing  my  health,  and  whether  I  had  boon  to  their  meetings.  I  told  him  1  had  not.  On 
his  asking  the  cause.  I  answered  (as  I  had  done  before)  that  I  could  not  understand 
w hat  they  said.  Ho  said  ho  wished  to  have  me  come  and  witness  their  carrvin"S  on. 
I  told  him  it  was  not  worth  my  while.  Hut  he  was  very  earnest  that  I  should  co°me  to 
his  mooting;  and  advised  me  to  try  ail  things,  hohling  fast  that  which  is  good.  Who 
knows  (said  he)  but  that  Cod  hath  sent  you  here  to  know  the  true  way  of  worship  I 
told  hiin  I  believed  ouvs  was  the  right  way.  Says  ho,  we  bold  to  nothing  but  whatvve 
can  prove  by  your  own  bible.  After  considerable  conversation,  I  told  him  I  did  not 
know  hut  that  I  should  come  to  their  meetin;:,  and  soo  how  they  carried  on;  which  al- 
ter a  little  while  I  did.  Now  in  their  meeting-house  there  stood  a  large  stone  pot  of 
their  holy  water;  into  which  every  one  that  oamo  in  dipped  their  finger,  making  a  sign 
of  a  cross,  putting  their  fingers  Ihst  to  their  foreheads,  then  to  their  stomachs'^  al'ter- 
waids  to  their  left  shoulder,  and  thou  to  their  right  slioulder,  saying,  'Father,  Son,  and 
Holy  Gho?t  — amen  ;'  and  kneeling  down,  thoy  say  a  short  prayer  to  themselves. 
They  havepuli)its  in  their  houses  loi' pnlilic  worship;  in  which  the  priests  sometimes' 
preach.  After  a  short  time,  the  priest  came  again  to  visit  me,  and  asked  me  how  I  liked 
their  manner  of  worship.  I  told  liim  il  soemod  strange  to  me.  He  said  this  was  gen- 
erally the  case  at  first,  but  after  a  while  it  would  appear  otherwise.  I  told  him  he  had 
said  that  ho  would  hold  to  no  dooliine  but  what  ho  could  prove  by  the  bible:  what 
proof  (said  I)  have  you  of  such  a  place  as  I'urgatory,  or  a  middle  place  for  departing 
souls  ?  He  said  in  Luke  xvi.  ','2  —  And  he  died,  and  was  carried  by  angels  into  Abra- 
ham's bosom.     I  said  I  supposed  Abraham  had  gone  to  heaven.     I  asked  him  what  was 


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Aonn  in  Pnreatorv.  He  said  thoy  tiirri.'d  thcro  awhile  1o  he  piir-jod  from  th(>ir  sins  and 
nflerwdrils  ^o  to  lioaven.  I  told  jiini,  it  was  appointed  unto  iiicii  oiicc  to  di,.,  and  after 
dnalh  is  tlio  judgment,  Ilrhrovvs  ix. '^7;  and  in  Ki-cl.  xi.  ;t— If  the  tree  falls  towards  the 
south  or  towards  the  north,  in  the  phicc  where  the  tree  falls  there  it  shall  lie;— and 
that  I  heheved  as  death  leaves  us  so  ludijmont  will  linrl  ns.  lie  said  there  were  some 
hltle  sins  whieh  were  not  unto  death,  if  not  repented  of;  and  that  there  weie  some  lit- 
tie  sinners;  and  asked  if  I  thonyht  all  should  f.ire  alike.  I  said  all  willful  sins  wore 
unto  (loath,  il  not  repented  of;  iuid  Ihit  I  helieved  there  were  dillerent  deijiees  of  tor- 
ments. 1  told  him  I  understood  that  they  prayed  to  an!,'e|s  ;ind  saints,  and  asked  him 
what  scripture  authority  they  had  for  that.  He  said  nature  and  reason  would  teach  us 
to  do  so;  lor,  said  he,  had  you  any  iiroat  husiness  with  the  kin',',  yon  would  ^et  some 
great  man  to  speak  for  you.  J  said  the  eases  were  not  similar,  for  we  are  invited  to 
come  to  Christ,  llehrews  iv.  Hi—  Let  us  therefore  come  holdly  to  the  throne  of  i;race, 
that  we  may  ohtain  mercy  and  find  i;race  to  help  in  time  of  need.  We  are  forbidden  to 
pray  to  saints  and  anirels,  or  to  <;ive  divine  worship  to  any  creature.  In  Rev.  xxii.  2 
and  9,  John  was  forbidden  to  fall  down  and  worship  befoie'the  li'et  of  the  anaels.  It  is 
Baid  ol  Cornelius,  Acts  x.  -2,  He  prayed  to  God  always;  and  if  he  prayed  to  (iod  always, 
he  did  not  pray  to  saints. 

'1  set  out  on  my  return  from  captivity  on  Sunday,  October  fifth,  1712.  We  went 
from  Chamhiee  on  the  ninth  of  the  same  month,  anil  came  to  Albany  on  the  twentieth, 
■where  we  tarried  seven  days,  and  two  at  Kinderhook,  which  was  one  day's  march  from 
Albany.  We  were  two  days  in  travellin:;  lioni  Kinderhook  to  Wesllield;  from  thence 
to  Springfield  one  day.  From  8prin:;tielil  to  (iuabo;,'  one  day  —  from  (iiiaboc  to  Marlbo- 
rough one  day,  and  from  Marlhoronnh  to  Boston  one  day.  My  arrival  at  Boston  was 
on  the  fourth  of  November.  Here  I  tarried  four  days ;  and  came  to  Newbury  the  eighth 
of  November,  1712  —  after  a  captivity  of  four  years,  two  months  and  nine  days.'    " 

After  his  rettim  the  RPiievnl  court  ordered  that  '  tlie  sum  of  Iwcnfy 
potinds  and  liflren  shillino's  be  allowed  and  paid  to  Joseph  Uartlett  in 
lull  of  his  petition  of  ciiurges  and  expences  to  ohtain  his  liberty  from 
the  Indians,  being  taken  prisoner  by  the  Indians  at  Haverhill,  when  in 
her  majesties'  service  in  the  year  170S,  and  for  his  snpport  during  four 
years'  captivity  and  for  the  loss  of  his  arms' 

In  this  attack  on  Haverhill,  sixteen  inhubitanfs  of  that  place  were 
killed,  and  some  others,  not  inhabitants.  The  reverend  John  Tike  in 
his  journal  says 'that  many  soldiers  belonging  to  Salem  were  slain.' 
On  the  general  court  records  Hind  the  following: 

'  Nnvnnher  Hi/,  1708.  Resolved  that  the  sum  of  five  pounds  be  allowed  and  paid  out 
of  the  pubhck  treasury  to  the  jictitioncr,  I\Iis.  Sarah  Coffin,  on  account  of  the  lemark- 
nble  forwardness  and  couia^e,  which  her  husband,  William  Coffin  of  Salem,  distin- 
guished himself  by,  in  the  action  at  Haverhill  where  he  was  slain.' 

The  reverend  Benjamin  Rolfo,  pastor  of  the  church  in  Haverhill, 
who  with  his  wife  and  ime  child  was  slain  on  that  eventful  day,  was  a 
native  of  Newbury.  For  a  more  particular  account  of  him  see  list  of 
graduates. 


H.     Page  211. 

In  selecting?  and  arranging  the  materials,  nsed  in  the  preceding 
cotni)ilation,  1  soon  discovered  that  a  more  extended  account  of  the 
transactions  in  'ould  Xewberry,'  concerning  slavery,  than  the  brief 
notices  I  could  conveniently  give  in  the  annals,  would  be  necessary.  I 
have  therefore  thought  proper  lo  insert  in  liiis  note  an  abstract  of  .such 
facts,  as  would  be  deemed  appropriate  and  interesting.  Justice  to  our 
forenitheis  retinites  that  the  liglits  and  shades  of  their  character  on  this 
subject,  as  well  as  all  others,  should  be  given  as  accurately  as  iiossible, 


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and  to  omit  all  allusion  to  any  of  their  marked  pcouliaritics,  would  load 
to  erroneous  conclusioun,  and  do  both  tliom,  niul  tlioii  posterity  iniustico. 
A  'supprossio  vcri'  is  in  fact  a  'siiggcslio  falsi,'  or,  in  the  lan-jiiago  of 
Cicero, '  nam,  (pii  lu^scil,  primam  esse  historia;  k'seni,  nc  quid./wA/  dioero 
andeat,  ne  (piid  ir/i  nun  a'ldcat,  uc  <|ua  suspicio  ,'!iaf/w  sit  in  scribendo.' 
Slaves,  wo  know,  were  introduced  into  Virfriuia  in  KWO,  and  into 
Massaclmsotts  in  a  very  few  years  after  its  settlement,  but  the  number 
was  very  small,  In  the  '  JJody  of  Liberties,  composeil  by  fthc  reve- 
rend] Nathauiol  Ward  of  Ipswicli,  iintbor  of  the  Simple  Cobbler  of 
Agawam,  and  adopted  by  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts  in  UMX,  which 
was  the  lirst  Code  of  Laws  established  in  Now  England,'  I  fmd  the 
following : 

'Thnre  shall  nnvprheany  liond  filavorie,  villinageor  cantivitio  amongst  us  unles  it 
be  lawdill  captives  talicn  in  Just  wario,  and  such  stnmsors  as  willingly  sollc  themselves 
or  are  sold  to  ns.  And  these  shall  have  all  the  lihertiea  and  christian  usages,  which 
the  law  of  God  established  in  Israeli  concerning  such  persons  doeth  morafiy  require. 
1  his  exempts  none  tVom  servitude,  who  shall  be  judged  thereto  by  authoritie.'  * 

'If  any  man  stealeth  a  man  or  mankinde  he  shall  surely  be  put  to  death.'  Ex.  21:  10. 

In  IGIG,  in  eonseriupncc  of  transactions  on  the  coast  of  Guinea,  by 
one  James  Smith,  a  member  of  the  church  of  Boston,  who  brought 
home  two  negroes,  and  was  the  means  of  killing  near  one  hundred 
more,  the  general  court  i)asscd  the  following  order,  namely  : 

'The  general  court  conceiving  themselves  hound  ov  the  first  opportunity  to  bear 
witness  against  the  heinous,  and  crying  sin  of  man  stealing,  as  also  to  prescribe  such 
timely  redress  for  what  is  past,  and  such  a  law  for  the  future,  as  may  suiriciently  deter 
all  others  bolonciiig  to  us  to  have  to  do  in  .such  vile  and  odious  courses,  justly  abhorred 
of  all  good  and  just  men,  do  order  that  the  negro  interpreter  with  others  unlawfully 
taken,  be  by  the  (list  opportunity  at  the  charire  of  the  country  for  the  present,  sent  to 
his  native  country  (Guinea)  and  a  letter  with  him  of  the  indignation  of  the  court 
thereabouts,  and  justice  thereof  desiring  our  honoured  governor  would  please  nut  this 
order  in  execution.' 

Among  the  papers  on  file  in  the  court  records,  I  find  the  following 
petition.  It  is  al.so  printed  in  Savage's  Winthrop,  vol.  2,  page  379-b6. 
Though  not  relating  to  iNewbury,  it  is  worth  inserting  here. 

'  To  the  honored  general  court. 

'The  oath  I  took  this  yeare  att  my  enterance  upon  the  place  of  assistante  was  to  this 
effect :  That  I  would  i  ruly  endeavour  the  advancement  of  the  gospell  and  the  good  of 
the  people  of  this  plantation  (to  the  best  of  my  skill)  dispencing  justice  equally  and 
impartially  (according  to  the  laws  of  (Jod  and  this  land)  in  all  ca'ses  wherein  I  act  by 
virtue  of  my  place.  I  conceive  myself  called  by  virtue  of  my  place  to  act  (nccordin" 
to  this  oath)  u!  the  case  concerning  the  nepers  taken  by  captain  Smith  and  Mr.  Keser" 
wherein  it  is  apparent  that  Mr.  Koser  gave  chace  to  certaine  negers;  and  upon  the 
sanie  day  tooko  divers  of  them  ;  and  at  another  time  killed  others  ;  and  burned  one  of 
their  townes.  Omitting  several  misdemeanours,  which  accompanied  these  acts  above- 
mentioned,  I  conceive  the  acts  themselves  to  bee  directly  contrary  to  these  following 
laws  (all  of  which  are  capitall  by  the  word  of  God;  and  two  of  them  by  the  lawes  of 
this  jurisdiction.) 

'  The  act  (or  acts)  of  murder  (whether  bv  force  or  fraude)  are  expressly  contrary 
both  to  the  law  of  (iod,  and  the  law  of  this'coiintry. 

'  The  act  of  stealing  negers,  or  of  taking  them  by  force  (whether  it  be  considered 
as  theft,  or  robbery)  is  (as  I  conceive)  expressly  contrary,  both  to  the  law  of  God,  and 
the  law  of  this  country. 

n'?i^l''J,^r'r,",'l'^^^r,'l"".,'^"';'';J'""'''  ^f  ^Tnssaohusetta  Hny :  with  the  Code  ndopted  in  1B41  and 
called  the  BOU\  OK  I.IHI.RTIKS  now  lirsi  primed  IJy  T.  C.  Gray,  LL.  JD.  a!  A.  S.  S.  H.  S.' 
m  vol.  VUI,  ihird  series  ol  iho  Historical  Socieiy's  colleclions,    1S13. 


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'The  aet  of  ehnning  the  rtfgtrt  {at  afnrtiayde)  upon  tin  tablialh  Jay  {heiug  a  ttrvilt  work* 
and  lueh  at  rnnmit  he  loimitertd  under  niitj  oilur  luadt)  h  tjimiilij  cnpitnll  hi)  the  law  of  God. 

Tlie»i'  Hots  arxl  oiitrnjfOH  boiiiuf  comrnittnil  where  (hero  was  iino  civlll  govnriiment, 
which  might  call  thftn  to  HccoiMjt,  nnd  the  ppiftoiiM,  by  whom  they  were  coiniiiittcj 
beeing  ol' our  jurisdiction,  [  concoivo  this  court  to  hee  the  rninislers  of  (Jod  in  this 
case,  urid  therel'oro  my  humble  reiiuesl  is  that  the  several!  ollbiiders  may  be  impiisoueil 
by  the  order  of  this  court,  utid  brought  into  their  deserved  censure  in  convenient  time  ; 
and  this  I  humbly  cruvo  that  soe  the  sinn  they  have  committed  may  be  upon  their 
own  hcada,  and  not  upon  ourselves  (as  otherwise  it  will.) 

Vrs  iu  oil  chrislean  observance, 

lilL-IIAIil)    SALTONaTAt.r..' 

'  The  house  of  depuls  thinke  mceto  that  this  petition  shall  be  granted,  and  desire  our 
honnored  magistrats  concurrunce  herein, 

Edward  Rawjon.' 

From  a  letter  ncklressccl  by  governor  '  Simon  Bradstrcct  18  Mny 
1680  to  the  lords  of  his  ninjcstie's  |)rivy  conncill,  containing  'answers 
to  their  inquiries,'  '  I  extract  the  following : 

'  There  hnth  been  no  company  of  blacks  or  slaves  brought  into  the  country  since  the 
beginning  of  this  plantation,  for  the  space  of  fifty  yeares,  onely  one  small  vessell  about 
two  yearos  since  after  twenty  months'  voyage  to  Madagasca  brought  hither  Instwixt 
forty  and  fifty  negro's,  most  women  and  children,  sold  here  for  ten,  fifteen  and  twenty 
pounds  apiece,  which  stood  the  merchants  in  ncer  forty  pounds  apiece  one  wilu 
another  :  now  and  then,  two  or  three  negro's  are  brought  hither  from  Barlwdos  and 
other  of  his  majestiess'  plantations,  and  sold  here  for  about  twenty  |)ounds  apiece,  so 
that  there  may  bee  within  our  government  alwut  one  hundred  or  one  hundred  and 
twenty,  and  it  may  be  as  many  Scots  brought  hither  and  sold  for  servants  in  the  time 
of  the  war  with  Scotland,  and  most  now  married  and  living  here,  and  about  halfe  so 
many  Irish  brought  hither  at  several  times  ns  servants.' 


' 


From  those  extracts  it  appears  that  slaves,  though  not  numerous  in 
Massachusetts,  were,  notwithstanding  the  law,  introtlucecl  withotit 
difficulty,  and  bought  and  solil  without  scruple,  by  all  classes  of  peoi)le. 

At  how  early  a  period,  and  in  what  numbers,  slaves,  either  African 
or  Indian,  were  introduced  into  Newbury,  no  record  informs  me,  but  I 
have  reason  to  believe  that,  jjrior  to  1700,  the  number  was  stiiall,  al- 
though a  large  proportion  of  the  wealthy  lUmilies  hud  one  or  more. 
This  is  ascertained  by  reference  to  their  wills,  inventories,  and  so 
forth.  Thus  in  the  inventory  of  captain  Paul  White,  1(379,  I  find, 
'  one  negrow  =  .£30.' 

In  the  will  of  Henry  Jaques,  dated  1067,  I  find  this  sentence  :  'my 
will  is  that  whereas  Ja.sper,  my  Indian,  hath  been  a  good  servant  to 
me  my  will  is  that  he  shall  serve  my  executor  faithfully  after  my  de- 
cease six  years  and  then  he  shall  be  free.' 

In  the  inventory  of  Richard  Summer's  estate,  I  find,  '  a  negro  =  £00.' 
In  Richard  Dole's  will,  lOOS,  ho  gives  to  one  of  his  children,  'my  great 
bible,  fowling  piece,  musket,  and  also  my  negro  boy  Tom.'  To  son 
William,  'negro  boy  Mingo,'  to  daughter  Hannah, 'my  negro  maid 
named  Lucy.'  '  My  negro  Grace  shall  have  her  freedom,  if  she  will 
accept  of  it.'  '  My  negro  servant  Retty  shall  serve  two  years,  and  then 
she  shall  be  free.' 

In  1702,  Samuel  Plumcr,  ferryman,  gives  freedom  to  his  Indian 
servant  Kate. 

Many  of  the  slaves  in  Massachusetts  were  Indians  imported  from  the 
south.  Thus,  in  1708,  '  Thotnas  Steel  sells  to  John  Farnum  of  Boston 
for  thirty-five  pounds  an  Indian  boy  called  Harry,  imported  into  the 


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province  from  South  Carolina.'  In  ]^1r^,  Tlipopliilns  Cotton,  of 
ll!ini|)l(iii,  deeds  to  .loniitliiiii  I'ooro,  of  Ncwhurv,  'nil  that  my  Jndiaii 
hoy  Sippiii  ni;c(l  nhoiit  sixtcrn."  As  early  nn  IGl'J,  Dcccnnhcr  twenty- 
ninth,  William, Ihllon,  of  ISCwhiiry,  •  .sells  to  (;eoi<ro  Carr  for  ono 
qnarter  part  of  n  vessel,  James  my  Indian  with  all  the  interest  1  liavo 
in  liim  to  he  his  s(,Mvant  Hiicver.' 

The  following  reeiMpl,  in  the  luiiul-writing  of  Steiihcii  Jn(ines,  I  lhvo 
vcrhatim. 

'  Re^evril  of  Riclmrd  KoWj  of  Nowhry  the  ium  of  thorty  onyght  pound  in  full  mony 
for  a  Spaiiisli  Iiiiriiii  l)(>y  ihmikmI  .spsor,  by  our  jinlirrticiit  umlnr  tiiri  pvr  olil  ii;  Ihp  eyr  of 
1711,  icsuveil  l>y  mo  this  day  of  ionry,  bi'inj,'  tho  fifleenlh  of  ionry,  171H,  I  say  l)y  mo. 

CuniNo  Novis,' 

In  17ir>,  Pvieo  Edwards,  of  Ncwbnry,  shipwrifrht,  sells  to  ICdmnnd 
Cfreenleaf,  'my  whole  i)crsonal  estate  with  all  my  goods  and  chuttels 
as  also  o)ie  negro  man,  one  cow,  three  jag-i  with  timher,  plank  and  hoards.' 

' Novmhrr  Ath,  \Tir).  I,  the  sulmrribpr  do  ono  and  ncknowtpdRp  th:U  I  hav(>  sold  to 
Mr.  Ricli.nd  Fudly  n  narrow  mini,  cnl.  Ilculion,  for  which  I  hiive  received  an  I"  ndii'd 
imiinds  ill  iiilis  of  orcdit,'  and  so  lorth.  '  Jonaiiia.n   1'ooue.' 

In  the  honorable  Nathaniel  CofTm's  acconnt  book,  I  find  the  followinff : 

'17:)l.     An  account  of  soaio  things  my  son  Edmund  had  of  me. 

'  I'aid  for  his  learniii!,',  and  lii.s  hooks  and  his  rnodicino,  .£70 

7'o  ./(((■/,•,  a  ■nifiro  mnii,  50 

To  S  shi'L'p,  -i  liogrtheads  of  lime,  a  haU' bushel  of  oatmeal,  and  29  lb.  of 

12  18«.' 


liax, 


In  1738,  Ezekicl  Chase  sells  and  delivers  to  .Tohn  INTerrill,  for  forty 
ponnds,  '  my  negro  hoy  named  Titns  ahont  one  year  and  a  half  old 
dming  his  natural  life.' 

Jn  llu;  settlement  of  colonel  Joseph  Cofliu's  estatc.I  find  the  followin"-. 
namely : 

'  1771,  Nov.  27.    Daughter  Sarah,  Dr. 

'I'o  part  of  negro  girl  Lucy,  £15,  old  tenor. 

1771,  Aow.  27.    Daughter  Susanna,  Dr.  "     6  j, 

To  part  of  negro  girl  Lucy,  £  1.5,  old  tenor.' 

In  Mareli,  17:1!), William  Jolmson,  shipwright,  gave,  granted,  bargained 
ancl  sold  for  thirty-live  jionnds,  'to  INhjses  Titcomb'to  his  heirs  and 
assiL>ns  forever  a  certain  negro-man  called  hy  the  name  of  Cambridge 
of  the  age  of  ahont  twenty-one  years  —  and  that  the  said  Moses  Tit- 
eomh,  his  heirs,  cxeontors,  and  administrators  shall  by  virtue  of  this 
deed  have,  hnnld,  nse  and  improve  said  negro  man  Cambridge  daring 
the  whole  term  of  his  natural  life,'  and  so  forth. 

These  deeds  were  sometimes  of  great  length,  and  written  with  as 
much  formality  and  minuteness  as  the  deeds  to  an  estate  worth  a  million 
of  money,  and,  with  few  exceptions,  all  classes  of  people,  merchants, 
farmers,  mechanics,  professors  of  religion,  and  ministers  of  the  gospel, 
bought  and  sold  slaves,  apparently  withont  the  slightest  idea  of  the 
enormity  of  the  sin,  and  on  the  same  principle  that  they  would  juircliaso 
a  horse,  a  .sheep,  or  a  jiiece  of  land.  They  thus  necessarily  sanctioned 
the  slave  trade,  and  all  its  unspeakable  abominations. 

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APPENDIX. 


The  rcvci-eml  Mnttliius  Tlant,  in  his  dini-y,  June  twenty-second,  1735, 
says,  '  I  wrote  to  Mr.  Saliuou  of  liiirlnuloes  to  send  me  a  negro.' 
About  the  year  IG     ,1  lind  the  follownig  : 

'  A  count  of  dels  from  yo  town  to  saveral  parsons.' 

'  Serj.  Jacol)  Tapin  to  driving  shocp  one  day.' 

'  And  fo  1inil)er  for  ye  liiuli  way.' 

'  Aiial  3Iarel  a  two  year  bull.' 

\T(iiiirx  Orilirni/ Jhi  /lis  nc^ni  Inii}'^  lost.' 

'  Mr.  William  Alouhon  a  two  year  old  bull.' 

_  Tliis  state  of  tilings  was  not  alway.'-'  to  last.  As  early  as  May  twenty- 
sixth,  1701,  the '  representatives  were  desired  to  promote  the  encouraging 
the  bringing  of  wliite  servants  and  to  put  a  period  to  negroes  being 
slaves.' 

About  1710,  jndorc  Scwall  wrote  nnd  publi.shcd  a  tract  against  slavery, 
entitled,  'the  selling  of  .Joseph.'  In  11 W,  he  says  in  his  diary, '  I  essayed 
to  prevent  negroes  and  Indians  being  rated  witii  horses  and  cattle,  "but 
could  not  succeed.'  A  few  years  after  this,  Elihu  Coleman,  of  Nan- 
tucket, wrote  and  indili.slicd  a  tract  against  slavery.  Excepting  these 
two  jiersons,  there  appears  to  have  been  no  public  advocate  for  the  slave 
in  Massachusetts,  till  a  short  time  prior  to  the  revolution.  Then  an 
cxaiuination  of  llicir  own  rights  indui'ctl  hundreds  to  examine  tlio 
subject  of  slavery,  who  coukl  not  avoid  seeing  and  feeling  tlic  gross 
iiiconsistency  of  contending  for  their  own  liberty,  while  at  the  same 
time  they  were  lioldiuu"  thousands  in  abject  bondage.  It  became 
everj'where  a  subject  of  discussinu.  Many  es.says  aj)peared  in  the 
public  ])apers,  in  favor  of  emancipation.  '  In  17l')-5,  the  celebrated 
Granville  .Sliar|)e,  of  England,  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Africans 
with  great  zeal,  and,  through  his  instrumentality,  it  was  decided  in 
1772,  that  tlie  moment  a  slave  touched  the  soil  of  England,  that  moment 
lie  was  free. 

In  17(')ri,  t'le  coh.roversy  concerning  slavery  in  3Iassachus{>tts  began, 
and  in  17C)7,  an  ailcmpt  was  made  in  the  Jegislature  to  abolish  the 
slave  trade.  A  bill  was  brought  info  the  house  of  representatives  'to 
prevent  the  tmnaiural  and  unwarrantable  custom  of  eushiving  mankind 
and  the  importation  of  slaves  into  this  province,'  but  the  coimcil,  then 
the  np]ier  Jious(\  non-concurring,  it  failed.  On  March  second,  17C)1), 
the  reverend  Samuel  AVcbsler,  of  Salisbury,  Massachusetts,  pubhshed 
'  an  earnest  address  to  my  country  on  slavery.'     I  give  an  extract. 

'  Xow  kopp  your  ryo  upon  tho  Christiin  Jnw  of  Invc,  or  upon  the  s^nWoi  ridf  in  their 
most  pl-iiii  and  obvious  ^^cnso  (afti'i' d// pnssiblo //))i)7((//o)rs'  nnd  c.ircplioiis.  icliich  lin  not 
alisnliilih/  tksh-nii  t/nin)  and  recntu'ili'  ronmion  slavery  tlievnvith  and  I  will  undertake  to 
reconcile  li<;ht  with  (liiy/.;irsf!.  and  C/irisI  with  Biliiil.  Lei  a  iiinn  love  his  neiiihhoiir  and 
do  ns  he  n-onhl  hr  i/oiir  hi/,  and  if  lie  mnUes  a  slave  upon  this  plan.  I  will  venture  to  bo 
his  slave  fbrever.  [  fear,  I  ijreally  fi.'ar  that  it  is  want  of //,)/((.</// more  than  want 
of  /(>/(/.  which  eontinues  it  in  the  world.  This  is  too  plain  a  case  fi )r  men  always  to 
deceive  themselves  in.  I  must  believe  tlial  iiuist,  who  desire  lo  see,  mn  lure  .svr  "what 
i.s  riy;ht.  and  tin  src  and  fnl.  if  ihey  have  any  un<lers1andin;x.  and  any  bowels  and  mer- 
cies. What  then  is  to  be  done?  Hone  !  for  Cod's  sake  l)reak  every  yoke  and  let  these 
oppressed  ones  s-o/zTc  (iw'//)f)(// ^/(%  — let  them  taste  the  sweetn  oi' that  //A.r/v,  which 
we  so  lii;,'hlv  prize,  and  are  so  earnesllv  supidiealinn;  Ood  and  man  to  ^rant  us:  nay, 
which  we  claim  as  the  naliual  ri:,'hl  of  every  man."  Lot  me  beseech  niv  countrymen 
to  put  nn  bowels  of  comjiassiou  for  these  their  lircthnn  (for  so  I  must  call  them,)  yea, 
let  me  beseech  you  for  your  own  sake  and  fur  God's  sake,  to  break  every  yoke  and  let 
tlie  oppressed  go  free.' 


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339 


In  1770,  Jm-ncs,  a  servant  of  Richard  Lccl micro,  of  Cajiibiicl^re, 
broiig-lU  nil  iic'tiun  against  his  niaslur  i'or  dclaiiiing  liiin  in  hondaue, 
wliich  was  decided  in  favor  of  llie  ]>iainii(i:  In  airsubscqiicnt  siiii,s"'of 
the  same  nature,  '  tlic  juries  invarialjly  gave  their  verdict  iu  favor  of 
liberty,'  and  so  great  was  the  cliangc  in  puiiUc  oi)i..  on,  in  consequence 
of  the  cxerliojis  of  those  who  were  favorable  to  emancipaiion,  that  in 
seven  years  slavery  was  abolished  in  six  of  the  then  thirteen  colonies  ; 
namely,  Vermont,  in  1777,  iMassachnsetts  and  Pennsvlvania,  in  17pO, 
New  Ilainpshirc,  in  17^:^3,  Connecticut  and  Ilhode 'island,  in  1764. 
The  society  of  friends  was  Ihe  first  religions  bucly  tliat  took  up  the 
subject,  and  so  eliiciently  did  they  act,  tliat  in  17t7  not  a  single  ac- 
knowledged meuilicr  of  the  society  was  the  owner  of  a  slave. 

At  the  annual  connuenceincnl  at  Cambridge,  .Tuly  'il,  1773,  a  foren- 
sic disputation  'on  the  legality  of  enslaving  Ihe  Africans,'  was  held  by 
two  candidates  for  the  bachelor's  degree  ;  namely,  Theodore  I'arsons 
and  Eliphalet  Pearson,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  A'ewbury.  This 
was  ])ublished  the  same  year,  in  a  pamphlet  of  forty-eight  pages.  The 
([uestion  was,  'uhctlicr  the  sJannj,  to  which  Africans  arc  in  this  province, 
by  the  permission  of  Uiw,  subjected,  be  atsrccabic  to  the  hnc  (f  nature: 

In  October  of  1773,  an  action  was  jjrought  against  ilichard  Ci  i>n- 
leaf,  of  A'ewburyport,  by  Ca'sar  [IJendrick,]  a  colored  man,  whom  he 
elainied  as  his  slave,  for  holding  him  in  bondage.  He  laid  the  damages 
at  lifly  pounds.  The  coiuisei  for  the  phiintili;  in  whose  favor  the  puy 
l)rought  in  their  verdict  and  awarded  him  eighteen  pomids  damages 
and  costs,  was  John  Lowell,  esquire,  aflerwaid  judge  Lowell.  This 
ease  excited  much  interest,  as  it  was  tlie  first,  if  not  the  only  one  of 
the  kind,  that  ever  occiured  in  the  county. 

In  this  same  year,  another  attempt  was  made  in  JMassachusetts  to 
prohibit  the  slave  trade.  In  January,  177  I,  a  bill  i'or  that  purpose 
passed  both  houses,  but  the  governor,  (Hutchinson,)  refused  his  assent. 
'  Ilis  instructions,'  lie  said,  'tbrbad.'  Governor  Gage  refused  for  the 
same  reason.  On  this  important  subject  the  [jeoplo  of  Massachusetts 
were  not  idle.  The  pid])it  and  the  press  were  not  silent,  and  sermons 
and  essays  in  behalf  of  the  enslaved  Africans  were  continually  making 
their  appearance.  Of  this  class  of  writers,  no  one  entered  more  deep- 
ly into  the  cause  of  the  suliering  and  the  dumb,  and  displayed  more 
zeal  and  ability  than  deacon  IJcnjamin  Colnian,  of  ^'ewbury.  lie 
wrote,  and  talked,  and  prayed  on  tlie  subject,  was  instant  in  season 
and  out  of  season,  and  it  is  owing  to  the  exertions  of  such  men,  that 
pnl)lic  o[Hnion  was  so  soon  ])repared  for  a  general  emancipation,  which 
was  virtually  done  at  the  adoiilion  of  the  constituUoa  of  Massachusetts, 
in  17^0. 

ilis  first  essay  that  I  have  seen,  was  published  July  twentieth,  1774, 
in  the  Essex  Journal,  of  Newlmryport,  and  conlauis  two  columns,  from 
which  I  take  the  following  exlraci. 


'  T  prav  that  wp  m-iy  rofrain  ;it  prosnnt  from  any  Mttor  rcni>r<inn  on  tho  Brhish  min- 
istry anil  search  amoiii;  oiirsolvcs  and  see  iC  wp'  cannot  I'nul  an  Achan,  an  acciuspil 
thini!:,  thai  is  the  Iroiihh^r  of  our  land  and  for  which  (ioil  is  at  this  <lay  contcniliiiirwilk 
ns.  AmonL'  the  inininierahle  evils,  tliat  ahouiul  anions:  us  1  hiok  u))iiii  the  oiiprcssion, 
lioiKhiM-f.  jiiiii  slavery  exercisi'd  upon  our  p>)or  brethren  the  .\fricans  to  he  a  (iod-provo- 
XinijaiHl  a  wrath-procnrinir  sin.  I  call  llu-in  hiethren  hecause  (..'od  has  told  ns  so  in 
hi.s  word  thai  he  has  maile  of  one  lilooit  all  nations,  that  dwell  on  tlie  earth.  They  are 
as  free  by  nature  as  we,  or  any  other  people  have  a  natural  riyht  to  libeity  and  freedom 
as  much  as  we  and  it  is  only  by  power  and  tyranny  that  they  arc  bruimhl  and  kept  uiu 


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APPENDIX, 


der  this  cruel  yoko  of  bondage  and  th 
and  althoiii,'li  tl 
them  at  lil 


is  iniciuity  is  establishoj  by  law  in   Ihis  province 
re  have  i)eeii  some  Icehle  attempts  made  to  break  the  yoke  and  set 
rly  yet  the  thing  is  not  elFected,  but  they  are  still  kept  finder  the  cruel  yoke 
Ot  bondiij;e.  ^  r  j 

'Shall  we,  my  fathers  and  brethren,  or  can  we  lift  up  our  faces  with  confidence  before 
trod  by  solemn  prayer,  that  he  would  remove  the  yoke  of  bondage  IVom  us  and  set  us 
at  hberty  from  the  bondage  that  lays  upor.  i.s,  while  we  keep  a  tenfold  heavier  yoke  on 
the  necks  ol  our  brethren,  the  negroes';  I  confess  J  blush,  when  1  hear  of  a  proposal  for  a 
provincial  fast  (although  t  am  as  desirous  of  it  as  others)  when  I  read  the  <iflv-ei"lith 
chapterof  Isaiah,  where  the  people  are  represented  as  keeping  days  of  fast'ing'and 
prayer  and  yet  obtained  no  gracious  answer  from  God.  I  do  not  say  that  our  grievan- 
ces will  not  be  redresseil  until  we  break  the  yoke  of  bonda-e  from  our  negroes'  necks 
but  I  must  needs  say  [  do  not  e.xiiect  it.  But  that  we,  all  as  one,  may  be  enabled  to 
search  out  and  put  away  every  thing  from  among  us  whereby  God  is  dishonored  and 
otfendeil,  to  break  every  yoke  of  oppression,  so  that  he  mi^iht  cause  light  to  rise  in 
obscurity,  is  I  trust  the  prayer  of  every  friend  to  New  f^ngland.  B.  C 

On  June  fifth,  1771,  two  discourses  on  liberty  were  delivered  at  tlie 
North  church  in  Xewbiiryport,  by  jSathaniel  Niles,  M.  A.,  an  able  and 
zealous  advocate  (or  emancipation.  These  discourses  were  printed  in 
a  pauiplilet  of  thirty-eight  ])ages,  and  are  written  with  great  nbility. 
In  his  prclace,  the  aiitlior  says  that  '  his  general  design  is  to  awalvcn  in 
his  counlrymen  proper  seiitiiiicnts  and  emotions  respecting  both  civil 
and  religious  liberty.  The  former  without  tlie  latter  is  "but  a  body 
without  a  soul.'  His  texts  were  from  1  Corinthians,  cliapter  7,  verse 
21,  and  Jolin,  8  chapter,  verse  30.  From  the  sermon  on  civil  or  person- 
al liberty  I  take  the  following  extract. 

'  We  have  boasted  of  our  liberty  and  free  spirit.  A  free  spirit  is  no  more  inclined  to 
enslave  others  than  ourselves.  If  then  it  shouM  be  found  upon  examination  t'uit  we 
have  been  o(  a  tyrannical  spirit  in  a  free  country,  how  base  mnst  our  character  aiipear' 
And  how  many  thousands  of  thocisands  have  been  plunged  into  death  and  slavery  by 
ourmfMns!  ^     ■' 

'When  the  servant  had  nothins  to  pay,  and  his  master  had  frankly  for-iveii  him  all 
and  he  had  a.uie  and  cast  his  fellow  servant  into  prison,  there  to  reiiiain  till  he  slionid 
pay  the  last  tarthmg:  the  master  justly  puuish.MJ  his  inavatitude  and  sc\erilv  with  the 
like  imprisonment.  Hath  not  our  conduct  very  nearly  resembled  the  condu'ct  of  that 
seivanl?  (hkI  i^ave  us  lilierty  and  we  have  enslaved  our  fellow  t.ien.  JNIay  we  not 
tear  that  the  law  in  reialiatioii  i..;  abont  to  be  e.xi'culed  on  nsV  AVhat  can  we  object 
against  it  !  What  excuse  can  we  make  Ibr  our  conduct  !  What  rea-oii  can  we  u.-.r,> 
why  (Mir  oppression  shall  not  be  returned  in  kind  >  Slionld  the  Africans  see  God  \\'. 
mighty  siibjecling  us  to  all  the  evils  we  have  brouiiht  on  them,  and  sliouiil  they  I'ry'to 
us,  0  daughter  ol  America,  who  art  to  be  destroyed,  hnppy  shall  he  b,"  that  rewardoth 
thee  as  thou  hast  served  us;  happy  shall  he  be  tlial  ti.k.'tli  and  dasheth  thy  lillle  ones 
against  the  slones ;  how  could  we  cbject  ?  How  could  we  resent  it  !  Would  we  enjoy 
liberty  ?  1  hen  we  must  -rant  it  to  others.  For  shame,  b-t  us  either  cease  to  en^lave 
our  fellow  men,  or  else  let  ns  cease  to  complain  <^f  tho.se,  that  wonhl  enslave  us  Let 
us  either  wasli  our  hands  fiom  blood,  or  never  hope  to  escafie  the  aveii-er.' 

In  tlie  Essex  Journal  and  New  ITampsliirc  Packet  of  March  eiglith, 
177(1,  I  find  the  foli(jwing  iotlrr,  addressed  to ,  and  was"' in- 
serted by  desire  of  some  of  the  customers '  of  the  jiaper. 

,^  .  '  Nciriiinj.  Snilciiibir  UVIlI':''). 

'Dear  sir.  '  ' 

'As  the  judgments  of  God  are  a  great  deep,  and  the  footsteps,  or  desi-^ns  of  his 
providence  are  not  /iilly  known  to  ns.  so  1  think  it  becomes  us  to  study  sobiiely  and 
fear  in  the  application  of  the  same.  But  when  the  Lord  doth  so  clearly  reveal  hirns(df, 
and  shew  loith  such  an  evident  resemblance  between  men's  sin  and  Iheir  stroke  of 
correclion  as  he  doth  at  this  day;  I  think  it  cryeth  alou.l  fora  serious  observing  thnvof. 
And  I  heg  leave  to  say  that  the  calamitous  distrc'^sed  circumstances  we  are  in  at  thi.s 
day.  in  my  apprehension,  do  bear  such  a  resemblance  with  our  notorious  crime,  that  he 
that  runs  may  read  ;  I  mean  the  oppression  of  our  brellueii  the  negroes  :  a  crime  so 


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341 


iinsrriiitural  and  unrea&inaWe  that  I  should  be  ready  to  think  that  every  rational  person, 
and  psppoially  every  ch  isfiiui  American  would  detest  the  thou^dit  of  keepin?  their 
bietiireii  inbonda>,'e;  es|.oci:iliy  when  they  themselves  are  stru;r','!in>r  for  lihertv,  and 
deliveraiifo  I'lom  oppression  broiiiiht  upon  them  by  their  brell\ren.  But  such  Is  the 
infiituiitioii.  with  which  this  iddl  jjod.  ^'ain.  lias  overcome  this  people:  that  although 
we  unitedly  say,  we  will  ipiU  our  blood,  and  lose  our  lives  in  the  defence  c(  liberty,-' 
yet  we  don't  grant  it  to  those  i)oor  oppressed  brethren  of  ours,  who  have  been  un(ter 
the  yoke  of  slavery  (themselves  and  their  ancestors)  this  one  hundred  years  past; 
think  sir,  if  you  please,  how  inconsistent  your  practice  is  with  your  profession,  how 
long  halt  you  between  two  opinions,  if  oppression  and  slavery  be  right,  why  do  you 
hght  against  it?  but,  if  it  be  wrong  why  do  you  allow  of  it  ?—  Happy  is  he  saith  the 
apostle  Paul  that  coiulemncth  not  himself  in  that  thing  which  he  alloweth  Rom.  14, 
'■IJ.  But  here  I  must  make  an  apology,  for  I  write  not 'to  you  sir,  as  an  individual  that 
approves  of.  or  practices  this  detestable  crime  yourself,  for  I  never  heard  yon  diil  eitner- 
but  1  write  to  you  as  a  member  of  onr  honorable  general  court,  by  whom  this  idolatry 
should  be  thrown  down,  and  a  reformation  take  place  by  the  authority  of  that  legislative 
power.  Icall  it  idolatry  because  covetousness  which  is  at  the  bottom  of  il,''aiid  by 
which  it  is  maintained,  is  idolatry;  so  says  the  apostle  Paul,  Coll.  3.  .5.  moitify  your 
members,  your  members  which  are  upon  the  earth,  fornication,  and  so  Ibilh  and  so 
Ibrlh  and  covetousness  which  is  idolatry.  Here  I  would  say  the  covetous  man  does 
not  believe  his  money  to  be  (lod;  but  by  his  inordinate  love'  of  it,  and  trusting  in  it, 
he  is  as  truly  guilty  of  idolatry  as  if  he'bow'd  his  knee  to  it;  for  (iod  more  legalds  the' 
internal  acts  of  tlie  mind,  than  he  doth  the  external  acts  of  the  body.  In  like"  manner 
the  idolatrous  papists  do  not  believe  the  saints  and  angels  to  be  god's,  but  by  praying  to 
them,  and  trusting  in  tlieni  lor  relief  and  help,  they  i,avc  them  the  inw.ird'  worship  of 
the  soul,  which  is  idolatry.  As  to  what  any  man  may  say  in  vindication  of  slavery 
upon  that  text  in  Leviticus  2-'),  l.'j.  lH,  you  t'nay  buy  of  the  children  of  the  strangers' 
and  so  Ibrth—  1  reler  you  to  what  I  have  pnlilishod'  in  the  iVewburv-Poit  paper  in  July 
1771,  upon  that  subject  for  an  answer.  But  to  go  on  sir,  some  igno'rant  persons  may  be 
ready  to  object  and  say  these  negroes  are  men's  p-vate  property,  their  masters  have 
bought  them  with  their  money,  and  such  men  traders  may  think'it  would  be  wrong  for 
the  u'eiieral  court  to  deprive  Iheni  of  their  property;  this'is  takinir  meirs  estates  iToiii 
theni,  say  they;  —  good  (Jod!  what  do  such  men  mean  !  to  talk  of  private  inoperty  iu 
the  huniiiu  species,  creatures  made  in  the  imagr>  of  God  and  endowed,  with  all' the 
rational  faculties  and  immortal  principles  as  we  are,  and  dillering  in  nothiiiir  from  us 
except  in  color  and  education,  to  call  such  people,  men  and  women  inivate  property, 
shocking  indeed  to  a  human  mind!  What  if  I  hail  bought  vou  sir,  of  some  pi'ison  that 
pretended  a  right  to  sell  you,  and  h;id  paid  a  large  sum  of  ii'ioney  for  you,  and  kept  vou 
still  in  slavery  and  bmidage,  aiul  should  plead  the  autiiority  of  the  general  court,  and 
the  coinniou  and  constant  custom  of  the  people  in  behalf  "of  my  conduct  towanls' vou, 
would  you  not  be  ready  to  eiirse  that  bo.ly  that  maintained  sncii  a  law,  or  indMlyed'ono 
man  to  act  so  unreasonably  towards  another  f  —  Matthew  7,  1-,'.  Therefore  alf  things 
whatsoever  ye  would  that  men  do  unto  you,  do  ye  e\en  so  them,  I  must  need  say~l 
wonder,  iiotwith.-tanding  all  the  prejudices  peop'le  labour  under  through  long  custom, 
and  a  tMinfiil  practice  in  this  man  Iradi-,  that  their  eyes  are  not  opened  so  as'^to  lay  it 
aside,  especially  when  (lod  in  his  providence  so  plainly  testifies  agiiinsl  it  as  he  does 
atthisd:iy.  Will  not  .loseph's  brethren  (  Gen.  .|:.', -Jl.l'riso  up  in  judi;ment  aiiainst  us, 
who  when  they  were  bnuighi  into  distressing  circumstance.s,  lu'unbly  confessed,  'we 
are  verily  guilty  ccnicerning  onr  brother,  iu  that  we  saw  the  anguish  ol'  his  soul  when 
he  besou..;lit  us.  and  we  would  not  hear,  therefore  is  this  distress  come  upon  us,'  Will 
not  ,\<lonihe/ek  (recorded  judges  17,)  rise  up  iu  judi;nient  and  condemn  us  !  who  said 
'  threescore  and  ten  kings  having  their  thnnibs  and  great  toes  cut  od',  uatlieied  their 
meat  under  my  table,  as  1  have  done  so  God  hath  reiiuiled  me.'  Shall  heathens,  and 
such  as  ni'ver  h.id  th."  advantages  that  we  have  had,  see  and  generously  acknouJediie 
their  sins  auiinsl  (;od  and  their  fellow  creatures,  (lor  sin  is  the  cause  of'natural  as  u  ell 
as  mmal  evil)  and  shall  we  who  have  the  clear  li;:lit  of  the  ;;ospel  refn.-e  to  conii'ss 
ours  t  (Jod  forbid!  let  us  bethink  ours(dves,  let's  allend  to  the  groans  of  these  eiisla\ed 
people;  I  doubt  not  lint  their  c<nni)laiiils  have  reached  Heaven,  and  whatever  others 
think,  I  belie\e  God  is  coming  down  to  deliver  them.  Woe  to  us  il  we  withhold  them 
wlien  (.'od  challenges  them  as  his.  Hut  methinks  I  hear  some  say,  we  believe  the 
British  troops  are  near  taking  their  ilepartiire,  and  then  we  hope  to  five  in  peace  and 
safety,  and  to  possess  anil  enjoy  as  wr  did  beliire  they  came,  P)ut  slop  my  friends, 
your  rejoycing; — (Jod's  ,irm  is  stroii!.',  he  has  irianyariows  in  his  ([iiiver;  il'ihe  con- 
troversy between  him  and  ns  he  not  t.iken  up,  we  liave  reason  still  to  fear,  lor  he  has 
his  choice  of  all  his  manifold  judgments,  to  punish  a  stubborn  incorrigible  people  by, 
Dill  the  Almiirhly  bring  ten  divadfn!  plagues  upon  Kgypl  heloie  Pharardi  wiuild  let  h'is 
slaves  go  <  witness  the  cousequcnto,     Did  he  aUo  punish  tlie  chiliheu  of  Israel  with 


j« 


/.i*|v 


I 


342 


APPENDIX, 


seventy  years  captivity  in  Bahylon,  to  niro  them  of  their  idolatry-?  ami  ilid  he  ev 


tak 


:e  11))  l)is  roil  oC  coiiectioii,  and  ex 


PT 


accomplisliin-;  his  desiirn  ?     And  will  lie  now  t 


rrciso  it  npoii  any  pt'ople,  and"lav  it  down  without 


us  to  his  terms?     His  oommaiul 
viz.  loose  the  hands  of  wickedne 


ml  il 


liidv  vou.  let  ns  "o  till 


has  lirouirht 


t'luands  are  plain  in  the  TiSlh  ehapter  of  Isaial 


and  hreak  ev("ry  voak,  *ce.    'J 

ye  call,  and  thi'  Lord  shall  answer,  th 


'ss,  undo  the  heavy  hiiidens,  let  the  oppress 


o  w  Inch  the  ^rraeions  [iroinise  is 


I'ted,  viz.  then 


;o  Ik 


not  onr  sjreat  S 


Ml  shall  ery,  and   he  shall  sav  here  am    I.     II 


11 


their  dreadl'nl  art 


nperintendant  |)ermilled  a  Ibrmidahle  host  to  come  a-ain.-,l   ns,  with  all 


to  us,  and  a  ti 


illery  of  war  i    Has  he  not  at  the  same  t 


rror  to  our  enemies,  and  wilhhidd  the  sword  1 


ime  made  onr  ariUV  ii  d 


I'l     .  ,  ,. 

Hiijh.     Shall  not  tht 

God,  our  kind  preserver;  hut,  let 

contendoth  with  ns.     And  here  t 


Ironi  "omu: 


Ihi 


I'llMU 


tl 


m  persuaded  sir,  ^you  are  ready  to  ascrihe.nir  presrrvalions  and  salvations  to  the  most 
"'•■'■'''il  'uterpositions  of   I'rovidcneo  excite  in  ns  -gratitude  tc 


us  at  the  same  time  search  ■• 


see  wherelorc  he  Ihns 


tions  IX  10,   He  that  leadetli  int 

the  sword  must  he  killed  with  t..,  . 

the  sword  from  u;oin>,r  thronuh  the  1 

unwillini;  to  execute  judijment  on  ns.     Pr.iv  let  n 


ivin(!  word  is  plain  loronr conviction,  \iz.  J{e\ela- 


o  captivity  shall  no  into  captivity,  he  that  killcth  with 
lie  sword.*     (I'od  is  incrcilhlly  at  present  holilini;-  haok 


iind 


lid  waitilii,'  to  see  what  we  will  do;  h 


speedily  put  away  the  v 


dre 


idth 


e  next  stroke.     The  jioor  oppri 


s  return  to  him,  for  if  we  do  not 
lolence  tliat  is  in  onr  hands  and   let   the  oppicss<'d  i;o  lice,  I 


fions  that  the  Al 

at  lihertv.     God  grant  it  niav  I 


ni!,'hty  in  this  day  of  onr  calamity  will 


'ssed  ncirroes  are  waiiinir  with  wishfnl  expccta- 


open  our  eyes  and  set  them 


'But. 


:ie  so  for  his  name"s  sake  and  for  this  land's  sake. 


sir,  you  may  be  readily  too  hastily  to  conclude  lioiii  this  wri'.iiii;  that  liiy  inind 
IS  so  fastened  upon  the  slav.-  trade,  as  if  il  were  the  only  crime  that  wt-  were  cliar"e- 


ahl 


e  with,  or  that  God  was 


our  transijressions  are  miilti])lied  hut  yet   this  cri 


iisteniii!;  ns  for.     As  I  have  said  hi'fore,  so  sa\   I  aii 


th; 


me  is  more  parliciiiarly  |)oiiiti 


lan  any  other.  Was  I5ostoii  the  hrst  port  on  this  continent  that  hc-an  the  slave  trade 
and  are  they  not  the  hrst  shut  n\)  hy  an  opprcssi\e  act,  ami  hion-ht  almost  to  desola-' 
tion wherelore,  sir,  tho'  we  may  not  he  peremptory  in  applviiii;-  the  indi;mcnts  of  (unl 
yet  1  cannot  pass  over  such  providences  without  a  remark.  '  lint  to  conclude  1  entreat 
iind  heseech  you  hy  all  tho  love  yon  have  lor  this  town,  hy  all  the  re-.ird  you  have  for 
this  distressed,  hleediiii;  province,  as  for  the  Ami'iican  colonies  in  "cne'ial  that  you 
e.xert  youiselt.  and  improve  yonr  utmost  endeavours  at  the  court  to  ohiain  a' discharge 
lor  the  slaves  from  their  honda-e.  If  this  was  done,  I  should  expect  speedydelivciaiice 
to  arise  to  n.s.  hut  it  this  oppression  is  still  coiitinned  and  niainlained  hy  aiilhoiity  1 
can  only  say,  my  soul  shall  weep  in  secret  places  ll)r  that  crime. 

'  1  am,  !jir,  your  Ifiund  and  luimhle  servant, 

Bli.N.I.\.Ml.N     CoLMAN.' 

Ill  the  rcoorils  of  the  church  at  l?v(ickl,  (licro  is  n,  loiifr  accotmt  of  a 
controversy  between  the  reverend  ilusca  l\ir.sons  mid  deiicnn  l!eiij;i- 
niin  Cohiian,  on  tlie  snlij  -ct  of  shivery.  I'rum  tiiis  aecount  it  anneiirs 
that  on  tlie  twenty-first  of  December,  17sO,  n  cliiirch  *incetiii<?  was 
held  to  hear  the  charges  made  against  Mv  Cohntin  by  Mv.  Wusnns, 
and  the  com[)hiint  of  Mr.  Colman  again.st  Mr.  J'arsmis.  The  articles 
of  charge  were  three  :  fhst,  '  thtit  Mr.  rarsoii.s  was  gnilly  of  tlie  wicked 
l)ractice  of  man-steahng,'  second,  'that  deacon  Colman  Iiad  repeatedly 
called  him  a  thief,' and  third, 'that  he  httd  ollered  to  sell  |Viok'l|  his 
slave,  (as  he  called  her)  for  a  large  sum  of  muiu^v' 

In  subsccjnent  meetings,  held  Janiitiry  twi'iity-ninth,  rebniary 
twelfth,  and  March  twelfth,  ]7si,  the  clinrch  sn,stained  the  pastor,  and 
at  the  last  meeting,  snspcnded  deacon  Colman  'from  the  fellowship 
and  commnnion  of  the  church  till  he  does  liy  repentance  and  confession 
give  christian  satisfsiction  for  the  olience  he  had  committed.'  .hily 
tenth,  1782,  another  attempt  was  made,  and  Xovember  third,  1781,  a 
council  was  called,  to  settle  the  dillicnltv,  but  without  success,  'ah 
Mr,  Parsons  deceased  the  eleventh  of  December,  17-:;,  notliing  further 
was  done,  till  the  church  had  another  meeliiig.hme  thirtieth,  17^1,    (Ju 

*  Thus  sailh  the  Lonl  hy  the  Propliet,  if  ye  walk  contrary  unto  me,  I  also  will  walk 
contrary  unto  you;  wCh  the  lioward  he  will  shew  himself  iroward,  and  with  the  up- 
nght  he  will  shew  himself  upri^'ht. 


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343 


llio  twonty-sixth  of  Octolx-r,  \1k-1  tlio  .Iracoii  was  rostorod  to  tlio 
rliiiii'li  (11)  liis  iickimwlt'di^iiinit  '  tliat  in  his  troiitnu'iit  of  tlio  rovort'iul 
JNlosos  raisuns  llic  liUc  woilliy  imstor  oC  tlii!  cliiiirli,  tliat  ho  urocd  liis 
uioiiiiUMits u<5aiiist,  tin;  slavi>ry  of  llic  AlVicaiis  with  oxecssivc  vchCiuciicc! 
and  Mspciily  willii.iit  shuwiii;.!;  a  (hie  rouccni  lor  his  .haiacUr  and 
uscliihu'ss  as  an  elder,  or  the  pearc  and  ediia-aliou  of  the  cliiiroli/  and 
so  fortli,  and  so  fortii. 

The  llirce  followinj^  eoninnniications  are  a  suliloieiitly  full  expression 
of  (h'aeon  Cohnan's  views  on  the  snhjuct  of  shivery,  and  need  no 
comment  or  oxj)hinatioa. 

'  The  Dcclaratiiiii  iiiid  rcsliriioiiy  of  UcnjainiM  Colniiin,  to!;clli(!r  with  his  Coniplaint 
aKiiiust  llit'_  ivcvcrciul  M.iscs  I'lirsons,  jiasldr  oC  the  CInircli  in  llylicld  is  iis  IoIIdws. 
'Viz.     'J'li;il  (Jod  li;is  11  i-oiilrovfisv  wilh  lilt' i)('(.|)lc  (if  this  Land  I  .siiiiiiDsc  no   ilnli- 

rions  |.(>rsou  will  picliMid  lo  d.'ny ;  'J'lii!  M ly,  duMdlnl  svvoid  of  War  lias  lii'i'ii  di'aun 

a:,'ainsl  iis  liy  onr  iMvlliici I  lias  prevail. 'd  iiir  nion?  Ilian  livi.'   yrais;  wlicicliv  {,'icat 

liniiili.Ms  of  oni- Inclhivn  the  inlialiilants  of  lliis  Land  liavo  liccn  slain,  many 'Towns 
rn.idi' di'solatc,  till'  Dwidlin;;  places  of  i. in  people  ronsiiiiii',!  Iiy  fue,  tin'  Inlialiilanls, 
many  of  then!,  Slanylilei-ed,  and  ollieis  driven  away  and  ledneed  to  exlrcam  poverty 
and  sore  distress.  The  widows  and  fatherless  are  iiitilti|Mied  aiiionust  ns  and  the  haiill 
ol   (Jod  lies  heavy  upon  lis  still.     The  hand  ol   (.'od   is  lilted   up;  the  War  .■ontiniies- 

our  enemies  are  powerful  and  niitni'ioiis ;   ami  they.  Unshed  uilh  ihi'ir  siKTess,  a v- 

lieeliiii,'  shortly  lo  make  a  iMiiipliMl  < i|ii,.sl  of  America  ;  and  if  (.'oil  iloii'l  a|i|)ear  (iir 

iisandstoi)  th.'ir  proi^r.'ss,  we  may  rationally  ivvpect  they  will  compier  our  country. 
II  IS  time  (or  ns  to  lool<  ahoiil  lis,  lo  seairli  and  (ry  oiir  ways,  to  consiil.'r  what  we  have 
doiii-  to  jirovoke  our  (.'od,  lo  send  mir  nnprovokeil  hri'llireii,  and  make  1\h)ii\  liis  seveiu 
rod  ol  correction  to  chastise  ns  in  this  m, inner. 

'  We  ha\e  lieen  called  np.ni,  hy  onr  Contin.Mital  CoiiL^ress,  to  hnmlde  our  selves  Im- 
fore  (;od  hy  fastiniiand  (iiayer,  io  imploiv  the  m.'icy,  and  help  of  onr  (lod,  that  wo 
may  lie  deliveri'd  .lilt  of  the  hands  of  onr  crn.d  Oppressors.  We  have  oh.seive.l  tiioso 
days  s.'t  apart  liir  prayer  in    the   mann.'r  w.'   have  .loiii'      Hut   as  ai-ts  of  .liislice  and 

Kiijhl.-  onsness  have  not  I ii  .loin.'d   with  onr  liniiiiliations  ami  peliti.ms,  it,  seeiirs  the 

Lord  has  not,  hear.l  onr  reipiests  (or  h.dp.  Isaiah  :;,Stli,  I'llh.  'This  is  (Iw  (iist  that  1 
have  (diosen,  to  loose  !he  hamis  of  Wick.'dni'ss,  undo  the  heavy  hiinleus,  ami  let  Iho 
oppress.'d  ;;o  free,  ami  hivak  evi'iy  yok.'.'  When  we  keep  such  a  fast  as  hi^  has  i.iv- 
.scnhi'il.  then  w.'  may  call  and  tin'  I'.ord  will  answer.  Then  shall  onr  li"lil  rfs.^  in  Oli- 
scnnty ;  then  may  w,'  .'ly  and  he  will  say  li.'r.t  1  am,  ^.c.  for  the  Loid  Ims  proiiii.sed  U, 
do  so;  ami  his  Wor.l  stamis  (irtn.'r  (liaii  heaven  and  earth. 

'  I  confess  the  Coiitinenlal  Coiii,'r.',';s  hav.'  taken  one  f!Oo.|  step  towar.ls  rellirmation  • 
ns  thi;y  have  come  info  a  resolution  not  to  import  any  more  slaves.  Hut  still  tli.'  hands 
of  Wick.'dii.'ss  an-  not  loose.l ;  many  thoinamls  .if  this  poor  oppressed  pe.iple  are  liehl 
down  iimler  oppivssion  l,y  Tyranny,  And  as  we  have  come  into  ii  paitial  i.'/ormation, 
so  the  [,ord  has  trranle.l  a  partial  d.diveraiice ;  hut  as  we  have  stayeil  our  haml  as  to  a 
thoroimli  refoniiati.in,  so  III"  has  stay.!.!  his  haml  from  Kiantini,'  ns  compleal  D.diver- 
aiice; his  Woiil  is  fulfill. •,!,  as  he  has  said,  'with  the  fi.iward  he  will  shew  liims.dt  Iro- 
wanl  anil  with  th.!  iipri';ht  li.'  will  sh.'w  himself  upiiKhl,'  And  can  we  womler  that 
(.'od  shuts  out  onr  pia\i'r.  ami  turns  a  .1.  af  ear  to  onr  cries  for  help  atjaiust  our  (oes  ! 
Onr  LamI  is  .i.'/lle.l  with  hlood,  wi!  Iiav.-  slain  ni.niy  of  our  hlethren.  in  taking  ami 
captivalin:;  th.'iii;  and  our  (iii;.'.'rs  with  ini.piity  in  ii'iakin^;  mer.diandis.-  of  olhers:  wo 
have  eormiiitted  violence  upon  our  hrethi.'ii;  ainl  violeni'e  is  still  in  our  lian.ls.  Wo 
have  turn. 'il  a  il.'af  ear  lo  the  cries  of  the  oppie-^sed;  and  this  law  which  siijiporls  Op- 
]iressioii  real  h.'s  throuijh  the  «  hole  of  these  /■»//((/  N/d/cf.  'I'hi^  Slaves  in  this  Stale 
liavi!  petition. '.I  for  f.ilierty  ami  Krcilom  from  homlaKe,  siiico  onr  Tronhles  liei,Mii.  in 
the  most  impoitnnat.'  ami  hiimhle  manner;  yet  they  are  no!  s.'t  Ifce  in  a  i,'en.'ral  way. 
Wi'  liav.'  tak.'ii  Ihem,  hy  crii.d  haii.ls;  remliii'ij  par.Mits  from  children,  ami  children  Iroia 
pariMit.s ;  and,  hy  violence,  lir.iiit;ht  ih.'iii  from  their  own  native  coiiiiti-y,  (the  l.aii.l  that 
their  (Joil,  am!  our  (.'ml,  hail  i,'ivi'ii  tli.aii  to  [lossess  ami  enjoy.)  ami  siihjecl.'il  Iheiii  to 
the  most  ahject  slav.Tv  :iml  homla:^.'.  Ahiijistrates,  iMinisters,a  .■oimnoii  p.Miple  havo 
!Kid  a  haml  in  this  Inhpiitoiis  Tra.le. 

'  Hnl  in  oi.li'r  to  opi  n  people's  eyes  to  see  the  horridr.'ss  of  this  Miin-liinlc,  this  Oji- 
pression  and  cruelly  tlial  has  b.'.'n'exerci.s.'il  ..ii  our  l.retlii(;n,  I  h.'.;  I.mvo  to  t;ive  a  shoit 
nketi  h  of  the  way  ami  mariner  how  onr  Jieoph;  come  hy  these  slaves,  wh(;n  they  trans- 
port  111. 'Ill  (Voiii  th.'ir  own  country, 

'And  the  account  I  shall  give  sliaU  lie  from  printeil  liisturi«.s  concerning  the  carrying 


344 


APPENDIX. 


on  of  this  p1avp-1m1i'  ar.il  thcsp  liisloricnl 


1li:il  liave  Ih'imi  (,'Vi'-\\  itllc 


arroiints  I  havo  had  ronfirmrd  by  piM-sons 


lol 


\VI 


^sfs  to  Iiiosc  Ikii'ikI  triiis;iptir)iis  upon  tho  ^\wl.     And  it   is 


ln're  coiDi;  oil 


iiMi  a  sliip  ol  oius  anivi's   in   one  ol' tlicir  liaihoiiiH,   some  ol' llin  pcopln 
■■  board  llie  ship,  and  ask  what  Ihoy  want  >     Tlu'y  irll  ihcni  they  want  a 


(■ar;o  of  slavrs.     'J'lirv  asU  the  master  wliat  ho  has  to  pay  lor  tln-in  ?  he 


AV 


irii'.  IJiandy,  flimi,  Ch)l!iinir,  I 


slii'ws  lliinn 


111?  arms,  and  amniiinilioii ;  as  they  carry  all  such  art 
cli's  as  thoy  know  aro  most  ti'ni|)liii;r  lo  those  \)^'<'\^\l'.  And  wh(>ii -ihi'y  liavo  amvr 
upon  a  pvu-o,  liy  the  liead,  or  pcdl;  they  fmriish  out  a  company  with 


liitioii,  to  uo  am 


!  ta|. 


I  suliicionl  minihcr  of  captives   to  load  t 


arms  and  ammu- 
lip.     So  tlicy  yii 


out  into  tlieir  connlry,  some  twenty, some  thirty. sometimes  more  than  sixty  miles;  sav 


my  authors,  till  tliev  come  to  little!  dot: 


encelcss  towns  and  villa^'es    liiliahited  liy  tiiesu 


|)oor  del'euceless  people;  ;iiid  there  they  take  as  many,  anil  of  such  an  a^'e  as  tliey  like; 
thers  they  slanirhter  without  compas.<iou  to  age  or  sex.     Tlie  stron:;  ones  they  conliiie 


wilh  Irons:  the  yonni;er  ones  they  hind  willi^ cords 

droves  to  tlie  Sea  port :  where  they  have  a  •,'reat  Pound  hiiilt  t 

Ship  is  ie;idy  to  take  them.     In  this  situat 


lem 


befi 


)ro  llicm  jn 


o  conliiie  ihi'iu  til 


tl 


m 


at  the  ihoiiirhta  oC 


with 


ion,  say  my  authors,  some  arc  so  dismayed, 
hat  they  are  comiii;;  to.  that 'they  leCuse  to  eat  what  they  feed  thei 


h 


d  choose  to  die  there  rather  than  liv 
tl 


such  a  lilo  as  they  expect. 


W 


11 

leu  their 


eepers  perceive  them  reliise  to  eit,  they  sometinii>s  take  one,  and  loituie  him,  or  her 


before  the  rest  ;  somet 


es  they  kill  one.  and  cut  him  lo  pieces  before  their  eye.- 


t(dl  the  others  they  will  do  so-io  them,  if  they  will  not  eat 


d 


W 


'>n  th 


e  ship  is  ready  they  carry  them 


throw  themselves  overboard  an 


boa 


ith  th. 


il  drown,  an'l 


forth.     'J'hose  tin 


eir  boats :  some  try  to 


thrust  into  the  hold  of  I  he  ship,  fasten  them  iii.andfi-ed  tlr 


tl 


leir  lives  duiinij  the  pas 


they  !,'et  on  board   they 
em  with  somethiiiir  to  support 


arrives  at  her  home. 


pas.sage;  there  they  he,  in  their  lilth  and  stench,  till   the  slii 


Some  sliips  bring  one  huii(hed,  some  one   limidred   and  lifly,  and 


■d  of  I  hi 


poor  people  at  (uice.     Upon  taki 


fifleen.  or  twenty  di'ad  in  the  hold,  and  often  a  iiumi 


(iiem  oil 
ler  ol  chill 


t.  they 


lienl 


■ome  near  two 
commonly  linil  ten, 


some  dead,  and  some  alive.     But  this  is  not  all ;  there  is  what   tl 
lit  the: 


)orn  on  their  pass 
ley   call   si(iso)iii!i 


to 


e  wretched  mortals  for  severe  slavery,  to  be  done  to  them  yet";  and  their  melhod 


is  to  feed  them  with  con 


ise  and  rni'an 


constitutions 


in   th 


food,  a  scant  allowance,  to  try  and  ; 


)rove   their 


is  experiment  many  of   them  die;    so  that  the  menhants  thai 


import  them  lay  their  accounts  thus.  viz.  if  six  in  ten  live  t 


1  seasoniuiT.  they  make  a  saving  voy;ige.     And  now  they  sell  these 


am 

any  one  that  will  i;ive  them  tl 


irouiili  their  transportation 


lost  money 


for  Ih 


poor  people 


to 


th: 


lorrid  nuinslealini; !  sordid  i;;iin  !  violent  oppression  and  cru(dly  ! 
\ml  has  this  deadfnl,  this  horrid  practice  been  siijiporteil,  or  toler.iled  by  llin  law  of 


tliroiu;li  the  United  States  of  America  lor  t 


renty  yir.irs  past?  and  are  there 


not  many  thousands  ol  tliesi;  wretched  mortals,  in  this  land,  under  the  cruel  yoke  of 
oppic^sion  ;it  this  day  ?  What  shall  wo  say  for  ourselves  as  a  people  (  are  not  oiir 
hands  defiled  with  hloo;n  and  our  finsers  with  iniipiily  ?  and  how  can  vvc  with 
ciniliileiiee,  lift  up  onr  [irayer.  to  tliat  (lod,  who  is  a  d'od  of  knowledije,  and  by  whom 
actions  are  weighed,  for  deliveranci'  from  oppression,  till  wo  have  loosed  the  bands  of 
wickedness,  proclaimed  liberty  to  our  captives,  and  let  the  opiu'essed  go  fii'c  (  do  not 
onr  crimes  stare  us  in  tho  face  ?  and  is  not  our  d'od  risins;  up  out  of  his  holy  place,  to 
retaliate  onr  doiui's  upon  us?  is  he  not  layin:j:  ri^hleonsness  lo  the  line,  and  )mh;emeiit 
to  the  plumiiK't  !  Tnree,  if  nol  four,  of  our  slates  are  already  liillen  into  the  hands  of 
our  cruel  enemies:  and  we  luive  no  reason  lo  expect  hut  that  the  rest  will  shortly  fall 
a  prey  to  them,  if  re|)eiitanco  and  reforinalion  do  ii't  pre\ent  it.  Had  we  taken  these 
slaves  captives  in  a  just  war  with  them,  we  might  have  had  some  excuse  for  onr 
doiiiijs :  hut  now  we  have  none  ;  for  as  they  never  molested  ns,  (uir  sin  of  opiiression  is 
aiiyiavated;  and  (iod  is  now  requiting  blood  for  hlood.  oppri^ssion  lor  oppression, 
ai'cording  to  his  Word.  Revelations  IJ,  lOlh,  he  that  leadelh  into  captivity,  shall  go 
into  cajdivity;  he  th;il  killeth  with  the  sword,  must  be  killed  with  the  sword. 

'  Ami  now,  reverend  sir,  1  entreat  your  candid  attention  to  what  I  have'  lo  olFer  to  yon, 
cTt  this  lime,  by  way  of  com|daiiit;  the  substance  of  which  1  have  oU'ered  lo  you  as 
my  grievous  complaint  for  many  years  in  private.  And  as  these  grievances  increase 
upon  my  mind,  and  our  iniipiities  of  this  kind  stare  us  in  the  face,  and  as  the  Loiil,  hy 
his  severe  corrections,  seems  lo  point  directly  lo  this  onr  sin  of  unriiihleonsness, 
oppression  ami  violence  upon  onr  hielliren  ;  I  think  I  may  be  allow'd  to  speak  my  mind 
without  giving  just  cause  of  ollence,  to  plead  the  cause  of  ihe  oppressed,  to  bear  my 
testimony  against  sin.  and  to  take  God's  iiart,  in  visiting  this  land  with  judgements,  as 
at  this  day.  And,  as  I  have  said  before.  I  look  upon  this  oppression  as  the  c.iiMT.M,  sin 
of  these  states,  as  it  has  been  supported  by  the  law  ol  liie  land.  And  althout;h  1  am 
sensible  our  transgressions  are  multiplied,  1  think  th,ii  (Ids  sin   of  oppression  and 


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violcnrR,  IS  more  ncculiarly  pointed  at  lliaii  any  othnr,  in  tlio(Ii<n(.nMf  ions  or  nroviiloiice 
«Ml  hem  [  vvoiilil  tiisl  ohsoivi',  that  in  applying'  thi-  jnd^'cincMls  of  (huI  to  u  |)rr.son  or 
licopic,  It  bct(.nu"<  us  to  !)(>  modest,  and  cautious;  as  it  ni  iv  snuK'timcs  happen  to  wicked 
inen  according  lo  the  work  of  the  riijhleons.  I!ut,  on  the  other  hand,  it  is  a  sure  truth 
that  (;od  IS  known  hy  the  ju(h;enieiits  he  executes;  and  in  every  a"e  he  (hilh  poii'l  out 
•sin  to  the  world,  hy  some  reniarkahle  strokes,  some  nvr.l  e^anndes  of  iu.h'..|rietit.s 
wherein  men  may  read  their  sin  in  gudr  punishmeiil  ;  as  in  lli..  case  of  -Vdoni-h'/.ck 
.ludites  Isl,  7th  and  Ahal)  1  Kini;s  -il.and  ollieis. 

•  Von  tell  us,  sir,  and    1   think   very  triilv,  that  Cod   has  no  nnineiniu"-  providences  ■ 
that   |udi;eiiieiits   tread  on  the   heeds   of  sin  ;  prav,  sir.  what  tneaiiiui;  do  you   allix    lo' 
(.ods<les|.j:,is  in  hnnu'inir  this  jnd;,'ement  of  violent  oppression   upon   us  hy  tiie   hand 
<d  our  hrelhreii,  il  it  he  not  to  convince  and   hiimhle   us  ii>r  tlu'   like  vioh'nt  oppres- 
sion on  our  hrethren  (      When   there   is  so   plain,  so   oxacl   u   ro.scmMance,   hetween 
a  iieoples  sin  anil  (;od  s  jud^jeineiits,  I  tliink   it  woiilil  he  an  an'unieiit  of  --lupiilitv  ill 
us  not  to  apply  them  to  our  sidves.     Voii  tidl  lis  Ih  it  nuhidief  is  the  l>imm<:"  sjn  under 
t  le  (.ospel  ;   I  ;r,aiit  the  truth  of  it  ;  hiit    pray.  sir.  What  reseu.hhincr.  or  connection  is 
there,  hetween  llw  sm  nl  iinhidief.  and  the  Swmil  ofviidenl  oppression  hy  inir  hi.'tlne.i, 
to  take  away  our  tiir.ney,  and  depijve  us  of  all  our  teiiipond  enjoviiieiits  ?    i\o,  Sir,  the 
preseni  Dispensation  points  us   to  a  Sin  a.v'ainst   the   Si'cond '  t.ihle,   viz.  atcain.st 'our 
iiei;;hhi)iir,  our  hretliren;  for  thus  stands  the  CouIimvpisv.  tliev  Demand  our  properties- 
w«!  trdi  them  wi'  will  not  Viidd  I'p  oiir  rii;hts  :   V\e   will   noi  he  Slaves  to  them;  for 
Liheil  V  and  properly  aiv  our  .lust  riiihts  ;  we  will  die  si. .oner  than  wn   will  he    Slaves. 
Well, if  hheity  and  properly  are  so  valuable  to i/.s.  are  the',  iiol  as  valiuiMe  tooiir  .V. /-/(/-o/fcs-.' 
'As  to  the  loleialion  yianlcd,  hy  ,Moses,  at  (iod's  dii  'cliiMi   to  the  .lews  of  old,   viz. 
*hal  they  mi-ill  hiiy  of  the  heathen  Captives,  and   ke.-p  them  as   their   Inheritance,  [' 
have  answered  it  heliiio  in  the  puhlii  k  neuspiipers,  and  so  need  not  to  iiieiilhni  il  heie. 
'  Aiidiunv,  lieveieiid  Sir,  I  would  hiimhlv ask,  have  (/,;»  had  no  hand  in  this  lnii|uitoiis, 
JMaii-slealiiii;.  or  Slave-trade  '   have  voii  not  Imiiijht  divers  of  l!ie-e  people  lor  iiiouev  ; 
(peojde  made  of  the  sanio  llesli  ;,„,l  h|,,od  with  vonrsidl'and  your  Children  ;)  And  kept 
them  111  iSoudaire  '.      One  of  Which,  if  |  .Mistake  not,  you  have   I'.apli/.cd.  and   received 
as  a  Memheroflhe  Cliurcli  of  Byiield  ;  And  Afiervvaids  olii'icd  to  Sell  the  Same  Slave 
ior.l  laiire  sum  of  money.     I'ray,  Sir,  is  this  teachiin,'  the  way  of  liiuditeinisness  V  is 
this  doiii;;as  you    would  he  done  hy  i  is   this  ))ractisin^r  U,,.   ,ru';\t   ciunmand  of  our 
Ivedeemer.  accordin;,' to  that  Sacred   rule  of  e<piil\'    D.divercd    hy  our  Saviour's  own 
mouth,  .Matthew  7;  VI,  Tlieiefore  all   Ihinu's   Wluiboever  ve  uoiild  tliat  men  should 
do  to  you.  do  ye  even  so  to  them;  for  this  is  the  law  mid  the' propliets  ;  iiave  you  never 
allended  to  what  our  Itedeemer  has  told  ymi,  in  that  Same  .Mriiiora'  ''^  Seiin'in  on  the 
.Mount.  .Ahitlhew  o:  1  ;i.  Whosoever  shall  lireak  one  ol  the  least  olthese  Cen.niands ;  and 
.sliall  teach  men  so,  shall  he  called  ilieleasi  in  the  Kini;diMii  of  liea\  en  t  andean  you  say, 
Sir,  that  you   have  not  violated   that  Sacred  iiniveisd  riih"  and   hive  yon  not'  taimht 
others  to  do  so.  by  your  example  #  have  you   considered   that  text   in  '  Coriiithiaiis"'(i : 
dth,  know  ye  not,  that  the  iiiuiuditeoiis  shall  not   inherit  the   Kin^doin  of  (Jod?  have 
yon  been  so  loiiir  a  preacher  of  the  (.'ospel,  ;uid  not  learnt   Ki-hteonsne.ss  !      Pray,  Sir, 
hiok  on  that  text,  .leremiah  •.'■.':  i:i,  "Wo  unto  him  that  build. 'lli  his   house  liy   I.'n'i'i.'ht' 
e..usiiess,  and  his  Chambers  hy  V.'ron.;;  that   liselh   his    i\ei;;libonr's   Service  wilhoiil 
Waires.  and  iriveth.  him  not  for  his  Work,     lias  not  this  been  vour  practice,  as  yon  hav.; 
kept  Slaves  (     [  hcseech  you.  Sir.  to  con-id.^  who  these  iiiini-slealers  are  Kanked  with, 
\\\wm  We  lin.l  ill  th<.  lirst  Kpislle   to    rimoluv   fust  Chapter  and   ninth   verse,  for  the 
law  was  not  mad.^  for  the  l\iu:hteoiis,  but  for  the  mi'^odlv  and  Ihr  Siimeis,  and  so  foith, 
for  mtinlereis  of  f.ithers.  and  muideiers  of  molhers,  fo'r  man-sl  lyris.  for  nianslealeis' 
ami  so  forth.     Jjere  we  liiid  tiian-stealeis  Ivanked  amonu'st   tin'  most  enormmis  dimes' 
that  Scrii>lure  uivos  us  any  account  of      lim.  Sir,  this  Wicked  practice  of  yoiiis  is  not 
all  that  I  Complain  of;   j  iiureat  you  lo  cei^ider  the  melancholv  Conseipieiices  of  this 
your  practice;  for  hereby,  you   iiave   reiidred  your  self  incap.ible  of  di>cliari,'iiiLC  llio 
duly  of  a   liiilhfiil  Watchman  ;  li.r  your  month' is  shu;:  you  ca  n't  reprove  oUuns,  or 
h;'ar  pi.blick  teslimiiiiy  airainst  this  horrid  crime,  without  coudeninin.;:  your  .sell,  and 
your  own  practice;   so  that  others,  hy  your  n(--lect  are  hardened   in  their  Sin,  and 
emboldened  lo  commit  the   like.     I  pray  you  sir,  to  consider  what  tlie  Lord   Sail h  by 
the    Prophet   Kzekiel   Chapter  :l,'l,  versus  -Jd  and  downwaid,  Son  of   man.    Speak  to 
tlie  Children  of  thy  poph-,  and  say  unto  them.  When  [  biiiiir  ihe  Sword  njion  the  land, 
if  tiie  people  of  the   Land  lake  a  iiiaii  of  their  coasts  and  set  him  for  their  W.ilclimanj 
and  so  forth,  and  .so   forth,  if  tin-  watchman  see  the  Sword  come,  and   blow  not  tin' 
Irumpel,  and  the  people  he  not  warned,  if  the  Sword  come  and  take  any  jier-on  finiu 
anion;;   them,   he   is   taken  away   in   his  iniquity,  hut   I'lis  hldud  irill   I  ni/aur  dl  l.'ir 
W'lilrhmini's  hiiiifh.     O,  Sir!  are  you  not  set  for  a'Walchnian  in  this  pi, ice,  and  for  lie- 
people  of  this  [,and?  and  have  yon  ever  blown  the  triimpel  to  i^ive  wariiiu:,' of  ihis  horrid 
Sin  of  .AhinstealinLr;  liiis  Ch/i/Yk/ .S'm  of  this  peoide,  t'm   which  our   Land  bleeds  and 


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mourns  at  this  tiny  ?  is  not  the  hand  of  God  lilted  up?  and  doos  lio  not  thicatpn  io 
retiiiiiito  and  visit  our  Inicjuitics  of  this  kind  npon  this  people  i  And  do  i/ni,  koi-n 
Silence,  ami  not  fall  upon  this  jieople  to  put  away  the  violence  that  is  in  their  hands  I 
And  do  you,  Sir,  wiieu  you  view  the  dispensations  of  providence,  at  this  day,  acduit 
your  self  as  a  fiithfid  Watchuiaii  ? 

'Hut  if  you  Say  you  do  not  view  this  iniipiilous  practice  in  the  Same  liijht  that  I 
and  olhers  do,  I  pray  you  to  look  into  the  lourteeiith  Chapter  of  Kzekiel,  when*  the 
Lord  Sailh  iiy  that  proiihel.  if  any  man  come  *to  encpiire  of  the  Lord  havini;  the 
Stunililiiighlock  of  his  iiii(iuily  hefore  his  face;  I.  the  Lord  will  answer  that  man  by 
my  sell.  I  mtreat  yon  to  considi'r  whether  this  Stninlilin;^  Mock  of  your  Inicpiily,  has 
not  h  inded  your  eyes;  and,  if  so,  are  you  a  (Jualified  Waiclunaii  ?  I  contess,  Sir.  you 
cry  aloud  aijaiMSt  Some  Sins;  If  men  ask  or  take  an  exoiiiitaiil  price  fur  their  Corn, 
JMeat.  IJulter,  or  Wood  and  so  forth,  you  siy  ■  is  this  doini,'  as  you  would  he  done  by  ' 
IS  this  lovini,'  your  Xeiirhbour  as  your  self  ' '  Dm  Whiui  men  buy  or  Sell  their  brelhriMi, 
(for  1  confess  I  know  not  Which  is  the  most  ciiminal,  the  buyer,  or  the  Seller,)  and 
make  merchandise  of  human  llesh,  here  yon  are  silent!  and  why,  but  for  the  reason 
given  above,  that  is  you  are  afraid  to  condemn  your  self  '. 

'  And  should  yon  plead,  Sir.  the  Law  of  the  land,  or  the  ))rartico  of  the  people,  as  nn 
excuse  in  your  favour;  1  answer,  that  neither  the  Law  of  the  land,  nor  the  commonness 
of  the  people's  practice  in  this  alfair.  alti'rs  the  nature  of  the  Ciime  at  all:  for  that 
which  is  Wioiiy;  ill  its  own  naline.  can  never  be  made  riuht  by  any  law  or  practice  of 
men.     Hut,  to  concluile  at  this  time,  Iho'  more  miijlit  be  Slid  iiiraiust  I 


lice,  I  intreal  you  to  c(jn-ider  What  the  Word  of  (Jod  Says;  but  if  you  retiiso  still  tc 
hearken,  I  can  only  Say  my  soul  shall  weeji  in  Secret  places  for  yoii,  and  the  people  o 
this  blecdiiij,'  Land.     I  am,  Reverend  Sir  your  humble  Servant, 


MS  wii'keii  prac- 
to 

r 


'  Byficid  in  Newbury,  November  "th,  HbO.' 


'  Bknjami.n    Coi.SlA.N. 


Deacon  Cohnaii's  lelter  to  a  Cluiidi  incraber  for  sclliii"-  a  slave. 


p  1 

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II.- 


,^        ^,.  '  AiirliKi-i/,  Fitn-uan/ >Jtli,  llS-2. 

Dear  Sir. 

'  .\s  the  afhiii  T  now  write  to  you  upon  has  been  talked  over  between  us  from 
year  you  are  no  si  ranker  to  my  .sentiments  on  this  subject ;  but  allhoui^rh  1  have  been 
unsnccessliil  with  you  as  to  your  conviction  of  your  error.  I  do  n't  despair  of  success 
now  Ihe  subiect  is  iuleieslin;',  yea  of  the  last  imi'ort.ince  to  you;  for  if  you  are 
con(hMTiued  at  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Judice  of  rii,'hl  and  wroni;.  you  must  know  there 
IS  no  appeil  and  no  repealim;  his  soileiice.  Therefore  in  tlie  bowels  of  love,  and  in 
tender  compassion  to  your  immortal  soul.  1  beseech  yon  to  I'ive  me  leave,  not  (uily  as 
a  fellow  mortal  wilh  you,  but  as  a  brother  in  covenant,  and  lellow  .servant,  who  ex- 
pects to  .stand  at  that  trememlons  bar,  and  he.ir  my  own  senteiu-e  and  yours  from  the 
mouth  of  Jesus  Christ,  at  whose  tiibunal  we  must  all  appearand  answer  for  all  our 
Conduct  here. 

The  sacred  text,  which  T  make  the  s.ibject  of  my  present  ar;'nmenl  with  you,  is  re- 
coik'il  m  the  ei!,'liteen!h  of  St.  .Matthew's  oospcl  from  the  twenly-third  verse  to  the 
end  ol  said  chapter,  which  ]  entreat  you  to  read  with  atleiuioii  and  application  to 
yonrsell.  '' 

^  '  1  have  inserted  the  parable  at  larire,  because  I  am  very  desirniis  to  draw  your  atten- 
tion to  the  subject  as  1  look  upon  you  as  peculiarly  conciTiied  in  it.  I  am  (ine  of  your 
fellow  servants  that  am  very  .soriy  lor  what  you  'have  done:  and  in  love  to  yonr  im- 
mortal soul,  in  l.iithliilness  to  my  covenant-obligations  to  yon  as  a  biolher.  I  ijive  you 
tnis  warniiiir.  and  now  humbly  ask  you  to  view  this  parable  and  think  with  yourself 
\yhetber  your  picture  is  not  tiuly  drawn  in  the  character  of  the  wicked  sen  mI  men- 
tioned 111  that  parable.  1  now  as  a  fellow  servant  suppose  the  followin"  UiinL's  are 
true.  s  ^ 

'  1.  You  are  the  person  that  was  arrested  by  force  of  the  divine  law.  and  found  to  owe 
ten  thousand  talents  to  the  Kinijof  Kite's. 

'■■>.  ^ou  suppose  that  by  fallini;  down  at  the  foot  of  divine  justice,  you  have  olitained 
a  pardon  lur  the  same,  upon  your  submission  to  his  Government  aud'senlence,  so  as  to 
obtain  forijivencss. 

'.'i.  Von  are  the  person  that  allerwards  have  yone  out  and  laid  hohl  of  your  fellow 
servant  I  eler,  took  him  by  the  throat,  and  by  your  adveitisement  cast  him 'into  prison 
lor  somelhin-  thouiih  I  suppose  he  owe.l  you  notliiiiir;  lor  1  verily  believe  that  instead 
ol  his  owins  you  one  hundred  pence  von  were  in  his  debt  lor  past' services. 

'•1.  ^ou  sold  him  in  prison,  and  all'  that  he  b,,;!  into  perpetual  slavery  and  ho.dase. 
Now.  dear  Sir,  ihouirh  1  may  ha\e  missed  diawinsr  tlie  lines  of  your  incture  in  some 
circumstance  altendinir  this  alii"-   '• -.-•.  ,.,■,.'  .     ,     ..    . 


P 


le  you  can  't  deny  the  substance  to  be  facts 


A  r  r  i:  N  D  I X , 


847 


viz   That  you  have  sold  your  hrother  IVtcr,  who  was  hronu'ht  up  at  tlin  same  table 
With  you.  Iiir  riioiipy  or  sonicllilii!;  oKc  ;  and  have  doiw  this  thiun  ai,Miiisl  nursnverei 


the  Kinir  of  Kini; 


ami  Ills  plain  laws  i 


M  such  casfH  tii;iil(-  aril!  providi'il  ;  as  iti  Matthew 


7:  1-',  Mattiunv  IS:   j:!,  and  as   I   lliiuk  at;aiusl  the  wlude  plan  of  the  gospel  d 


tioii 


spei 


Now,  Sir,  I  riilreat   v(mi  I 


your  coiuliifl  at  that   treinendous   har.  w 


o  consider  what  arconnt  you  will  hi-  aide  to  ijivo  of  this 


sturninoned   to  ansn  i-r  (or   your  hreacli  of  this  divine    I 


ealli  lakes  li(dd  of  y(uir  soul  aiul   you  aro 


shall 


lie  prouoiuu'ed  '  ()  l/nm   irirhil 


I'U  th 


idful 


seulcnee 


sirriiiil,  I  fiiniitre  line  all  tlnil   lUhl.  Iiiniii.ie  llnnt  ilc- 


^milHl   im;  ,iii,l  slionMsl  llnw  oho  horr  lind  ,()»//;f,,v,v/,„i  on  l)n/  /Uloir  nciroiil,  ii-iii  a.i  I  hod 


pity  oil  til 


What 


VOM 


ly  liir  yoiirstdl  to  llie   Kiu^' /     Will    y( 


say  I  ihoiiiiht  iio  JMrni  >.      V\'ill  you  plead  the  law  of  the  SI 


liol 


o>'iz(;  am 


of  this  laud!      Wil 

you  had  not  any  lliinulodo,  as  yoii  area  (Jeulile  hy  nat 


pl 


ale,  or  the  law  f.nd  practice 


ais  (J 


liiist  i 


VVi 


you   pl I   the  esattiple'of  our  lather   Ahial 


to, 

kepi 

that 

were  not  friendly  ami  faithfully  warned  of  yliur  si 


ead  in  your  favour  ,,ie  old  Jewish  aliro-ated  law,  with  whieh 
lire  ami  )iioless  to  he  under  the  law 


Irani,  wlio  you  say 


pl  servants  {  (Tho'  yon  read   not  that  he  sold  any  of  them  as  slaves.)    Will  you  ple'a'd 
at  your  pastor  and  readier  did  the  like  as  you  have  ilone  ?      Will    you  (ilead  that  you 


N 


o.  Sir,  this 


paiahli 


11  and  ilaii'.'er  hy  what  von  h,n( 


is  sullicienl  to  slop  yJuir  monlh;  for  this  is  the  nile  h 


you,  l)y  winch   he  will    proceed    with   you  at  the   treinei 


I 


ead   iijnorance   hecause    the   In 
I  use.     Aloipover  v 


I'f  the  divine 


iiloiis  assi/e 


Air 


las  told 
you  can  't 


low  servant,  soon  alter  you  ( 


you   have  always  hail  in  your 
on  can't  plead  Ilial  yon  had  not  hrotherly  wariiitiy:.'for  I,  your  lel 


adnuniislied   ycui  and  entieated   you  to  consider  and 
hiui  and  set  hini  at  liherty.     Afterwards   I   warned 


•ouiurilted  this  trespass  against  the  law  of  Christ,' fi'ieudly 


bed,  which  we  all  feared  would  orov 


to  tl 


le  warniim:;  yon  made  lii;lil  of  it  and  called  it 


)   justice  to    I'eter.  hy  ii'deeniiiiij 

you   wlieu  you  were' (in   vonr  sick 

'  yonrdealli  hed  ;  hiil  still  you  refused  to"  hearken 


with  you  hv  two  of  our  liretli 


ren,  and  liroii 


.'ht 


II    niatt'er.     Since  that    I  dealt 


you  lo  hearken  to  the  counsel  of  (Jod'a 


word  and  do  justice  to  the  said  I'eter.  htit  you  have  hitherto  lelused  to   liearl 


Sir  this  |e; 

to  e(ui>i(!er  and  ri'pent  heliue  that  dreadful  day  coiues,  before  the 


r  stands  as  a  witness  and    «  ariiini;  of  your   li.i/ard.      I 


orabi 


Now 

heseedi   you  aijairi 

|ridi;e  becruiies  iriex- 


e,  am!  divine   veii-eance  ami   wrath   are    iinappeisahle.      If  I    may  he  allowed   to 
speik  my  solid  sentiments  in  your  case,  [  must  say,  1  would  not  slecp'one  iii'xht  under 


yoursiiiilt  lor  a  million  worlds,  ,;nles.s  I 


was  come  |o  n  fu ||  del 


as  soon  as  possihle,  am!    redeenr  that  slave  and   set 


erminalKui  to  i;o  or  send 


end  upon  (iod's  house  and    worship,  and   sa 


him  .it    lilieilv. 


Wi 


yon.  Sir,  at- 


we  are  delivei 


'  Now.  Sir,  I  sa 


I'll  lo  do  a 


11  t 


ii'se  alioimnalioiis  ( 
d 


y  as  some  wicked  people  of  old  limo  said 


ay,  had  yon  doiu,"  this  deed  m  times  of  former  i;,'iioiance  it  mi-hf  have 


heeu  winked   at,  or  more   easily  ex 


all  St 
But  what  seei 


lint  as  it  w 


we  wer 


rn!;i;liiii;  I'or  liberty  from  slavish  ( 


IS  perpetrated    in  tin'  tiiiu!  when 


ppiessron.  it   looks  to  me  inexcusable. 


iH   to  complete   your  character  as  the  wicked  servant 


parable  under  consideration,  is  this  a 


nieirtioiied  in  the 


live  been  credihiy  informed:   I'eter  in  Rhode 


(slaiul  sjaol,  l(dl  (low  u  at  your  feet,  and  virlnally,  in  ell'ect,  either  het 
an  advocate   iileaded   with   you  I 


re  your  lace  or 


by 


you  to  have  patience  with   him,  and  he  would  ooiiie  home 


with  yon  and  he  your  hcivant  or  slave.     But   you   tnrneil   a  deaf  ear  to  hi 


m[)hiiiit 


londane  and  slavery,  where  1  sup 
to  this  day.     And  if  his  cor 


nd  cries  for  unucy  ami  yon  sold  bini  into  per|ietnal  1 
pose  he  is  itioanin^  under  the  oppressor's  yoke,  if  li\i 

plaints  do  n't  pierce  your  conscience  uow'l  helieve  they  will  one  "day  lie  lelt  withac'- 
«ravaled  horror  and  iviiiorsc.  1  subscribe  your  faithful' moiiitoi-  air-iieved  brother  aifd 
/ellow  servant 

B.  c: 


%\ 


I 


'A  Ivemonstrance  ollered  by  IJenjamin  Colman  to  the  Reverend  Mores  Par.=onR  Pastor, 
and  till'  Chli  in  li\  fudd.  from  the  second  Hook  of  the  Ci-onicles  lilth,  Kith  vs.  'J'lieu  Asa 
was  Wroth  with  lire  Seer  and  put  him  in  a  prison  house,  tor  he  was  in  a  lai^e  with 
him,  because  of  this  thiui,'.     And  A.sa  oppressed  Some  of  tho  people  the  Saiiie  time. 

'Persecution  is  one  of  those  dreadfnll  ellects  of  mans  Apostacy  '.hat  has  not  only 
made  its  discovery  in  the  first  man  that  was  horn  of  a  Womuu  ;  but  has  discovered  it's 
self  in  the  pricti.se  of  the  deuemuate  race  ever  since.  Cain  was  the  hist  man  that 
was  horn,  and  he  was  a  persecutor  even  unto  deth.  and  the  apostle  John  1  epistle  ;5  ■  V2 
Says  not  as  Cain  who  was  ol  that  Wi.died  one  and  slew   his  brother:  and  wherefore' 


slew  he  him.  because 


own  Works  were  evil,  and  his  brothers  riu;lileoiis.  Here  is 
the  dieadtiill  Source  of  all  persecution  ;  Knmitv  a>;ainst  (;od.  and  hatred  to  holiness- 
and  the  enmity  hetween  the  Seeil  of  the  Woman  and  the  Seed  of  the  Serpent,  will 
never  be  leconciled.  Vet  the  enemies  to  truth  and  Riyhleousness  have  alwa\"s  the 
phariseeg  excuse  ready  in  tiieir  mouths,  viz.  for  a  food  Work  we  stone  thee  not :  lor 


1 


vi 


W  ' 


it.  .    / 

V    I 


348 


A  V  V  V.  N  D  1  X 


luilliwillislnii.liiiu'  iii;in  liiis  lost  all  tliat  part  of  (ukI's  ima2;<'  upon  his  siiiil,  wliii-li 
ooiisii.ti>J  ill  lui;lilfoiisiic,s,  iiliil  trill'  lioliiicss  ;  yd  (Jixl  lias  li'lt  siicli  an  iiiipic-is,  c)!" 
vli.il  is  riijlil.  li|i.)ii  rnfii'.stcoiis.'iciin'H  ami  oC  what  is  Wmiiy,  tliiit  lull  I'.-w  VVickctl 
nii'ii  (laiv  III  S.iy,  iK.ltlly,  ami  il'lilii'ratrly.  llu-y  aro  not  alVaid  lo  prai-lici>  that  wliicli  i^ 
wroii'4.  lint  aitlimi'.^ii  tin-  rrslrainN  'nf  Ciul's  ;;racc.  tin-  liappy  rirrcis  of  a  khoiI 
o.liUMliiiii,  ami  soiiio  Si'llisli  woiMly  innlivi's,  may  iMnsi'  cvfii  wicki'il  men  liir  a  lime  to 
hliiiw  iiiiicli  ii'spi'cl  Id  Ihi.'  piMijilc  lir  (.'nd.  \r\  Wlii'ii  Tcni|ilatiiiii  cunii'S,  wlii'il  their 
Mill  (Joil  Si'll  is  tnachM,  when  their  U'orMly  hunonr  or  int.  a-^t  uie  liko  lo  elasli  with 
Initii:  lliey  willaet  Dill  the  natnral  eninitv  uC  their  .e.nls  ralh'-r  Ui  in  loose  what  is 
dear  to  Ihein  in  this  Wmlil.  I'.ir  then"  is  soiiielhim;  that  l.v-  neaier  the  hearts  ol 
Carnal  men  then  Clod  or  his  triilli.  lint  let  ns  lake  ii  view  ol  ihe  Chararler  of  Kiny 
Asa  us  it  slaiids  iipmi  Saeieil  record.  And  I  e-niless  there  are  sfiveiall  thiniis  to  he 
liken  notii'e  ol  in  his  t'liai;u'l.;r  that  look  liivonaiily,  (or  he  was  a  yie  il  lelorinrr  in 
Ihe  Worship  ol'  (iod.  ami  did  iiiiieh  in  ihnnviiiii  down  lilolalions  \\oi-hii).  He  put 
down  hit-  .Molher  rrorii  lieiii:;  (iiieeii.  heeaiise  she  was  an  Idol.iter.  Vea.  it  is  said  of 
him  llial  his  heart  was  perfect  all  his  days.  Which  may  mean  thai  he  retained  an 
nhhorrence  to  Idul  Wor.siiip.  niid  kept  up  ui.od  exliTiiall  yiiveriimenl  all  his  days  in  his 
Kinj'loii,.  He  was  verry  Niickse^,|iil|  in  Lis  Wars  with  the  Ktliiopiaiis  a,Hi 'i  'iSmi  ■, 
■who  cum  a:'iiiis!  him  Willi  a  iiiiiie  lio<t  of  a  Thonsiml  Thonsaiid  aiei  liireo  hundred 
ohariols,  ami  he  ohlained  a  coinpleel  victory  over  iheni,  {'poii  which  he  was  coimrat- 
ulaled  hy  the  prophet  .\zaiiah.  who  said  lo  him  in  Ihi'  name  of  (iod;  (he  Lord  is  with 
yon  While  ye  l-evvilli  him,  and  il  ye  seek  him  he  will  he  (lUind  of  yon  ;  lint  if  yis 
loi.saLe  him  Ik.  will  llirsake  yon.  I'pon  which  he  was  much  aniiiiiKiled  and  sliricd  I'm 
t(<  proiiiole  r.'liiriiiaiiuii  work  liir  a  loui;  lime. 

■  iiiit  iii  Ihe  lliirly-.;i,\lh  year  of  his  Ueiun,  niasha  Kin;:  of  Krai  I,  made  War  wilh 
.■\sa  Kini;  III  .liid.i'i.  and  hi'ie  he  turned  aside  fi.an  piiltiii'i  lii>  Iriisl  in  ihe  Lord,  and 
jiiit  li:s  tni-l  ill  Ihe  Kin;;  of  .Syria.  He  lohhed  the  treasures  ol  llie  hv,ii-e  of  the  l,oril, 
.Old  Ihe  Kin.-s  house,  to  liiie  li  healheii  Ivini;  lo  a-sist  liini  in  the  \\ar,  in  (his  he  did 
ioolishiy,  as  Ihe  piopiiel  aflerwaids  told  hini,  and  reproved  him  lor  not  pnttiie,'  his 
Iru.-l  ill  Ihe  Loid.  Forllie  Lord  .,ays  hy  the  piophei  .leiemiah  chapter  17;  'i  (iirseil 
111.'  Ihe  m  in  that  (nislolli  in  ii.,iii,  and  niakelh  lle.^h  his  aim,  and  who.su  heart  dcpaiteth 
f;om  I'll'  Lord  and  so  I'orlli. 

•  Hen, in  li.'  did  Wickedly  ;  in  rohhiin;  (ho  lionso  of  the  Lord  of  its  treasure,  to  brihe, 
and  peiswade  a  lieaHieii  Idol  ilrons  iviiii;  to  hieak  his  Solemn  Leau'iie  and  Covenant 
W'ifh  (lie  Kiiii,'  of  l>i\iel  (o  assi>(  him.  (  for  Lv'u^'iies  or  Covenanls  wi're  look'd  upon  (o 
fi,','  S.icre.l,  even  anioiiy  li.Mthens.)  Wheieiipon  (he  prophet  ll.inani  conies  to  him  wilh 
n^iilessa','e  Iroin  (iod.  and  (ells  Asa  Hie  Kim,',  verse  (7.  hecanse  tlioii  hast  relied  on  (lu! 
Kins:  of  Syria,  and  not  relied  on  Ilie  Lord  lliy  (hid,  therefore  is  the  llo-l  of  the  Kiiii; 
of  Syria  escaped  out  of  lliiiii!  h,ind.  Wori-  iiiit  the  IClhiopians,  and  the  Luhims  a  liilue 
hosl.  with  very  miny  chariots  and  horsemen?  Vol  hecanse  llioii  didsi  rely  on  Iho 
Lord,  III.  d'diveied  iheni  iiilo  thine  hand.  For  the  eyes  of  llie  Lord  run  (o  and  fro 
lliidii\'hoii(  ih"  whole  eailh  lo  shexv  himself  stream  in  ihe  hehalf  of  ihem  whose  hi'art 
is  perlc'ct  towiids  him.  Herein  (lion  hasi  done  foolishly:  therelbre  from  lienceliiKh 
Ihoii  shall  have  \\  us.  .■".nw  comes  in  the  Wonts  of  the' te,\t.  'J'lieii  Asa  was  wroth 
\villi  the.  Seer,  and  put  him  in  a  prison  house:  lor  ho  was  in  a  raye  wilh  him  hecanse 
of  ihis  (h'.ni,'.  And  Asa  oppressed,  or  as  the  man:in  reads  it  crushed  sonie  of  the  people 
:lio  simi' tine.  .\nd  here  I  would  remirk.  thai  if  Kiiiu;  Asa  was  a  uood  in.iii  as  1 
would  fiin  liope  he  \vas.  he  is  t!ie  only  one  of  (hat  Charecter  on  S.icred  record  (bat 
lurn'd  a  |iersecu;oi-;  oral  Icsl  I  do  n'l  recollect  any  other  iiistance  of  llie  like  kind.  It 
may  ho  so  th, It  lie  was  the  oaly  one.  I'or  as  one'  Divine  well  oIisitm's.  lliere  is  one 
Instance  of  a  ("oiivcrsiou  a(  (he  eleventh  hour  of  his  lite,  vi/.  (he  (hief  epon  (ho  Cross, 
thai  iioiif  111. ly  d^sjiair :  So  (heie  is  hut  one  that  none  may  |iresnnie.  So  this  iiislancn 
liefire  lis  nny  he  led  on  lecord,  for  the  eiiconniirenient  of  any,  who  have  been  left  lo 
perscciilc  the  d'odly:  to  liiri  to  (;,id  by  npcnhince  while  liiere  is  hope,  lint  lo 
leliiiii  to  the  te.M  :  he  w,is  Wrolh  wilh  the  Seer,  ami  ^liiit  him  np  in  a  prison  house  for 
he  was  ill  a  ra-e  with  liiin  because  of  Ibis  ihiiitr.  As  much  as  if  he  had  said  lo  the 
priiphel  Kanaiii:  Are  yon  one  of  the  Ivimjs  Coniicill,  will  you  who  are  iiiv  Subject 
presume  to  direct  yonr  Soveieiun  priuco  What  he  shall  ilii.  Will  yon  tell'me  that  1 
iiave  dime  foolishly  ;  in  hiriiii,'  Assistance  when  1  needed  help  and  so  loilh.  So  it  you 
will  prp:ich.  yon  sii:ill  preach  in  a  prison  house,  and  nol  heliire  your  Kiiiic:  and  so  he 
]in(  iiim  in  a  priMin  bouse.  And  wc  don't  lead  that  be  ever  set  him  at  l.iherly  till  his 
own  deth,  wMeli  was  al  lest  four  years  afler.  ()  the  pride  and  haiiiihtiMess  of  mans 
heart  when  lull  lo  himself;  and  leit  to  foisake  (iod:  And  as  Ihe  prophet  A/ariab 
t^iid  him  Cliap:er  l.'i:  ^.'.  if  ye  foisake  him  be  will  forsake  yon.  So  Ihe  Lord  liillilled 
his  word  sent  by  that  prophet.  Hut  was  not  the  pro[diet  Hanaiii  rash  and  insolent 
lo  lell  the  Kiiiir  ho  htid  done  Ibolislily  (  niisiht  he  not  have  softned.  or  ludished  his 
^les.^age  by  Saying  :  J  think  you  have  not  done  so  well  as  you  might   have  done,  I  am 


I 


A  1'  1'  i;  N  I)  I  X 


349 


■'•rry  ymi  diil  not  rely  on  ilm  Lcird  iirid  so  forlli  .  I  answer,  no.  (;o(l'8  MostcnuiTs  must 
I"' hold,  pliiiii  and  lUitliriill  jti  didivciinir  liis  Mcssiiiicm.  or  els  llicy  would  inrini  llicir 
.Miislcis  dis|tlcasiiri':  llicy  loiiy  iiolm  liis  caiisi' i;ivc  ll.illciirit;  lillcs.'icsl  lln'ii  iii;ik..r  l;il,c 


II 


Itiil  lic'ic  I  would  ri'tiiat  k  Urn  vciy  '^r-Ml  dilll'iciicc  licl 


ween  llii-  l('rri|i'  i  ol  'Ins 


I  liis  piivlccr':.  ,ir  Dinid;  (■onr/'nuiiu'  iimrooC:    David  Said.  Id  tlio    Ki;;lit 
<•(Ml^  smile  iiic  it  fdiall  he  an  cxcijllcMil  oil  w  liirli  sliall  not  hTt;.\k  mine  head.    ,\iid  wT 


the  |ir 


0|lli( 


I  iN.ilhaii  1  .11 


'ow,  iniM'kly,  ami   readily  dol   hi 


ne  lo  repiove  him  lor  iiis  iniiider  and  Adnllrv,  -'  Sanniel  IJ ;  i:i, 


aeki 


<.'od  inniiedialidy  i;ave  liiin  news  llmi    he  wa.s  panhiiied.      Hut  wluil  ran  

ones  oxpect  who  when  they  are  .Iiisllv  leproved  lor  their  lanils.  do  i.iu'o  al  (he  M, 


lis  lault,  I   h.ive  siniu'd   ,'<aid  he.  aiul 


aer.  a'i'l   lespise  the   .Ahssago.      lint    Kiiii;   A.* 

lor.-ake.i  (old  ;  wliiui  he  wan  vi-iled  with  a  painfull  |)i>e;\,e  in  ids  I'lel  ;   I 

lo  liie  r<o|d  hut  lo  Ihe  I'hysitiaii  •!  for  help.      \ers,  T.'  Tj 


in  his  taller  ihivi'-.  lor  Ihe 


I, 


lys  e\p 


IV  thi 


.lien    I  shall  say  lo  Ihe  liiihieou's  Ihal   he  shall  surely  I 


t;a\e   IuiIImt  prooldlhis  lia\ini; 

I   soiiyhl   not 

•ilieclilii;   him 

apler  .'I,;:  Kl, 


nil!. 


d(  da 


ft  K 


(' 


y   live  ;  il'  he  husi   lo  his 
ine>s  and  (■ouiniill  miipiily  :  all  his  ri';h'eonsiie>s  shall  not  he  renien 


lii:;liteoii 

I"!  his  iniijiiily  ihat  he  lialh  coinioiileil.  he  shall  die  liir  il.    And 


'd,  hut 


C 


iiapler,   •Kroni  the  lime  Ihal   l\i 


was  upon  III 
di, 


Ihe  ilerli 


.\;m  tors 


■ise  IS  ollhe 
the  Way  ol'  tlie    Lord,  his   Kii 


iiie,  he  was  exercised   willi  wais  and  lumulls,  iii 


id   il   very   p.iiulidi 


ease  :  and  allhou'.'h  he  had  a  ponipiions  hurial,  yet  his  snri  v|.piii,.(|  to  sel  in  a  i  loud, 
ir  we  read  not  ihal  he  lelnrn'd  to  (Jod  hv  lepenlanee.     Jlul  iieie  I  would  remark  how 

his  head  hy  lellini; 


it  is  lo  lell  (iie.it  men  oT  then  I'lnlls.     .lohii  hantist  lost 


Kin'4  lli'rod  ol'  his  (aiill.- 


lint 


was  coniaiiilei 


lol 


ir  repioviu:;  the  pioud    liiu'h  piie.ol.      AnI  whal  nniiiherle-s   inslai 


le  sniilleii  on  the  moiill 


reeoiil  III   |.eele.»i  i>Ii 


ive   we   upon 


cil  hi>Ioiy,  ol'  Itin   l.iilhrull  people  ol'  (hid    .Sutleiin;;  persecul.-.., 
lor  Iht!  laithtull  dis^'liai'j;e  of  llieir  ilnty  in  reproving'  Sin  in  llieir  Snjieriours. 

'  Hut    1  would  now  address  inyself  to  the  Itevrrend   pastor  of  fJvlield  Chh.     liever- 
end  Sir  you  have  heen  my  pa. lor  and  le.irher  lor  tiiauv  \  ears.      AVe  iooU  Sweet  Coniis(d 


lo^'elaer  and  weni  lo  the  house  of  (out.  I  rejoyeei!  in  \onr  picuhiii!;  Ihe  ureal  Doe- 
limes  of  !naci«  and  S  ilvation  thriHiuli  .h'siis 'Christ.  I  trust  1  have  heen~inslrurled 
md  eihlied   hy  yoni  .Ministry  from  lime  lotiirie.      Fiut  peiniil  nie  lievereiid  Sir  lo  Com- 


plain to  yiin  Ih.it  you  are  luru'd  a  peisecnlor  lihe  tlii-    Kiiiu'  .\.si  of  \\  le 
Speakin;;.      !   hioimht   yon  ii   ,Mes.^a^e  fioni  the  woid  of  (hid 


I   h 


n\e   heen 


]ir.i('tis(!  of  Slave  keepin;;.  anil  you  were  aiiL'ry  with   me 
have  conlined  me  for  more  Ihaii  two  yens.      If  you  n<k  w 


oiii'd  ?      I   answer  you    hive   hv  your C'lili.  Ceiisiiie  Shut 
lellowship  ol   (jod's  people  in  (iospd  Onl 


i<k  what  I 


loncerniii','  the    Wukeil 
put  me  III   piisoii.  and 


hy 


Deiiiir  impris- 


nie  up  Irom  Iho  Socic!v  and 


<  ulion  as  to  In*  nnifined  to  a  loe.il  pri 
from   eotiimnnion   with  any  hul    lis  lii 
\ou  have  from  all  Chun 


luaiices;  Willi 


h   I   hi 


lo  hi 


ri'all 


Chh.  I 


if  you  Say  yon  have  not  Shut  n 


y  perse- 


e  up 


for  had    I   appi 


answer  aceoidiiiL'  lo   your  piiiieiple 


imniunion    Willi   Ihetii,  you    woiih 


pplMM 


to  aiiollier  C 


,'ry  with   thai 


ill.  and    heen  recei\od    lo 


lal  jiaslor  and    CMih.  for 


i-o  didiii'.  If  you  ask  how  I  know  lliis  I  answer,  hee.iuse  the  case  has  licen  tried  in  a 
like  instance,  for  in  time  past  wjien  a  Mcmher  of  your  Chh.  who  was  dissatislied  with 
you.  and  apiilied  to  a  .N'eiuhhour  Chh.  and  was  received  lo  Iheii  Coniiiiuuiou,  yon 
liiund   fiult  with  that  pastor,  and    .M.iiiil.iined  a    (iu.irrel  with  him.  f.ra   iiumlie'rof 


ye. ITS 


I 

Ihe 


or  that  and  Ii 


Ihiii'j-:. 


I  not 


lispiite   hoifiin,  accordin;;  to   Ihe  ConiM' 


liiiportiiria 


tel 


y  leiji: 


(^I'lnsfl  t'vcr 


took  your  (Irdiiiation  dllice.  hut  ha\e  hillierto  hi 
memhei   Heverwiil  "^ir  that  1  did  not  Wish  lo  Sland 
you  if  yon   would    .\iiswer  my  paper  of  Complaii 


euMtunial   platlinni,  upon  wliici 
ileu;e.      Voil  m 


leeil  oenied  yt. 


y 


n  a 


W 


loiitr,  or  fal.->e  caii.M:,  and  tof 
point  me  lo  any  Ihinu 


liin;;-;  thai  Stood  wion^  in  S'd' paper,  accoidiu;,'  to  the  W'oid  of  Cod  I  would  iminedi- 
.ilely  retract  them,  and  in  tiie  linnihlesi  in  inner  acknowledire  my  fault  and  ask  fori,'i\e- 
iiess  holh  of  (iod  and  man,  Hnl  your  .\n.^wer  to  me  then  wa-."(if  I  ii'.;hlly  leineiiiher, 
in  Ihe  following  words,)  I  can't  Answer  you,  the  Chh,  may  Answer  von,  hnt  1  can't 
Sit  do'.sn  with  >iin  Deacii,  Colnian,  An  !  so  you  cill'd  upon  the  ISiethion  of  Iho  Chh, 
to  vol,,  nie  on!  of  vour  communion,      A     \   this  you  Said  as  il  appeared   to  me.  wilh  a 


t'ood  deal  of  Warnilh  and  temper.  Sir  ilo  n'l  pretend  lo  he  vested  with  the  Authori- 
ty of  a  prophet,  or  piihlick  teacher,  yet  it  my  message  in  the  )iaper  n  ferr'd  to  Stands 
ri','ht  with  the  !!u|i'  of  (Jods  word;  it  oiiLjht'to  he  re^'arded  hy  \on  as  if  it  had  heioi  iln. 


Ii\ered  lo  you  hy   the  INIoiilh  of  a   prophet,  for  Since   the  Cam 


Sciipliiie  is   Co 


jdeeled,  Cod  has  ^iveii  lis  in  the  nihie.  one   perfc'ct  iineiiiii!,'  rule  of  fiith  and   pracli 


So  that  whatever  is  plainly  ded 


from   Scripture 


IS  Si'riptnre.  and  ouirhf  tc 


ceived  as  of  Divine  authoiity.  whoever  is  tlii!  .Messoimer,  for  all   tnilli  is  Christs   w 


is  the  trulh  its  .-elf,  emphatically,  as  w  el 


as  the  way  and  the  life.     And  now  Keverend 


Sir  that  yon  and  I  may  he  convinc'd  of  every  ihiii';   wc  oimht  to    he   convinc'd  of,  and 
have  Ihe  path  of  triitli  and  duty  made  pi. tin  bclbie  us.  and   that  we  may  receive  "race 


I 


350 


A  V  V  i;  N  U  I  X  . 


*! 


from  Chrint  J.-sm   wlirrflliy  wii  may  Sim-crcly  rom|)lv  with  ilio   Will  of  (;,),!  an  re. 
v«uletl  tri  hu  VVoid,  ii  the  prayer  ol'  your  Abused  iViciiJ,  und  liiitnhl.-  S.;rvanl 


'  Hill   lirfoio  I  cnticliulc  tlii«  rotnonsl 
tiio  hii'lhrcii  of  llip  Clih.  in  Hyfiold 


Bli.N.IAMIN     Cot.AIAN. 

raiicc,  [  Ill's,'  li-avi-  to  iiiako  a  short  addresx  to 


^fr.  I 


n.'.ir  l.i.'llin-n  you  can  'I  l.iit  r.Miionibpr  tlmt  from  the  time  llic  ronlroversev  bet 


aiiiiMs  ami 


I  I 


in,  I  was  (li'-,iioiis  of  ('Diincill   i 


linii's  to  rt'li'i'  it  to  a  coiincill  ol  .Mi.  {'arsons  ow 


tor.     Since  I  liave  nll'i'ii 


and  chooso 


the  Troiibje  and  cli 


wo  thinis  of  llic  Coiincill  ;  anil  il   I  was  I 


I 


WCPIl 

11   our  I'lsr  ;   I  oiri'iisl  Scvcr.il 

M  cliii-iii;,',  lint  was  di'iiicii   liy  llie  I'as- 

cnti'd  llial  lie  Slionld  .\iiniiiiale 

biiinl   to   III'   llio  I'aiill  V  rause  of 


)ovn  in  Coiincill,  and  cnnscntrd  llial  lie  Slioiild  .\ 


now  put  It  to  your  ConscieMrcs  wlirll 


Id    |>iv  tlic  expiMisi's   iIkmi'oI.  lull  Slill    I  am  I'lciiii'd.      I 


done  I 


icr  yon  do  liy  me  as  yon  would 


Will 


iii;  to  1)1) 


)V.  wiTe  yon  in  my  iM.sc,  lor  I  lunnv  no  oilier  rule  peili'ctly  liylil  but  tins,  which 


Christ  litis  ijiveii  ns  as  li 


I  conless  the  paper  I  OlU'ird  I 


K'  iiiiiver>al    linle  o| 


ei|iiitv. 


'II d  to  onr  pastor  ;.-  of  a  loiiuh  draft,  it  is  not  polished  with 

nii,'lit  Ikhi'  been,  lint  I  .siqipose  it  contains  nothiiii;  lint  truth. 
It  in  an  unaiisweiablo  Tcstnnuiiy  ayainst  Slave  keepinj;,  it  is  what  |  desijjned 

And  »n  il  pleased  God  to  open  my  eyes  at  that  time  to  fee  tiie  Abominable  Wicked- 


kvirnin!;  or  n-ioiick  as  it 
And  if  it  is  a 
il  to  be 


ness  of  III,,!  practise,  I  believe  Silence  in  i 


lie  would  have  lieen  a  (  iiiiib 


IJnt  my  biethien,  there  is  one  TcM  upon  Sacinl   ircoid  which  I   bcu'  leave  to  offer 

,'ospi'l,  ."ith  t'h  ipter  ','3 


to  your   Serious  consi 


d'Jl 


deration,  it  is   rei'orded    in  St.    .Malthi 
\'erses.     '  'I'liiMel'ore  il'  tlion  Iniiii;  thy  ijift   'o  the  Altar,  and 


that  thy  biother  hath  oni.'ht  a;:ainst 


lliee, 


llieie   remrmlieri'st 


Ihy  way,  first   be  reconciled   to  thy  Mmthei.  and   II 
you  SatiNly  your  Consciences  in  atlendini;  the  Ordma 
See,  if  you  reiiiei 


leave    lhei.>«hy  trill    bdore  the  Allar,  and   i;o 


len   come  and   oiler  thy  u'll't. 


Ilo 


•r  that  yon,  and  the  pastor,  have  Shut 
'iiy  against  ||ii.    Detest, ihle  practise  of  Slue  k 
JMerchindise  of  hum  in  people  ?  pi'ople  m  nli!  of  the  S  im- llesh  ami 


lor  liearinu 


Tesii 


ce  of  the   f.oids  Slipper  I  can  't 
nie  out  of  yoiir  Coiiimiinion, 


o'-pin;;,  and   iiMkinu 


Thi 


I  tier  I 


lib 


\s  we  are 


roiii  IIS  only  ill  colour,     'I'liis  as   I   understand   is  the  true   Stalini;  my  case 

"■'■■' '  "'    ' "       "  ''      '  lise  of  the  piire'^t  Chhs. 

iiriiinion.  u  iio  hold  their 
practise      Vou 


IS  IS  verry  U  ide  iVoni  what  lam  well  informed  is  llio  piai 
in  the  Jersey  Slate,  they  will  not  admit  Mcmhcrs  to  their  Con 
SI  ""      " 


aves.     IJnl  I  am  shut  out  for  bearing,'  1 


can't  but  he  Sensible  the  practise  of  Slave  |. 


eslimony  aijainst  that  Wicki 


most  (iodly  people  throimh  lliis  Stale,  lint  to  add 


eepin:;  is  Ivcpioh.ited,  and  Ahhon'd  by  the 


Justice  take  place  in  every  iiisl 
Bijfidd  Koniitlitr  3d  1 7';^.' 


is  11 


HO  more,  Ih  il  tiiill 


le  prayer  of  your  A^jrieved 


may  appear 


and 


iiotl 


er. 


JJk.nia.mi.n   Colman. 


Letter  I,  iiistrad  of  C,  paue  o8.  . 

LIST  OF  (iUADL'ATES  FROM  NEWBURY. 

TJenjamiu  Woo(lliii(Ii,ro,  wlio,';e  name  shiiuls  lirst  on  tlie  Cambridge 
calnloiriio,  was  of  course  the  fir.st  person,  who  received  a  deoiee  at 
Caiiil)riilifc  Colleije,  as  from  the  lirst  coimneiiceiiuMit  in  l(;i:j  liTl  177:), 
deo;ives  \V(>re  conferred  on  tiie  stiKlents,  and  their  names  tiriaii^red  in 
tlie  eatalogne,  not  accoi-dino:  to  ao-e,  or  seliolurslii|i,  or  tiie  alpliahet,  btit 
aceordinfr  to  tlie  rank  tiieir  (iiinilies  held  in  society.  Tims  tlie  son  of 
a  cnptiiin  preceded  liiin  wlio  was  only  the  son  of  a  lieiileiianl,  and  in 
one  instance,  where  this  order  was  reversed,  oreal  oli'ence  was  taken. 
The  ajiolorry  was  that  the  iieiitenant  wtis  the  iuoih!  respectable  man, 
and  woiihl  liave  been  a  captain  loo,  had  his  iiealih  ptMinittetl. 

In  the  Ibllowing  list,  which  comprises  the  names  of  those  Ln-adiiates 
who  were,  or  are,  natives  of  Newbury,  \ewbiiryport  and  \\'est  New- 
bury, Ihc  alphaiielical  arramrement  will  be  used,'  with  the  exceplion  of 
the  iiame  of  3Ir.  Woodbridof,  'J'hc  names  of  those  wiio  were  born 
in  England,  but  came  lo  Newbury  when  yoiiiifr,  will  I)e  indicaled  by 
an  asterisk.  Aiiioii!;-  Ihem  was  Benjamin  W'oodbrid^e.  lie  was  a 
son  of  the  Hev,  .lolm  Woodbridge,  of  .Stanton  in  Wiltshire,  a  brother 
to  the   llev^  John  Woodbridge,   with  whom   he   came  to   America  in 


APPENDIX 


yoi 


Ki.TI,  and  n  noplirw  to  tlio  }\ov.  Tlionins  Pnrkrr  nnd  tlic  ]\rv.  .TntTU's 
>i'(ty('s,  tln>  liisl  niiiiislcrs  ol'  .Ncwliiiry.  lie  is  cullcil  liy  Dr.  Ciihuiiy, 
'  du'  (iist  iViiits  of  ili(«  col!cj,'c>  in  Now  Kiigluiul,  as  Arcli  Hisliop  IJslicr 
>vas  at  lliiU  ill  Diihliu,'  lie  liml  been  a  iiiciiiIxT  of  INlaiidali'ii  f'otlcsro 
ill  Oxtbrd,  lail  cliosc  to  comi'lclc  liis  (•(^ll(•^•ial(•  fdiicalioii  in  Alassni'lm- 
sctls.  lie  soon  aflcr  reliiriird  to  lOimhiid.  lie  at  lirst  incaclifd  at. 
Salisltiiry,  on  tlu^  liviT  Avon,  llicnco  alter  u  i'vw  \vius,  lie  was  called 
to  siiccoed  tlic  Kcv.  William  Twiss  {).  |).  in  ■iNcwbniy,  ]Mi-r|iiii,|, 
where  lie  shone  as  a  scholar,  a  iircacher,  a  casuist,  and  a  <'hrisiiaiZ  In' 
Ani^iist,  Hid:.',  he  was  silenced  by  liu'  act  of  imirofniily,  and  as  he  could 
not  |ircach  |)iihlicly,  he  inaintaiiicd  a  livivalu  ineetini,'  at  Xewlairy, 
Avhither  he  liad  retnrni'd  alter  an  absence  of  a  year  or  two.  In  Id/l 
he  was  permitted  to  resume  his  public  labors,  and  died  iil  Iiiglelicid 
in  nerkshire,  Xoveiiil"  r  (iist,  lOfrl,  in  his  sixty-third  year. 

Mr.  W'oodbridjre  was  also  a  poet.  From  his  eiilot!,y  on  tlie  llev. 
John  Cotton,  who  died  in  JCiV.',  I  make  the  Ibljowing  extract. 

'  A  liviiisbrcnthinij  7?iWf ;  talili'.s  whore 
Hdlli  n/ci/i/()('.<,  nt  larj;r,  i.'ii};r;ivcii  wimo  ; 
(In.yiil  iiMil  law,  in  's  IkmiI.  Iiiid  oaeli  ils  ciiliiiim 
His  IkmiI  MX  iui\cx  1(1  till.'  siicrcil  Milnrri'', 
His  vi'ry  inline  a /(■/(■/<fii,'r;  iiMil  n<'.\t, 
His  liH,'  a  riiiiiiiKiiliiri/  on  iIk-  text, 
(),  wliat  a  iiioiHimriu  ol'  i;loiioiis  worth 
AVIiiMi  in  a  iiiic  alition,  lie  conies  fortli 
Wilhonl  trmhia,  may  \vi;  tliiiik  lie  '11  bo 
III  Iciivts  and  roci/s  ol'  elcniily.' 

Dr.  ("alnmy  says  of  him  '  He  was  a  iinivi-rsally  neeoinplished  ])er- 
son  ;  one  of  a  clear  and  strom;-  reason,  and  of  an  exact  aiul  [iiolbiiiul 
jndiiment.'  Anihony  Wood  says  of  him  that  'he  was  accounted 
among  bis  bri'lbren  a  learned  and  mighty  man,' 

ADAMS.  RF.V.  BF,NJA>n\-  !>.  8  Ivfav,  17l!i,  II.uv.  17:iS,  onl.  in  Lynn,  ,1  Nov.  1755 
and  iliedl  .May.  1777.  ai;e(l  .'iS.  '  ' 

ADAMS,  KK\'.  .lOSKlMI  Uvin  Inotherto  I5r  aniin,  Haiv.  17  l.',  was  a  zealous  '  new- 
liilht  '  so  cilleil.  and  pieaclied  (or  -^oine  time  to  llio  society  wliicli  al'leruard  scltled 
tlie  Rev.  Jonallian  I'arsons  in  Newbniv.  now  New  Inirypoit.  Mr.  A.  was  settled  in 
Strathani.  N.  II.  -.'t  ,lniie,  IT;')!'.,  and  died'-.M  Feb.  I7S5,  aied  Cr,. 

ADA.MS,  ISA.XC  b.  1.")  Feb.  1777,  Ilarv.  17lis,  studied  medicine,  but  liis  licallb  I'ailcd 
and  lie  died   I  .hiiie.  lMt7. 

AD.XM.S,  FKKFKORN  b.  :iO  Sept.  1771,  Dart.  IMII,  wasa  plivsician  in  Sonlh  Caro- 
lina. Ne«  Inn  V  District. 

ADAMS.  .lOSKI'll  liowd.  1^J7.  and  resides  in  (Jardiner  Maine. 

A.XDUKVVS,  KDWARD  \V.  b.  •,'  Auij.  17',»i),  Ilarv.  IMI),  died  in  Nov.  1SJ5,  in  Pliila. 
delpliia. 

ATKI.NS,  .MR.  Drr.LFY  b.  I7;!l,  Ilarv.  17IS,  and  died  -'A  Sept.  17r,7,  aje.l  .'W. 

ATKINS.  MR,  DI'DIJ;  V  Ilarv.     IMH.  was  a  plivsician  in  N.  V.  nnd  died  7   Apr.  ]S|.') 

ATKINSON,  RF.V.  .lO.NA  THAN  Dait.  17.S7,  oid  Oct.  17'.tl,  in  ].iniin:;ton.  Mo. 

and  was  livini;  in  IS.'l . 

ATKIXSO.V  I'llO.MAS  b.  -il  Dec.  ir.H'.i.  Ilarv.  ir,;i|,  and  died  before  lilOO. 

ATK1.\S()\,  .MOSFS  LITTLK  Dart.  is;w,  and  is  a  physician  in  Newlnirv   Mass. 

ATKIXSO.V,  CIIARLKS  .M.  b.  17  Jnne,  isiii,  Amii.  isil. 

ATKINSON.  (JFORIJK  II.  Dart.  isi:i. 

ALLKN,  \VII,F|.\M  STICKNEV     IsiK!,  Dart.  IS-.M.aiid  now  resides  in  St.  T.onis 

AM.KN.  RK\'.  Kl'IIR.MM  \V.  biother  to  William  S.  b.  isu;,  Anili,  is:is  ord  North 
Readinu'.  Mass.  May.  is|;i. 

HAINF.V.  RKV,  .lA.AlFS  b.  V2  Sept.  ItV'in,  If.irv.  \ut\0,  was  a  preacher  for  some  time 
in  Salem  villa','i',  now  Danver<,  and  died  in  Roxbiiry  17  Jan.  1707. 

1?  ■\ILF,Y,  ISAAC  I..  V  Oct.  lii^l,  Ilarv.  1701. 

]?.\ILKY.  RF.V.  AHNFR  b.  15.lan.  1716,  Harv.  17rii!,  ord.  at  Salem,  N.  II.  DO  Jan. 
1710.  and  died  10  .^larch,  17'.is,  aj,'ed  V,>. 


u 


1552 


APPENDIX, 


BAILKV,  ENOCH  brother  to  Abner,  b.  30  Sept.  1710,  Harv.  171?,  after  preacliiiis; 

some  time  ho  enti'ied  the  army  as  chaplain,  and  ilind  at  All)anv'.  in  An:;.  1757,  ai^ed  IIS. 
BAILKV,  UKV.  .TOSIAII  b.  Jii  Jan.  17'M,   Harv.  175?,  ord.  ai  Hampton  Falls,  \.  11 

lil  Oct.  1757.  and  died  l?  Sept.  170?,  a:;ed  -2'.). 


BAIi.EV. 


;NKZI0II  b.  '.'5  June,  17'il,  Yale,  1817,  was  a  dislin"ulshed  teacher  in 


Boston,  a'.^  '  il'ed  in  Lynn,  5  Anj;.  lS:j8. 
BAILEV,  KL'..  J()Si:iMl  II.  b.  15  Sept.  180S,  Anih.  1S39,  ord.  in  N.  Dighlon,  IVIass. 


.il   Dec.  ISO.  and  died  Nov.  IS  11. 


Dart.  1703,  ord.  in  Newcastle,  !Me.  in  Oct.  1797,  now 

.«> 
Ilarv.  1801. 
Harv.  1795,  a  teacher  in  Nowbnryport. 


BAILKV,  RKV.  KIAH 

in  llnrdwick,  At. 
BARl'LKT,  WILLIAM 
BARTLKT.  JOSIAH 

BRaDSTRKKT.  EDWARO  M.  D.  Harv.  18.31,  and  died  K!  Dec.  ISll. 
IJAKNARI),  RKV.  THOMAS  1).  D.  b.  5  Feb.  174S,  Harv.  1700,  ord.  in  Salem,  Mass. 

13  Jan.  1773,  a:ul  died  1  Oct.  181  1.  a^od  07. 
BOARDMAN,  RKV.  JOHN  b.  8  Nov.  1795,  Dart.  18L7,  settled  in  West  Boylston.  ?8 

Feb.   IS-Ji,  resigned   I'eb.  1S31,  resell  led  in    Douglas,  25   Feb.  1S3.J,  and  died  8  Nov. 

1812,  a^ed  b'.. 
BOYD,  WILLlAMb.  20  Mircb,  1770,  Harv.  1790,  and  studied  medicine  and  died  in 

Rostoii.  13  Jan.  IMKI.  aiteil  21. 
BRADi:     RV,  THKOl'lllLrS  b.  13  Nov.  1739,  Harv.  17.77,  practised  law  in   New 


buryport.  was  a  Senator.  Represent.uive,  and  Judge  ol'  the  Sii|)renie 


Court.     He  died 


0  Sept.  lNi:i,  au'eil  'i:!. 
BRI(;(;s,  .lOilN  A.  M.  D. 


Harv.  1835.  is  a  physician  in  Newbniyport. 


BROWN,  RKV.  RICHARD  b.  12  Sept.  J075,  H.irv.  1097,  was  town  clerk  and  school 


mas 


tor  in   Newburv  li)r  severa 


I   years,  ord.  in   \ 


veadin;;,  2:>  June,    I7r. 


12 


Oct.  1732.     His  widow,  with  her  children,  returned  to  .Vewbury. 
BROWN,  RKV.  SA.MI'KL  b.  1  Sept.  10S7,  Haiv.  1709,  ord.  in  Abingtou,  17  Nov.  171>, 

and  died  12  Sept.  17  19,  aged  02. 
BROWN,  Jl)HN  B.  b.  2  .Maich,  1700,  Harv.  172-3,  and  died  in  Newbury,  U  Aug.  1770, 

ai;ed  I'i5. 
IHiOWN.  JOHN  S.  .     Dart.  1830.     He  died  13  .Tan.  1812. 

CALDWI:LL,  SA.MU1:L  L.  WUerville.  18  11. 

CALDWKLL,  WILLIA.M  W.  Bowd.  1M3. 

CARY,  RKV.  SAML'l'LL  b.  1  Nov.  178.7.   Harv.  1801,  ord.  in  Boston  colleague  pasljr 


with  Dr.  James  Freeman,  1  Jan.  1809,  and  died  at  Rayston  i 
aged  30. 


n  I'.ngian 


land. 


CARY.  THOMAS       b 


Auii 


Harv.  Z'^'',' >and  died  in    G 


Jnni'.  1^211,  a'j 


.i:i. 


?y 


Oct.  i8i; 


N.  H.  11 


CARTIH!,  TIIO.MAS  D.  b, 


Harv.  1S17.  and  died  at  sea. 


CAllTi;U,  RKV.  HA.MDEN  S.  b.  1807,  All 

rian  cleru:vnnn. 
CHASK,  CALK  P. 


some  years,  then  removec 
CHASK,   Ki:V.  STi;i-liKN 


1700,  Nas 
I  to  Tliornt(ni. 


.•ns,  Geor.  about  ISJii  or  7,  is  a  I'resbyti;- 
Hall,  w,is  a  teacher  in   CJoncord,  N.  il. 


Oct.  1705,  Ilarv.   172^,  ord.  in   Lvnn,   now 


Lyn 


tield,  21  Nov.  1731,  Icl'l  Lyniilield, and  was  nvsellled  in  Nevvcaslh.',  N.  II.  5  Dec.  175;i, 
where  he  du'd  Jan.  177'-i. 
CHASE,  RKV.  JOSIAH  I).  20  Nov.  1713,  Harv.  1738,  ord.  at   Spruce  Creek,  Kitlery, 
19  Sept.  17.')0,  and  died  17  Dec.  1778.     Having  attended  a  wedding,  he  missed  his 


way,  anO  pen 


died 


his  own  house. 


CHA'SI';,  SI.MI'.OX  b.  17-15,  Harv.  1707,  wa.s  a  teacher  of  yonlh  more  than  h.ill'a  ceu- 


turv  in 
CIl.VSl 


Newl 


)urv.  wner. 


;i:\.  Mosi'.s  I! 


he  died  13  Sept.  lvj;i,  n^ed  81  1-2  years. 

Bowd.  1831,  and  is  now  a  chapl.iin  in  t'le  navy. 


CHASK,  RKV.  I'LIAIKR  b.  13  :\Iarch,  179-1,  Bowd.  1821, and  settled  in  Carver,  Mass. 

15  Oct.  iN2S,  and  die.!  .)8:;7.  ag.  13.  * 

CLARK.  RK\'.  JOHN  b.  21  Juiie,  1070,  Ilarv.  1090,  ord.  in   Exetov  21  Sept.  1098, 


died  25  July,  170.7.  a 


ued 


CLARK.    RKV.   THOMAS  M.  b.    1  July,  1S12,  Yale  1831,  ord.  rect(n'  of  I'.piscopal 


Boston,  5  Nov.  ls3ii,  now  rector  of  St.  Andrews'  church,  I'hilad 


Ports 


)hia. 
ith,  N.  H. 


CLARK,  Ri:V.  RLFl-'S  W.  b.  17  Dec.  1813,  Yale  1838,  on 

Nov.  10,  1813, 
CLARK.  (iKO.  11.7  Nov.  IS]',),  Yale  1813,  studying  divinity. 
COFFIN,  RKV.  i:X()CHb.  7  Feb.  |0ii5,  Harv.  171  1,  was  a  preacher,  received  a  call 

10  settle  in  Dunstable,  hut  his  want  of  health  prev(.'nted.     He  diei!  7  Aug.  I7JS. 
COFFIN,  BKOCKLKBANK  SA-MUEL  brother  to  Enoch,  b.  21   Aug.   1700,  Ilarv 


17 1\  and  ( 


lied  11  .lone, 


COFFIN,  DR.  NATHANIEL  b.  1710,  Hatv.  1711,  and  died  in  Falmouth  12  Jan.  1700. 
a«pd  50. 


"i. 


APPENDIX 


353 


COFFIN,  REV.  PAULD.  D.  b.  10  Jan.  17r)7,  Harv.  1750,  ord.  in  Buxton  Mo.  IG 


IMii 


17()'l,  and  died  there  G  .June,  IWl,  n^ed  hi. 


COFFIN,   CI1AI{].F.S  M.  D.  1)rotlipr  to   Paul,!).   17  An;;.  1711,  Ilarv.  17.59,  was  a 
))li 


))liysirian  iii  Newliiiiy  and  i\('Ul)iii ypoit,  and  died  ;il)  April,  IW'il,  nearly  bi). 
COFFIN.  C!IAULi;s  :\I.  D.  b.  I  Sept.  17(i'),  Haw.   17h.j,  was  a  physician,  a  teacher 

in  PortsnioMth,  N.   II.  and  died  in  Ueanlort,   S.  C.  b  Sept.   18:J0,     Principal  of  the 

acadeniv  in  Ihat  place. 
COFFlV,  RF.V.  EHFXEZF.R  brother  to  Charh^s,  b.  IG  Feb.  1709,  Harv.  1789,  ord.  in 

lininswick.  Me.  •,'■'!  .hirie,  17'J.1,  ilismi-ised  1802.  and  died  in  Newbury  2G  Jan.  1810. 
COFFIN,  JOSHFA  b.  12  Oct.  17!)-',  Dart.  ISili,  resides  in  Newbury. 
COFFIN.  REV.  CHARLES  b.  15  Au-.  177.'3,  Mr.  i).  U.  at  Wnis.  Ih07.       Pres.  of 

(ireenville  college  in  'I'ennessee. 
COFFIN.  CHARLES  HECTOR  IM  April,  1801,  Green,  coll.  1824. 
COFI'MN,  UEOIKil",  b.  1802,  Bowd.  1829,  was  a  student  in  Audover,  and  died  in 

Newlmrv.  Sept.  18:i0. 
COKER,  THEODORE  b.  IG  Oct.  1707.  llarv.  1720. 

COKI'.U,  ROP.ERT  A.  19  March,  1807.  Ilarv.  18.il,  and  d.  S  JIarch,  ISH^. 
COLMAN,  DI'DLI'V  b.  13  Ansr.  17-1.'),  Ilarv.  l/O.'j,  was  town  clerk  in  Newbury,  \va8 

an  adjutant  in  the  army,  removed  to  Boston,  thence  to    I3rooklield,  N.  II.  where  he 

died  HI  Nov.  17'.i7. 
COLMAN,  THOMAS  brother  to  Diulley,  b.  8  JNIarch,  1751,  Harv.  1770,  and  was 

drowned  at  Newbury  bar  2S  Oct.  1781. 
COLMAN,  II.  CH.-MiLES  Bowd.  1811. 

CONNER.  I'HINl'.HAS  S.  22  Auirust.  18i:i,  Dart.  ISWi,  is  a  physician. 
CROSS.  R0I5I;RT  b.  .-{  July,  1799,  Harv.  1819,  is  a  lawyer  in  .Uichiijan. 
COUCH,  Ri;V.  PAUL,  b.  20  June,  18li:),  Dait.  182:i,  ord.  in  West  Newbury  31  March, 

1827,  resiiiued  11  Aug.  1828.  ibeii  seltled  in  Belhleheni,  Conn.  18o0,  and  again  settled 

7  Oct.  18:i(;.  in  Nurlh  Bridiiewater,  Mass.  where  he  now  resides. 
CUSHINt;,  CALEB  b.  in  Salisbury,  Harv.  18|7,  was  a  tutor  in  Harv.  coll.  memb.  of 

con<;ress.  and  late  minister  to  China,  resides  in  Newburyport. 
CUSHINti,  WILLIAM  Harv.  181:{. 

DUMMER,  REV  SHUBAKL  b.  17  Feb.  ir,:ii;,  ll;,rv.  IO.'jO,  preached  at  York  1002, 

ord.  there  It  Dec.  1072.  and  was  there  killed  by  the  Indians  as  ho  was  iiiouuling  his 

hor.so  lit  liis  own  door  25  Jan.  10'.i2. 
DIJ.MMI'.R.  NATHANIEL  II  Feb.  1721,  Ilarv.  17l.j,  and  was  drowned  on  his  return 

from  a  voyai;!'  at  sea. 
DALTO.V  TRISTRAM  b.  28  May,  1738,  Ilurv.  1755,  resided  in  Newburyport.  where 

he  ilied  :i()  ."\lay.  1817.  aired  79. 
DA  ETON,  lOliN  C.  M.  D.  b.  Harv.  181 1,  was  a  physician  in  New  Boston, 

N.  II.  and  dii'd  ,lan.  IMiO,  ai;ed  ^5. 
DANA.  REV.  WILLIAM  C.  b.  Vi  Fob.  ISIO,  Dart.  1S28.  seltled  in  Charleston,  S,  C. 
DODtn:,  ALLl'.N  \V.  I).  9  April,  1801,  Harv.  182G.  resides  in  Hamilton.  Mass. 
DOLE,  REV.  (iEORGE  T.  ^Yale.  18;j8,  ord.  in  Beverly,  .Mass.  0  Oct.  1842. 

DUTTON.  ALFKIH)  Bowd.   1M2. 

E.Mi;ilV.  REV.  SAMUELb.  20  Dec.  1070,  Ilarv.  1091.  ord.  in  Wells,  Me.  29  Oct. 

1701.  and  dieil  2^  Dei'.  1721. 
E.MERV.  ANI'HONV  b.  5  Sept.  17ir!,  Harv.  17;!G,  was  a  physician  in   Chelmsford, 

AIiss.  then  Hamilton.  N.  H.  where  he  dieil  19  Aug.  17si,  aiced  07. 
EMEU  V,  REV.  Si'El'HEN  b.  Harv.  1730,  settled  in  Nottingham,  N.  H. 

E.MERV,  THO.M.VS  b.  17.7(1.  ilarv.  17r,S,  di,  d  21  Nov.  1770. 
E.MERV,  REV.  SAMUEL  M.  10  April,  18ul,  Ilarv.  1830,  settled  as  an   episcopal 

clergyn.an  in  Portland,  Conn. 
E.MI'.kV.  REV.  SAMUF.L  H.  181.7,  Anih.  i8:!|,now  in  Tannion.  Mass. 
E.MERV.  JOSIU'A  jr.  b.  1807,  Anih.  is:il,  settlediii  Fitchburg,  now  in  N.  Weymouth. 
EMEKSO.N.JOHN'E.  Amh.  IMl. 

El'STIS.  JOHN  b.  21  April,  1790,  Harv.  IMO. 
E.MERSON,  REV.  JOHN  b.  Harv.  172G,  ord.  in  Topsfield,  and  died  U 

.Inly.  177  1,  aued  i\\. 
FI'.L'l'O.V  CORNELIUS  C.Mr,  tutor  and  prof,  in  Harvard  university,  I).       Ilarv.  1S37. 
FELT-;N.  SA.MEEL  .AL  llarv.  1834 

FLANDE.KS,  CH.VkLES  b.  Harv.  1808,  and  is  a  lawyer  in  Plainfield,  N.  H. 

FaRNHAM.  JOHN  HAV  b.  22  July,  1791,  Harv.  ISll,  studied  law,  resided  in  Salem, 

Indiana,  where  he  died  10  .luly,  1S33. 
GERRISIl,  REV.  JOSEPH  b.2:i  March,  1050,  Ilarv.  IGilO,  ord.  in  Wenham  12  Jan. 

1ii75,  and  died  IG  Jan.  1720,  aged  70. 
GERRISH,  MOSES  b.  10  .June,  1711,  Harv.  1702,  was  a  school  teacher,  and  removed 

to  Grand  Menan,  where  he  died  in  1825. 

45 


t  •" 


IIP 


I 


354 


APPENDIX. 


GERRTSH,  JOSEPH  b.  5  March,  1775,  Dart.  1797,  studied  law,  afterward  went  to  sea 

as  commander  of  a  ship  for  several  years,  and  died  in  Newbury  0  Dec.  18^9. 
GILMAN,  KZl'IKIKl.  SI  ,Ian.  ISI7,  Harv.  JS.'il). 
GRKENLEAF,  REV.  DANIEL  b.  10  Feb.  lilSO,  Harv.  1099,  ord.  in  North  Yarmouth, 

17()S.     He  lonioved  to  Boston,  where  he  dieii  'JT  Au;;.  1703,  ai'ed  H:t 
GREENLEAF,  STEPHEN  b.  4  Oct.  1704,  Harv.  17J:!,  was"  sherilF  of  Suffolk  Co.. 

and  dieil  ,fan.  179.'),  ai^ed  91. 
GREENLEAF,  BENIAMINb.  March,  17:!>  Harv.  17-)l,was  judge  of  probate,  and 

jud^e  ol  common  pleas.     Ho  died  13  Jan.  1799,  aged  07. 
GRI-JENLEAF,  SIMON  ]\Ir.  LL.  D.  b.  Uowd.  1817,  practiced  law  for 

some  years  in  Portland,  and  is  now  prof  nf  law  in  Harvard  university. 
GREENLFAF,  RKV.  JONATHAN  brother  to  Simon,  Bowd.  ISM,  ord. 

in  !S15,  \Volis,  Me.  then  preacher  to  the  seamen  in  N.  Y.  for  some  years,  and  settled 

in  Bronklyu,  Loni:  Island,  s  March,  ISIS. 
GREENLI;AF,  ClIAIiLF.S  II.  b.  Dart.  18W.  and  died 

GREENLEAF,  ALFRED  Dart.  1S3S,  teacher  of  the  High  school  in 

Bmoklyu,  Long  Island. 
GREKN'LEaF,  JAMF.Sb.  Dart.  1S.31. 

GORDON,  WILLIAM  A.  Mr.  M.  D.  Ilarv.  ISJii,  is  a  physician  in  Hingham,  Mass. 
GOULD,  BENJAMIN  A.  Harv.  1S14,  was  tor  many  years  teacher  of  the 

Latin  school  in  Boston. 
HALE,  RFV.  \|()Si:Sl).  lOJuly,  1G7S,  Harv.  1699,  ord.  in  Newbury.  Byfield,  Oct. 

1700,  and  (lied  .Fan.  17  S'i,  air.  OiO 
HALE.  REV.  i\IOSEJb.  1703,  Harv.  17:20,  ord.  in  Chester,  N.  H.  20   Oct.  17"',  aniV 

dismissed  I  June.  17.'!'). 
HALF,  REV.  MOSi:S  b.  18  Jan.  \lir,,  Harv.  1731,  settled  in  Newbury,  west  parish, 

20  Feb.  17W,  and  died  1.3  Jan.  1779.  ai;ed  01. 
HALE,  REV.  .AIOSES  son  of  the  precedina:,  b.  in  Rowley  1»  Feb.  1749,  Harv.  1771, 

ord.  in  Boxfoid  and  died  20  May,  ]7S(i. 

HALE,  NATHAN  b.  1  March,  17'.'0,  Harv.  1739,  and  died  in  Newbury. 
HALE,  8A.AIUEL  b.  21  Aug,  171  s,  Harv.  17  10.     In  171.3,  he  comnmniled  a  compary 

of  provintialsat  Louisbnra;,  and  for  more  than  thirty  years  was  a  distinguished  teach- 
er of  ynnlh  in  Portsmouth.  N.  II.     He  died  10  July,  iS07,  a"ed  S9. 
HALE,  RI'.V.  BENJAMIN,  Mn.  Bowd.  1818,  and  at   Dart.   1827,  tutor 

and  prof  and  now  president  of  Geneva  colleije,  N.  Y. 
HALE,  EBENEZHR  M.  D.  I).r>.  IS29. 

HILLS.  WILLIAM  Oberlin  Ins.  1SH. 

HOiXiE,  NICHOLAS  b.  20  May.  1719,  Harv.  1739,  and  died  in  1743,  a^ed  24. 
HODGE.  .MICHAEL  b.  9  Sept.  1780,  Harv.  1799,  and  died  0  July,  ISIO,  aged  30. 
HOOPER,  REV.  HEZFKIAH  b.  1709.   Harv.  1789.  nrd.  in   Boylston,  12  March,  1794 
HOOPER,  THOMAS  W.  b,  27  Jan.  1771,  Harv.  1789,  died  in  the  naval  service. 
HOOPER,  STEl'HEN  b.  7  April,  178:7,  Harv.  isns,  practiced  law,  removed  lo  Boston, 

and  there  died  in  182,').     He  had  been  repre5entative  and  senator  of  Essex  co.  Mas- 
sachusetts. 
HORTON,  REV.  WILLIAM  settled  in  Dover,  N.  H. 

HOWARD,  REV.  WILLIAM  G.  Amh.183.'). 

HI'SE.  STEPHEN  b.  10  Nov.  1702.  Harv.  I72i;. 

HUDSON.  H  F.VR  Y  I.  Harv.  ISl.i,  studying  divinity,  in  Cambridge. 

INtVALL,^,  WILLIAM  b.  3  May,  1709,  Harv.  1790,  M.  D.  and  prof  at  Brown.     Ha 

now  resides  in  Boston. 
JACKSON,  JUDGE  CrlARLES  b.  31  May,  177.7,  Harv.  1793.  resides  in  Boston. 
.)  ACKS()N,.1AMFS  MR.  M.  D.prof.  b.  2  Oct.  1777,  Harv.  1790,  is  a  physician  in  Boston. 
JEWETT,  REV.  CALE  B  b.  Dart.  1770,  ord.  in  Gorham,  Me.  5  Nov.  1783, 

and  dismis-ied  and  ■lied  in  1800. 
JAQUES.  STEl'HEN  b.  J  Feb.  10^.7,  Harv.  1707.  resided  in  Newbury,  was  a  notary 

puldie.  anil  a  teacher  nf  youth.     He  died  about  1779. 
JAQUES.  REV.  RICHARD  b.  1  April,  1700,  Harv.  1720,  ord.  in   Gloucester,  3  Nov. 

1727,  and  di(>d  12  April,  1777,  aged  77. 
JOHNSON,  JONATHAN  G.  Harv.  1810,  is  a  phy.sician  in  Newburyport. 

KELLY,  REV.  WILLIAM  b.  31  Oct.  1711,  Harv.  1707,  ord.  in  Warner,  N.  H.  5  Feb. 

1772.  and  dismi.sscd  11  March.  18ni,  and  died  IS  May.  181,3. 
KENT,  AMOS  b.  10  Oct,  1774,  Harv.  1795,  was  a  lawyer  in   Chester,  N.  H.  and  died 

IS  June.  1.821.  aged  19. 
KENT.  MOODY  Harv.  I'^OI.  is  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Concord,  N.  H. 

Kl.MBALL,  FDWARD  b.  10  Anir.  179'!.  Harv.  1811,  resides  in  Wenham 
KNAPP,  JACOB  NEW.MAN  7  .Nov.  1773,  Harv.  1802,  resides  in  Walnole,  N.  H. 

KNAPP,  SAMUEL  LORENZO  LL.  D.  at   Paris,  1>. Dart.  1804,  was  a  lawyer 

in  Newburyport,  thence  to  Boston,  and  died  in  Hopkinton,  IMass. 


APPENDIX. 

Dart.  1840. 


255 


KN.\PP.  PHTLIP  COOMBS 

LE  BRETON,  EDMUND  L.  Harv.  1S-J4,  practices  law  in  Newburyport. 

LITTLE,  SILAS  I).  March,  ■751,  Dart.  177r,,  resiilos  in  Newbury. 
LITTLE,  MOSES  b.  3  July,  1700,  Harv.  17S7,  was  a  pliysician  in  Salem,  Mass.  and 
(lioci  13  Oct.  ISll.  '  J    .J  . 

LITTLE,  MICHAEL  b.  14  March,  1771,  Dart.  1702,  and  died  i.i  Newbury,  29  Marcli, 
1830.  j'l  1 

LITTLE,  EDWARD  brother  to  Michael,  K  12  March,  1773,  Dart.  1797,  and  now  re- 
sides in  Danville,  Mo. 

LITTLE,  JOSIAH  brother  to  the  two  preceding,  b.  13  Jan.  1791,  Bovvd.  1811,  reside.s 
in  Newbiirv. 

LITTLE,  JOSIAH  S,  b.  in  Minnt,  Me.  Bowd.  ISJ.'),  is  a  lawyer  in  Foriland,  Me. 

LONGFELLOW,  STEPHEN  b.  1723,  Harv.  17  12.  moved  to  Portland  17  1.7,  was  a 
school  leaclier,  parish,  and  town  rlork  22  years,  rei;isler  of  probate  10  years,  clerk 
of  Ihe  court  10  years,  and  died  1  May,  1791),  a';ed  07  years, 

LOXGFELLOW,  EDWARD  b.  I7.'.s,  Dart,  17Sil,  was  a  leacher.  commanded  a  com- 
pany in  the  expedition  against  Daniel  Shays,  and  died  .')  Sejit.  1791. 

LORD,  REV.  THOMAS  N.  b.  19  Aug.  1S07,  Bowd.  183'),  and  oid.  in  Topsham,  Me. 

LOWELL,  JOHN  LL,  D,  b,  17  June,  1713.  Harv.  1700,  commenced  the  practice  of 

law  in  Newl)nrvport,  removed  lo  Boston,  and  there  died  0  Mav,  ]S02.  a>;ed  'iS. 
L0WI:LL,  JOHN  LL.  D.  b.  in   Nuubnryport,  Harv.  1780,  was  a  lawyer  in  Boston, 

where  he  died. 
LOWELL.  FKANCIS  C.  brother  to  John,  b,  7  April.  177.-).  Harv.  179.3,  and  died  in 

Bnsion,  18IS.     He  studied  law,  became  a  manufacluror,  and  in 
LENT,  JOSI'H'H  1),  Han  ,  1737.  and  died  at  sea. 

LENT,  RE  V.  WILLIAM  P.  b.  2  Ap.  180.7,  Harv.  1S23,  oid,  in  Quincv,  3  June,  1825. 
Ll'.N  i\  (JEORliE  b.  31   Doc.  1803,  Harv,  1821,  is  a  lawyer  in  Newbu'rvport. 
JMctiAW,  THORNTON  born  in  Newburyport,  Dart.  1820,  and  is  a  lawver  in  Ban- 

Jior,  .Mo, 
MARCH,  REV,  EDMTND  b.  1703,  Ilarv.  1722,  ord.  in  Amesbury.  3  July,  172S,  re- 

siiriied  19  March,  1713,  and  died  in  Newbury,  0  March,  1791,  aged  88. 
MARCH,  Ri:V.  JOHN  C.  b.  9  Oct.  1805,  Yale,  1S25,  ord.  in  Newbury,  Belleville,  1 

Much.   18.32.  •" 

MERRILL,   REV.  NATHANIEL  b.  1  ^Tarch,  1713,  Harv.  17,32,  ord.  at  Nottingham 

"West,  now  Hudson.  30  Nov.  1737,  and  died  1790.  ajijed  S3. 
MERRILL,  REV.  NATHANIEL  b.        171.3,  Harv.  1707.  ord.  in  Boscawen,  19  Oct. 

17(i8.  dismissed  1  April,  177  1,  and  died  in  I'onltiiev,  Vt.  Oct.  1791,  a"ed  K 
:MERRILL.  JOriXb.  3.1aii.  \VX\  BowO.  IMI.  resides  in  ^Voodl)Uly,  S.J. 
IMERRILL,  Ri:V,  TIIO.MAS  nil.  b.  n  Mav.  1814,  Uatervilh-,  IMl. 
.MERIilLL,  DaVID  h,  7  Ool.  isor.,  Vale,  1827,  lives  in  Newburyport. 
*M()OI)V.  REV,  JOSHl'A  b.  1(;32,  Harv.  10.7.3.  ord.  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.  1071,  was 

minister  of  the  iirst  church  in  Boston,  from  23  May,  lOM,  till  1092,  and  died  in  Bos- 
ton. I  Julv,  li!97,  in  his  Oolh  year. 
MOOD  V.  REV.  SAMI'EL  b,  1  Jan.  1075,  Harv.  ]0.'.i7,  ord.  in   York,  20  Dec.  1700,  and 

there  'lied  13  Nov.  1717. 
MO()DY,  SAMI'EL  1).  170(1,  Ilarv.  171^,  commanded  the  fort  at  Pomaquid.  then  fort 

Gooru'e,  was  a  phvsician  in  Iiiin!.swick-,  where  ho  died  in  1  ;.'-•, 
:MOOD  V.  KEV.  J()IIN  b,  170.7,  Harv,  17-,'7,oid.  in  Newmarke^    .'.7  No  ■,  1730,  and  died 

15  Oct,  177s,  aL'ed  7:1. 
MOODY,  REV,  A.MOSb,  20  Nov,  17.39,  Harv,  17.79.  ord.  in  Pelliam,  N.  H.  20  Nov. 

170,.7.  dismis.->e(l  in  1792.  and  died  22  Maich.  1M9.  aycd  79. 
IMOODV,  REV.  SlLASb.L'*,  April,  1712,  Harv.  1701,  ord.  in  Arundel  9  Jan.  1771,  and 

died  Ajiiil.  IMO. 

JMOODV.  sri;i'HEN  b.  Harv.  1790,  was  a  lawyer  in  G'ilmanfon,  N.  H. 

where  lie  died. 

MOODV,  SA.MI'ELb.  Dart.   1790,  moved   to   Hallowell.  Me.  where  he  died. 

]\1001)Y,  NA1'1I.\N  h.  Dart.  179.7.  resided  in  llallowell,  ;Me. 

I\10RSE,  lii;  V.  JOHN  b.  13  Sept.  1070,  ILuvaitl,  li'.rj,  oid.  in  Newton  on  Long  Island 

ill  lii'.i7. 
IVIORSE,  REV,  JOSEPH  b,  10  Feb.  1072,  Harv.  1095,  ord.  in  Stou-hton,  now  Canton, 

311  Oct.  1717.  and  died  VH  Nov.  17:12. 
MORSE,  PARICER  b.  20  April,  1717.  Harv.  1731. 

MORSi;.  lir.MI'ilRE  V  b.  1.808,  Amh.  1831,  and  died  in  Newburv,  April,  18.30. 
]\IOR  ■!S.  RF.V.  JA.MES  D.  D.  h.  25  Oct.   1779,    Harv.   ISOO,  oid.' rector  of  St.   Paul's 

cli'irch  ill  .\e«  biirvpDil,  wlioie  he  died  2(')  .April.  18  |2. 
MOSELE Y,  RF.V.  WILLIAM  OXNAKD  Harv.  1830,  b.  27  April,  1815, and  is  settled 

111  Sciluale,  Masa. 


ill 


li 


356 


APPENDIX. 


NKWMAN.  SAMT^KL  jr.  Amh.  1840,  now  in  Newbiirv. 

NOIM'IIKNM),  Wir.LIAM  DUMMRR  Jiowd.  ISi;!,  is  stiulying  law.       - 

jN'DUTON.  STHI'HI;\  S.  O  Iu-1j.  17bS,  Haiv.  ISO.',,  ami  <lioil  youii!;. 
NOYHS,  KF.V'.  JA.MI^S  1).  1  Mirch.  KUO.  Iliiiv.  l(i.')'.i,  w;is  a  preacher  in  Stonington, 

Conn.  lOiil,  oril.  there  ID  Si'pt.  l(17i'i,  und  died  :il)  Doc.  17I'.». 
NOVf^S,  Ri:V.  MO.SKSb.  (1  Dec.  Kit!.  Ilarv.  lO.V.),  was  the  first  minister  in  Lyme, 

Conn,  and  died  there  II)  \ov.  17-Mi.  ai^ed  .s:i. 
NOYi;S.  Ri;V.  MCIIOLAS  1).  -2-^  Dec.  Hi  17,  Harv.  1007.  preached  in  Iladdam,  Conn. 

Vi  years,  ord.  in  Salem  1  I  Nov.  Iiis;!,  and  died  I:i  Dec.  1717,  ayed  70. 
NOVi;S,  lir.V.  KD.MI.XD  b.  ■>'.}  .March,  17-."J.    Harv.  1717,  ordi  in  Salisbury,  20  Nov. 

17.')1,  and  die<l  r.'  .Tnlv,  \h{)U.  '   ■ 

lVOY'',S.  K 15 1; .\ I' Z 10 II  b.  1 7oO,  Nassau  17-50,  was  a  physician  in  Dover,  where  he 

died  11  Anu'.  1707,  a-ied  ;.>.S 
NOYES,  R|.;V.  NA  THAN'  .L  b.  Vi  Anj.  17;!'>,  Nassau  Hall  17.')0,  ord.  in  Southamp- 
ton, N.  II.  Xi  Feb.  170:i,  disniis.sed  8  Dec.  IMlO,  and  died  in  Newburyport.  Dec.  IJ^IO, 

aired  7.'). 
NOVKS,  RF.V.  THOMAS  b.  Harv.  170.-).  and  died  in  Newburv. 

NO Yi:s.  NATHAN  M.  D.  b.  Dart.  17U0,  was  a  physician  in  Newburyport, 

ami  died  Sept.  ISl'i. 
NOYFS,  Ri:V.  .n;UF.\IIAII  Dart.  179'J,  ord.  10  Nov.  ISCD,  in  Gorham, 

and  died  1  •')  ,lan.  1S07. 
NOYFS.  3IOODY  Harv.  ISOO. 

NO  Y1-;S,  DA.MFL  b.  '-'O  ,Tan.  17.'!'.),  Harv.  n'lS,  was  register  of  probate  for  Essex,  and 

ilied  in  Tpswii'h  '.'I  Mirch,  181,5,  aued  77. 
NOYFS,  ,IOSIlF.\  b.  17.1!).  Nassau."  1759,  was  pastor  elect  of  the  church  in  Kingston, 

\.  H.  and  (li<-d  S.lnlv.  I77:t.  aijed  :il. 
NO  YES,  .roil.V  b.  !)  Nliv.  I70'J,  Harv.  17.5:1.     He  died  1:1  Aug;.  17.511,  a^red  .50  years. 
NOYFS,  Rt:V.  (;E0R(;F  R.  b.  O  .Mnvli.  179S,  Harv.  ISI.S,  ord.  in   Brooklield,  Mass. 

:tl  Oct.  1S'.'7,  resettled  in  Petersham  15  Oct.  18:il,  and  is  now  a  prolessor  in   Harvard 

U'liversitv. 
NOYi;s,  FRANCIS  V.  M.  D.  'iJ  Sept.  isno.  Dart.  1S:!1,  is  a  physician  in  Newburyport. 
NOYFS.  I)  AXII;E  p.  Yale,  IMo,  is  now  s  tutor  in  Yale  coUeije. 

OTHUEN.  .FOIIX  .M.  Rowd.  ISOO.  is  a  lawyer  in  Boston. 

OTIS,  RF.V.  (i  F.OllOE  11  .July,  17'.)7,  Harv.  1S|5.  was"a  tutor  and  professor,  vector  of 

Christ  chuich.  C  iiiibridge,  and  diei!   >'>  Fob.  IS-.'Sj. 
PARISH.  .MOSFS  P.        "  Bowd.  is:i'2. 

PARSONS.  SA.MUl'.E  IT.  son  of  Rev.  .lonalhan  P.  of  Newburyport.  b.  at  Lyme,  Conn. 

11  .\I>v.  17:i7,  Hirv.  175:i.  was  a  lawyer  in  .^lilldleto^vn,  Conn,  was  a  m  ijor-u:eneraI 

in  the  Revolutionary  army,  was  an  aid   to  general    \Vashin!j;ton,  by  whom  ho  was 

afterward  appointed  ijoverruir  of  the  Northwestern  territory.    He  was  drowned  in  Big 

B"aver  creek.  Oiiio,  Nov.  1'.'.  17M).  niiod  .5'.'. 
PARSONS,  .MOSFS  b.  i:!  May,  1711,  at   (liouce.ster,  Harv.  17r,.5,  practiced  law  in 

Haverhill.  whiMO  lie  died. 
PARSONS.  Tlll-.OPIIILI'S  LL.D.  A.  A.  S.  b.  2\   Feb.   17.50,  Harv.  1709.     Chief 

jiHtioe  sup.   iud.  court,  Mass. 
PARSON'S,  .HlXATIlAX  (J.  -.VMulv,  170,1,  Yale  1777,  and  died 
PARSONS,  TIIFODOIll',  b.  Anir.  1751.  llarv.  177:!,  went  out  fr.im  Newburyport  as 

a  surireou  in  the  Benninglon  privateer,  and  was  lost  in  1779.     A  young  'm,in  of  onii- 

iient  aliilities  and  di>;linu;ui>lied  virtues.' 
PARSOXS,  TIIFOPHIM'S  b.  17  May,  1707,  Harv.  18i.-,,and  practices  law  in  Boston. 
PAUSOXS.  CHARFF.S  C.  h.S  April,' )7.s-.>,  Harv.  ISOl. 
PARSOXS,  W'll.MAM  b,  17  Fob,  ISOO,  Harv.  ISIS. 
PEARSON,  FLII'HALFT  LL,  D.  A.  A.  S.  b.  11  .luue,  17,5>,  Harv,  177:!,  and  died 

in  (Jreenland,  X.  H.  Sept.  ISJO,  aged7l.     He  was  prof  lang.   Harv.   univ.  and  prof 

sac.  lit.  And.  lh"ol.  sem. 
PI'ARSO.N,  ABIi;L  .M.  D.  b.  1750,  Harv.  1779,  was  a  physician  in  Andover.  where  he 

died.  .Miv.  1S.'7,  aired  71. 
PIORLEY,  .lEUEMIAH  b.  1 1  March,  17sl,  Dart.  IS):!,  was  a  lawyer  in  Orono,  Me. 
PERKINS,  HilNRY  C.  .M.  D.  b,  llarv.  ISil,  is  a  physician   in  Newbury- 

(lort. 
PF  rriNOEFF.  A.MOS  b.  '.'0  Oct.  IsOl.  Yale,  ISjl,  was  tutor  three  years  from  lSi7, 

and  died  :iO  .Nov.  l^:!l,  ai;ed  '.'7, 
PIDGIN.  RFV,  WII.LIA.M  b.  1  March,  1771.  Dart.  1701.  nrd.  in   Hampton,  N.  H. -'7 

.I.iri.  1700.,  dismissed  Jiilv,  iS07.  and  resettled  in  Minot,  ilo.  11  Feb.  aiul  dismissed  11 

Aug.  1S10. 
PIERCE,  NATHANIEL  Uowd.  IMI. 

PIERCF.  DANIEL  b.  Harv.  17-.'S. 

PIEUCi:,  CHARLES  b.  •-'  Feb,  17:20,  Harv.  1711,  and  died  17SS. 


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357 


PIERCE,  REV,  THOMAS  b.  11  Oct.  1737,  Harv.  nr>0,  ord.  in  Scarboro,  Me.  Sept. 

17(l-.>,  niiil  (lied  L'li  Jan.  177'). 
PIF.RCE,  ED  Wh\  W.  b.  1,-)  May,  1810,  Amh.  1S.^S,  and  iliecl  13  An:;.  1810. 


mersv 

Nov.  1341 


th,  N.  H.  2S 


rrKE,  REV.  JAMESb.  I   Mnrch,  170:!,   Hiiiv.  iT2\  ord.  in   So 

Oct.  1730,  and  died  19  March,  179:.',  a^'ed  89. 
PlIvE,  REV.  ,IOHN  b.  3  July.  1813,  Bowd.  1S33,  ord.  in  Rowley  11 
riKi;.  I'U.ANCIS  V.b.  Vale  1S33,  and  died 

IMKi:,  R(»liKRT  G.  Ilarv.  1S13. 

PLUMER,  TIIO.MAS  Amh.  i83S. 

PLU.MER,  D.XMl'.L  .M.  D.  b.  4  May,  1819,  Dart.  1840,  is  a  physician  in  Nevvburyport. 
]'[j;,\IER,  HORACIO  b.  JG  Apri.,  18J1,  Davt.  1810,  is  a  lawyer. 
PLUMER,  D.WID  M.  D.  Brnwn  ISJi.  is  a  physician  in  N.  H. 

POOR,  DAMEL  iV.  M.  D.  b.  10  .Iiily,  17.78,  Ilarv.  1777,  was  a  physician  in  Newbury, 

whcip  ho  dicil  ■.'3  ,rin.  1S37,  asrod  7S. 
PRICE,  REV.  EI5EXEZER  b.   14  Sept.  1771.  Dart.  1793,  ord.  in  Belfast,  Me.  29 

Doc.  179i'i,  loft  -l-i  Sopt.  I8l)-J,  and  was  resoltled  in    Boscavven,   N.  H.  20  Sept.   1804. 
PRIXCi;.  BEX.I.  L.  1).  :il  July,  17.v.',  Dart.  1807,  and  died  in  Cincinnati  11  Aug.  181.'). 
R.\.\l).  El)  \V.A,R1)  S.  LL.  B.'  \r,  :\Iarch,  1809,  Harv.  18JS,  is  a  lawyer  ia  Boston. 
R  A  W S O \,  R  !•;  X.  V.  1)  \V  A R D  b.  11a rv.  1 0.73. 

KA\ys().\.  Ri:V.  (;RL\'DAL  b.  in  Boston.  Ilarv.  1078. 
IIOOICRS,  .lOilN  M.  D.  Dart.  1810,  was  a  physician  in  Boscawen,  and  died 

(;.lan.  18.30. 
ROLFE,  REV.  BENMAMIX  b.  13  Sept.  lOO'.',  Ilarv.  1081,  ord.  in  Haverhill,  Ja,i.  1090, 

and  was  killoil  bv  tho  Indians  -^9  Au;,'.  170S, 
ROLI'E.  BEN.rA.MLN'  b.  8  July,  1710,  ILuv.  1727,  was  clerk  of  the  county  court,  and 

diod  -.'1  Oct.  1738. 
ROLLINS.  JOHN  R0D:\IAN  Dart.  18.30. 

ROLKE,  Ri:V.  BE.XJAMI.N  b.  1704,  Ilarv.  1777,  ord.  in  Parsonsfield,  Me.  Jan.  1795, 

disinissi'd  Miy,  IS].'),  inul  diod  ISJO.  n^'od  02. 


ROl5i:RrS.  ROHFRT 


sa\vvi:r.  \\!lli.\m.m.  d. 

SAW  V  ER,  JOS  K  I'll  WUiarns  18i: 

SAVVVKR,  TIIO.MAS  Dart.  180.1 


I).  28  Dec.  17.')1,  Harv.  1771,  died  in  one  of  the  W.  I.  islands. 


Harv.  178S. 


1,  was  a 


piiy 


SAWVER,  .AIIC.AJOII  .MR.  M.  D.  b.  1.7  July,  1737,  Harv.  n.'if 

Xowhnryport,  and  diod  29  Sopt.  181.7,  a!i;ed  78. 
*SEWALL,  JUDGE  SA.MUEL  b.  28  March,  lO-W,  Ilarv.  1071,  and  died  in  Bo 

Jan.  17.30.  n^.  77. 
SEWALL,  STEPIIENM).  171.7,  Harv.  1731.  tau-ht  schi 


sician  in 


.ston  1 


and  Xowburyport,  and  died  in  179.7,  aged  80. 


tor  many  years  in  Newbury 


SI.MPSON,  PAUL  .M,  D.  b. 

SPRIXG,  PIXCKXEV 

SPRIX(r,  REV.  GARDINER  .AIR.  D.  D.  at  Ham.  b. 


Harv.  1S31,  is  a  physician  in  Boston. 


Yalo  1^19, 


N.  Y.  S  A I 


1810. 


Yale  1805,  ord.  ir 


SPRIX(;.  REV.  SA.MUELb. 

ri'-^i'llloil  in  HarHind,  Conn,  i 


Deo.  18-,>0, 


Yale  ISll,  March  21  ord.  in  Abin^ton 


TIMOTHY  b.  -.'.3  Sept.  1011,  Ilarv.  1087 


STKVICXS,  R 

sroxE,  i;i5EX  f. 

SMIl'll    REV.  DAVID  Harv.  1790. 

S  I'ICKXEV,  PETER  LE  BRETON 


P 
ILirv.  lSl:i,  is  studyinii  law. 


ndoipliia. 
STICKXIOY,  JOHN 

1^32. 
SAVET'C.  COL.  SAMUEL 


Dart.  1839,  is  a  physician  in  Ph 


Harv.  ISOl.     Clerk  of  the'court  in  Boston,  and  died 

Ilarv.  1800,  resides  in  Bo.^ton. 
SWF.ETSER.  REV.  SETlt  1.7  March,  18,)7,  Harv.  !S27,  was  a  tutor  in   Cambridge, 


ird.  in  (.'ardinrr,  Mo.  ■J3   Nov.  18: 
Worcester.  Mriss. 


0,  di 


od  8   Nov.  183S, 


and  is  now  scltl 


SlIORF.  REV.  MATTJIEWb.  11  .Ma 


ir.s<',  Ilarv.  1707,  ord.  in  Attloboro'  19  Nov 


1712.  disniissod  .31  :^Iay,  1715,  preached  at  Saco,  3lo.  resettlod  in  Eastt 


diod  1  7  .\pril,  1731 
SAUTH,  REV.  DAXIEL  T.  b.  17  Sept.  1813 
.\ndnvor  l^:tl-(i.  ord.  in  Sherbiirno,  .Mass.  .) 


.Ma 


and 


STOREV,  Cll.  W. 

TAl'PAX,  REV.  BENJAMIN  b.  28  Feb.  i7 


:h.  1831,  wa.s  assistant  instructor  at 
•    l>i.30. 


Harv   18:i.').  a  1,  n-yer  and  clerk  of  h.  of  rop. 


i7v|, 


II 


.irv.  17  12,  or 


d.  in  Manclioster,  Mass. 


viv.  1801,  is  a  physician  in  Au- 


1  I  Sopt,  17  !5,  and  diod  ti  May,  1791).  in  his  7uth  yo;\ 
TAPPAN,  ENOCHS.  M.  D.  "b.  3  March,  17h2,   H 

LfUst  I,  ,Mo. 

TAPPA.V,  DAVID  b.  Mav,  17-'l,  Harv.  1801. 

TAPPAX,  REV.  IH:X,I.VM1X  b.  Nov.  1788,  Harv.  1805,  ord.  in  Anjiusla,  10  Oct.  1811. 


^m^'- 


?r 


358 


APPENDIX. 


TAPPAN.  REV.  DANIEL  D.  b.  20  Oct.  1798,  Bowd.  1S22.  ord.  in  Alfred,  Me.  23 

April.  ISiS,  (li'imis«tMl  28  Feb.  I8:i2,  iiiid  soltled  in  N.  Marshlield,  23  Jan.  lS:tO. 
TOI'PA.V,  REV.  CHRISTOPHER  b.  15  Dec.  1070,  Harv.  1091,  ord.  in  Newbury,  9 

Sept.  I(i9(),  and  died  2:)  July.  1717. 
TOPPAN,  ED.MUXI)  son  of  Christopher  b.  7  Dec.  1701,  Harv.  1720,  was  a  physician 

in  Hnmpton.  and  died  28  Nov.  171)9.  ayed  38. 
TOPPAN,  BKZALEEL  brother  to  Edmund,  b.  7  Maich,  170,'.,  Harv.  1722,  settled  in 

Silnni.  and  died  1702.  aired  ")7. 
TOPPAN,  REV.  AMOS  b.  7  Feb.  1730,  Harv.  1758,  ord.  in  Kingston,  1701,  and  died 

23  .lime.  1771. 
TENNEV,  ALBERT  G.  MR.  Bowd.  183-1,  resides  in  Boston. 

TENNKV,  REV.  DAVID  b.  1718,  Harv.  170S,  ord.  IS  Sept.  1771,  in  Barrington,  N.  H. 

and  died  177S,  ased  30. 
THOMAS.  THOMAS  b  20  Sept.  1773,  Harv.  1790. 
THURSTON.  .rOHX  MR.  M.  D.  b.  Harv.  1S07,  died, 

TILTON.  VVARRKN  Harv.  IR.M. 

TII'COMB.  WILLIAM  S.  b  25  Oct.  1781,  Hjrv.  1801,  and  died  28  June,  1831. 
T[  TCOM  B,  ISAAC  Amh.  ls30. 

TO.MI'SO.N.  SA.MUEL  b.  1  Sept.  109;,  Harv.  1710,  ord.  in  Gloucester,  28  Nov.  1716, 

and  died  9  Dec.  1721. 
TKaCV.  JOHN  b.  19  April,  1757,  Hirv.  1771. 
TUCKER,  JOHN  b.  11  Aug.  1753,  Hdrv.1771,  was  clerk  of  the  court  in  Suffolk,  and 

diel 
TUCKER,  BARNARD  b.  2  April,  1700,  Harv.  1779,  was  >:  physician  in  Wcnham  and 

died  24  ,Ian.  1832. 
TUCKF.R.  UFA'.  ED  RICHARD  b.  )  ^h.  1810,  Dart.  1835. 
TUFTS.  RKV.  JOSrIUA  b    1  Oct.  \hu.  Harv.  i730,  ord  in  Litchfield,  Dec.  17-11. 
TVNti.  DUDLEY  A.  MR.  LL.  D.  h.  3  Sept.  1700,  Harv.  1781,  and  died  1  Aug.  1829, 

nued  09. 
TYNt;,  REV.  STEPHEN  H.  MR.  prof,  ac  Jefferson  coll.  Harv.  1S17,  is  settled  in 

Pl»tladel|)hia.  in  the  church  of  the  Epiphanv. 
T^  NG.  GEORGE  Harv.  1V22.  " 

TYNG.  REV.  JAMES  H.  b.  in  Boston,  Bowd.  1827,  resides  in  Philadelphia, 
WALSH.  JOHN  Hirv.  181 1,  is  a  lawyer  in  Kentucky. 

WKBBKR.  D.  D.  REV.  SAMUEL  b.  13  Jan.  17r.li,  Ilarv.  17si,  was  tutor,  professor, 

and  preside!!'  of  H;irvnrd  colleu^e  ISOii,  and  died  II  Jiilv.  IMO. 
WEBBER.  Ri:V.  JOHN  brotliLM- to  S:imuel,  b.  11  M,iy,"l702.    Dart.  1792,  ord.  in   San- 
down.  1790,  dismissed   in  1800,  settled   in  Catnptoa    Feb   )s  12,  dismissed   12  March, 

1815.  moved  lo  Po.Iim.  on  the  Scioto,  and  was  liviiii;  in  1.S29. 
AVEBS  PER,  REV.  NICHOLAS  b.  19  Oct.  1073,  Harv.  1095,  preached  in  Manchester 

in  1701), 
WHEELWRIGHT,  ISA  \C  W.  b  isoi.  Bowd.  1821,  formerly  principal  of  an  Acade- 

mv  in  Ncv.hiirvpiHl.  now  of  one  ui  Quito,  in  S.  America. 
WIIEELWRKJHT.  JOSEPH  M.  D.  b.  29  Dec.  1791,  Harv.  ISll. 
WHEELWRK.HT.  WILLIAM  W.  Harv.  1821. 

WHIPPLE.  CHARLES  K.  b.  17  Nov.  1808.  Amh.  1831. 

WILBUI?.  HARVEY  M.  D.  Atah.  1818,  is  a  physician  in  Dana,  Worces- 

ter CO.  Miss. 
WILLIAMS,  WILLIAM  b.  0  Auir.  181 1,  Bowd.  1835. 
WOART,   Ri:\'.  JONATHAN  L.  Harv.   1828,  episcop.  of  Tallahasse, 

I'lor.  perished  in  Ih"  Pnlaski,  June,  U»38. 
WHITE.  HON.  PHILLIPS  Harv,  1772,  rep.  U.  S.  cons. 

WOOD.  DAVID  Harv.  ISl  I.,  shipmaster. 

WOOD,  Ri:V.  HORATIO  b.  1  Dec.  1807,  Harv.  1S27,  settled  in  Lowell. 
WOOD,  BARPIIOLOMIIU'  Dart,  l•^ll. 

WOOD.MAN,  Ri;V.  JOSEPH  b.  1718,  Nassau,  n.iO,  ord,  in  Sanbornton,  13  Nov.  1771, 

and  died  28  Sept.  1S07. 
*WOODi;Rll)(iF..  REV,  TIMOTHY  b.  1C50.   Ilarv.  lOM.  ord.  in  Hartford.  Conn.  IS 

Nov.  li'iS.').  and  died  3(1  .Vpril.  1732. 
*W00DBRID(;E,  rev,  JOHN  b.  Harv,  1001,  ord.  in  1007.  in  Killmgby, 

C)'in.  removed  to  Wetherslield,  rind  was  there  insliUed.      He  died  in  109.). 
WOODS.  LEONARD  jiui,  b.  2!  Nov.  1S(I7,  (,'.  C.  1V7,  formerly   prof  of  sacred  lile- 

ralure   in  the  theol.  seniinarv,  B  iivior.  formerly  editor  ot  Lit.  and  Theol.   Review, 

N,  Y.  apiiointed  |)residenl  of  Bowdoin  College,  .Me.  1839. 
W00DBRID(;E.  JOHN  MR.  Harv.  1710.  died  in  Newbury,  13  Dec.  1.731. 

He  laiiyhl  the  public  school  in  Newbury  niinv  year.s. 
YOUNG,  WILLIAM  Harv.  1810,  died  at  sea. 


APPENDIX, 


359 


The  preceding  catalogue  is  doubtless  far  from  being  complete,  not- 
witlistauding  the  pains  that  have  been  taken  to  make  it  as  full  ai-l  ac- 
ctiiate  as  possible.  Of  so  large  a  town  as  ISewhniy,  from  wliiuh  so 
many  families  have  cmigiatcd  lo  various  ])arts  of  the  country  and  the 
world,  and  whose  history  comprehends  a  period  of  more  than  two  cen- 
turies, there  are  probably  many  natives,  entitled  to  a  place  in  this  cata- 
logue, whose  names  thus  far  have  eluded  my  research.  Deficient  as 
it  is,  it  contains  the  names  ol'  more  than  three  hundred  persons,  whicli 
in  point  of  numbers  or  intelligence,  will  bear  comparison  with  those  of 
any  town  in  iS'ew  England  or  the  Union.  Among  them  may  be  men- 
tioned the  lale  judge  Parsons,  judge  Lowell  and  his  sons  John  Low- 
ell and  Francis  C.  Lowell,  president  Webber,  professor  Tcarson,  with 
many  others  who  arc  also  numbered  with  the  dead.  Among  the  liv- 
ing, are  three  of  the  professors  in  Harvard  university,  the  presidents 
of  Eowdoin  and  Greenville  colleges,  and  others,  whom  it  might  be 
deemed  invidious  to  mention.  Nor  let  any  one  su])pose  that  the  dis- 
tinguished sons  of  Newbury  are  confined  to  the  ranks  of  those  who 
have  received  a  collegiate  education.  She  has  contributed  her  full 
proportion  of  those,  who,  without  the  advantages  of  a  liberal  education, 
have,  both  in  civil  and  militaiy  life,  done  honor  lo  themselves  and  their 
country.  Nor  will  her  philantliroj)ists,  her  merchants,  her  scientific  and 
practical  mechanics,  ho  forgotten,  so  long  as  Andover  seminary  and  the 
city  of  Lowell  remain  as  monuments  of  the  munificence  of  Messrs. 
Brown  and  Eardct,  and  the  scientific  skill  of  Messrs.  Lowell  and 
Moody.  To  do  justice  to  the  characters  of  such  men  who  have  passed 
from  among  the  living,  would  require  a  volume,  and  even  to  enume- 
rate the  results  of  the  inventive  genius  of  a  Perkins,  would  occupy  a 
larger  space  in  this  book  than  can  be  spared,  A  passuig  notice  inils 
appropriate  place,  of  these  and  many  others,  is  all  that  my  limits  will 
allijrd. 


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On  reviewing  the  preceding  pages,  the  intelligent  reader  will  readily 
discover  many  omissions  and  deliciencies,  which  it  is  the  ohject  of  these 
pages  to  sujiply  as  far  as  the  limited  space  allotted  me  will  permit. 
With  matciials  on  hand  snilicient  for  anotlior  vohiino,  I  fmd  no  small 
ditlienlty  iu  making  from  them  a  juoper  selection.  To  do  tiiis  the  more 
correctly,  I  shall  follow  the  order  of  time,  and  of  course  shall  first  alhide 
to  the  Indians,  so  far  as  they  are  connected  with  the  town  of  Newbnry. 
From  history,  tradition,  and  the  many  specimens  of  arrow-heads,  pestles, 
gouges,  pipes,  and  hatchets,  whicdi  have  at  various  times  been  found  in 
iSewbury,  it  is  evident  this  region  was  once  the  habitation  and  resort 
of  many  of  them.  Says  Hubbard,  page  thirtieth, '  when  the  English  first 
settled  any  ])lantations  along  the  coast  since  called  New  England,  there 
were  several  nations  of  these  Indians,  that  were  in  some  kinde  of 
confederacy  one  with  another  against  some  other  of  their  potent  neigh- 
bors, that  were  att  enmity,  and  conunonly  they  agreed  to  be  at  peace 
with  those  that  spake  the  same  language.  Those  that  were  seated 
more  eastward  about  Pemmaqnid  and  Kcnnebecke,  were  called 
Tarratines,  betwixt  whom  and  those  that  lived  about  Piscatatpia, 
Merrimacke,  and  Agiiwam,  now  called  Ipswich,  had  arisen  some 
deadly  feud,  npon  the  acrompt  of  some  treacliery  used  by  those  west- 
ern Indians  against  the  others  ;  so  as  every  year  they  were  afraid  of 
being  surprised  by  them,  which  made  them  upon  every  occasion  to  hide 
themselves  among  the  Enn;lish,  after  they  were  settled  in  any  of  those 
l)laces.'  Thus  we  find  in  Winthroi),  volume  first,  page  twenty-seventh, 
'  Lord's  day  f  Jnnej  thirteenth.  In  the  morning  the  sagamore  of 
Agawam  and  one  of  his  men  camn  aboard  our  ship  and  stayed  all 
day.'  Hubbard,  also,  ])agc  one  hundred  and  thirtieth,  says,  'the  next 
morning  jMasconomo  with  one  of  his  men  came  aboard,  being  the 
sagamore  (which  is  the  land  proprietor)  of  that  side  of  the  country 
towards  cape  Anne,  to  bid  them  welcome.'  So  few  in  nund)er  was 
the  tribe  of  this  chieftain,  that  ho  gladly  availed  himself  of  tlie  protec- 
tion of  the  iMiglish  against  the  Tarrantines,  of  whom  they  stood  in 
great  fear.  Agawam,  at  that  time,  comprehended  the  whole  territory 
from  Merrimac  river  on  the  north,  to  Naundteag  river  on  the  south; 
from  Cochichawick,  now  Andover,  on  the  west,  and  to  llie  sea-side  on 
the  east.  Johnson  styles  it,  'tiie  sagamoreship  or  earldom  of  Agawam, 
now  by  our  f]ngli.sh  nation  called  Essex.'  From  this,  and  several 
Indian  deeds  I  have  seen,  it  appears  that  Agawam  included  the  towns 
of  Bradford,  Boxford,  Newbury,  Rowley,  Ipswich,  Hamilton,  ^Venham, 
and  Beverly,  and  so  forth,  of  which  the  Indian  deed  of  Bradford  calls 
Masconomo,  Mascounoraet,  Muschanomit,  alias  Masnuanomanit,  ahas 
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CONCLUSION 


Mnsclinnomet,  nlins  John  of  Agawam, '  chief  sagamore  and  native  pro- 
prietor of  ihe  whole  territory.' 

August  eiglith,  10;Jl,  says  VVinthrop, '  the  Tariautincs,  to  the  niiml)er 
of  one  hundred,  came  in  three  cuiious  and  iii  tiie  night  assaulted  the 
wigwam  of  the  sagamore  of  Agawam,  slow  seven  men,  and  wounded 
John  Satjamore  |Masconotiio}  and  James  |of  Saugus  niul  some  others 
(whereof  some  died  after)  and  rilled  a  wigwam  of  Mr.  Craddouk's 
men,  keiU  to  catch  sturgeoti,  and  took  away  their  nel  .  and  bistaiit.' 

In  Decemher,  IGlU,  the  small  [wx  prevailed  among  the  Imlians,  and 
removed  great  numhers.     In  some  jilaces  'the  English  iielped  to  hury 
whole  families  and  yet  eseai)ed  the  contagion.'*     Thus  the  remnant  of 
what  the  pestilence  of  Uil7  had  spared,  the  small  pox  of  lG:il  had 
nearly  exterminated  before  the  thst  white  settler  had  pitched   his  lent 
within  the  limits  of  (iuascacaiKpien,  which  was  the  following  spring. 
The  first  intimation  that  we  have  that  any  of  Ihe  aboriginal  inhabitants 
resided  at  this  time  in   Newbury,  has  been  mentioned,   page   fortieth, 
where  lot  ^ixty-one  is  granted  to  '  John  Indian.'     That  a  few  Indians  re- 
sided in  Newbury  for  some  years  after  it  was  settled  by  the  English,  there 
is  siilficient  evidence,  but  the  probability  is  that  the  numlier  did  not  at 
any  time   exceed  a  dozen.      In   1050,  April  sixteenth,  'Great   Tom, 
Indian,  sold  to  the  selectmen  of  Newbury  all  his  right,  title  and  interest 
in  all  the  woods,  commons  and  lands  in   Newbury  together  with  his 
th***t  acres  of  iilanting  land  as  it   is  fenced  in  one  entire   fence  in 
Newbury  /i/ini;  nccr  hidiaa  liill'     I  have  as  yet  seen  no  other  notk-e, 
either  preceding  or  subsequent,  of  '  .John  Indian  or  Great  Tom.'     See 
page  hfty-third.       Perhui)s  John   Indian  was  John    Sagamore,  alias 
Masconoino;  but  it  is  useless  to  speculate.     In  1C>;38,  June  twenty- 
eighth,  Ma.sconoino  deeds  to  .^Ir.  John  Winthiop,  for  twenty  pounds, 
'all  the  right,  pro|)erty  and  claim  I  have  or  ought  to  have,  unto  all  tiio 
land,  lying  anil  being  in  the  bay  of  Agawam,  alias  Ipswich,  being  so 
called  now  by  the  English,  as  well  as  such  land,  as  I  n)rmerly  reserved 
unto  my  own  nse  at  Chey)acco,  <«  t/7,w  all  otlirr  land  Ix'loii'jin^:  to  lue  hi 
these  parts,  Mr.  Dumincr's  /a/'w  onh/  excepted;  and  so  forth.     Why  Mr. 
Dummer's  fixrm,  which  had  been  granted  him  by  the  general  couit  in 
1035,  and   contu'med   to   him   by  the   town,  was  excepted,  or  what 
arransemcnt,  if  any,  had  l)ecn  made,  conceniing  the  remaining  part  of 
Newbury  townsliip,  I  have  no  means  of  knowing.    The  next  intimation 
that  I  find  of  any  Indians  residing  and  owning  land  in  Newbury,  is  the 
following : 

•^  At  a  gwerall  cnnrt  hold  in  Boston,  IMay  twenty-second,  1001. 

'Wlmrpas  some  Iiidiiins  as  we  are  informed  pretend  an  interest  in  some  parts  of  the 
laiKt  of  Henry  Sewall,  which  lieth  at  Newbury  falls  somi'times  Mr.  .John  Spencer's, 
which  hn<ls  weie  purchased  of  ye  said  Mr.  Spencer  and  alr.o  have  been  conhrmed  by 
the  towne.  It  is  therefore  orilered  by  ye  court  yt  if  it  sliall  appear  to  said  Sewall  yt 
ye  said  Indians  or  any  other,  have  any  lejai  rifiht  unto  any  part  of  ye  said  land,  that  ye 
said  Henry  Sewall  shall  hereby  have  liberty  to  purchase  ye  same  of  ye  said  Indians. 

Vera  copia.  c,      ,       , 

'Edward  RAWso.N,&tn'<a)-j/. 

The  Indians,  to  whom  the  preceding  court  order  alluded,  must  have 
been  the  family  of  '  Old  Will,'  of  whom  in  1G():5,  March  thirty-lirst, 
Richard  Duramer  bought  seven  acres  for  X  10.     Of  him  and  his  fami- 


*  Lewis. 


t  This  should  probably  be  '  three.' 


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ly  I  Icnrn  nofiing  fmlher  till  June  eiglitf^iilh,  1G79,  when  one  '  An- 
tlrcw  PiiMinec,  nttuiiipv  for  Jt»!),  bioui:;lit  nil  action  nirainst  IMr.  Ilenry 
8'Mvall  '  lor  ck'fainiii;  iVoin  the  saiil  Job  nhuut  an  IGO  acros  of  Uxnd  ut 
INewbiiry  fills,  that  wiis  the  1;uk1  of  Old  Will  tlio  suid  Job  his  gniiul- 
fnllior.'  As  iistcU  in  such  cassos,  tosliiDoiiy  whs  taUcu  «»ii  Vwth  sides. 
On  June  sixleeiilif  l''>79,  Daniel  DcnisHn  thus  vrites  to  Ilonry  8<;wall. 
'  I  am  desired  by  Jnli,  (who  miuricul  Old  Will's  -landchild,  and  in  lu-r 
ri'rht  claims  the  In  id  at  Ntnvbiiry  fatls,  which  h«  long  possessed  and 
now  yon  snv  yon  (uirchased  of  him,)  that  vou  would  innko  out  your 
rigiit  and  tlcy  will  bo  satisfied,  or  othrrw , -?  let  him  or  thcni  have 
quiet  possession,  or  otherwise  let  the  law  cleiulo  the  titU'.  I  can  nivo 
no  advice  bill  believe  they  will  prove  Old  Will  and  others  loiii,'  to  have 
possessed  land  thcrealwnts  and  our  law  oonlirms  their  riglit  to  what 
they  possessed.  I  shall  tronbs  you  no  finther,  resting  yonr  loving 
friend.'  On  Jnne  twenty-first,  Thomas  lirown  lesiifies  in  favor  of 
Mr.  Sewall.     In  favor  of  .Fob  I  copy  the  following  ilcpositions. 

'The  deposition  01  .vioses  iJradst reel  and  Alice  Homes. 

"Thpse  deponents  testilii*th  and  saith  that  abouto  I'onre  yere  nijo,  the  spring  of  the 
year  III  >re  thewarre  heiriui'"  tliiye  liarde  oldn  VV'il  inirii'  oC  Nnwhury  lajps  complain- 
ins;  thui  mistrr  Shovvel  ronijeil  him,  and  that  he  hi  '  his  liiiido  and  cept  it  I'rom 
him.  Mosos  Biiilstroet  asked  Wil  if  hi"  had  not  sonldf  .is  lando  to  Mister  Showell, 
hp  Slid  no,  ho  never  '    d  resuved  wono  1  irthin  of  Master  Showell  for  his  hind.' 

'  Allis  Homes  fnrther  saith  that  she  lived  with  Mr.  Duniiner  and  kncv  thai  Old 
Will  lived  uiid  plaiiled  at  the  fills  for  mmy  yeares  till  Mr.  Smvall's  tallle  worried  him 
out,  ;uid  that  Mr.  Diimru  ,'r  was  desirons  to  buy  old  Will's  land,  but  old  Will  sayd  he 
wa.'!  not  willini;  to  soil  it  from  his  children. 

'June  2;!,  lG7y.     Sworuo  to  before  mo 

B.  Denison. 

'  The  deposition  of  John  Todil  aged  about  58  years. 

'  This  deponent  saith  that  several  times  he  heard  Old  '  Will  (so  called)  Indian  eom- 
plaine  that  Mr.  SUowol  of  Newbury  had  taken  away  in  his  possession  a  ijroat  part  of 
his  land  at  \i;wl)iiry  falls,  \vhioh  complaint  was  before  the  late  wars  with  the  Indians, 
at  which  complaint  this  dopoMou',  -  lith  that  he  was  inuch  troubled  iml  grieved  at  it 
That  an  old  Indian  should  so  com|)laiiie  of  such  Injnrydone  him  by  any  Enijlish. 
He  further  saith  ho  knew  Old  Will  lived  abo\o  Xowbnry  fills  above  live  and  thirty 
years  shice.  and  that  for  the  most  of  that  time  he  lived  there.' 

'Swornc  before  me  June  :J.i,  lt'i7ti, 

Dantei,  Denison.' 


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IIow  this  case  was  decided,  if  decided  at  all  in  court,  I  am  not  in- 
formed, but,  from  two  siibseqiUMit  deeds  that  I  have  seen,  it  appears 
tltat  the  claims  of  Old  Will's  heirs  wore  considered  valid,  as  in  1(581, 
May  fourteenth,  Ilcnry  Sev.-all  buys  for  £20  of  '  Job  ludiau,  grand- 
oliilcl,  Ilaifur  Indian,  and  Mary  Indian,  daughters  to  Old  Will  Indian, 
late  of  jNewlmry  Falls  deceased,  the  Indian  field,  containing  by  esti- 
mation one  iiuudred  and  sixly  acres  be  it  more  or  less  to^iether  with 
all  their  land  in  Newbury  bounds  though  without  yc  said  lines,  and 
so  forth,  and  that  no  other  Indituis  can  lay  any  rightful  claim  thereto.' 

From  these  and  other  papers  i'^  appears  that  in  UiGo,  there  was  in 
Newbury  but  one  Indian  faiuily,  and  that  was  the  family  of  Old  Will, 
which  consisted  of  himself  wife  and  three  daughters,  Ilauar,  Mary, 
and  Kate,  who  had  [irobalily  married  out  of  town.  From  the  Ipswich 
records  it  appears  that  Masconomo  the  sagamore  of  Agawam,  was  liv- 
ing in  February,  KvlH,  as  they  sny  '  loft  to  the  seven  men  to  grant  to 
the  sagamoio  six  acres  of  planting  land,  where  they  shall  appoint,  for 


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CONCLUSION. 


to  plant,  but  not  propriety  to  any  one  but  himself.'  In  IG^'JS,  June  eigh- 
teenth, tiie  town  '  granted  to  the  sagtunoro's  widow,  to  enjoy  that  j)ar- 
cel  of  land,  which  her  Imsband  had  fenced  in,  during  the  lime  of  her 
widowhood.'  This  gives  us  nearly  tiu;  time  when  Mascononio  died, 
llis  widow  was  living  in  IG/G,  aged  .sixty-eight.  From  liie  testimony 
of  reokanami;iet,  alias  Ned  Acocket,  ahas  Old  Xc('.  Jpswicli,  who 
was  sixty-eight  in  1G7G,  Old  Will  was  then  living,  but  had  deceased 
before  IG?!).  From  a  report  made  to  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts 
in  1G7G,  it  appears  'that  there  were  at  anil  about  I|)swich  eight  men 
and  seventeen  woinen  and  children,  Intliaus,  and  Wonolanset's  com- 
pany at  Dunstable  about  sixty  persons.' 

After  the  death  of  Old  Will  it  is  probable  that  his  family  removed 
from  the  town,  as  1  lind  no  recorded  intimation  of  any  native  Incians 
residing  in  Newbury  subsequent  to  that  jteriod,  with  tiie  exception  of 
'  Gasper  INIt^u'ouier,'  who,  on  rrecords  say,  died  IDecember  eighth,  1707. 
There  is  a  tradition  that  an  Indian  squaw  was  living  near  Indian  Hill 
for  a  few  years  after  Mr.  Sauuiel  Poor  bought  land  and  moved  there, 
which  as  near  as  I  can  ascertain,  was  not  far  from  1705. 

I  hear  notiiing  further  of  any  Indians  in  Newbury,  or  of  any  claims 
set  up  by  any  of  them  for  any  land  in  Newbury  till  the  year  1700, 
when  the  irrand-childreu  of  Masconomo  the  sagamore  of  Agawam  laid 
claim  to  the  whole  '  sagamorcship  or  earldom  of  Agawam,  now  by  our 
English  called  Essex,'  which  was  lying  between  Bass  and  Merirnac 
rivers,  and  had  not  been  already  sold.  This  claim  was  allowed  by  the 
inhabitants,  and  deeds  were  given  to  the  towns  of  Bradford,  Doxford, 
Newbury,  Manchester,  Gloucester,  Beverly,  and  so  forth.  Gage's  his- 
tory of  Rowley  contains  the  deeds  to  Bradford  and  Boxford,  both  of 
which  con  lain  the  following  sentence.  '  \Miereas  divers  Englishmen, 
many  years  since  in  the  life  time  of  the  said  Masquonomonit  alias 
Musciionomit,  and  hy  mid  tritk  his  ktioir/rt/sc,  and  license  and  good 
liJdnir,  did  enter  upon  snbd/ie  a/ml  improve  an  English  plantation,  and  Jo 
forth.'  These  deeds  are  very  long  and  are  signed  by  '  Samuel  Eng- 
lish, Joseph  English,  and  John  TJmpee,  grandchildren,  and  t'  j  next 
true,  rightful  and  lawful  heirs  of  xMasquonomonit'  and  so  forth.  The 
deed  to  Newbury  is  as  follows. 

'To  all  ppoplo  to  whom  those  prosenls  shall  comn  Samuel  English,  grandson  and 
lieirof  ■Ma.schiiiiom<^t  the  S;)i;anio;e  of  Aaawain.  an  Indian  in  the  Province  of  ye  Jlas- 
sacluisells  in  New  iMiu'lanii,  srmloth  irrectin;;;  Know  ye  said  Samuel  Etiiilish  Kood 
and  sntticient  reasons  movinc:  hiin  thereto,  hiU  especially  for  and  in  consideration  of 
ye  full  and  just  snmme  of  ClO  in  Current  money  of  New  l';ni;land  trulv  paid  unto  me 
by  Cnttin;;  Xoyes,  .lohn  Kniitht,  Kicliard  l)ole.  John  Worth  and  Joseph  I'ike.  select- 
men of  ye  tow  II  of  Xewhury  in  ye  County  of  Essex  in  ye  Massachusetts  Bay  in 
Xew  Erii;land,  in  ye  hehalfe  of  said  town  of  Xewbury,  wherewith  I  ye  said  Samuel 
Enalish  doe  hereby  acknowledije  myself  fully  satislied  and  paid  and  content  forever 
have  iriven,  (granted,  har:j:ainnd,  sold  and  conlirmed  and  doc  by  these  presents  for  my 
heirs,  executors,  adininistrators  and  assii;ns  forever  give,  grant,  bargain  sell  and  con- 
tirni  unto  ye  abovesaid  selectmen  in  the  behaHie  and  for  the  use  and  propriety  of  said 
toune  and  their  heirs  forever,  a  tract  of  land  containinir  lOnOO  acres  be  it  more  or  less 
lyini,' within  ye  lowneship  of  said  Newhnry  and  containeth  the  whole  towneship  of 
said  town  and  is  abutted  and  bounded,  East  by  ye  sea  North  and  North  West  by  Mer- 
ritnac  river  West  by  J5radford  line  and  South  by  Rowley  line  together  with  all  ye 
wood,  timber,  hinds,  grounds,  soyles,  wateis.  streams,  rivers,  ponds,  huntings,  fishi.  .'S, 
stones,  mines,  minerals,  hereditaments  and  all  ye  appnr'.eiiances  belonging  to  ye  same 
nnd  to  every  part  thereof  within  said  towneship  io  have  and  to  bold  to  them  ye  said 
Cutting  Noves.  John  Knisrht,  Richard  Dole,  ,Fohn  Worth  and  .Joseph  Pike  selectmen  in 
ye  name  and  hehalfe  and  lor  ye  use,  benefit,  and  behoofe  of  said  town  of  Newbury  and 
their  heirs,  executors,  administn'.tors  and  assigns  in  peaceable  and  quiet  possession 


CONCLUSION. 


365 


forever  freely  and  clearly  acquittin;;  and  dischargln;;  all,  and  from  all,  manner  of 
claims  and  demands  whatsoever,  and  iurtlier  I  ye  said  Siimiiei  Kn^lish  doe  hereby 
covonanl,  promise  and  ,<,'ranl  to  and  with  ye  said  selectmen  in  ye  behalle  of  said  lowne 
that  at,  and  until,  ye  nnsealinij  and  delivery  of  these  presents,  1  had  lull  power  and 
lawlul  authority  to  ;;ranl  and  convey  ye  ahovesaul  premises  with  ye  appuitenances 
and  every  part  theieol  as  aforesaid,  it  descending  to  me  liom  Mascha'noniet  SnK^iinore 
as  aloresnui  and  I  \e  said  Sanaiel  Jjiijlish  shall  and  will  loiever  heieafier  mlly  r.nd 
freely  release  and  icIiiKiiiish  my  whole  ri-ht  and  tille  thereunto  and  every  pait  thereof 
hereby  bind  HI!;  mysellip.  heirs,  execiilois  and  adininistrators  foiever  to  deleiid  ye  said 
seleclmen  and  ye  town  of  said  iXcwbmy  in  liieir  possession  of  all  ye  above  man'ed 
and  sponlied  premises  and  their  heiis  lorever  from  ye  hiwful  claimes  of  all  persons 
whatsoever  in  any  manner  ol  wise  and  I  ye  said  Samuel  Enylish  have  heieto  set  my 
hand  and  seal  this  tenth  day  of  January  1701  in  the  1-Jtb  year  of  our  Soverei'Mi  Lord 
William  ye  ^d  King  over  J-^ngland.  ° 

Samiiel  Engt>isii  and  a  seal. 
Samuel   English  ye  surviving  heir  of  Maschanomet  ye  Sjiiamore  of  A-'awam  ap- 
peared  before  us  ye  suhsciibeis  ye  lOlh  day  of  January  in   ye'l:Jlh  year  ol'his  Maies- 
tie's   reign  Anno   Domini  17UI  and  acknowjedged  ye  above  written   instrument  to  be 
his  act  and  deed  before 

Damei-   PiEncElJust. 
Tno.MAs  NovKsJPacis. 

Tlie  preceding  acconiit  embotlics  all  llie  authentic  itiformatioii  con- 
cerning the  Indians  ot'Newbniy  that  I  have  been  able  to  find,  snilable 
for  pidilicalioi:.  There  a;e  vnrioiis  trachtions  concerning  them,  some 
of  wiiich  are  probably  correct,  while  others  cannot  be  Trne.  To  one 
of  these  traditions  J  shall  allude  in  another  place.  Of  the  Indians  in 
'New  England  Hiibbaid,  page  thirtieth,' thus  speaks  :  '  Betwixt  Kenne- 
becke  and  Connecticnt  were  observed  to  bee  abont  twenty  societies 
or  coinpaneyes  of  these  salvages,  when  the  English  first  came  upon 
this  coast.  1.  at  Kcnnebecke.  2.  Casco  bay.  3.  Saco.  4.  Piscataqna, 
5,  Menimacke.  G  The  river  of  Newberry,  att  the  falls  of  which  was  a 
noted  plantation  of  thein,  by  reason  of  the  plenty  of  fish  that  almost 
at  all  seasons  of  the  yecre  used  to  be  tbnnd  there,  both  in  winter  and 
summer.  7.  Att  Agawain,  called  now  Ipswich,  was  another  noted  and 
desirable  place,  for  plenty  of  several  sorts  of  fish  fotind  there  in  time  of 
yeere,  both  at  the  harbor's  mouth  shell  fish  of  all  sorts,  and  other  kinds 
higher  up  the  stream,  and  fo  tchick  bclonixrd  those  nf  Nnvbcrnj  falls, 
that  lyes  in  the  midway  betwixt  Merrimack  and  Agawain. ' 

These  Indians  were  called  Aberginians,  and  however  large  the 
population  in  this  region  might  once  have  been,  it  is  certain  thai  from 
various  causes  the  race  hacl  become  nearly  extinct,  when  the  while 
population  had  determined  to  occupy  the  territory  thus  providentially 
vacated,  and  it  was  with  '  the  knowledge,  license  and  good  liking'  of 
the  [\^\v  that  remained,  that  the  first  settlers  of  Newbury  took  posses- 
sio'i  •">f  |his  then  howling  wilderness,  now  the  comfortable  abode  of 
civilization  aiid  all  its  countless  blessings.  The  '  goodly  heritnffe'  that 
we  now  etijoy  is  the  fruit  of  privations,  sufierings  and  iabois'^almost 
unexampled,  and  to  those  who  were  the  pioneers  in  the  subjugation  of 
this  rude  and  rocky  region  we  owe  a  debt  of  gratitude  which  we  can 
in  no  other  Avay  repay  than  iiy  trnnsmiiting  to  posterity  the  precious 
leirncy  which  wo  now  iniierit.  Rightly  to  estimate  "its  value  we 
should  know  its  cost,  and  be  able  in  some  good  degree  to  appreciate 
the  sacrifices  made  by  our  forefathers.  In  order  therefore  to  have  a 
belter  idea  of  the  difRcidlies  they  encountered,  let  us  examine  a  little 
more  rniiititely  than  we  have  done,  their  qiialificntions  for  the  task 
before  thein.     For  the  purpose  of  illustration  the  first  settlers  of  New- 


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CONCLUSION, 


bnry  may  be  conveniently  divided  into  three  classes,  viz.  1.  The 
ricii  ami  educated  gentlemen,  who  by  birth  or  profession  were  entitled 
to  llie  appellation  of  Mr.  2.  The  arlizans  or  meehanii-s,  who  had 
emigrated  from  the  populous  towns  in  various  parts  oC  England,  hut 
prineipally  from  Wiltsiurc,  and  ;3.  The  yeomen,  or  farmers,  laborers 
and  servants.  Of  such  men  the  first  settlers  of  Newhury  were  com- 
posed, and  the  appearance  of  the  first  com|)any  as  they  ascended  the 
river  Qiiascacunquen,  to  take  possession  of  their  new  home,  accoutred 
as  they  were  in  the  peculiar  costume  of  that  day,  could  we  now  wit- 
ness it,  would  be  indeed  a  curiosity  To  them  with  a  slight  variation 
the  words  of  the  poet  would  be  truly  applicable, 

'  'T  were  worth  whole  years  of  modern  life, 
One  glance  of  their  array.' 

Before  them  was  on  unbroken  wilderness,  covered  witii  a  forest,  the 
lienvy  growth  of  centuries,  which,  with  the  exception  of  the  few 
I)atches  of  corn  ground,  once  cultivated  by  the  Indians,  had  to  be 
cleared  away  before  they  could  raise  even  the  necessaries  of  life.  On 
witnessing  the  sufferiniis  and  privations  of  this  band  of  voluntary  ex- 
iles, most  of  whom  had  been  accustomed  to  the  privileges,  convenien- 
ces, and  even  luxmies  of  their  father-lund,  and  many  of  whom  had 
brought  with  them  their  rich  dresses,  and  silver  plate,  making  a  strik- 
ing contrast  with  their  log  habitations  and  their  rustic  fare,  the  inquiry 
would  naturally  arise, 

'  What  sought  they  thus  afar  ? 
Briijht  jewels  of  the  mine  ! 
The  wealth  of  seas?  the  spoils  of  wart 
They  sought  a  pure  faith's  shrine.' 

Tiiis  was  the  mainspring  of  all  their  movements,  the  secret  of  their 
indomitable  perseverance,  the  guarantee  of  their  success.  Of  those 
qualities,  deemed  essential  to  the  establishment  and  fverpet nation  of 
the  rights  and  j)rivilcges  of  a  people  determined  to  be  free,  our  iMices- 
tors  had  their  full  proportion.  With  a  firmness  amounting  sometimes 
even  to  obstinacy,  and  a  foresight,  for  which  we  should  ever  feel 
grateful,  they  assisted  in  laying  the  foundation  of  those  institutions, 
which  the  lapse  of  more  than  two  centuries  has  left  without  any  ma- 
terial change.  In  substance  their  municipal  and  ecclesiastical  regula- 
tions were  the  same  then  that  they  are  now,  subject  only  to  those 
incidental  variations  and  improvements  consequent  upon  the  increase 
of  wealth,  knowledge,  and  refinement.  Jn  one  respect  the  church  at 
Newbury  was  more  liberal  than  any  of  the  neighboring  churches. 
Says  Lechford  in  1G12,  'of  late  some  churches  are  of  o|)inion  that 
any  may  be  admitted  to  church  fellowship,  that  are  not  extremely 
ignorant  and  scandalous,  but  this  they  ar?  not  very  forward  to  practise 
except,  at  Nciebiiry.'  The  dilHculties  that  occurred  between  them  and 
Mr.  Parker  concerning  church  government,  have  already  been  men- 
tioned, and  no  careful  reader  can  have  failed  to  notice  that  during  the 
whole  of  their  twenty-five  years  controversy  with  Mr.  Parker,  they  at- 
tended his  ministrations  with  the  greatest  regmarity,  added  new  seat.s 
in  the  meeting  house  to  accommodate  the  increasing  number  of  wor- 
shipers, and  i)aid  his  salary  without  hesitation  at  the  very  time  they 
had  suspended  him  from  his  office  of  ruling  elder,  but  had  with  great 


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I 


condescension  granted  him  liberty  '  as  a  gifted  brother,  to  preach  for 
the  odilicatioii  of  the  church  if  he  jilcased.'  Sec  page  eighty-second. 
Jn  their  mode  of  piihhc  worship,  they  differed  but  htlle  from  their 
successors.  Tlie  psahns  were  sung  in  regular  order,  from  the  first  to 
the  last,  four  on  each  sabbatli.  Tiie  precentors  sat  in  the  pows  near 
the  deacons'  seat  in  front  of  the  pulpit.  A  contribution  was  made 
every  sabbath  afternoon,  one  of  the  deacons  saying,  '  brethren,  now 
there  is  time  left  for  contribution,  wherefore,  as  (iocl  haih  pros[)ered 
you,  so  freely  oiler.'*  Says  .Tocelyn,  'on  Sundays  P.  M.  when  sermon 
is  ended,  llie  people  in  the  gallery  come  down  and  march  two  and  two 
abreast  up  one  ile  and  down  another,  until  they  come  before  tlie  desk, 
for  pul[)it  they  have  none.  Before  the  desk  is  a  long  pue,  where  the 
elders  and  deacons  sit,  one  of  them  with  a  money  box  in  his  hand,  in 
which  the  people  as  they  pass  put  their  oflcrings,  some  one  shilling, 
some  two  sbillings,  or  a  half  crown  or  live  shillings  according  to  their 
ability,  and  good  will,  after  this  they  sing  a  psalm.'  This  custom  of 
taking  a  collection  every  sabbath  was  omitted,  says  Mr.  Felt,  in  17G3. 
In  addition  to  the  care  of  the  contribution  Ijox,  the  deacons  had  every 
sabbath  the  charge  of  the  hour-glass,  which  was  set  running  at  the 
commcncemcnl  of  the  sermon,  which  was  hardly  considered  satisfac- 
tory, if  it  were  not  continued  till  the  sands  of  an  hour  had  ceased 
running.  Sometimes  the  horologe  was  again  turned,  and  the  thirsty 
congregation  invited  '  to  take  another  glass.'  To  this  custom,  Mr. 
Shcpard,  of  Lynn,  thus  alludes :  '  tlwu  art  restless  till  thw  tucsome 
glass  be  run  out  and  the  tedioi.s  seru""/i  be  ended.'  In  their  mode  of 
living,  they  differed  in  many  respects  Irom  us.  Tot  nearly  a  century 
after  Newbury  was  settled,  the  inhabitants  hod  never  used  or  seen 
either  tea,  coiice,  or  potatoes.  As  a  substitute,  they  used  bean  and 
pea  porridge,  broth,  hasty  pudding  and  milk,  both  morning  and  evening, 
and  turnips  in  abundance  In  tlie  county  records  of  1657,  I  find  the 
following:  '  Steven  Dow  did  acknowledge  to  liim  it  was  a  good  while 
before  ho  coidd  cntc  his  masters  food  viz.  meate  and  milk  or  drinke 
bcev,  saying  he  did  not  know  it  was  goo<.l,  because  he  was  not  used  to 
eat  such  victuall,  but  to  eato  bread  and  water  porridge  and  to  drink 
V  liter.'  Large  quantities  of  barley  were  raised,  and  mi^lt  was  a  staple 
article,  and  ibr  many  years  after  tlie  first  settlement,  excellent  cro|)s  of 
wliwat  were  raised.  The  common  beverage  wiis  beer,  till  the  growth 
of  their  orchards  enabled  them  to  substitute  cider,  the  consumption  of 
which  has  of  late  years  been  very  much  diminished.  Of  fish,  they 
had  an  abundance,  especially  sturgeon,  cod-fish  and  bass,  of  which  the 
two  latter  were  used,  not  only  for  food,  but  to  manure  their  corn-fields, 
till  forbidden  by  law  in  1C';>'.).  Thoiigh  living  near  the  ocean,  there 
does  not  a])pear  to  have  been  among  the  original  settlers,  for  nianv  years, 
but  two  persons,  who  were  at  .ill  acrpiainted  with  nautical  aliiiirs,  lilt 
Aiptila  Chase  was  hired  in  KUC  to  remove  from  Hampton  to  this 
])lace,  for  the  purposes  already  mentioned.  The  inconveniences  of 
their  want  of  foresight  in  laying  out  the  hiiihway  called  Water  street, 
in  what  is  now  Newburyport,  are  felt  to  this  day,  the  road  beinsj  laid 
out  only  two  rods  in  width,  while  in  all  other  parts  of  the  town,  the  hish- 
ways  were  from  four  to  seven  rods  wide.  From  many  other  consider- 
ations, it  is  also  evident  that  nearly  all  the  first  settlers  were  not  a 


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S6d 


CONCL  USION. 


maritime  people,  and  therefore  did  not  appreciate  their  commercial 
advantages.  Of  the  ninety-one  grantees  of  Newbury,  two  were 
clergymen,  eight  were  'gentlemen,'  two  or  three  had  been  bred  as 
inorciiants,  one  maltster,  one  physician,  one  sciioolmastor,  one  sea- 
captain,  one  mate  of  a  ship,  one  dyer,  one  glover,  three  or  four  tanners, 
seven  or  eight  shoemakers,  two  wheelwrights,  two  blacksmiths,  two 
'linnen  weavers,'  two  weavers,  one  cooper,  one  saddler,  one  sawyer, 
and  two  or  three  carpenters.  Of  the  remainder,  only  a  few  are  styled 
yeomen. 

Such  were  the  men,  who  commenced  and  accomplished  the  task  of 
subduing  this  part  of  the  American  wilderness,  here  jilanted  the  tenth 
church  in  Massachuseits,  and  covered  these  dehghtful  hills  and  valleys, 
once  the  gloomy  aboJe  of  savages  and  wild  beasts,  with  the  evidence 
and  result  of  untiring  industry  and  patient  perseverance,  with   all  tiiat 
is  agreeable  in  civilization,  aiul  consoling  ii'  chrisiianily.     Thai  the  first 
settlers  of  New   Eualand   in   geneial,  and  of  A'ewhury  in   particular, 
possessed  the  fullest  confidence  in  the  righteousness  of  the'   principles, 
and  that  their  desi£;n  to  plant  the  standard  of  the  cross  in  this  heathen 
land  met  the  approbation  of  their  heavenly  Father,  who  won Ul  grant 
success  to  their  uutlcrtaking,  there  is  abundant  evidence.     The  lirst 
judge  Sewall,  whose  father  was  one  of  the  most  distinguished  pioneers 
'in  the  settlement  of  Newbury,  thus  speaks  in  his  '  New   Heaven  upon 
the  New  Earth,'  under  date"  of  1G97,  in  answering  the  objections  of 
those,  who  asserted  that  there  was  '  an  imposibilily  of  subsistii;g  here  : ' 
'It  is  remarkable  that   Mr.   |Tliomasj    Parhrr,  who  was  a  successfull 
Schoolmaster  at  Newhury  in  Barksliirc,  in  the  liajipy  days  of  Doctor 
[William]    Twisse;    was    much    about   this    time    [1G:]4]    preaching 
and  proving  at  7/Mi«c/*  in  Essex   [Mass.]   That  the  passenge-s  came 
over  upon  good  Grounds,  and  that  God  would  multiply  them  as  he  did 
the  children  of  Israel.     His  text  was  Exodus  1 :  7.     And   the  children 
of  Israel  were  fruitful  and  increased  abundantly,  and  multiplied,  and 
waxed   exceeding  mighty;  and  the  laud  was  tilled   with  them.     As 
Mr.   Nicholm   Noi/rs,  who  was  an   Auditor,  and  is  yet  bving,   lately 
informed  me,  Mr.  Far/err  was  at  this  time,  1031,  princi|iallv  concerned 
in  be-iinning  Newhury,  where  the  learned  and  Ingenious  Mr.  Bcii/amut 
Woo^hriil'^c',  Dictor  Tirhsrs  Successor  had  part  of  his  Education  mnler 
his    Uncle    Parker.      Man/   Bmicn    (now    Godfrcyl    the   first-born    of 
Newbury  is  yet  alive  ;  and  is  become  the  Mother  am      '-andmother  of 
many  children.     And  so  inanv  have  been  born  after  n   .  in  the  Town, 
that  they  make  three  or  four  larae  Assemblies,  wherein  God  is  solemnly 
worshipped  every  Sabbath.     And 

'  As  lomr  as  Plum  Island  ^\\n\\  faithfully  keep  the  commanded  Post; 
■  Notwithstanding  the  hectoring  words  an(i  bard  Blows  of  the  proud  and 
boisterous  Ocean  ;  As  Ions  as  any  Salmon,  or  Sturireon  shall  swim  in 
the  streams  of  Merrimack:  or  an v  Perch,  or  Pickeril  in  Cranr  road; 
As  long  as  the  Sea  Fov/1  shall  know  the  Time  of  their  coming,  and 
not  neglect  seasonably  to  visit  the  Places  of  their  Aeqiiaintance  ;  As 
long  as  any  Cattel  shall  be  fe;l  with  the  Grass  trrowinGr  in  the  Meadows, 
wlifch  do  humbly  bow  themselves  before  Turkie-Hill ;  As  lonir  as  any 
Sheep  shall  walk  upon  ()'>/■  Toini  Hills,  and  shall  from  thence  pleas- 
antly look  down  upon  the  River  rarlccr,nw\  the  fruitful  Marishrs  \v\\\% 
beneath;  As  long  as  any  free  and  harmless  Doves  shall  find  a  \Vliite 
Oak  or  other  Tree  within  the  Township,  to  perch,  or  feed,  or  build  a 


CONCLUSION. 


369 


timercial 
/o   were 
bred  as 
)ne  sea- 
tanners, 
Ihs,  two 
sawyer, 
re  styled 

e  task  of 
he  tenth 
I  valleys, 
evidence 
1  all  tiiat 

1  tlie  first 
artii'iilixr, 
rineiples, 
;  heathen 
uld  c;rnnt 
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pioneers 
ven  npon 
actions  of 
115  here  : ' 
lecessfiill 
)f  Doctor 
)reac!iing 
e-s  came 
as  he  did 

2  children 
plied,  and 
It  em.  As 
np;,  lately 
'oncerned 
Bciijamin 
ion  under 
;t-l)orn  of 
mother  of 
10  Town, 
i  solemnly 


careless  Nest  upon ;  and  shall  voluntarily  present  themselves  to  per- 
torrn  the  office  of  Gleaners  after  Barley- Harvest ;  As  long  as  Nature 
shall  not  grow  Old  and  dote;  but  shall  constantly  remember  to  give 
the  rows  of  Indian  Corn  their  education,  by  Pairs;  So  long  shall 
Christians  be  born  there;  and  being  first  made  meet,  shall  from  thence 
be  Translated  to  be  made  partakers  of  the  Inheritance  of  the  Saints 
in  Light.  Now,  seeing  the  Inhabitants  of  Newbury,  and  of  Neio 
±.ng/and,i^pou  the  due  Observance  of  their  Tenure,  may  expect  that 
their  Kich  and  gracious  LORD  will  continue  and  confirm  them  in  tho 
Possession  of  these  invaluable  Privileges  :  Let  us  have  crace,  whcrrbn 
we  may  serve  God  acceptably  ivith  Reverence  and  godly  Fear,  For  our 
Lrodis  a  consuming  Fire  Hebrews  12:  28,  29.' 

The  anticipations  of  the  good  old  man,  thus  quaintly  expressed,  have, 
I  trust,  thus  far  been  realized,  though  sheep  no  longer  walk  on  '  Old- 
town  hills,'  and  ' barley  harvest'  has  ceased  to  be.  The  ' three  or  four 
large  assemblies,'  in  1697,  have  increased  to  seventeen,  as  maybe  seen' 
by  the  following  tables,  containing  the  names  of  the  pastors  in  the 
churches  in  Newbury,  Newburyport,  and  West  Newbury 


47 


led  Post; 
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or  build  a 


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UONCLUHION. 


MKTHODIST  CHURCHES. 


Tliorc  fire  throo  tncMiodist  ohtirclios  in  nncient  Newlxiry.  Thn  first 
WHS  ereclfti  in  Ail('l|i4ii  street,  Newhiiry,  in  Ib25.  Tlicir  lirst  prfaclier 
was  revereiul  .IdIui  Ailaiiis,  wlio  coiiiiiicm'tnl  his  lultoiM  in  ICsl'J.  On 
June  Iwuntictli,  lh",7,  a  clmrcli  of  (il'lccii  iicrsoiis  was  oip;iiiii/c'(l  in 
Nowltiuyporl  by  rrvcrciid  15.  OtluMiiini,  iind  ilicir  iiicctiiii^'-liuiiso  dt'di- 
ciit(.'d  the  same  day.  ll  Mlaiids  on  liie  site  ol'  the  liisl  hapti.sl  meeting- 
hon:io  in  Liberty  Ntrect.  Tiiere  is  nnotiier  tnelhodist  inoetin^-liouso 
in  West  Newbury.  The  proufher  in  elnufre  at  Adelphi  .street,  is  tlie 
reverend  llomee  Monltoii,  from  lAhmson,  Mass.  Th<!  reverend  Uiad- 
ford  K.  Peiree,  n  native  of  Koyallon,  Vt,,  a  i,Madnate  in  Ihll  fiotn  tiio 
Wesleyan  university,  ollieiates  in  Lil)erly  street  ( Imreh.  In  Iblil,  one 
hundreil  and  lifty  jiei.sous  were  added  to  the  eliurch. 

UNIVERSALIST  CHURCH,  MU)l)Li;  STREET. 

Tiie  univcrsalist  society  was  incorporated  in  lb35,  tlicir  meeting- 
house in  Middle  street  was  built  in  IHIO,  and  dedicated  in  October  of 
the  same  year.  Their  cler<'yn  ..  have  bein  the  reverend  Woodbury  M. 
Fernald,  from  Portsmouth,  N.  11,  reverend  Darius  Forlies,  and  the  reve- 
rend Edwiu.A.  Kalon,  from  Ciloucester,  Mass,,  who  is  their  present  pastor. 

The  precedin<r  notices  of  the  ecclesiastical  affairs  of  Ncwbnry  are 
thus  chronologically  presented  to  supply  the  deliciencies  in  the  former 
part  of  the  book.     A  brief  sketch  of  some  of   the  priuci|ial  actors  in 
the  religious  and  secular  concerns  of  the  town  with  a  few  incidental 
remarks,  is  all  that  my  limits  will  allow,     rrominent  amonu;  tliese  was 
the  reverend  Thomas  Parker.     He  was  the  only  son  of  the  reverend 
'renowned  Robert  Parker,  one  of  the  a;realest  scholars  in  the  English 
nation.'*     He  was  admitted  into  Magdalen  college,  Oxi'ord,  but  after 
the  exile  of  his  father,  he  removed  unto   Diddin,  and  studied  iinde.- 
doctor  Usher,  thence  he  went  to  Holland,  '  wiiere  doctor  Ames  favored 
Iiim.'     At  the  age  of  twenly-two,  seventeen  years  before   he  came  to 
America,  he  wrote  and  published  a  trcati.se  on  repentance,  entitled  'Do 
tradiictione  jicccatoris  ad  vitam,'  which  was  highly  celebrated.    He  also 
wrote  s"vcral  volumes  on  the  prophecies,  of  which  only  one  on  Daniel 
was  published.    After  his  return  to  J^nglaiid,  Ik;  taught  'the  free  school 
in  xSewberry.'     '  Trom   tlioice  removing  with  several  devout  christi'ns 
ont  of  Willsliirv,  into  New  Eimhntil,  he  was  ordained  their  pastor,  at  a 
town,  on  his  and  their  account  called  \iirf/nrif,  where  he   lived   many 
years,  by  the  /lo/i/nss,  the  liiinililciicss,  the    hdntii,  of  his  life,  giving  his 
people  a  [lerpetual  ami  most  lively  commentary  on  his  doctrine.'!    '  He 
was  a  person  of  most  extensive  cluiritii;  which  grain  of  his  temper 
might  contribute  unto  that  largeness  in  his  principles  about  vltiirck 
gnvcrnncHt,  which  exposed  him  unto  many  tniipttUiiDis,  amongst  his 
neighbours,  who  were  not  so  jirinciplcd.'  t     Mavher  thus  cotu'ludes  his 
notice  of  him.    •  He  wont  unto  the  immortals  in  the  month  of  April, 
1()77,  about  the  eighty-second  year  of  his  age  ;  and  after  he  had  lived 
all  his  days  a  siii:ilr  hum,  but  a  great  part  of  liis  days  engaged  in  apoc- 
uhiptiral  stinlivs,  he  went  unto  the  opocahjjtiicdl  rlrsi/is,  who  follow  the 
Lamb  whithersoever  he  goes.'     Says  his  nephew,  the  reverend  Nich- 


*  Cotton  Mather. 


t  Cotton  Mather's  Magnalia. 


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CONCLUSION. 


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olns  Noycs, '  lio  kept  a  school,  ns  well  us  ])roachc(l,  at  Nvirhurif,  in  New 
Enalanil.  lie  onliiiiirily  hud  about  I'J  or  11  Hciiolnrs.  lie  took  no  pay 
for  liis  pnins,  luiless  luiy  picseiil  were  iVccly  sfut  liiiii,  Thoiigli  he  was 
bhml,  yet  siieli  was  iiis  ineinory,  thai  he  cuiild  in  his  old  at;o  leach 
Latin,  (hrcic  and  If-lnriv,  very  artili^ially.'  Tnulilioii  states,  '  ihat 
Koino  miiiislors,  hein^  dissalislied  with  some  of  his  opinions,  camo  to 
reason  with  liini  on  ihose  suhjects  :  they  addressed  him  in  Knji;lish,  ho 
replied  in  J^atin  ;  they  followed  him  in  Latin,  he  retireil  to  (Jreek,  and 
to  Hebrew;  they  pursued;  but  in  Arabic  ho  stopped  thoin.  Ho  tliaa 
refused  to  bo  cxununed  by  thoiu.'  * 

Mr.  James  Noyes,  who  was  settled  as  teacher  in  Newbury  with  Mr. 
Parker  as  pastor,  was  tho  sou  of  a  minister,  who  married  a  sister  of 
Mr.  Robert  I'aiker,  and  was,  of  course,  a  nephew  of  Mr,  Thomas 
Parker.  '  They  tau-^lit  in  one  school  |in  Eni.";linid  ;|  came  over  in  onn 
ship;  were  pastor  and  \cm'\wr  o\^ one  chit rrk ;  and  Mr.  Parker  eoulinuing 
always  in  celibacy,  they  lived  in  oiu'  Uoitsv,  till  death  separated  them 
for  a  iime.'  t 

For  a  few  years  after  tho  settlemcut  of  the  town,  their  residence 
was  on  tho  west  sid(!  of  liie  lower  i?reen,  but,  on  the  removal  of  tho 
meeting-lionse,  Mr.  Noyes  built  a  house  in  what  is  now  called  Parker 
Street.  It  is  still  standinu;.  and  owned  by  one  of  his  descendants.  Mr. 
Silas  Noyes,  and  is  one  of  the  oldest  houses  in  Newbury.  Of  Mr. 
James  Noyes,  his  uncle  Parker  thus  writes  : 

'  Mr.  Jutnes  Noyes,  my  worthy  colleasiie  in  thfl  ministry  of  tho  gospel,  wns  a  mnn  of 
•insular  (jualitications,  in  piety  pxcellinu',  an  iinpiafaliN'  eni-my  to  all  hfrcsie  and 
schism,  and  a  most  iihlo  warriour  aijiinst  iho  same.  He  was  of  a  re;\cliini{  and  ready 
apprehension,  a  larue  invention,  a  most  profound  jnd!,'mont,  a  rare  ami  tenurinus,  and 
comprelicnsive  memory,  lixed  and  nnmoval)le  in  his  yrotmded  oonceptions;  sure  in 
words  and  speech  without  rashness;  u'entlp  i>nd  mild  in  all  his  expressions,  wilhont  all 
passion  or  provokinsj  laiiKiiago.  And  as  he  was  a  notahh!  (Iis|iiitant,  so  he  never  would 
provoke  his  adversary,  s.iving  hy  the  short  knocks  and  heavy  wei'^ht  of  anjnment.  He 
was  of  so  l^ovins;,  and  oomptssinnate,  an<l  hiimlile  earri;ii;e,  that  I  believe  never  were 
any  accjnainteil  with  him,  hut  did  desire  tlie  rontinnancc  of  his  society  and  ac(iuaint- 
once.  He  was  resolute  for  truth,  and  in  defence  thereof  h  id  no  respect  to  any  persons. 
He  was  a  most  excellent  counselior  in  ilouhls.  and  could  strike  at  an  hair's  breadth, 
like  the  Dtixjamiltf,  ami  expedite  the  eiitan^led  out  of  the  briars.  Ho  was  courai;eoiis 
in  danijers,  and  still  was  apt  to  believe  the  best,  and  mide  fiir  weather  in  a  storm.  He 
was  much  honored  and  esteemed  in  the  country,  and  his  death  was  much  bewailed. 
I  think  he  may  be  reckoned  among  the  greatest  worthies  of  the  age.'t 

In  reference  to  the  celibacy  of  Messrs.  Parker  and  his  nephew,  the 
reverend  Nicholas  Noyes,  of  Salom,  some  jierson  thus  speaks.  '  8alem, 
December  thirteenth,  1717.     A  specimen  of  New  England  celibacy. 

'  Though  Rome  blaspheme  the  marriage  bed 

And  vows  of  single  life  has  bred 

Chaste  Piirkcr,  Stoughton,  lirinsmade,  Noyei, 

Show  us  the  odds  'twixt  force  and  choice. 

These  undefilcd  contracted  lure, 

Are  gone  to  lieaven  and  mairied  tlicrc^ 

Next  in  order  comes  Mr.  John  Wootibridgf,  son  of  t'le  reverend 
John  Woodbridgo  who  married  a  dattghter  of  Eobcrt  Parker.     '  Our 


'i 


*  Reverend  doctor  Popkin. 


t  Magnalia. 


m^ 


CONCLUSION. 


young  Woodbridge  with  the. consent  of  his  parents,  nndertook  a  voyage 
to  New  England  in  the  year  16:51  ;  and  the  company  and  assistance  of 
his  worthy  uncle  Mr.  Thomas  Parker,  was  not  the  least  encouragement 
of  his  vvyage.'*  He  was  then  twenty-two  years  of  age,  and  broiieht 
with  him  a  younger  brother  Ecnjamin,  of  whom  see  i>age  350.  His 
farm  was  north  of  Green  street,  Newbury,  and  his  house  stood  on  the 
east  side  of  the  pond  on  the  upper  green.  In  IGU  he  married  Mercy 
Dudley,  a  daughter  of  governor  Thomas  Dudley.  He  was  ordained 
September  sixteenth,  1611,  ihe  fir.<t  minister  of  A.ndover,  and  was  the 
first  teacher  ever  ordainod  ni  this  country.  In  16-17  he  returned  to 
England,  where  all  his  child'-en  but  ilie  first  two  were  born,  and 
preached  in  Andover  and  other  places,  till  his  return  to  Newbury,  July 
twenty-sixth,  1663,  and  iiere  preached  for  a  short  time.  Of  his  "eleven 
adult  children,  three,  John,  Timothy,  and  Bcujamin,  were  clergymen, 
and  of  his  dosccvidants,  forty-three"  by  the  name  of  Woodbridge  have 
received  a  liberal  education.  For  his  eulogy  see  Mather's  Magnaiia. 
His  wife  Mercy  died  July  first,  1691,  aged  -c-vumy.  No  monuments  to 
the  memory  cf  those  distinguished  men  are  noAV  to  be  found  in  the 
burying  ground  where  their  dust  reposes.  On  the  monumrnt  erected 
in  memory  of  the  successor  of  Mr.  Tarker,  is  the  following  inscription. 

'A  Resurrection  to  immortality— is  here  expected— for  what  was  mortal— of  the 
Reverend  Mr.  Jniiiv  Richardson  (once  Fellow  of  Harvard  Colle"-e, ifterwarus  Teach- 
er to  the  Church  of  Newbury)  putt  off  Apr.  '.27  1G90  in  the  fiftieth  year  of  his  age. 

'  When  Preachers  dy,  the  Rules  the  pulpit  gave, 
To  live  well  ure  still  preached  from  the  grave. 
The  Faith  &  Life,  which  your  dead  Pastor  taught 
In  one  grave  with  him,  Syrs  bury  not. 

'  Abi,  Viator. 
A  Mortuo  disce  ^  ,ere  moritunis 
E  Terris  disce  cogitare  de  Cadis.' 

Cr  in  English :  '  Go,  Traveler ;  From  the  dead  learn  to  live,  as  one 
that  must  die.     From  the  earth  learn  to  think  of  the  Heavens.' 

He  riarried  Mary  Pierson,  of  Cambridge,  October  twentv-eiKhth, 
1673.  '      ° 

On  the  monument  of  his  successor  is  the  following. 


ere  lyes  the  Body  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  CiiRisToniER  Toppan,  Master  of  Arts,  fourth 
irof  the  First  Church  in  Newbury;  a  Gentleman  of  good  Learninjr,  conspicuous 


'Her 
Pastor  I 

Fie  /  au'l  Virti^e,  sliming  Lnh  by  his  Doctrine  and  Life,  skilled  and  greatly  improved 
.T.  the  Practice  of  Physick  and  Surgery,  who  deceased  July  23, 1717,  in  the  76lh  vear 
of  his  age  and  the  .Olst  cf  his  Pastoral  Office.' 


Dr.  Toppau  was  a  rnan  of  talents,  onergy  and  decision  of  character, 
and  'would  speak  his  mind.'  A  specimen  of  this  latter  trait  ma,  be 
seen  on  page  213.  Other  instances  might  be  given,  but  I  shall  men- 
tion only  one.     A  Mr. and  his  wife  once  presented  a  child  for 

baptism.  Not  having  confidence  in  tiie  man's  sincerity,  he  addressed 
the  congrtgation  in  tiiese  words,  while  performing  the  rite,  '  I  ba|)lizo 
this  child  wholly  on  the  womr.n's  account.'  In  the  latter  part  of  his 
life  he  was  at  times  partially  deranged,  and  on  one  occasion,  as  I  liavc 
been  credibly  informed,  carried  a  whip  into  the  church  under  his  cloak, 

*  Mather's  Magnaiia. 


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CONCLUSION. 


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in  order,  as  he  said,  to  scourge  ont  the  enthusiasts,  or  'schemers,'  as 
he  called  tliem,  during  the  period  of  the  excitement  at  the  time  of  the 
'  great  revival'  aiul  it.s  incitlcutal  extravagancies.  On  one  occasion  ho 
sent  the  following  note  of  thanks  to  the  otticialing  clergyman  of  the 
parish.  It  is  accurately  copied  from  the  original,  and  was  probably 
written  during  a  period  of  partial  derangement, 

'  Christopher  Toppan  desires  to  return  thanks  to  God  for  his  goodness  to  hinfi  in 
preservinijjol'  liini,  when  llie  Devil  ca.st  a  mist  Ijelbre  his  and  his  hor.?e's  eyes,  throw- 
in!;  ol"  hini  down,  hoini;  in  iireat  d;'n;;cr,  butt  (iod  ia  his  good  providence  and  his 
Angels  garding  of  him  ont  of  the  hand  of  the  Devil,  and  after  this  1  could  not  rest 
night  nor  day  thinking  of  it  what  the  Cause  should  l)e  till  t'ryday  morning  it  was  re- 
vealed to  me  that  it  was  bcrause  I  oposed  that  great  work  of  the  Devil.  It  seemed 
that  the  voyce  came  to  me  and  said  I  need  not  truhji,'  myself,  it  was  that  Devil  did  it 
and  Deseaved  all  the  peonio,  and  now  1  hope  Go<l  will  enable  me  to  oppose  that  great 
work  of  the  Devil  and  thj  instruments  of  it  more_than  ever  I  did.' 

The  following  hitherto  unpublished  letter,  written  much  earlier,  is 
inserted  as  a  better  specimen  of  the  author's  style.  It  was  addressed 
to  judge  Sewall. 

Aug.  11,  1721. 
'Hon.  Sin. 

'  Please  to  pardon  my  boldness  for  troubling  you  to  read  a  few  lines  more.  That 
expression  in  my  writing  which  your  Honor  intimated,  you  did  not  well  understand, 
namely, 'J'hat  Iho  Indians  should  have  convenient  Lands  allowed  ym  for  themselves 
and  posterity,  I  meant  thus,  that  in  case  it  be  found  that  the  Indians  formerly  disposed 
of  so  much  of  iheir  Land  as  that  they  have  not  left  Lands  convenieiit  for  themselves, 
that  then  so  much  as  nniy  be  thoiiu'ht  proper,  of  what  was  purchased  of  them  s.ould 
be  relin(iuished  to  them  again.  Further  to  open  wUal  I  intend  I  would  otiei-  a  few 
things. 

'  1.   That  the  Indians  weie  the  first  Proprietors  of  the  Lands  in  this  Country. 

'-'.   That  they  had  in  themselves  ))ovver  to  dispose  of  aiul  convey  away  said  Lands. 

'I).  That  what  lands  llii.'y  fornievly  sold  and  e(Uiveyed  away  they  can  have  no  just 
claim  unto.  \o\v  I  make  no  douht  but  as  your  Honor  says,  they  have  as  full  and  iirnr 
a  Kisrht  to  their  Lands,  as  any  w  hich  uwn  have  to  theirs,  but  then  I  presume  your 
Honor  means,  Luuls  th':'y  have  not  sold. 

•'1.  That  if  tiirouirli  Imprudence  aiul  Inadvertency  they  have  conveyed  away  so 
much  of  their  Land  to  the  lOn^lish,  as  that,  if  what  be  coiivey;,Ml  away,  be  taken  up 
and  settled  by  the  Kiiglish,  ihere  be  not  convenient  places  left  for  theinstlves  and  pos- 
terity, I  think  it  very  agreeable  to  Reason  and  Ueliyion,  that  the  (iovernment  take  care 
that  such  jilaces  as  nray  be  thonu:ht  convenient  be  allowed  them  and  Recompense 
made  to  sucli  Persons  (whose  Predecessors  Ibrmerly  purchased  said  Land  of  the 
Indians)  of  I'rovince  Lands;  elsowheie. 

• ;').  That  the  <i'overnuient,  having  ottered  and  done  what  may  reasonably  be  thought 
just  and  fiir  on  this  score,  that  then,  if  the  Indians  continue  their  Insolent  Carriages, 
the  English  may  justly  commence  a  warr  again' t  them  and  expect  (iod's  blessing  to 
be  with  them  in  their  Endeavours  to  subdue  Ihcm,  and  ia  the  mean  time,  that  the  En- 
glish in  the  Eastern  parts  may  be  secure  and  safe  I  see  no  way  but  lor  the  Government 
to  keep  out  some  hnudieds  nf  men,  or  a  suliicient  nuinhor  to  keep  the  Indians  in  awe 
till  the  People  arc  beconu>  stiimg  enough  to  deienil  themselves,  which  they  would  in  a 
few  years  be,  were  they  compelled  to  settle  re^iularlv,  ami  secured  fiom  leai  and  dan- 
ger by  a  sulticiout  Army  kept  in  a  body  in  tho.-.i.'  p-.uts  well  provided  with  snow-shoes 
lor  the  Winter  and  a  suliicient  iinmlier  of  whale-boats  for  passai;e  by  water  in  the 
Summer  —  but  let  me  not  Ibrget  to  mention  here  that  I  can  but  think  it  a  duty  to  make 
a  farther  ollin  of  the  Gospel  to  lliem  and  by  degrees  to  Instill  into  their  minds  the  true 
Doctrines  of  Keli;:ion.  uouhtless  some  of  them  ininht  be  r^ainod,  more  especially  if  the 
l'"ryers  could  he  liiiily  removed  from  among  ihiun.  I  \>'ent  the  last  Spring  to  the 
Eastward  and  being  at  Daniiriscotla  on  a  Sahbath  'ley,  there  a  Family  there  and 
several  Persons  besides,  I  prciehl  to  lliem  liolh  loieiioon  and  afternoon, and  there  being 
haril  hy  an  Indian  wigwam,  belonging  to  it  a  Xelop  and  his  ,S(iua\v,  be  about  seventy, 
and  sh(!  near  an  hundred  years  of  aue,  not  atile  to  stand  or  goe,  both  maintained  by  a 
Kinsman,  a  young  pretty  fellow,  who  went  a  huntini;  and  returned  once  a  week  or  Ibrt- 
night  and  lirought  them  provisions  to  live  upon  —  The  old  Sannop  came  of  his  Bwa 
accord  on  the  Sabbath  day  to  hear  the  word  preucht  and  gave  diligent  attention.    The 

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CONCLUSION. 


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subjpct  linsisleilonwasthat  in  Romans  10.  ID.  '  And  whosoever  shall  call  on  the  name 
of  iho  Loi'd  sliill  be  saved'  and  in  I'.k!  ap|dicati(m  I  iipptyed  mysnlf  to  the  Indian, 
sliewiu'^  t!ril  thi;ir  nUion  il'  they  call  ari;;lil  on  the  nuni'  "{'  the  Loid  should  be  savecl 
as  well  as  tlio  IOiii,'lisli,  Tlie  next  day  I  \v(!nt  to  his  Uiiiwam.  Ho  told  me  'very- 
good  spe.U<-nni  yestc-rday'  and  desired  mo  to  sne.ik  to  his  s(iiia\v  'all  one  I  speak 
yesterday  lor  lliat  V('ry  sjood.' — I  went  sevcnal  times  to  his  Wiijwani  and  ijave 
the  best  advice  I  could  to  thi!  poor  old  Woman.  She  seenii'd  to  understand 
what  I  said,  but  was  not  seemingly  so  much  all'ecled  therewith  as  her  husband.  The 
diy  1  came  away  he  came  on  hoard  the  vesse'  and  prayed  nie  to  sjne  once  more  to  bis 
\Vii;wam  and  sp'i'.ik  to  his  old  Sijiiaw  about  (Jod  and  Christ  ami  Heaven,  lor  may  he, 
me  never  see  her  any  more.  So  I  went  a',Min  and  at  my  ciuTiin;;  away,  the  old  man 
took  me  by  the  band  o\pre*sinu'  a  urn  it  di-al  of  thankl'iilness  lor  the  counsel  and  advice 
I  had  u'ive;i  his  S(iuaw.  in  my  discourse  with  the  old  nran  I  used  to  mention  and 
op(Mi  the  Articles  ol'  the  Cluisli  in  llidi^ion,  which  bo  always  readily  assented  unto, 
and  lam  persnad('d  that  by  i)ruileut  iiiflbods  in  rnanau;iiiu;  ol'  them  sundry  of  them 
mi;;ht  be  wrought  upon,  and  amongst  olher  methods  1  have  tbonu'ht  — but  why  should  I 
presume  to  dictate  to  any,  who  kiunv  much  belter  than  myself  what  will  best  serve  the 
Interests  of  our  i;racions  f,ord,  in  who-e  service  that  1  may  he  Ibund  faithful,  let  me 
have  your  prayers,  as  you  have  his,  who  is,  Sir,  your  most  humble  servant, 

C'liusroniEB  ToiTAN.' 

To  tlic  difficulties  wliicli  altondcd  and  followed  the  scUlement  of  the 
rcveroiul  John  Trcicini,  tlic  collouLnio  aiid  sticccs.'sor  of  doctor  Toppan, 
some  allusion  lia.s  been  made,  pni^es  2lo,  1().  His  publislicd  works 
amount  to  twenty-two,  many  of  Ihcm  controversial  and  defensive. 
'  These  aflairs,'  says  the  reverend  doctor  I'opkin,  'ho  met  with  firm- 
ness and  slrenij,th  of  mind,  and  a  portion  of  native  wit,  which  he  ap- 
pears to  have  reserved  for  snch  ocrasions.  His  sermons  arc  very 
serions,  solid  and  perspicuous.'  In  the  latter  part  of  his  ministry  '  he 
enjoyed  much  ipiicstness,  and  always  the  high  esteem  of  his  friends  in 
this  and  other  places;  and  those,  who  did'crcd  from  him  in  sentiment, 
l)are  witness  to  his  good  life  and  conversation.'  '  His  epitaph  records 
his  characler  and  the  esteem  of  las  friends.' 

'  Beneath  are  the  remains  of  the  Rev.  John  Tucker,  T>.  D.  Pastor  of  the  first  Church 
and  CoiiL^reiration  in  this  Town  ;  who  died  .March  •.'Jd,  17'.ii  yi'.lat  7:i — Blessed  with 
slroni;  menl.il  powers,  a  liberal  educatiou,  and  an  uncommon  mildness  of  Temper;  all 
directed  and  improved  by  that  lailli,  which  pnrilies  the  heart;  rendered  him  dearly 
fudoved  in  every  Kel.ition  in  which  he  was  jilaced:  and  more  especially  made  him 
eonspicuously  useful  as  a  Minister  of  the  (fospid.  "When  nu'etini;  wilh  peculiar  Dif- 
ticullirs,  he  e'lriineiilly  complied  witli  thai  diiectiim  of  his  .Master  to  the  first  Preach- 
ers of  his  Gospel;  li"  ye  wise  as  serpents,  and  harmless  as  doves.  As  he  lived  a  life 
of  piety,  he  met  dealli  with  serenity. —  liy  Ids  doctrine  and  example  he  tanu'lit  the 
huniiliiy,  and  at  his  death  he  exhdiiled  the  diiriiity  and  triumph,  of  the  nnil  Christian.' 

'  'i"o  per|)etuate  the  memory  of  so  excellent  a  chavacter,  and  as  a  testimony  of  their 
ailectioiiato  regard,  the  bereaved  Hock  have  erected  this  Sepulcliral  Stone.' 

Xo  monument  has  as  yet  been  erected  to  the  memoiy  of  Mr.  Moou, 
'who,'  says  the  reverend  doctor  Popkin,  'was  ti  man  of  genius,  as  well 
ns  gootlness.'  He  was  the  son  of  deacon  Moor,  of  Londonderry,  New 
llann)shirc. 

The  lirst  settled  minister  in  the  second  parish,  now  the  first,  in  West 
Newbury,  was  the  reverend  Samuel  IJki.ciieii.  Of  him,  much  to 
llic  supposed  discredit  of  the  parish,  the  story  has  been  often  told  that 
wlien  he  grew  old,  and  unable;  to  preach,  his  ]iarishioners  cast  him  off 
jind  rnr/ctl  liim  back  to  Ipswich,  his  native  ])lace.  The  fj.cts  are  these. 
He  was  settled,  as  was  then  the  custom,  as  their  pastor  for  life,  with 
this  proviso,  that  if  he  remained  in  town,  he  shotdd  have  the  tisc  of 
the  {larsonage-liousp  and  land  as  long  as  he  \[v(h\,  Ijiit  if  he  chose  to 
leave  town,  they  should  revert  to  the  use  of  die  parish.. 


CONCLUSION. 


1 
li 


Preferring^,  when  no  longer  able  to  yireucli,  to  spend  the  few  remain- 
ing days  of  his  ])ilgninagc  in  his  native  pincc,  lie  reHnciuisliod  the  use 
of  the  parsoiiase,  and  liad  iiis  goods  and  fiuniluro  ])nL  into  an  ox-cart 
for  removal,  lie  then  said  to  his  friends,  'if  you  will  place  tlie  beds 
in  the  cart  properly,  I  will  ride  willi  tlic  goods,  as  I  can  go  tliat  way 
easier  than  any  other.'  This  was  accordingly  done,  the  old  gentleman 
])litced  on  the  bed,  and,  at  his  own  ii^picst,  he  was  liteially  carted  out 
of  town.  This,  in  the  absence  of  any  thing,  in  that  day,  like  a  chaise, 
or  any  other  modern  vehicle,  was  nndonbtedly  the  easiest  and  most 
comfortable  mode,  in  which  he  could  bo  conveyed  home,  and  should 
never  be  mentioned  as  a  transaction  at  all  discreditable  to  the  ]icrsons 
thus  engaged.   In  the  Boston  News-Letter  of  17  lo,  I  lind  the  following : 

'  Tjisirirh,  March  V2lli,  171  Mr). 

'  This  (lay  \vn  liiiricit  Rev.  Snmuol  I3o!cliPr  in  u  cood  old  aue  liaving  lived  near  70 
years.  He  was  for  miiiy  years  a  preaclier  of  the  gospel  at  the  Isle  of  Shoals  and 
afterward  settled  at  Xewhiiry.  His  reliiiioii  w.is  pure  and  nndetiled.  llis  divinity 
sound  and  orthodox,  his  eonversalinn  very  cheerful  and  ai;reeal)le.  yet  a;rave  withal. 
But  that  which  highly  dislinirni-^hed  him  in  his  order  was  his  excellent  '^ift  in  preach- 
in<r,  nothini;  liein;;  more  enterlainui".;  than  his  ordinary  sermons.  Like  a  well  instructed 
scrihe,  as  he  was,  he  always  lirou!.'ht  fortli  things  new  and  old,  prolitahle  and  pleasant. 

'  Omne  tulit  punctnm,  (]ui  miscuil  utile  dulci.  A  few  uiouilis  before  his  ileal h  he 
removed  to  Ipswich,  the  place  of  his  hirth.' 

Of  the  successors  of  ]Mr.  Belcher,  I  have  seen  no  monuments  or 
epitaphs,  as  only  one  of  them,  the  reverend  jMoscs  Hale,  died  in 
Newbury. 

On  the  monument,  erected  on  'burying  hill,'  in  Newbnryport,  to  the 
memory  of  the  reverend  John  Lowei-l,  is  the  following  inscription: 


by  them  ,  , ,  .... 

his  ai;e  and  I'-'d  of  his  pastoral  ollice. 

'  This  mcniumeut,  erected  to  his  nuMiiory  hy  the  nnanimons  voice  of  the  people 
of  his  charge,  testifies  to  the  world  their  grateful  romomhrance  of  his  faithful  services.' 

On  the  monument  to  the  memory  of  the  reverend  Thomas  Gary,  is 
the  following : 

'  Sacred  to  the  memory  of  the  Kev.  Thomis  Cary,  A.  M.  Senior  Pastor  of  the  First 
Religions  Society  in  Newhuryport.  He  was  boiu  in  Charlestown,  Ma<s.  18  Oct.  17.|.'), 
pdncateil  at  Harvard,  17(U,seitled  11  :Mav,  ITllS.  and  died  -Jl  Nov,  I'^DS.  A  man  of 
stroui;  comprehensive  and  in]prov(>d  mill!!,  of  active  and  extended  benevolence, eniraiiiiiij 
manners,  fervent  piety  and  indexible  inti^i;rity,  A  preacher,  plain,  evaniiclical.  earnest 
and  pathetic.  Deeply  impressed  with  the  importance  of  his  ollice,  be  spoke  with  dii;- 
nitv.  force  and  fceliiii:,  euliiibteiiiii!;  the  uiidcrstandinirs  of  Ids  hearers  and  wartnini; 
Ibeir  hearts.  .\  lirm  beli(<ver  in  the  relii^ioii  he  lan^'ht,  it  was  his  sui)iiort  and  conso- 
lation, the  rule  of  his  lite  and  the  srounil  of  his  hope.  A  jiond  and  respected  citizen, 
a  kind  hnsbind,  a  most  afli'ctioiiale  father  and  a  most  ardent  friend.  He  was  jus', 
candid  and  siiu'ere,  ch  iritabb;  without  ostentation,  allable  without  piide,  proving  his 
faith  bv  his  works,  and  looking  to  .lesns  for  his  reward, 

•  In  the  -iL'd  year  of  his  age,  it  pleased  God  to  take  him  olf  his  laliors  by  a  stroke  of 
the  palsy. 


380 


CONCLUSION. 


'  Twenty  years  he  languished  under  the  pressure  of  infirmities,  but  he  was  patient 
and  God  rewarded  him. 

'Though  his  usel'uhiess  was  diminished,  his  friends  never  forsot  him.  To  the  last 
he  had  their  warmest  affeelioiis,  their  reverence  and  their  sympathy.  He  felt  this  and 
was  happy.  His  sufferings  liad  prepared  him  for  his  departure.  The  messenger  eamo 
at  midnight  and  he  was  ready.     God  will  remember  his  servant  at  the  last  day.' 

On  the  prave-stone  erected  in  West  Newbury  to  the  memory  of  tlio 
reverend  William  Johnson,  is  the  following  inscription  : 

'  Rev.  William  Johnson  was  born  in  Newbury  31  May,  170G,  graduated  at  Harvard 
1727,  ordained  15  Sipt.  17;tl,  and  died  2'i  Feb.  1772  in  his  fiOth  year. 

'  He  was  a  gentleman  of  good  understanding,  of  uniform  piety  and  virtue,  of  a  very 
amiable  temper,  tender  and  affectionate  in  his  family  conneetions,  a  benevolent  and 
faithful  friend.' 

The  reverend  Moses  Hale,  who  was  settled  in  Eyfield  parish  in 
1706, '  labored  in  word  and  doctrine '  with  the  people  of  liis  charge  from 
1702, 'about  -11  years,  during  which  term  he  was  an  orthodox  and 
lively  preacher  of  the  great  truths  of  religion  and  a  soldier  of  Jc»us 
Christ.'     Prince's  Cliristian  History,  volume  fii'st,  page  382. 

On  the  tomb  erected  to  the  memory  of  the  reverend  Moses  Parsons, 
is  the  following  inscription  : 

'To  the  memory  of  the  Rev.  Moses  Parsons,  late" Pastor  of  the  churcVi  of  Christ  in 
this  Parish,  who  died  Dec.  14,  1783  in  the  Gbth  of  his  age  and  in  the  40th  year  of  his 
ministry. 

'  Farewell,  blest  man  !  soon  may  we  meet  again 
Tn  climes  celestial,  free  from  toil  and  pain. 
Where  joys  eternal  swell  the  pious  hear*, 
And  worth  like  thine  shall  meet  its  just  desert. 
Where  thou,  dear  saint,  art  tlown,  by  Jesus  lov'd, 
By  angels  vvelcom'd  and  by  God  approv'd.' 

'Erected  in  memory  of  Rev.  Elijah  Parish,  who  was  ordained  Pastor  of  the  con- 
gregation in  this  place  Dec.  20,  1787  and  who  died  Oct.  1  •'),  1825  aged  C3  years.  Also 
in  memory  of  Mrs.  Mary  Parish,  who  died  May  20th  1831  aged  04  years. 

"  Saved  by  grace,'  they  rest  from  their  labors  and  their  works  do  follow  them.' 

In  addition  to  what  has  already  been  said  concerning  Ma.  Plant,  I 
mak;  a  few  extracts  from  the  reverend  doctor  Morss's  century  sermons, 
and  from  Mr.  Plant's  private  journal,  which  have  not  hitherto  been 
published. 

'Mr.  Plant  at  the  commencement  of  his  duty  Nov.  1722  drew  up 
articles  to  be  a  standing  order,  by  which  the  Parishioners  shall  [)roceed 
for  the  good  Regitiating  and  ordering  of  the  Aliiiirs  of  the  Chiircli  for 
future  and  that  nothing  should  be  allowed  or  added  to  them  witliout 
the  consent  of  the  Minister.'*  This  was  signed  by  eighteen  persons, 
who  the  doctor  supposes  '  must  have  enjoyed  advantages  of  early  edu- 
cation, and  to  have  been  above  the  common  class  of  free  holders,  be- 
cause their  names  are  in  their  own  hand  writing,  and  are  all  written  in 
a  fair  and  legible  hand,'  an  inference  altogether  erroneous,  and  which 
a  more  extended  acquaintance  with  the  chirography  of  that  period 
would  not  have  induced  liim  to  make. 

'  Mr.  Plant  appears  to  have  been  a  man  of  strict  integrity,  of  a  high 

*  Dr.  Morss's  century  sermons. 


390 


CONCLUSION. 


'Twenty  years  he  languishod  under  the  pressure  of  infirmities,  but  he  was  patient 
and  God  rewarded  him. 

iTU,Mi,rVi  iilo  ii«et'iili>p<;<i  wax  fliminisliod.  his  friends  never  forafot  him.    To  the  last 


i| 


■  n,  v 


b  the  iuitow; 


.[•  Uu«  r 


I, 


'To  !iK'  n 

0,;.   r>...:,,. 


By  ai 


■  oo;;  may  .^e  iP'^pI  ogaia 
»•(»  fronn  !<v!  and  pahi. 

.;  sain-,,  ni-.  iv  •■  ■     fv  .li'sufi  ;--N  i, 
.m'liimd  !•>•  iUytl  upprov'd.* 


'Erected  in  niemory  "f  Re'' 

tru^  i;  >n  it>.  Shis  piac- 
ill  II'-  ii.jry  ff  .Mr>.  >: 

•' Saved  5>y  graee/  ti.:.y  stii  i;i...i)  "-i.' 


H<>  wo«  fVfdaifK'd  V'astoT  rii"  tlio 


wori? 


vViition  tn  wluit,  Vjss 'I'n/n  !\'  ■■■•    '«  "i-tiii  oonr 
■  •-■'•   ;\-tntrl>  tVotn  the  -rvt'ivH  i  dn-  ''i--  "\1  >• 
Plants  priv;tte.  jotirital,  \v:. 


kS"" 


causii  ti  ' 
a  fair  ixv 
a  more  • 
v.xHilfl  ri'i!  .•■... 
■  JVIr,  Plant  Uj   ■ 


>rrn?i<;'i>' 


'.vith   ti- 

•lk(V 

*  Dr.  MoiBs's  century  sermons. 


lloa!fi>",   hr- 


of  a  liiyK 


UW\Z    E.     I' A  Iv.lu^  r.l,     IDiJDo 


I 


CONCLUSION. 


381 


sense  of  flcconim,  and  of  the  distinctive  rights  of  the  Clercry  iind 
Lnity.  lie  was  ex  lOl  nnd  inctliucliral ;  piiiictiiiil  in  the  dischaifje  of 
the  diilifs  of  \m  (Station;  and  anxious  that  CIcrjiy  and  Laity  shonld 
move  in  their  distinct  sphere  witliont  inteiCercnce.' * 

During  tlic  period  of  the  ditfii'nlties  that  had  arisen  hetwecn  Mr. 
Plant  and  tiie  proprietors  of  St.  runl's  church,  some  one  of  them  had 
written  to  the  society  in  Eiiiiland  coinphiining  tliat  his  hahit  was  not 
canonical.  To  this  complaint  he  Tn'ikes  a  reply  to  doctor  Bearcroft, 
June  twenty-fifth,  1712,  from  which  I  extract  the  following. 

'  You  inform  me  of  a  complaint  made  against  me  that  I  pven  ofliriate  in  the  Church 
■with  a  coloured  handkerchief  roiin<l  my  neck  instend  of  a  bind.  Moreover  you  say  it 
was  with  some  ditiinihy  that  you  prevented  the  complaint  from  heing  laid  uelbre  the 
society.  .  .  .  It  is  a  lillle  surpii?,ini»  that  the  author  of  it  stiouUf  stoop  so  low,  or 
at  least  he  so  malicious  as  to  notice  my  habit  without  first  (jivini;  me  notice  that  it 

v.as  otfensive  to  him I  never  once  in  mv  whole  time  of  preachini;  here, 

went  to  Church  to  ofliciute  without  a  band,  nor  do  1  lemembcr  the  time  when  I  ever 
wore  a  speckled  handkerchief,  nor  any  other  about  my  neck  in  time  of  divine  service, 
nay  I  never  buried  an  infant  in  the  most  tempestuous  weather  without  a  bamf,  thou^jh 
I  have  rode  several  miles  to  perform  it.'  In  another  letter  to  the  same  person,  alluding 
to  other  ditlicultics,  he  thus  writes,  'Mr.  Mossom  of  Marblehead  says  there  are  but 
three  old  Eni^land  clergymen  in  these  parts  viz.  Mr.  Harris,  myself  and  you  (viz.  Mr. 
Plant)  and  these  fellows  t  are  goini;  home  for  orders  and  they  vi'itl  get  the  best  places 
in  the  country  and  take  the  bread  I'rom  off  our  trenchers.  'I'here  is  the  new  church  ir> 
Boston.  Of  right  it  first  belongs  to  Mr.  Harris.  If  he  refuses,  to  myself,  and  next  tO' 
you,  but  they  make  no  offer  of  it  to  any  of  us,  and  we  that  have  served  the  church 
must  serve  the  church  as  we  have,  and  take  up  with  their  leavings.  We  now  who 
have  stood  the  brunt  of  the  battle  and  laid  the  foundation  of  the  churches  in  this  coun- 
try are  not  so  much  as  consulted,  who  shall  be  their  minister.  Mr.  Flarris  is  resolved 
to  write  to  my  I-ord  Bishop  to  oppose  their  ordination,  and  I'll  join  with  him  and  am 
come  up  to  acquiint  you  with  it  and  we  wouM  have  you  join  with  us  lor  a  three-liild 
cord  is  not  easily  broken.  I  answered  him.  I  do  not  know  whether  I  may  be  permit- 
ted to  say  as  Moses  once  said  '  1  wish  to  God  they  were  a,i  the  Lord's  people,  but  I 
think  we  are  right,  and  therefore  I 'II  say  that  were  all  church  ministers  and  church 
people  in  these  conditions,  I  would  cheerfully  resign  up  my  snlary  and  dig  for  my 
bread.  Had  Mr.  Mossom  sent  these  zealous  e.vpressions  to  the  Society  I  suppose  the' 
venerable  members  would  not  from  thence  draw  the  conclusion  that  I  was  willing  tO' 
resign  my  XtlO  a  year  to  Dr.  Cutler  and  take  up  digging  and  hoeing  C  days  for  my 
bread,  and  preach  on  the  seventh  day  for  nothing.' 

'Notwithstanding  all  the  contempt  showed  me  by  the  water-side  people,  and  the- 
slight  and  so  fo;,th,  I  have  had  honor  done  me  by  the  leading  gentlemen  in  these 
parts.  His  E.xcellency  Gov.  Shute  did  me  the  honour  to  come  to  my  church  and 
carry  me  with  him  in  his  coach.  His  Honour  Gov.  Wentvvorlh  frequently  attended 
the  Holy  Communion.  His  Excellency  Gov.  Burnet  the  first  time  I  had  the  honour 
to  wait  on  him.  told  mo  he  intended  to  be  at  my  church  at  such  a  day.  and  said  can 
you  any  where  thereabout  lodge  me  and  provide  hay  for  my  horses.  I  told  him  I  did 
not  know  of  any  person  near  my  church  that  could  entertain  better  than  myself.  ?Iis 
Excellency  (Jov.  Belcher  generously  o(rere<l  me  the  honour  of  nominating  two.  persons 
in  my  church  one  for  a  justice,  the  other  lor  a  coroner.  And  in  the  time  of  his  gov- 
ernment there  was  application  made  by  some  gentlemen  to  him  for  his  interest  to  get 
an  act  passed  in  their  behalf  they  knowini;  it  woulif  meet  with  great  difficuhy,  it  being- 
thrice  attempted  and  as  often  rejected,  he  promised  them  his  interest,  but  withal 
recommeiuled  it  to  them  to  apply  to  some  person,  who  had  a  prevailing  interest  in  that 
government.  They  asked  his  K.xcellency  to  recommend  them  to  such  a  person:  he 
replyed,  if  you  can  make  -Mr.  Plant  your  friend,  he  will  get  the  act  passed  for  you,  for 
Mr.   Plant  has  the  best  interest  of  any  person  1  know  of  in  the  Government.    The 

General  Assembly  did  me  the  honour  to  i)ass  it  at  my  representation If 

I  would  relate  the  whole  of  this  alfair,  I  believe,  Rev.  Sir,  you  would  allow  it  a  great 
honour  done  me.     .....     Likewise  at  all   times  of  pertbrming  divine  service  at 

Kittery,  I  had  a  large  audience,  and  gentlemen  of  Portsmouth  did  me  the  honour  to 
attend  there The  people  of  Kittery  refused  to  admit  Mr.  Brown  into 

*  Dr.  Morss'i  cenuiry  sermnns. 

t  ThI.s  nlluile^  to  a  i-cmsuliation  which  had  bf  en  held  on  the  suliject  of  sending  over  candidates  for 
ordars,  one  of  whom  probal)ly  was  imended  to  otiiciaie  in  St.  Paul'*  church. 


I      I 


i  t 


t'V-  ' 


'i  < 


382 


CONCLUSION, 


Ihpir  rlnirrh,  boToro  thpv  hnil  took  tny  advice  iinil  nski'il  my  ronscnt To 

coiicliuli' l)i);isliri!.',  Ihc  hist  limi-    I   \v;is  ^it  I'orlsiiioiilli,  I   Wiiilcil  on  llio  Ciovcnmr  mid 

sonic  liMiliii^'  iicnllc'iiicii  .ilioiil  ;iii  iilliii,  lh;it  is  loo  loni;  lo  ichilc 1  hiok 

iny  Itvivp  of  Ilic   (M)V(Miior,  upon   wliich   in- siiiil  to  rni',   .\[r.  I'l.iiit,  yon   will  sl;iy  ,iii(l 
(line  with  me.     I  excused  myself — l)nt  «;iys  his  Kxcellein-y  it  sliii" 
(lime  lo  l'lsc;\t;i(iiu  and   not  dine  willi 


It'tl 


never  lie  siiid   yon 


\o-'i'  lhin^,'^<  will  not  snlislV  you  IJiiit 


I  have  both  liononr  isiid  liieiidslii|)  with  lliese  uenllenien  1  miisl  conilnde  iiiysidf  I 
fiiil.  1  can't  conclude  lliis  ion;,'  leller  witlnmt  iiddiii','  one  reiiiiiikaliie  insliince  of  my 
lioaily  iill'ection  and /eiil.  sliowed  in  a  pnldick  manner  I'or  llie  honour  ol' llie  church. 
It  happened  lo  he  at  the  house  of  (Jov.  Helclier  on  one  of  t!ie  princeises' hirlh  day.s. 
Several  •.'entlemen  heini;  present  weie  inviled  lo  dine  with  the  (iovernor.  Ills  llxcel- 
lency  says  to  Capt    Atkins;  •  When  ilid  vou  see  inv  molher  I'.irlridite  !     |[ow  d 


do  f '     Capt.  A,  replyed  •  I  saw   liei 


niday  in   tin.'  afleruoon  at  .Mr.  Lowell's   iiieel. 


in;;'     Says  the  d'ov.  yon  call  nin.i  Ihe  uiiliin'.  and  i/diim  the  rliiinh.  hul  ycni  slnnild  call 
oio-s  tlio  (7ii(/v7i  and  V'""»  the  ()i(i7i/(ir.     lie  ailded  when    I  was  in  Kinilaii'd    I   wailed  oii 


ii'Maiiil,  saiil 


Viscount  'I'ownsend  and   lalkiii ;  on  the  slalc- of  Ihe  chnrcli   in  New  [\ 

Lordsiiip,  I  suppose  you  call  tin;  clinrcli  people  dissenters  liiere,  and  yours  the  chnrcii, 

IS  we  hero  call  mirs  ihc  i/iiinli,  ami  i/oii  ihe  ilissenleis.  so  that  we  urn  thi-   chun'h  and 


yoH  are  the  ilinsculn-.i  says  the    (; 


Chapi 


•1, 


Deiiiir  my  senio 


r.  I 


iled    I 


Dr.    Ilarwood  Ihe  n^sislant  at  the 


Ivii 


lencv's  s|iei'cli  (resiilviiii;  it  sliould   not    want 


o  see  wliat  answer  he  won 


Id  ret 


urn  to  his 


silent,  and  Mr.  tl  irwood 


an   answ 


er)  eveiy  person   present  hein;u; 


r.  .\lkiiis.  the  inily  two  jiersons  of  ihe   church  heiii; 


seemiiiuily   thundiTstnick.    I  tliiis  addK'ssed   myself  lo   ihe   (Jover 


M, 


y  't  i>: 


your  i'-\<'elleiicy,  I  do  not  know  what  my  Lord  Towiisend  may  say  lo  you  in  his 
chamher,  nor  \vhat  his  opinion  was  in  his  study,  hut  if  he  expressed  himse'll'  in  theso 
terms  lo  your  Mxccllency,  his  opinicni  Avas  in  direct  opp(isili(ni  to  the  F.or<ls  Justices, 
■who  in  their  leller  lo    I,l,  (Jov.    Diminier  ordered   their  Secretary  to  iiilorm    him  that 


they  had   no  regular  estahlishrneiit  of  any  church   in  this    I'rovi 


neither  hive  you 


said  I.  lo  the  (Jovernor  any  oilier  estahlisiimenl.  hut  what  is  on  the  same  footiu!,'  with 
other  sect  iries,  vi/.  the  act  of  toleration.  I  went  on  very  warmly  for'.' or  . I  minuti's, 
but  the  (I'overnor  put  a  stop   to  me.  .Mr.  Plant,  I'll   not  ili'spiite  the  matter  with  you 


ir   I  with  your   lOxcelh 


ncy. 


W 


I   Mr.   Ilarwood  and   mysell'  returned    f 


roni  tlie 


Gov's.  h'Mise.  1  asked  him  whelln.'r  he  took  notice  of  the  aliVont  he  alleiiipted  to  jiut 
upon  two  Cier^'ymeu  in  their  liahit.  lie  said  'yes.'  I  asked  him  why  hi-  did  not  i;i\e 
the  Gov.  an  answer  ?  lie  said  to  me,  I  do  not  give  myself  any  tro.ihle  about  these 
thinu;s:  the  (Joy.  is  kind  tome  and  I  dine  with  him  two  or  three  times  a  week  and 
■when  I  ^vallt  a  i;ood  dinner  I  always  jjo  there.     I  am  always  welcome,  and  yon  ciniiot 


help  y 


If.  if  t 


ley  (lo  say 


of 


What  siirnilies  it  tor  you  lo  show  your  resent- 


ment. They  do  not  in  Mnu'land  mind  us  that  are  here.  I  then  said  to  Mr.  Il.irwood  I 
am  sorry  yon  are  lyed  so  fist  by  liie  teeth  as  not  to  resent  siicii  a  desii;iicd  all'ronl  as 
that  was.  For  my  own  part  I  will  cat  hie;id  and  cheese  so  lomr  as  I  live  before  I'll 
sneak  to  the  (jov.  (or  a  dinner,  and  at  his  table  hoar  rnyself  called  a  Oissenter,  and  my 


Church  represented  a  Conventicle 

Mr.  I'lanI  concludes  his  letter  thus:  'I  do  most   liimihl 
Ri^ht  Rev.  members     ....     to  recommend  it  to  lliese  L;enlleiiieii 


y  and  e  iiiiestly  entreat   the 


on  me  as  their  minister  anil   treat 


to: 


iich,  that  lliey  won 


Id 


niie  to  pay  me  a  visit 


1 


the 


—  that  every  thini;  on  their  p^ut  should  be  buried  in  oblivion  am! 
on  my  part,  to  be  conlirmed  by  the  usual  compliiiient  of  mulnally  ami   c  >rdi;illy  shak- 
ing of  hamls.     If  Ihe  Riuht  honorable  nifmheis  would  be  pleased   to  :;ranl  my  recpn^st 
in  some  such  form  of  direction  to  them,  Ihe  matter  would   I  think  he  justly  staled  on 
both  siilps,and  there  would  he  no  fonndaliini  for  the  !;eiillem'n  to  say  in  a  doniineerin 
way.  '  W'c  have  !;ot  Ihe  heller  of  Plant  at  the  Society,  I 
to  allow  our  minister  02i)  and  if  we 


the  Society,  the  Society  have  ordered  Plant 
but  i:et  the  money  (as  is  a  common  expres- 
sion with  them;  we  do  not  care  what  becomes  of  Plant.'  Such  expressions  must  be 
gratiiiir  to  a  irenerons  mind.  I  entreat  that  what  I  have  written  may  find  fivor  and 
not  blame  with  the  Society.  If  they  would  condescend  lo  answer  the  request  of  their 
missionary  in  some  siicli  sort,  it  would  be  salisl'ictorv,  hut  if  it  cannot  be  oblaineil,  be 
pleased  to  semi  me  their  diiections  and  they  shall  ho  cheen'ully  and  readily  obeyed  by 
Rev.  Sirs  your  most  obedienl 


.M 


.VTTlII.VS    i  LAN'r. 


Tn  nnotlicr  leftor  datcil  twonty-tliiid  Ocfnlior,  17  17,  lio  says  '  I  was 
fiosirr-d  to  attend  a  iiictMincr  of  llic  cliiiirli  iiiid  !iil  llii'  )iio|irio!oi-s. —  I 
told  tlioin  the  Socioly  litid  aihitled  to  lue  IIk;  lioiioiir  of  beiiiu;  llie  cliicf 
miiii.stcr  (if  the  whole  parisli,  autl  oC  iimiiially  payiiiii;  an  tis.sislaiit  L''.'() 
sterling,  but  that  I  might  be  the  niiuisler  ol'  the  whole  parish,  it  would 


CONCLUSION. 


393 


1)0  nocossnry  tlioy  slioiild  iiuliiot  ino  iiilo  tlio  dinrcli,  niid  tlesircd  llio 
cliiiicli  wardens,  vc':stry  iiiid  inopiii'tors  to  uivo  iiii!  indiictioii.  Tlicy 
Nnid  tlirrt!  wiiM  no  (iiTUsioii  Ibr  it,  mid  asked  rue  of  wimt  servieo  it 
roiild  lie  to  iiie.  1  told  llieiii  it  iruv  iiic  ii  ri^lil  to  llie  desi<  Jiiid  |iMl|iit, 
thai  none  euuld  ollit'iale  in  tlic.  cliiiicii  or  |iaii>li.  Tiii.s  they  rel'ti^ed  to 
give.  .  .  .  I  low,  says  I,  can  I  l)e  the  eliief  minister  of  tlic  wliolo 
parish,  if  I  have  no  priviie^(^  to  act  in   yonr  parish  or  olliciate  in  yonr 

chnri'li  withonl  asking- yonr  h^ive  every  lime  1    ome.     Capt, said 

tliey  would  not  allow  iiu;  to  hi'  their  minister,  or  to  iiiive  any  thin^j;  to 
do  in  their  |iarisli.     They  would  soinetinies  oivc  mo  leave  to  preatdi  in 

their  new  chiirvli They  said  they  would   neither  fiivo 

me  nor  any  other  eleiiryman,  whom  they  miii:lit  hereaCler  have,  a  pow- 
er to  keep  out  a  miiiisler,  whom  they  should  wish  to  hear,  it  was 
their  own  properly,  and  they  would  iiivile  whom  they  pleased  to  |ireach. 
.  .  .  .  1  am  not  bound  to  sacrilicc  llie  noinl  discipline  of  the  clinrch, 
which  these  i!;entlemen  arc  oiuh'avonrini!;  to  wrest  from  mc.  .  .  . 
This  nsiirpation  would  soon  dili'nse  itself  iiilo  an  nnivorsal  precedent 
ill  llie  churches  to  their  told  rnin.'  Dmini^'  the  continuance  of  this  dis- 
inilc  Mi:  Plant  notices  in  many  places  the  snmllness  of  the  audiences 
in  St.  Tanl's  eh,;ivii.  Thus:  .lime  twenty-second,  17  IG,  preached  nt 
St.  rmil's  ehureii  and  lind  only  ten  men  'beloiifiinp;  to  the  chinch 
there.  .Inly  rJC.  A.  M  !)  men,  P.  :M.  10  men.  I'i  Oct.  hud  7  men  and 
one  woman.  17  Nov.  17  lo,  A,  M.  10  men  and  :*  women.  P.  M  IIJ  men 
and  -i  woiiu-n.'  He  thus  speaks  of  the  treatment  he  received  from 
some  of  his  opponents.  '  If  they  met  me  in  the  strei't,  or  saw  mo 
u\v;\i  to  them,  some  of  them  would  turn  their  backs,  or  •flower  with 
their  eyes  iVoiii  mider  their  hats,  or  give  it  a.  little  nugg  with  their 
hands  anil  snecringly  walk  oil'.' 

These  extracts   from  Mr.  Plant's  journal,  wliicli  I  copied   from   iho 
iianv  more  pau'es  luiirhl  be  i;iv(Mi,  are  sliikintrlv 


oriii'inal,  and  of  which  i 

chaiachMistic  of  the  state  of  society   at   that   per 


10(l 


a  I 


111  of  the  great 


imporlancc  attached  to  nn  ai-cpiaintancc  wilh  tlic  rich,  the  tilled,  and 
the  great.  To  shake  hands  with  a  'scpiire,  or  to  be  familiar  with  a 
judge,  was  an  honor  never  to  lie  Ibigotleii,  but  to  dine  with  a  governor, 
was  a  distinction  coiiliued  to  a  favored  few,  and  worthy  of  perpetual 
reinenil)iancc.  Burns  in  one  of  his  jjoems  gives  ■  s  some  idea  of  his 
feelings  of  exaltation  when 

'  Oil  n  iioV.'r  to  he  fiirirotloii  i\.\y, 
So  r.ir  lio  s|)r;u'l<li'(l  up  tin'  linio,* 
III?  diiiiici'd  witli  a  t-ord!' 


nil 


It  was  not  nntil  five  years  after  tlio  date  of  (his  letter,  wliicli  very 
clearly  explains  the  subject  of  contest  between  ]Mr.  Plant  and  the, 
proprielors,  that  the  dillicullies  were  settled  by  their  acceding  to  Mr. 
Plant's  demands.  On  June  twenly-fonrth,  17-51,  Mr.  Plant  became  the 
chief  minister  of  the  whole  luirish,  and  on  December  twenty-third, 
1711,  he  made  choice  of  Mr.  Edward  Rass  as  his  assistant,  allowing 
him  twenty  pomids  ])(>r  aimum.  \n  M-yi  Mr.  liass  went  lo  Enuland 
for  orders,  and  took  with  him  a  letter  signed  F.  Miller,  from  which  I 
extract  the  following. 

'  Rev.  Sn:.  —  Tlio  lioaror,  IMr.  Rass  is  a  yniinc:  cnntloiiian,  bred  at  Harvard   College, 
and  has  picaclied  lor  soiiii;  tiniu  anion;,'  the  dissenters  to  good  acceptance,  but  now, 

*  Clambered  up  a  hill. 


■:■'  m 


384 


CONCLUSION. 


upon  mntUTe  rnn^idrmtion,  thinks  it  hi«  <liity  to  rnnfi)rm  t>.  thf  rhiirrh  of  rnetttnd, 
■  lid  conift  owl  (or  lioly  iinlcrH.  uiiil  lo  lip  iip|H)iiiti>il  Id  tin*  now  cliiircli  in  Ni'vvliiiry. 
Uolii  Mr.  I'liiiil  and  IIim  pi>i>|<|p  aii<  biilily  plcused  vvitli  him,  iiiul  indocd  lio  i«  iiiiivi<r< 
•iilly  spdknn  of  Hs  II  marl  of  pi^ty  ntiil  HPiiit)*,  u  );>iiid  prrachiT  mid  nl  an  nurcrulilit 
temper.  Up  liiiiiisd  full  tr<ilimi)ni;iU  froin  llic  cidli'ije.  wiific  lit'  lias  Incil,  I  think  iilhuil 
ten  yt'iirs,  wliirh  lire  cunliimi'd  liy  the  iliMify  of  Uostoii  Die.  A  porHoit  »o  ({italilicU 
and  reeuRimendcd  c-au  iievor  want  your  liiror  and  ojiitiHtaiieo,'  Ike. 

On  the  inoriitnient  oracled  lo  tlio  memory  of  hi.sliop  Bams,  is  a 
Litiu  iiiscriptiitii,  ol"  wlii-li  tltc  followiiisf  is  a  iriiitslalioii,  oopicil  IVotna 
note  ill  a  seiuiuu,  i»rcm:lK;d  l)y  tlie  leveieud  Jame.*i  Morss  in  \t>\  I. 

'  Bciienth  thin  stnne  nre  inlrrred  tlic  remiinii  of  thfl  Ri(»ht  ]\i>v.  EdwnnI  Bii<t«t  0.  D. 
Bishop  of  S\^s*.  and  R.  I.  Mi"  w^n  Unni  at  Dorchoslcr  iicir  Huston  'St  Nov.  njll,  wan 
udniMtcd  incinbcr  of  ll.uviiid  Cull/.'sji',  aijcd  lit,  ii'Cfivoil  the  honors  of  llic  UniverHily 
I'll,  mill  was  soon  uflt-r  iiidiiolod  to  Ihi-  paittoral  i-uie  of  St.  Paul's  Chint'h  in  tliiit 
town,  of  wliieh  ho  wan  ri'i'tor  .'»!  year-,  rtiinni;  which  tiiiin  he  nl\v;iys  snpporleil  an 
iintipollpd  character  and  dischars<'d  llie  diilicH  of  his  olli.'o  with  uiu'cniimon  fidelity 
uiul  cxnctiifss.  l{i>  wuH  a  man  of  ilislin;;iiiNhed  virtue.  unconiliKin  hiiiiiilily,  threat 
modesty  and  sincere  piety  and  vena  fimily  attached  lo  tlie  cause  of  religion,  He  wa» 
remarka1>le  for  hi»  iirhinilyand  placidiicss  of  disposition  and  for  his  veiierahle  iiinl 
diiiiiilieil  manner.  He  thus  hecanie  the  tender  hiiNbind.  the  iiistnictive  and  aiiieeahh; 
companion,  the  wnrni  and  lasting  Iriend.  the  Iriie  and  lUillil'iil  monitor.  He  united  Ihc 
fhnriK'ter  of  n  sound  divine,  ait  enulite  scludar,  a  polished  iiontlennii  and  devout  chris- 
tian. The  tears  of  an  atli'dionalo  |)eu  '•  bear  the  best  t<'stimoiiy  to  his  siipeiior 
virtue,  and  upon  their  hearti'  it  his  iik  '  more  durably  en;:ruved  than  upon  the 

liardest  marble. 

'The  ju«t  re«t  from  their  labors  and  tnuir  workH  foliow  them.' 

The  following  insrriplion  is  eiijriavc'\  on  the  monumcwt  erected  in 
memory  of  the  reverend  JA-Miis  Mokms, 

'  Erected  in  memory  of  the  Rev.  .lames  Morss  T>.  D.,  who  for  HO  yeari  was  the  be- 
loved rt'clor  of  S|  J'.tiil's  Church,  lie  was  biirii  in  i\evi'l»iiry|)ort  '-i'l  Oct.  l""!!,  giad- 
ualed  at  Harvard  Colle^'c  INOii,  was  chosen  rector  of  this  i  hurcli  in  IfSdit  and  remained 
with  his  attachcil  people  uiilil  his  decease.  ahi"h  took  place  Apr.  'ifi,  ISli 

'Mr.  MoTSs  was  n  soiinil  divine,  and  lo  his  devotion  to  the  church  was  addeil  a  zeal 
for  her  interests,  and  a  nirir.il  couraje  ni  her  defence  never  excelled.  In  his  deportiiieiit 
were  blended  the  conrlesies  ol'  the  gentleman  with  the  (iiaces  of  the  christian.  Hi! 
•was  distinifiiished  in  all  the  sweet  chaiilies  of  social  life,  the  tender  latlier,  the  faithful 
friend,  yet  none  shone  more  prominent  Ihnii  his  kindly  care  for  the  widow  and  orphan. 
Their  tears  (.'inlralm  his  memuiy,  and  the  prayers  of  an  allecliunute  people  rise  us 
inccn^>e  to  the  throne  of  :;race. 

'  This  is  his  record  on  high.' 

The  society,  of  wliirh  the  reverend  Jo.vATfiAN  PAtisoNs  was  tlio 
first  pastor,  had  its  oii^'iii  in  the  time  of  the  '/rent  excitement,  pro- 
thiced  hy  the  !al»ors  of  KJwarils,  W'hilclield,  and  others,  one  of  whom 
was  tlie  reverend  Joseph  Adams,  who  preached  to  Ihe  new  .society, 
consisting  at  first  of  only  twelve  families,  until  hy  lli-.-  advice  and 
recommendatiim  of  Whilefn-id,  Mr.  Parsons  was  called  IVoin  J-ymo, 
Coimecticnl,  (where  he  had  liccn  settled  as  a  ministii-,  froui  IMtireh, 
1731,  till  Octoher,  11  Uj.)  to  tiike  chaiire  of  the  ntu'  .'iicieiy.  In 
Novemher  of  the  same  year,  he  came  to  Newhiiry,  and  to(»k  the 
charge  of  the  congregation  in  Mareli,  17'J().  In  his  journal  he  thns 
wiitivs:  '  I  found  a  numher  of  serious  Christians  in  the  cumrregation, 
which  I  came  to  visit,  who  ajipeared  to  he  imdeistaiidiiiir,  solid,  and  in 
somo  incas'ire  estahlished  in  the  main  points  of  ('hrislian  doctrine. 
Btit  IjII^i.j  vlhers  appeared  of  an  Antinoinian  turn,  full  of  vain  confi- 
devv-i'.  .itir-c^'.-nxit,  false  aflections  Sec,  and  some  thai  were  the  great- 


* 


CO  N  I'  I.  U  ij  ID  N 


38') 


rst    riiristiiiiiN   iti   llicir  dwri    cHtei'tu,   npin-nind   to  bo  v.'orlclly  nnd 


I'OVt'toUS. 


Ill  tliirt  clmn-h  and  coiigrcpttioii,  w)iifh  fni 


ill 


m  congrcptiioii,  wiucn  troiri  sinnii  Dru'imiirifis  nrose 
to  hi'  tmo  of  tlic  iiKist  iiiiiiicrons  on  Hie  ('onliiiciit,  Mr.  I'lirnoiis  labored 
Willi  meat  (liliiiciiiT  siiid  siicci'ss  until  liis  dciitli  in  177(),  when  Ik;  whs 
iiinicd  hy  tin-  sidn  oC  liis  Irit-tid  iMr.  U'liitclield,  brncalli  tlio  i)id|iit 
wliicli  lio  liad  for  so  inaiiv  y  ars  occupied.  From  Mr.  Si'arl's  fiiiuMal 
SLMiiion  on  tlio  death  ol'  Mr.  Tursoiis,  1  make  tlio  following  extract. 

'111!  wuM  ii  faithl'iil  nnil  visiliint  p:istor;  npplyinic  himHelf  with  great  caro  to  lliB 
Miinls  of  lii»  people,  liolh  in  piililir  nml  in  jirivate.  The  niu'cows  atteniliiii;  his  ministry 
WilH  irreiil.  Diuiii!;  Iii«  resilience  iil  I,ynie,  he  eiiterliiiriiMl  eh  irilnhki  hopi;s  ihiit 
near  'JOO  iiersons  were  !tavinj;ly  I'orueiied ;  ami  in  Ne\vlniiy|iorl  al-'o,  he  had  the  satis- 
lUction  ol  neoiiij}  iurni!  accessions  made  to  ihe  churtli  through  his  inxtriiinentalily.' 

The  lovrreiid  ,Ion\  Mimiray,  tho  siu'fes.wr  of  j\Tr.  Varsons,  com- 
tiiencod  preacliiiig  in  his  native  conntry,  Ireland,  at  the  a^e  of  eighteen. 
Dofore  lie  was  twenty  years  of  age,  he  came  to  America,  was  (irst 
settled  in  I'liilail('l|iliiti,  then  in  I'ontiiliay,  I\Ie.,  where  he  remained 
<'iglil  years.  In  I?/'.*,  lie  came  ti)  .Ncwhiiryport,  where,  at  a  public 
lecture  January  fonrtli,  \1>\,  he  was  '  recognized  by  the  presbylcriun 
church  and  congregation  to  be  their  minister.'  On  the  innnnment 
erected  to  his  memory,  is  the  liiliowiiig  inscriiition  : 

'This  monument  is  erected  to  the  memory  of  the  reverend  John  Murray.  A.  M.,  late 
pastor  of  Ihe  Preshyterian  Society  in  this  town,  M'ho  was  Imni  in  Ireland  '^2  May,  171'-', 
and  died  i:i  Maich,'  I7'.i:t. 


'  Pause 


siieiitiv  miKe  over  the  remains  of  a  man,  in  whom  were  united 


tlie  tender  linshind.  the  I'lillilnl  f.illiiT.  Ihe  inslrnctive  companion,  the  <d)li;,'ini;  friend, 
till'  animiiled  preacher,  and  the  ahle  defender  of  the  gospid.    ilis  death  was  trinmpliant.' 

The  inscription  on  the  monument  erected  to  the  memory  of  IMr. 
Williams,  is  the  following: 

'  Tho  Rev.  Samuel  P.  Williams  was  born  in  Wethersfield  Conn.  22  Feb.  1770,  a;rndu- 
ated  at  Vale  Colieiio  17n(;,  ordained  in  Marslleld,  Conn.  1  Jan.  |S()7,  removeil  from 
M.irslield  7  Sept.  1S17.  installed  s  tVh.  is.'l  and  died  'j;)  Dec.  IS-.'d.  His  ancestors  were 
the  people  of  (iod.  He  was  a  pre.icher  of  the  i,'ospol.  L(!t  his  hearers,  if  Ihcy  would 
honor  him,  obey  that  K'"*!"'!. 

'  And  if  in  life  ho  tried  in  vain  to  save, 

O  lei  them  hear  him  preaching  from  tho  grave' 

Kpitapli  in  memory  of  reverend  Christopher  B.  Marsh. 

'  Henonlh  are  the  remains  of  the  Rev.  Christopher  H.  Marsh  the  only  son  of  T)eac. 
llaniel  iMarsli  of  I?oston  and  tho  much  heloveil  and  lamented  Pastor  of  the  North 
Church  in  this  town,  lie  exchanged  this  mortal  lor  an  endless  life  Dec.  I),  177.'!.  ajred 
:i(l  years  and  '.'  monlhs,  havini;  little  more  than  completed  the  fifth  yoarof  his  ministry. 
He  was  a  hard  stuilent.  a  nood  scholar,  a  tjreat  christian,  a  deep,  yet  plain  and  puni;ent 
nit'acher.  a  meek,  humble  and  prudent  Pastor.  His  whole  life  blameless  and  exemplary, 
his  ministry,  tho'  short,  was  important,  convovins;  mucli  instruction  and  hearini;  a 
noble  testimony  to  the  (jreat  doctrines  of  (iod's  grace.  His  grateful  flock  to  show  their 
respect  to  his  memory,  erect  lliis  monument. 

'The  Reverend  man.  let  all  thinss  mourn; 
Sure  he  was  some  atherial  mind, 
Fated  in  llesh  to  he  coiilined, 
And  ordered  to  be  horn. 
His  soul  was  of  the  angelic  frame; 
'J'lie  same  iinjrodienls,  and  the  mould  the  same 
When  the  Creator  makes  a  minister  of  flame. 
He  was  all  I'ormed  of  heaven'y  thills, 
Mortals,  believe  what  my  Urania  sines. 
For  she  hath  seen  him  rise  upon  his  llamy  wings.' 

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CONCLUSION 


Ei)itapli  in  incmcry  of  the  reverend  Samuel  Spring,  D.  D. 

'  [ii  memory  of  the  Rpv,  S;imupl  Spriii?.  born  at  Uxbridge  27  Feb.  1710.  graduated  at 
Nassau  177).  ordained  Pastor  of  llie  N'orlh  Cliurch,  0  Aug.  1777,  and  died  4  March, 
IM'.i.  ill  his  7  Itii  year.  A  i  uiri  of  orisjiiial  and  vii^oroiis  mind,  dis;liii2;iiished  for  a  deep 
Fe<ii*e  of  human  depravity,  specialli  for  his  <y\n  iinwortliiness,  and  lor  exalted  views 
of  tlie  I'hanu'ler  and  perterlions  of  (rod  and  tiie  Redeemer :  of  sireat  integrity.  (irmnesSr 
beiievolenri;  and  urbanity;  an  able,  faithful  and  assiduoi's  Pastor,  an  ensample  to  the 
lloek,  ovei  which  lie  was  plaeed.  an  atierlionale  husband,  a  tender  father,  a  sincere 
friend.  fl'>  was  a  \'isitor  of  the  Tlieoloiiieal  Seminary  at  Andovcr  from  its  comnicnce- 
inent.  Presideni  of  the  Mass.  Missionary  Society  Vice  Pres.  of  the  American  Board  of 
Commissioners  for  roreiu'i)  Missions  and  in  most  of  the  other  in:poitant  ollices  ot  tlie 
other  benevolent  sncntics  around  him.  lie  lived  eminently  useful  and  (bed  universally 
I  mented.  In  tei'Mnony  of  the  giatefnl  estimation  with  which  the  memory  of  their 
i'asior  is  cherished,  this  moiuimeiit  is  erected  by  the  bereaved  and  atilicted  churcht 
and  congreijatinn. 

•The  righteous  shall  be  held  in  cverlasting'remembrance.' 

On  the  niominient  erected  to  tlie  memory  of  the  revcrena  J-^nx 
IJuDDiLV,  is  the  following  inscription: 

'The  IJcv.  .Tohn  Boddily  was  born  in  England,  educated  at  Lady  Huntingdon'.s 
('n|lei;e  and  came  to  America  17!).j.  'J'his  church  was  founded  that  year.  He  was  aa 
ati'eclionate  evanjjelical  ])reaclier  of  the  gospel.     He  died  4  Nov.  1802,  aged  47  years.' 

On  that  to  the  memory  of  the  reverend  John  Giles,  is  the  following : 

'  Here  lie«  interred  the  remains  of  the  Rev.  John  Giles  for  twenty  two  j-ears  Pastor 
of  the  Second  Presbyte'ian  church  in  this  town.     He  died  2S  Sept.  1822  aged  GO.' 

On  the  mnible  jiyrniiiid  er.ectcd  to  the  memory  of  the  reverend 
Charles  W  Miltdn,  is  the  following: 


■  This  monument  is  erected  to  the  memory  of  the  Rev.  Charles  William  Milton', 
born  in  Londini  20  Nov.  1707,  educated  for  the  gospel  ministry  by  Lady  Huntingdon, 
he  was  ordained  a  missionary  in  Spa  FicUrs  Chapel,  London  17  Feb.  17&8.  commenced 
the  work  of  the  ministry  in  the  British  Provinces  in  America,  invited  to  this  town  by 
the  Rev.  ,Tohn  Murray,  he  accepted  the  invitation  to  become  the  Pastor  of  a  new  church, 
oallsd  the  fourth  church  and  reliaioiis  Socinty  and  was  installed  21)  March.  ;791.  Asa 
man  be  \\as  iipriuit.  independent  and  philanthropic  ;  As  a  friend  (though  his  intimacies 
were  few)  warm-1  earted  and  faithl'iil :  As  a  christian,  zealous  and  stable  ;  for  personal 
piety  eminent.  His  religion  was  in  the  heart  rather  than  on  the  lip  ;  As  a  minister  of 
the  .\ew  Testament,  he  was  earnest,  decided  and  evangelical;  a  scribe  instructed  unto 
the  kingdom  of  heaven:  In  his  style  and  manner  truly  unique.  No  man  was  his 
model.  In  the  fervour  and  eloquence  of  public  prayer  unsurpassed,  if  not  unequalled. 
Forty  three  years  he  preached  the  gospel  of  Christ  to  his  people  wilh  a  fidelity  and 
success  preeminently  signal  and  suddenly  passed  into  glory  May  1,  1837  aged  70. 
JMany  at  the  last  day  shall  rise  up  and  call  him  blessed.' 

To  these  ei)iui|)hs.  which  I  have  inserted  hy  particular  recptcst,  I 
shall  add  only  th.e  followimir  inscription,  which  is  on  the  monument 
erected  in  the  Federal  Street  church  to  the  memory  of  the  reverend 
(tidorge  WniTEriELD,  by  the  munificence  of  the  late  Wihiam  Barllet, 
esquire. 

'This  Cenotoph  ii.  elected  w  ith  alTectionate  veiieiation  to  the  memory  of  the  Rev. 
(ieori^e  Whitefield,  boin  at  Gloucestershiie  Dec.  10,  1714.  educated  at  Oxford  Univer- 
sity, ordained  17,'1().  In  a  ministry  of  .'M  years  he  crossed  the  Atlantic  KMimes.  and 
preached  more  than  IStldO  sermons.  As  a  soldier  of  the  cross,  humble,  devout,  ardent, 
he  put  on  the  whole  armor  of  (Jod,  preferring  the  honor  of  Christ  to  his  own  interest, 
repose,  reputation  and  life,  Asa  Christian  orator,  his  deep  piety,  disinterested  zeal 
and  \ivid  imagination  gave  nnexamplect  energy  to  his  look,  utterance  and  action.  Bold, 
ardent,  pungent  and  popular  in  his  eloquence,  no  other  uninspired  I'laii  ever  preached 


CONCLUSION. 


3«7 


to  so  large  assemblies,  or  enforced  the  simple  truths  of  the  {;osptM  hy  motives.  «io  per- 
^uas've  and  awful,  and  with  an  inlluonce  so  powerful  on  the  hearts  oi"  his  Iwarers.  He 
died  of  Asthma,  September  30, 1770,  suddenly  exchanging  his  life  of  unparalleled  labors 
for  his  eternal  rusl.' 

Having  tluis  disposed  of  the  deconscd  clpigy,  I  sliall  now  occttpy  a 
few  pages  with  briet'  notices  of  tlie  Jaily,  in  addition  lo  what  may  be 
Ibiiiid  in  the  genealogy,  wiiich  will  be  given  aipliabelically 

Robert  Auajis  resided  within  a  few  rods  of  the  spot  wlirre  his  de- 
scendants, colonel  Daniel  Adams  and  Robert  Adams,  now  live.  The 
posterity  of  Robert  Adams  are  umneions.  On  the  grave  stuiie  erected 
to  his  memory  in  the  Rylield  biiryirg  groinul,  tlicre  is  a  mistidie  ;  one 
generation  having  been  omitted,  ilms  making  Abraham  Adams  the  son 
of  his  grandfather  Robert,  instead  of  his  father  Abiahaiu. 

John  Atkinson,  hatter,  resided  where  captain  Stephen  Little  now 
resides. 

Reverend  Stephen  Baciiileu  resided  for  a  short  time  in  Newbury. 
A  particular  acconnt  of  him  may  be  Ibtind  in  Lewis's  History  of  Lynm 
Siilfice  it  to  say  that  he  came  to  America  in  lf);]2,at  the  age  of  seventy 
one,  went  to  Lynn,  thence  to  Ipswich  in  lG;iC),  thence  to'Yarmouih  in 
1637,  thence  to  Newbury  in  KVJS,  thence  to  Hampton  in  1(;3',).  From 
1617  to  IGoO  ht  was  in  Portsmouth.  In  the  latter  year  he  niairied  bis 
third  wife  Mary.  He  was  then  nearly  ninety  years  of  age.  In  the 
same  year,  the  court,  in  consetpieiice  of  a  matrimonial  dilliciilty,  ordered 
that  'Mr.  Baehiler  and  his  wife  shall  lyve  together  as  man  and  wife,  as 
in  this  Court  they  have  piiblicpiely  professed  to  doe,  and  if  either 
desert  one  another,  then  hereby  the  Court  doth  order  that  ye  ^Marshall 
shall  apprehend  both  ye  said  "Mr.  Baehiler  and  :\Iury  his  wili>  and 
bring  them  forthwith  to  Boston,' and  so  forth.  In  October,  IG-ir,,  bis 
wife  Mary  petitioned  the  Court  for  a  divorce,  stating  tliat  '  .Mr. 
Baehiler  upon  some  pretended  ends  of  his  owne  hath  transported  liim- 
selfe  unto  oiild  England  and  betaken  liimselfe  to  another  wife,'  and  so 
forth.  At  the  time  of  Mr.  Bacluler's  running  away  and  taking  a 
fourth  wife,  he  was  in  the  ninety-sixth  year  of  his" age!  (iidie  ti 
sprightly  specimen  of  clerical  gallantry,  and  certainly  iiniqiie.  lie 
died  at  Hackney,  England,  aged  about  one  hundred.  "Prince  stiys  of 
him,  'he  was  a  man  of  fame  in  his  day,  a  gentleman  of  learning  and 
ingenuity,  and  wrote  a  fine  and  curious"  haiul.'  His  posterity  are  very 
numerous  in  New  Hampshire. 

John  Bailey  came  to  New  P^ngland  in  a  shi))  called  the  'Angel 
Gabriel,'  which  was  cast  away  in  the  terrible  storm  of  August  KiO-Cat 
Pemaqiiid.  He  was  so  frightened  by  tiie  dangers  ho  had  eiicotmferetl, 
that  he  never  again  dared  to  cross"  the  Atlantic.  As  his  wife  was 
erpially  unwilling  to  come  to  New  England,  they  never  met.  Ho 
brought  Ids  son  John  with  him.  In  his  will  he  says,  'son  John  is  1(» 
pay  his  mother  XG,  jirovided  slie  come  over,  son"  Rob.'il  .Clj  and 
daughters  £10  apiece  if  they  come  over,  and  £-3  apiece,  if  they  do  not.' 

The  Bauti.et  families,  tliree  in  all,  settled  on  and  about  the  place 
called  Bartlet's  cove,  in   Newbury,  opposite  Amcsbttry  ferry,  where 


3SS 


CONCL  USION. 


some  of  liis  descendants  of  the  same  name  still  veinuin,  and  engaged 
in  the  same  occupation,  and  perhaps  on  the  same  spot  that  John 
liarllet,  '  the  tanner,' occupied  uoarly  two  centuries  ago.  The  name 
is  an  ancient  one,  and  may  he  (buiid  in  various  ancient  records.  Adam 
de  Jiarttlot,  went  to  England  with  William  the  conipicror,  in  10(U),  and 
settled  at  Slapham  in  Sussex,  where  the  elder  hrauch  of  tlie  Camily 
still  resides.  In  12M)  the  name  was  s])elled  ]5artelot,  afterward  J5ar- 
tholot,  Bartolot,  Eartch;t,  Bartlett,  and  liartlet.  In  John  Fox's  Hook 
of  jVIartyrs,  jirintcd  in  IGIO,  I  find  llicliard,  Ilohert,  Sarah  and  Isabel- 
la IJartlet,  protcslant  martyrs,  ])ersceutcd  by  John  Longland,  popish 
bishop  of  the  dioccbC  of  Lincoln  in  the  year  lo;31. 

IIenuy  Bodwkll,  v.-lio  married  Bcthia  Emery,  was  one  of  the  few 
survivors  of  the  company  nndcr  caption  Thomas  Lath rop,  who  were 
slain  at  the  disastrous  battle  of  IMnddy  Brook,  Septendtor  eighteenth, 
107o,  now  most  a|)proprialely  styled  Bloody  Brook,  An  account  of 
this  battle,  or  rather  massacre,  should  have  been  given  on  page  1 17, 
but  was  omitted  for  want  of  some  information,  which,  having  been 
since  obtained,  will  be  here  inserted,  compiled  from  the  honorable  Ed- 
ward Everett's  elegant  address,  delivered  September  thirtietli,  \^'3'), 
at  Bloody  Brook,  in  South  Deerlleld,  in  connnemoration  of  the  fall  of 
the  'flower  of  Essex'  at  that  spot  in  king  Philip's  war,  September 
eighteenth,  1()7-J,  and  from  Mr.  Bobcrt  Adams's  manuscript  history  of 
Kewbury,  and  a  document  copied  from  the  original  on  llle  in  the  state 
house,  in  Boston,  and  written  by  the  reverend  John  Russell,  of  Iladley. 
Those  who  are  familiar  with  the  history  of  Philip's  war,  will  recollect 
that  Philii)  was  at  this  time  on  Connecticut  river.  It  therefore  became 
neccssury  for  the  English  to  establish  a  formidable  opiiosing  force,  in 
some  convenient  position.  As  Iladley  was  selected,  an  increased  sup- 
ply of  provisions  in  that  j'lace  was  necessary.  '  A  considerable  quan- 
tity of  wheat  being  preserved  in  stacks  at  Decrfield,  it  was  deemed 
expedient  to  have  it  threshed  and  brought  down  to  Iladley.  Captain 
Lalhrop  and  his  company  volunteered  to  jiroceed  to  Deerfield  and  pro- 
tect the  convoy.  This  company  consisted  of  '  the  flower  of  the  popu- 
lation of  Essex  —  her  hopeful  young  men  —  all  culled  out  of  the  towns 
belonging  to  that  county.'  Of  "the  twenty-three  men  impressed  from 
Newbury  on  the  fifth,  sixth,  and  twenty-seventh  of  August  to  go  against 
the  Indian  enemy,  Henry  Bodwell  and  John  Topjmn  were  two,  and  it 
is  not  unlikely  that  the  remaining  twenty-one  were  a  part  of  captain 
Lathrop's  company,  which  consisted  in  all  of  eighty  men.  The  whole 
company  arrived  safely  at  Deerfield,  threshed  tlie  wheat,  ]ilaced  it  in 
eighteen  wagons,  and  whiUi  on  their  retmn  through  South  Deerfield, 
as  they  were  stopping  to  gather  grapes,  which  hung  in  clusters  in  the 
forest  that  lined  the  narrow  road,  they  were  surprised  by  an  ambuscade 
of  Indians,  outnumbering  captain  Lalhro])'s  cf)mpany  ten  to  one,  who 
poured  upon  them  a  murderous  lire.  Ilubliard  states  that  not  above 
seven  or  eight  of  captain  Lathrop's  company  escaped.  This  is  prob- 
ably near  the  truth,  as  the  reverend  John  Russell  states  that  seventy- 
one  men  were  slain  at  Muddy  I5rook  bridge  on  the  eighteenth  of  Sep- 
tember, and  gives  the  names  of  sixty  of  them.  '  From  August  fifth  to 
September  twenty- seventh,  there  were  impressed,'  says  Mr.  Everett, 
'  in  the  single  town  of  Newbury,  thirty  men  and  forty-six  horses;  facts 
that  show  tiie  prodigious  severity  of  the  military  service  of  the  colony 


CONCLUSION, 


i89 


at  that  period,  —  vastly  greater  tlian  at  any  subsequent  period  in  flie 
history  of  the  country.'  To  which  Mi:  Everett  niii^iit  liiive  iuiJeJ,  tliut 
in  Deeemberul'  that  same  year,  twenly-lbur  additioual  men  were  ini- 
})resscd  t'roni  Newbury,  and,  on  the  second  of  the  next  .lanuary,  thir- 
teen more,  making  in  all,  with  llichard  Kent's  man,  who  was  impressed 
en  September  twenty-ninth,  sixty-eight  men  and  Ibrty-six  ho .ses,  iVoni 
August  Uftli,  lC)7o,  to  January  second,  Kwd.  The  raiaiih;  polls  at  this 
time  were  only  one  hundred  and  lil'iy-ninc.  Mr.  Samuel  .hupies,  who 
died  June  twenty-lburth,  iMil,  aged  ninety-live  years  and  Tour  months, 
was  well  acquainted  with  three  of  the  soldiers  from  Newbury,  who 
were  in  the  battle  of  September  eighteenth,  or  the  retaiiiiamscot,  light 
at  Narragansett,  -Decend)er  nineteenth;  namely,  Jonatlian  JOmeiy, 
Sanniel  Hills,  and  .lolui  Toppan.  From  them  Mr.  .laques  asceriained 
the  following  j)articulars,  wliich  he  connnunicated  to  Mr.  Jlobert  Adams 
in  1HI7.  Jonathan  Emery  was  wounded,  December  nineteenth,  in  the 
neck  by  an  arrow.  At  the  battle  of  Hloody  J5rook,  John  Tojipiin,  who 
Avas  wounded  in  the  shoulder,  concealed  himself  in  a  water  coiu'se  that 
at  that  time  was  almost  dry,  and  hauled  grass  and  weeds  over  his  head, 
so  that,  though  the  Indians  sometimes  stepped  over  him,  he  was  not 
discovered.  Henry  ]]odwell  had  his  left  arm  broken  by  a  musket  hall, 
but,  being  a  man  of  great  strength  and  courage,  he  seized  his  gun  in 
liis  right  hand,  and  swiuig  it  round  his  head,  and  so  forced  liis  way 
througii  the  Indians,  by  whom  he  was  almost  surrounded.  'The  ca- 
tastrophe of  the  eighteenth  of  September,  was  the  heaviest,  which 
had  befallen  the  colony.'  '  It  was  a  sadder  rebuke  of  rrovid(Mice,'  savs 
doctor  Increase  Mather, 'than  any  thing  that  hitherto  had  been' — 'a 
black  and  latal  day  wherein  there  were  eight  per.sons  made  widows,  and 
twenty  six  children  made  fatherless,  and  about  sixty  jiersons  buried  in 
one  fatal  grave.'  In  the  course  of  rhili[!'s  war,  wliich  was  brief,  'six 
hundred  of  the  inhabitanls,  the  greatest  part  of  whom  Avere  the  llower 
of  the  country,  fell  in  battle,  or  were  murdered.  Twelve  towns  in 
Massachusetts,  Plymouth  and  Rhode  Island  were  utterly  destroyed, 
and  many  more  greatly  injured.  Six  himdred  buildings,  mostly  dwel- 
ling houses,  are  known  to  have  been  burned,  and,  according  to  doctor 
Trumbull's  calculation  one  man  in  eleven  of  the  arms  bearing  popula- 
tion was  killed,  and  one  house  in  eleven  laid  in  ashes.' 

The  followinsi  is  a  copy,  sent  to  the  general  court  by  the  reverend 
John  Russell,  of  lladley.  It  has  never,  to  my  knowledge,  been  print- 
ed, only  in  jiart.  Those  belonging  to  New])uiy  who  were  killed  under 
captain  Lathrop,  were  serjeant  Thomas  Smith,  Samuel  Stevens,  his 
brother  John  Stevens,  John  Littlehale,  at  that  time  of  Haverhill.  John 
riumnier  was  killed  Auonst  twcuty-iifth.  There  were  probably  others 
from  Newbury,  whose  names  are  not  known. 

'  A  list  of  tlie  men  slain  in  the  County  of  Hampshire  (thonirh  wo  cannot  "ott  the 
nami's  of  all,  yet  as  nnanv  as  we  can  gett,)  arc  here  inserted.  Also  the  time  when  and 
place  where  they  were  slain. 

'  l(i7.'),  Auir.  'J.  John  ]\vres,  Ricliard  Coy,  John  and  Samnel  I'rilchard,  Henry  Youn^' 
Zachary  I'hillips.  Sydraidi  Harkwood,  Samuel  Snieadley,  Kdward  Cohiini.  .fames  Hov- 
cy,  Capt.  Edward  Hutchinson,  i:i  wi.|e  slayn.  At  the  swamp  beyond  Hattield  ve  "r> 
Auijust  \vere  D  men  slayn.  Azariah  Hickinson.  James  Lewis,  Samuel  Mason,  Richard 
Fellows,  John  Plummer,  Mark  I'itman,  Joseph  Pearson.  iMalthew  Scales,  William 
Cluffe. 

'  At  Squakca;e  ye  t  Sept.  10  men  were  slayn. 

'Capt.  Richard  Beers,  John  Chenary,  F,i)hVaini  Child,  Benjamin  Crackhone  Rohert 
repper,,Iosciih  Dickinson,  William  Markham,  George  Lyrass,  John  Gatchcll,  James 
Wilier,  John  Wilson. 


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390 


CONCLUSION. 


'  Squakeii^'e  ye  5(1  of  Sept.  8  men  were  sl;\yn. 

'  SiTi;.  Samuel  Wriijht,  Ebene/.or  and  Jonathan  Jeans,  Ebenczer  Parsons,  Nuthnniel 
Ctirtis,  Tliomas  Scolt.  and  John  Peck. 

'  At  Deeriield  'J  men  were  sl.iyn.    James  Ea^lestone,  Nathaniel  Cranberry. 

'  At  Muddy  Biook  bridge  ye  ISlh  Sept.  71  rneii  were  slayn. 

'  Capl.  Thomas  Lalhrop.  Ser.  Thomas  Smith,  Samiiei  Stevens,  John  Ilobbs,  Daniel 
Button,  .John  Hairiman,  Thomas  Uailoy,  Ezekiel  Sawyer,  Jacob  Kilborn,  Thoiriait 
JIannin;;,  J.irob  Wainwright,  Benjamin  Roper,  John  15ennet,  Thomas  Mentor,  Cah'b 
Kimball,  Thomas  Elobbs,  Robert  Homes,  Edward  Tiask,  Richard  Lambert,  .losiah 
Dodjite,  Peter  Woodbury,  Joseph  Balch,  Samuel  Whittridiie,  William  Duy.  Serj;.  Samii- 
el  Stevens,  Samuel  Crampton,  John  Plum, 'J'hon)iis  Buckley,  d'eorge  Ropes,  Joseph 
Kirge,  Thomas  Alexander,  EraTicis  Friend,  Abel  Osyer,  John  Liltlehale,  Samuel  Hud- 
son, Adam  Cla)ke,  Ephraim  Farah,  Robert  Wilson,  Steven  Welrnan,  Benjamin  Farrell, 
Solomon  Alley,  John  Merritt,  Robert,  Samuel,  Barnabas  and  John  Ilinsdall,  Joseph 
(iillett,  John  Allin,  Joshua  Carter.  John  Barnard,  James  Tulls,  Jonathan  Plynipton, 
Philip  Barsham,  Thomas  Welles,  William  SmeaJe,  Zebadiah  Williams,  Eliakiiii  Mar- 
shall, James  Mudge  and  George  Cole. 

'  At  Northampton  -^  men  were  slain,  Praiseever  Turner,  and  Tlzacaby  Shackspeer. 

'  At  Springfield  Oct.  4,  four  men  and  a  woman  were  slain.  Lieut.  Thomas  Cooper, 
Thomas  Miller,  Nathaniel  Browne,  Edmund  Primrides. 

'  At  Hatfield  Oct.  19  ten  men  were  slain.  Serg.  Freegrace  Norton,  Thomas  Mekins, 
Nathaniel  Collins,  Richard  Slone,  Samuel  Clarke,  John  Pocock,  Thomas  Warner, 
Abraham  Quiddini;ton,  William  Olverlon,  John  Petts. 

'  At  Westtielu  Oct.  27,  were  three  men  slayn,  William  and  John  Brooks,  and  John 
Dumbleton. 

'  At  Northampton  20  Oct.  were  4  slain  Joseph  Baker  sen.  Joseph  Baker  jun.  Thomas 
Salmon,  and  John  Roberts. 

'  Three  men  of  Capt.  Moseley's,  when  he  went  to  relieve  Capt.  Lathrop,  John  Gates, 
Peter  Barron, 

'  The  whole  number  is  1  i^>  persons.  Blow  ye  a  trumpet  in  Zion,  sanctify  a  fast,  call 
a  solemn  assembly,  gather  the  people,  sanctify  the  congregation,  assemble  the  elders, 
gather  the  children  and  those  that  suck  the  breasts.  Let  the  priests,  the  ministers  of 
the  Lord  weep  between  the  porch  and  the  altar,  and  let  them  say  spare  thy  people,  O 
Lord,  and  give  not  thy  heritage  to  reproach  that  the  heathen  should  rule  over  iliem. 
Wherefore  should  they  say  among  the  people  where  is  thy  God  (  Then  will  the  Lord 
be  jealous  for  his  land  and  pity  his  people. 

'  Rev.  Joii.n  Rlssbll.' 

I  am  the  more  inclined  to  publish  the  preceding  account,  as  Mr. 
Everett  observes,  page  twenty-fourth,  that  '  with  the  exception  of  Capl. 
Lathrop  himself  I  am  not  aware,  that  we  have  [lositive  information  as 
to  any  that  fell,  ofiicers  or  men,'  and  in  a  note  at  the  close  of  the  book, 
page  thirty-seventh,  he  says  that  the  contemporary  '  historians  are  si- 
lent as  to  the  names  of  those,  who  fell  with  Lathrop,'  but  observes  that 
'  since  the  foregoing  pages  were  jirinted  oif,  I  have  been  furnished 
with  a  list  of  those,  who  fell  with  Capt.  Lathrop.'  This  list  agrees  in 
substance  with  the  list  in  the  preceding  page,  which  I  copied  from  the 
original  some  fifteen  years  ago.  Each  list  contains  sixty  names,  but  the 
names  of  eleven  persons,  who  were  killed,  are  not  mentioned. 

Thomas  Browne,  weaver,  resided  in  the  vicinity  of  Turkey-hill, 
His  daughter  Mary  was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Newbury.  His 
son  Francis  was  ances'.or  of  John  Brown,  whose  family  were  carried 
off  by  the  Indians  in  1 G9-5,  and  ancestor  of  Mr.  Robert  Brown,  who 
resides  on  the  land  once  owned  by  his  first  ancestor. 

Richard  Brown  resided  on  the  spot  now  occupied  Viy  captain  Dan- 
iel Lunt,  on  the  corner  of  what  was  once  called  South  street,  but  now 
Parker  street. 


WiLLL.M  Chandler  resided  near  the  foot  of  what  is  now  Tcdcral 
street,  then  called  Chandler's  lane. 


CONCLUSION. 


391 


Doctor  John-  Clark,  the  fir.^st  physician  of  Newhiiry,  tradition  as- 
sorts, was  the  first  reouliu-ly  ctlncatcd  physician,  who  resided  in  New 
^Lngland.  In  Tlmchcr's  Medical  Jiiograpliy,  it  is  said  that 'he  was 
lionored  witli  a  diploma  for  his  success  in  cutting  for  thfi  stone.'  ]n 
1()0l  he  sold  a  part  of  his  farm,  which  was  originally  four  hundred 
acres,  near  Cart  Creek  to  Matthew  Chafiey  of  Boston,  who  sold  it  to 
Kicliard  Ihorlayo  of  Rowley,  for  one  hundred  and  fifty-five  pounds 
i^rom  hiin  descended  all  of  the  name  of  Tlioria  or  Tlinrlow  now  in 
JNcwbury.  A  likeness  of  doctor  Clark  is  in  possession  of  the  Massa- 
ciuisetts  Historical  Society,  from  which  the  lithograph  in  this  volume 
IS  taken. 

Thomas  Colman,  resided  in  Byfield,  on  land,  which  is  now  owned 
by  one  of  his  descendants,  colonel  Jeremiah  Colman.  The  family  of 
Colemans  in  Nantucket  are  also  descended  from  Thomas  Colman's 
elder  children,  and  those  in  Newbury  are  descended  froi  the  youn<r- 
est  son  Tobias,  the  son  of  Margery,  the  third  wife  of  Thomas  and 
who  was  the  widow  of  Thomas  Rowel  1  of  Andovcr.  The  name  was 
originally  Coultman,  that  is,  Coltman,  or  one  who  had  the  care  and 
management  of  horses.     So  say  l^nglish  writers. 

Tristram  Corn.v,  junior,  about  1651  erected  the  house,  in  which  the 
compiler  of  this  work  now  resides,  and  which  is  occupied  by  Tristram's 
descendants  of  the  seventh  generation.  Tristram  Coffyn,  senior,  of 
whom  I  hr.ve  said  something  on  pages  298  and  U,  is  said  to  have  been 
the  first  person  who  ever  used  a  plough  in  Haverhill,  where  his  name 
IS  found  as  a  witness  to  the  Indian  deed  of  that  town,  March  fifteendi, 
1G42.  He  always  wrote  his  name  '  Cofiyn.'  He  was  a  royalist,  and 
was,  as  far  as  I  can  ascertain,  the  only  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  New- 
bury, who  came  to  America  in  consecpience  of  the  snccess  of  Oliver 
Cromwell.  From  Prince's  Worthies  of  Devonshire,  I  find  that  '  the 
ancient  faindy  of  this  name  was  settled  at  rorlledge,  by  ihe  sea-side 
ni  the  parish  of  Aiwington,  five  miles  from  Eiddcford,  and  flourished 
there  from  the  conquest,  and  tiiat  from  the  time  of  King  Henry  first, 
niito  the  age  of  King  Edward  second,  the  space  of  20''  years,  the 
heir  of  this  family  was  always  called  Richard.  The  present  repre- 
sentative of  this  most  ancient  family,  is  the  Rev.  John  Pine  Coffin 
of  Portledge.'  One  of  Tristram  CotFin's  descendants  was  admiral  sir 
Isaac  Coffin,  who  was  born  in  Boston  June  third,  1759,  and  entered 
the  British  navy  as  midshipman  about  the  year  1770.  He  was  the 
founder  of  the  Coffin  school  in  Nantucket,  which  was  designed  for  the 
benefit  of  all  the  descendants  of  Tristrar  Coffyn,  senior. 

Captain  John  Ci'-ting,  tradition  states,  was  a  ship-master,  and 
sailed  from  Boston  and  crossed  the  Atlantic  thirteen  times.  He  was 
a  man  of  a  great  deal  of  humor,  and  many  stories  are  told  to  this  day 
concerning  his  peculiarities,  whi(-h  alK)rded  much  diversion  to  himself 
and  others,  but  which  want  of  room  compels  me  to  omit.  Winthrop 
in  the  year  1G37,  mentions  '  Capt.  Cutting's  ship  and  a  captiye  Peqnod, 
whom  the  government  gave  him  to  carry  to  England.' 

Richard  Dole  resided  on  the  same  spot  of  ground,  which  his  de- 
scendants of  the  same  name  now  occnpy.  His  ancestors  went  from 
the  town  of  Dole  in  Bretagne,  in   10G6,  to  England.     He  probably 


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came  from  IJiistol,  as  I  lind  liis  name  signed  in  H)39,  to  an  obligation 
wntUii  l)y  Mr.  Jolm  Lowlc,  llien  in  liristol,  and  caino  Willi  the  Lowle.-* 
ill  tlie  JiiUcr  part  ol'  the  same  year  1o  Aewbmy.  ile  was  then  but  fit- 
tccii  years  of  age,  and  was  probably  their  elerk. 

RicTTARi)  DujniER  WHS  OHC   of  tlic  fatliois  of  Massaclmsctts    was 
ehosen  a  iiv.mislvate,  wnrinlv  es[H)iiMMl  the  cause  of  sir   Henry  Viuie, 
wiis  one  of  tlie  disarmed  adluTeuts  of  Mrs.  lliitchiiison,  and  '  no  man, 
says  Eliot,  '  more  deserved  the   praise  of  doing  well.'     He  was  very 
rich  and  equally  benevolent.     Jle  contributed  greatly  to  the  nnproye- 
meut  and  growth  of  th:il  [.an  of  Newbury,  where  he   lived.      1  ho 
lands,  ui)on  which  the  academv  is  bnilt,  were  Ins,  and  were  lelt  lor  tlie 
support  of  this  institution,     the  house  in  which   he    ived,  stood   a 
few  rods   southcnst  of  the   present  mansion  house,     llis  son   Jere- 
my Dummer,  was  a  goldsmith,  resided  in  Jioston,  and  there  died  in 
171b      He  was  the  Hither  of  the   celebrated  Jeremy  .Dummer,  and  ot 
lieutenant  governor  William  Summer,  who  founded   Dummer  acade- 
my     Eliot  in  bis  r-iogra-phical  Dictionary,  says  he  was  born  m  tins 
province,  which  is  coiTect,  but  not  sulliciently  definite.     The  compiler 
of  the  Dummer  academy  catalogue  says  he  was  born  m  Byfield   but 
this  is  not  correct.     He  was  undoubtedly  born  m   Jioston.     This   I  m- 
fer  from  the  will  of  Jeremy  Dummer,  senior.     In  it  he  mentions  sons 
William    Jeremy,   Samuel,   and    daughter   Anna,   who   married   John 
Powell      Governor  Dummer  in  his  will  1701,  mentions  his  sister  Anna 
Powell      '  He  was  a  mnn,'  snys  Eliot,  '  of  such  correct  judgment,  and 
steadv  habits,  such  a  lirin  and  tcini)eiate  conduct,  when  he  supposed 
himself  right,  that  the  vessel  of  state  was  secure  though  exposed  to 
the  dan-ers  of  a  tempestuous  sea.'     Douglas  always  styles  it  '  the  wise 
iulministiation  of   Dummer.'     He  was  in  the  chair  Irorn  November, 
\T>2,\o  July  nineteenth,  17:i8,and  ngnin  from  governor  ibirnets  death, 
Sei^endK-r"  seventh,  17:29,  till  April  eighth,   i7:]0.     He  died  October 
tenth    i-iC.l.     J5v  his  will  he  -ave  his  valuable  farm  and  stately  man- 
sion bouse,  whiedi  is  still  stamliuLv.  for  the  endowment  of  the  academy, 
which  was  the  lirst  incorporated  iictulemy  in  the  state. 

I\Ir  XicnoLAs  Eastox,  another  of  the  early  settlers  of  Newbmy, 
was  one  of  the  three  disarmed  adherents  of  Mrs.  Hntcbinson,  and  in 
lG:]i),  removed  to  llliode  Jsland,  where  be  was  lieutentmt  governor  ol 
the  state  in  ICoO,  1(;7:2,  and  1C.7:!.  His  son  John,  who  wasMilteen 
years  of  a-re  when  he  cuiiie  with  his  lather  to  Newbury,  was  afterward 
ehosen  to'tlie  sam(>  oliice,  from  IC'.iO  to  um.  Mr.  Nicholas  Eastmi  s 
house  stood  near  where  Mr.  Nathaniel  Dole  now  lives. 

John  Emery  senior,  in  the  latter  part  of  his  life  resided  on  the  llxrm 
where  ISh:  ]':ii[ih;vlet  bbiiery  now  lives. 

Captain  William  (lEixnisn  resided  near  the  parsonage  land,  on  the 
road  leading  to  Trotter's  bridge. 

Launtelot  fJuAXfiER  livcd  for  some  time  on  Kent's  island,  and  with 
his  l)rother-in-law,  Jacob  Adams,  removed  to  Sullield,  Connecticut,  and 
was  ancestor  of  the  honorable  Gideon  Granger  of  that  place. 

Captain  Ei.munt)   Greknleafe,  whom  Johnson  styles  an  'ancient 


CONCLUSION. 


293 


and  experienced  lieutenixnt'  under  captain  Gerrish,  in  1644,  went  from 
]\e\vbury  to  Boston  soon  after  the  removal  of  the  meeting-house  from 
the  lower  green.  In  ills  will,  he  says  :  '  next  my  will  is  being  accord- 
ing to  God's  will  and  revcaleil  in  his  word,  that  \vce  must  pay  what  wee 
owe  and  live  of  the  rest,  unto  whose  rule  the  sons  of  men  ouKht  to 
frame  their  wills  and  actions,  therefore,'  and  so  forth.  He  montioTis  his 
son  Stephen,  daughter  Elizabeth  Browne,  daughter  Judith  Coffin, 
grnndchildrcn  Elizabeth  llilion,  Enoch  Greenleafe,  Sarah  Winslow, 
and  James  Greenleafe,  his  eldest  son's  son,'  and  conchides  with  the 
following  queer  memoranda.  '  When  I  married  my  wife  I  kept  her 
grnndchild,  as  1  best  remember  three  years  to  schooling,  Dyet  and  ap- 
parel, and  William  Hill  her  sun  h;ul  a'bond  of  £6  a  year,  wheieof  I 
received  no  mou)  than  a  barrell  of  pork  of  X;3,  of  thai  £(\  a  yere  he 
was  to  pay  me,  and  I  sent  to  her  son  Ignatius  Hill  to  the  Barbadoes  in 
Mackrell,  Sider,  bread  and  pease  as  much  as  come  to  £20,  I  never  re- 
ceived ^ne  penny  of  it.  His  aunt  gave  to  the  three  brothers  £50 
apiece.  I  know  not  whclher  tlicy  received  it  or  not.  I  never  received 
any  part  of  it.  Beside  when  I  married  my  wife  she  brought  me  a  sil- 
ver l)owl,  a  silver  porringer,  a  silver  s|,oon";  she  lent  or  gave  them  to 
her  son  James  Hill  without  my  consent.  Witness  my  hand.  Edmund 
GuEE.\LEAFE.     Twenty-flfth  December,  16G8.' 


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TnoMAS  Hale  resided  on  the  south  sid.  df  the  river  Parker.  The 
family  of  Hale  is  of  consiilerablo  antiquity  and  of  high  resjiectability 
in  England,  Thomas  Hale,  of  Codii'Ote,  in  Ilertlbrdshire,  married 
Aime,  daughter  of  Ediiumd  Mitchell,  and  had  three  sons,  liickanl, 
William,  and  John.  Richanh  the  eldest  son,  jiurchased  the  estate  of 
Kings  Waldcn  in  Hertfordshire,  and  tlied  in  16:20.  His  son  Willicwi 
succeeded  him,  and  died  in  August,  16ol,  aged  sixty-six.  He  left  nine 
children,  Richard,  born  in  15'J6,  William  in  15!)7,  Rowland,  his  heir, 
George,  born  July  thirtieth,  1601,  Alicia,  in  1003,  Wincfreda,  1601, 
Thomas,  IGOG,  Anne,  160'.),  and  Dionisia,  March  seventeenth,  IGll. 
The  last  mentioned  Thomas  is  supposed  to  be  the  Thomas  Hale  who 
came  to  Newbury. 

In  the  notice  of  Williaji  Hilton,  page  305,  a  nu'stake  should  be 
corrected.  It  should  be  thus  :  '  a  William  Hilton,  probably  not  the  same 
person,  died  in  Charleslown  September  seventh,  1675,'  leaving  sons 
Nowell,  Edward,  and  Charles.' 

jMr.  JosEpn  Hills,  a  man  of  some  distinction  in  the  early  history  of 
the  country,  came,  as  \  win  informed,  from  Slircwsbury,  in  Enshind. 
His  original  name  was  Hill,  luit  to  distinguish  his  f\xmily  from  the  large 
number  of  families  named  Hill,  he  added  the  letter  's'  to  his  naufe. 
Since  that  time  all  his  desceiulants  have  borne  the  name  of  Hills.  I\Ir. 
Joseph  Hills  was  repre.sentative  from  IMalden,  and  speaker  of  the  house, 
in  1617.  He  vras  also  a  representative  froiu  IMalden  from  16-'50  to  1C56. 
In  1646  he  was  a|>[)oinled  by  the  Court  with  Mr.  Edward  Rnwson  to 
compare  the  amendments  of^the  books  of  laws  passed,  and  make  them 
as  one,  and  one  of  them  to  remain  in  the  hands  of  the  Committee,  for 
the  speedy  committing  of  them  to  the  press.'  In  consequence  of  his 
labors  in  compiling  and  preparing  the  'laws,'  he  was  exempted  from 
paying  taxes  ibr  the  last  five  vears  of  his  life. 
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CONCLUSION. 


From  his  will  I  make  the  following  extracts:  '  My  will  further  i» 
that  for  the  good  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  towne  of  Newbury  that 
there  be  the  sum  of  forty  shillings  in  money  paid  into  the  hands  of 
t-aptuin  Daniel  Pierce  (or  such  other  person  as  tlie  town  shall  ai)[)oint) 
towards  the  i)rocuring  of  a  good  bell  ibr  tbo  mooting  house,  or  such 
other  as  shall  be  built  for  the  better  comfort  of  the  inhabitants,  provi- 
ded the  said  inhabitants  shall  make  it  up  the  sum  of  thirty  pounds 
within  three  years  after  my  decease.'  '  Also  I  give  my  wife  my  great 
testament,  my  book  of  martyrs  and  new  warming  pan.'  Three  excel- 
lent articles,  and  rather  more  consistent  with  each  other  than  '  my 
great  bible,  my  fowling-j)icce  and  negro  boy  Tom.' 

Solomon  Holman,  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  in  the  west  parish 
of  Newbury.  lie  was  born  in  England,  served  seven  years  on  board 
of  a  man  of  war,  ran  away  in  Jiernuula,  when  sent  after  milk,  secreted 
himself  in  the  barn  till  the  vessel  sailed,  and  lived  by  milking  the  cows. 
He  was  discovered  by  the  owner  of  the  barn,  who  befriended  him,  and 
gave  him  employment.  He  afterward  married  his  employer's  daugh- 
ter Mary,  came  to  Newbury,  built  him  a  bark,  and  then  a  log  hou°se, 
on  land  of  which  he  bought  thirteen  acres  for  a  fat  heifer.  The  land 
is  now  owned  by  Mr.  Jonathan  Ilsloy,  from  whom  I  obtained  this  ac- 
count. Mr.  Holman  died  May  seventh,  l/oS,  in  his  eighty-second 
year. 

John  Kelly,  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Newbury,  was  of  Irish, 
as  well  as  of  English,  descent.  Shortly  after  he  settled  in  Newbury, 
he  determined  to  run  the  risk  of  building  his  house  on  the  north  side 
of  Old-town  hill.  His  neighbors  remonstrated  with  him  on  his  rash- 
ness, and  finally  the  town  passed  a  vote,  that  if,  in  consequence  of  his 
temerity,  he  lost  his  life,  his  blood  should  be  on  his  own  head.  This  I 
am  informed  on  good  authority,  though  the  record  is  not  now  to  be 
found.  Tradition  also  states,  that  one  night,  hearing  a  disturbance 
among  his  sheep,  he  went  and  killed  what  he  supjioscd  to  be  a  dog, 
but  which  in  the  morning  proved  to  be  a  wolf  His  son  John  built, 
prior  to  1G90,  the  house,  still  standing,  which  was  formerly  owned  by 
]\Ir.  Nicholas  Lunt,  on  the  W(;st  side  of  the  road  north  of  gravel  hill, 
and  now  owned  by  his  grandson,  Mr.  Joseph  Lunt.  The  only  descen- 
dant of  John  Kelly,  and  bearing  his  name,  in  Newbury  or  Newbury- 
port,  is  doctor  Elbridge  G.  Kelly,  though  many  descendants  are  found 
in  New  Hampshire,  and  most  of  the  New  England  and  other  states. 
Twenty-six  persons  of  the  name  arc  known  to  have  graduated  at  the 
different  colleges  in  the  union.  Tradition  states  that  the  father  of  John 
Kelly,  the  first  who  came  to  Newbur^,  emigrated  from  Ireland  to 
Newbnry,  England,  became  attached  to  a  lady  of  rank,  and  havin"- 
on  one  occasion,  by  his  courage,  successfully  defended  her  father's 
house  when  attacked  by  robbers,  he  obtained  his  consent  to  a  marriage 
with  his  daughter. 

Deacon  Richard  Kinmght  and  liis  brother  John  resided  on  land  now 
owned  by  John  Knight's  descendants  of  the  same  name.  The  deacon 
left  no  male  heirs.  I  have  a  piece  of  poetry  which  he  left  to  his  chil- 
dren.    It  contains  good  advice,  but  whether  original  or  selected,  I  am 


CONCLUSION. 


395 


r 


tiot  al.lc  to  say.     It  is  too  long  for  insertion.     The  following  lines  are 
a  lair  spceiuien.  ° 

'  Fnr  otlier  men  cjive  not  thy  word 
No  fiirtlior  than  thou  canst  atlbrd, 
Li'st  afterwards  thou  shouldest  rue 
To  pay  the  debt  when  it  is  due.' 

RicHART)  Kent,  senior,  lived  near,  or  in,  Kent  street.  Ricmiaud  Krnt, 
junior,  re.sidcd  on  the  island  which  bears  his  name.  The  present 
ovvners  arc  descendants  of  James,  brother  of  Ilichard,  innioi  The 
island  was  cntadcd  to  the  oldest  male  heir,  bat  m  process  of  time  a 
dilhcnlty  occurred,  winch  the  testator  had  not  anticipated.     The  wife 

May  niiuh   iVlr'""        '  ''''''  '''"'  '"''''  "'"'"^''^  ''"'^   ^^'i^'^*^"'  ^^"'" 
It  has  never  yet  been  decided  wliich  was  the  older  of  the  two,  al- 
though a  long  and  trcidjlcsome   law-snit  was  the  consernience  of  the 

"ro  ^crt'"^^''  ^"'^  ""^  ^''"  "'"^'''^  ^'^  '"'  '''^"''^  division  of  the 

Georok  Littlk  resided  on  tlio  land  now  owned  by  Messrs.  Silas, 
Tnstrani.an.l  Henry  Little,  nnd  b„t  a  iew  rods  from  the  house  now 
occufaed  by  bilas  Little,  cs.|uire.  lie  was  remarkable  for  his  stren-th 
of  mmd,  as  well  as  strength  of  body,  but  was  not  an  educated  man. 
Ihe  larms,  which  he  selected  contain  some  of  the  best  land  in  the 
own,  and  are  still  owned  by  bis  descendants,  at  Oldtown,  and  Turkev- 
mil,  where  the  houses  which  he  built  are  in  part  standing. 

The  descendants  of  Willmm  Moodev  occupy  both  at  Oldtown  and 
iiyheld,  the  lands  once  owned  by  him.  Tradition  states  that  the  first 
oxen  ever  shod  in  Newbury,  or  perhaps  in  New  England,  were  shod 
by  Samuel  Moody  of  Oldtown.  He  at  first  tried  the  experiment  on  a 
dead  hoof,  and,  believmg  it  would  answer  the  purpose,  soon  tried  it, 
successhtlly,  on  the  hving  animal.  For  want  of  a  more  suitable  place 
JoTil  CiuTinr"^'""'  '"'  ''''^''  ^^'""y  ^'''''  ^i,''-and.daiig/,tcr  oUcainma 

It  has  been  siipposed  by  many  persons,  that  the  name  Sii.oway  is  a 
corrupt.  DH  of  Musslewhite.     This  is  not  the  case.     John  Musslewhite 
had  no  descendants,  and,  m  the  next  place,  I  have  before  me  an  inden- 
ture, made  the  twenty-fifth  of  May,  lOOo,  between  Daniel  INIussilowav, 
alias  Koger  Waldron,  m  which  the  said  Daniel,  'late  servant  unto  Jo- 
seph Plummer  yeoman,  being  iniectcd  witii  a  very  dangerous  disease 
lor  and  iii  considemtion  of  cuie  out  of  said  disease,  do  bind  rayselfe  as 
an  apprentice  unto  Mr.  Henry  Greenland,  Thisition  or  Chyrur-don 
.     .     until  the  full  end  and  term  of  sixe  yeares  bee  complcatlv  expired, 
&c.     And  further  the  said  Dnniol  alias  Roger  doe  promise  and  enga"-c 
himselfeunto  the  above.said   Mr.  Henry  Greenland,  that  if  it  plealc 
God  that  he  shal   be  cured  of  the  disease  he  is  now  afflicted  with,  he 
wdl  confirm  this  his  act  by  owning  it  before  the  couutv  court  or  two 
magistrates.      ■     •     •     •     .      The   Indenture  is  a  verv  "long  one,  and 
conlains,  among  other  condilions,  the  following    '  Taverns  or  alehouses 
he  shall  not  haunt,  except  he  bee  about  bis  master's  business.'     See 
page  .>]  1, 


S96 


CONCLUSION. 


Joseph  Mussey  or  Muzzey,  who  lived  in  wlmt  wns  called  Muzzey's 
lane,  now  Muilboiougli  .siiect,  was  from  Ipswicli,  niid  was  n  son  of 
Robert  Muzzey,  in  whose  will,  dated  1617,  1  fiiul  (he  following.  'I 
give  to  yo  use  of  ye  pooro  one  ewe  <;oato  to  he  dis]i()sed  of  hy  the  over- 
seers of  my  will  to  such  as  are  cndly;  only  the  lust  ycare's  use,  1  ap- 
poynt  to  my  brother  J)ane,  the  ewe,  if  she  brinies  kitlds,  or  else  longer, 
nnd  when  the  goal  grows  old,  I  will  that  one  of  the  kidds  be  reserved 
for  such  a  use.'  '  Goats,'  says  Josselyn,  in  \C>C>3,  '  were  the  first  small 
cattle  they,  [the  New  England  pcoiile,]  had  in  the  country.  He  was 
counted  nobody,  that  had  not  a  trip  or  Hock  of  goats.  Hogs  arc  innu- 
merable.' 

The  descendants  of  the  reverend  James  Noyes  and  Nicholas  Noyes, 
reside  on  the  land  and  in  the  houses  erected  by  them.  The  house  oc- 
cupied by  Mr.  Silas  Noyes  in  Parker  street,  is  one  of  the  oldest  build- 
ings in  Newbury. 

Mr.  Han.vniah  Ordway,  whowas  born  December  second,  1GG5,  was 
one  of  the  first  settlers  in  the  westerly  part  of  Newbury,  near  Indian 
hill.  lie  died  in  June  1758,  aged  ninety-two  and  a  hn'lf  years.  His 
house  was  a  garrison  house,  and,  on  one  occasion,  in  the  early  part  of 
his  residence  in  that  part  of  the  town,  he  saw,  in  the  evening,  an  Indi- 
an creep  in  by  the  gate  that  led  to  the  house.  lie  immediately  seized 
his  musket,  and  fired  at  the  spot  where  he  had  seen  him  enter.  On 
examination,  he  could  find  no  trace  of  the  Indian,  who  had  left  his  gun, 
and  his  jjowder  horn  filled  with  rum,  and  which  had  been  shot  off  from 
the  belt  by  which  it  had  been  fastened  to  iiis  body.  Some  weeks  after, 
the  body  of  an  Indian  was  found  dead  in  the  woods,  who  Mr.  Ordway 
supposed  was  the  one  at  whom  he  fired  and  woiuidcd.  The  gun  and 
horn  are  now  in  possession  of  his  descendants,  from  whom  I  obtained 
this  information.  This  was  perliaps  the  only  Indian  ever  killed  in  New- 
bury by  any  of  the  inhai)itants,  but  continual  caution  was  necessary  for 
many  years  after  seventeen  hundred,  to  guard  against  attack,  which 
the  natives  might  be  disposed  to  make  on  the  white  inhabitants. 

The  land  on  whi(.'h  Moses  Pettingell,  esquire,  now  lives,  was 
purchased  by  his  ancestor,  Richard  Pellingcll,  of  John  S|)encer,  about 
1652. 

William  Pilsbuuy,  originally  Pillesbnrgh,  bought  of  Mr  Edward 
Rawson,  the  farm  which  is  now  in  possession  of  iMr.  Joshua  Pilsbury, 
one  of  his  descendants,  whose  house  was  built  as  early  as  1700,  and 
is  consequently  one  of  the  very  few  old  houses,  which  remain  in  town. 
There  is  another  ancient  house,  about  the  age  of  which  there  has  been 
much  inquiry,  and  some  dispute.  I  allude  to  the  stone  house  on  Pierce's, 
now  PettingeU's  farm.  My  own  opinion  is,  that  it  was  not  built  till 
after  1660  or  70,  perhaps  later.  Some  suppose  it  was  erected  by  Mr. 
John  Spencer,  to  whom  the  farm  was  first  granted.  This  is  not  proba- 
ble, as  Mr.  Spencer  returned  to  England,  and  made  his  will  in  1637. 
In  that  will,  he  gives  his  farm  (o  his  nephew,  Mr.  John  Spencer,  who 
did  not  deed  any  part  of  it  away  till  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  after.  He 
then  sold  a  part  to  Richard  Pettingell,  and  about  the  same  time  sold 
the  remainder  to  Mr.  Daniel  Pierce,  brother  of  John  Spencer,  senior. 
On  the  files  of  the  court,  January,  1079,  I  find  the  following,  namely  : 


CONCLUSION. 


U07 


'The  deposition  of  Anilionv  Somi-rliy  agod  70, 

' 'I'lin  ilcpiiiiciii  s.ijili  iliit  iil)iMit  yi' yi'iiio  li'.')l  or  .')■>  I  wris  iit  t!io  firm  yt  Mr.  .Tolin 
Sppiiof  r  soM  to  Mr.  Daiiicl  Tick  (>  in  Ncwhiny.  iiiiil  Mr.  Sppiiccr  mid  Mr.  I'itMco  willi 
niysollc  and  iinotlicr,  I  sn|ipo<o  it  was  Mr.  Willi, im  Tlioinns,  and  as  v\f>  wvrn  aoitur 
thiouiili  IIh'  lain!  ol  ye  siid  Linni',  .Mr.  I'lcicc  .sai.l  lo  .Mi.  Spcnrcr,  ydu  pniiliiM.'d  to 
ttivc  nil'  po.sscssion  liy  tiiilc  and  Iwiiri.''-'-  Mr.  S|iciiccr  said  so  1  will,  if  you  p|i'a»o  lo 
cut  a  luil'i' and  lwi:,"_'i',  and  .Mr.  rinno  did  cut  oil' a  twi:.",'c  oil' a  tiro,  iind  cut  up  n 
tnrl'r,  and  Mr.  Spcncct  tool.f!  ihf  Ivviiii;.' aiul  stuck  it  inlo  llic  tiiilc.  and  iiid  ii.s  boar 
witncs.^  thai  tin  i:;\\o  Mr.  I'irrco  possfssion  llicrchy  of  tlic  iiousp  and  land  and  ('anno 
that  he  had  bouglit  of  liiin  and  ui\(!  tlio  tuvfi'  and  twii;!,'''  to  .Mr.  I'iercc  and  fuuhcr 
suili>  not.'  '  Taken  upon  oath  III  Jan.  Hi';;)  lii>l'oio  nio. 

■Jon.\'  WoDDHiiiiKii;,  Coinmifsioner.' 

Now  it  is  not  iirobnlilc  tliiit  Mr.  Piproc,  before  lie  litid  olittiincd  lrnf\l 
pos.^ossion  of  Uk;  liinn,  would  be  nt  the  oxiuMise  of  biiilcbiiu;  a  i-osiily 
stone  boiiso.  Otbcr  iiifuniititioii  ril>o  Irtids  mo  willioiii  licsitiition  to 
place  tbe  ei(n'ti(jii  ol'  tlic  sIoik;  Iioiiko  til  lenst  over  tliirty  yotir.s  after 
ibe  iiU'or|)oralioii  of  llie  town.  Jt  was  at  one  liiiie  used  a.s  a  safe  place 
to  store  llie  town's  powder,  and  on  one  occasion,  tradition  informs  iis, 
one  of  ]\Tr.  Pierce's  slaves  placed  a  lisiiled  citndlt^  in  tt.  lug  of  powder, 
wliicli,  al'ler  some  time,  took  (ire,  blew  out  one  side  of  the  bouse  and 
lodi,fed  the  poor  nciiro,  bed,  and  all,  amonu;  the  limbs  of  a  large  apple- 
tree,  to  her  very  great  ninazement.  '■J''lie  I'lu-in,  which  has  had  several 
owners,  it  was  the  intention  of  Mr.  Pierce  to  entail,  as  in  his  -will,  ho 
says,  'it  shall  never  be  sold,  nor  any  part  divitled.' 

The  descendants  of  John  Poor,  who  lived  and  died  on  the  south 
side  of  tlie  river  Parker,  still  own  the  land,  once  possessed  by  their 
New  England  ancestor. 

The  descendants  of  Fkaxcis  Pr.i'Micn  still  own  tlie  land,  wliich  was 
once  his,  near  the  river  Parker.  7\l)oiit  the  year  l/S-l  or  i^o,  one  of 
them,  I\Ir.  Simeon  Pliimer,  found  a  quantity  of  gold,  of  which,  since 
much  has  been  said  and  more  conjectured,  some  account  may  be  ex- 
pected. The  story,  however,  has  been  nntch  exinrgerated,  and  instead 
of  a  'pot,'  a  small  amount  only  wiis  fi)uud,  probably  not  far  from  three 
Inmdred  dollars.  The  tirst  jiicce  was  pickt'd  up  by  a  child,  from  some 
dirt,  which  had  been  carried  oitt  of  the  cellar.  Shortly,  another  piece 
was  found,  and  searcli  lieing  made,  the  amount  above  stated  was  found 
in  various  parts  of  the  cellar,  but  how  it  came  there,  and  liy  whom 
deposited,  will  [irobably  ever  remain  a  mystery.  Five  of  Francis 
Pliimer's  descenilants,  and  bearing  his  name,  have  been  members  of 
conirress.  One  of  them,  George,  son  of  .Tonal ban,  was  the  first  white 
child  born  in  Pennsylvania,  west  of  the  Alleghany  mountains. 


Mr.  Edward  Pvawscv,  afterward  secretary  of  tlic  colony  of  Massa- 
chusetts, was  the  first  town  clerk  of  Xcwbnry.  IIi^  was  a  nephew  of 
the  reverend  John  Wilson,  of  JJoston.  Two  of  his  sons,  David  and 
John,  went  to  England.  William  married  Anna,  dtiughter  of  Nathan 
Glover,  July  thirty-first,  lfi7;5.  They  settled  in  Eraintree,  and  had 
twenty  children  in  twenty-live  years.  One  of  the  daughters  married 
the  reverend  l\Ir.  Torrey,  of  Weymouth,  another,  Mr.  Thomas  Brough- 
ton,  of  Boston,  and  Ficbecca  married  Thomas  Ptumsey,  as  appears  by 
the  two  following  papers,  now  on  file  in  the  state  house,  Boston. 


393 


CONCLUSION. 


'Tlip  IcHiiriiDny  of  Tlmoilore  Alkiiuon  ami  Mary  his  wifi;  inlmbitnnti  of  Boston  in 
Now  I'du'liinil  smth. 

''I'liiil  iilxxit  the  .'111  moiilli  in  yp  yonr  ltl7S  Thonins  RiitTKry  rnmo  lo  riii>!iriil  tfriilprml 
his  st'rvicc  to  nii!  liir  oiio  yi-ar  to  work  with  mo  and  In-  loM  ino  timt  lio  was  a  Kmli^h 
man,  and  that  Ins  Citli.T  IIvimI  iioar  C'aiilcrhiiiy,  and  thai  In'  was  a  yooiiian  ami  had  an 
cstalf  of  ahoiit  t  KM)  a  yoai,  and  also  that  his  falhi'rdiod  wlii-ri  ho  was  Init  yontii;,  that 
his  father's  estate  iliil  I'.ill  to  hini  at  his  nnUlicr  in  law's  ileceaso,  and  also  he  ineleinled 
that  he  eanie  over  to  New  Kiiiiland  U|)(iii  the  iieconnt  of  rcdiy:ion,  and  Inrlher  he  hired 

himself  with  me  for  a  year,  tor  to  attend  my  liiisiin'ss  ami  to  keep  my  I k  of  acronnls, 

nnd  lor  the  yatherini,' in  of  my  (lehts,  hot  when  he  had  heen  aliont  ii  month  with  me' 
hn  pretended  he  was  one  that' had  heen  iii!.'lily  hred,  lint  he  wiMild  not  sav  further  wli.it 
liH  was,  hut  ahont  .")  months  alter  he  came  io  me,  then  he  told  me  his  Cither  was  a 
Kniicht  and  a  Haronel.  and  tliat  iiis  motlier  in  law  was  a  Lady.  So  hiHived  and  cariieil 
himself,  pietendiii!,' he  was  liiu'hly  hreil  that  I  the  said  Atkinson  did  not  set  liim  oti 
work,  hecanse  he  promised  mi!  he  wonld  satisfy  me  lor  w  hat  eliari:es  anil  expenses 
...  ahont  him,  hut  a  little  time  alter  he  eauii'  to  me  lie  heijaii  to  discover  himself 
so  a.s  his  rpli;,'iou  itid  seem  to  wear  away,  and  hefue  the  year  was  expired  he  liiam'eil 
his  name  and  said  his  name  was  llale.ainl  prolessed  he  hail  heen  a  1,'roat  traveller  in"'\n 

Streiiihts  for  ahont  two  and  twenty  months,  and  that  his  ther  was  called  the    I.ady 

Hale  and  paid  hint  his  money  hy  hills  of  exchanije  from  time  to  tinn',  that  she  wn^ 
a  Lady  that  had  (.':iiM»  per  annum  of  her  own  that  she  hronuht  with  her,  and  that  his 
father  had  about  (.SOO  a  year  and  a  vast  estate,  which  he  ilnrst  nut,  nor  would  not 
mention  least  he  sliould  he  laughed  at.  ami  not  helieved,  that  all  his  fathers  estate  after 
his  mother's  decease  was  lii>,  those  and  such  like  unheaid  ol  stories  as  those,  in  which 
is  not  the  least  shadow  of  truth  (as  the  deponents  are  informed)  and  as  the  deponents 
now  perceive  he  mado  use  ol  as  a  delusion  lo  put  a  die, it  on  .Mr.  Kdwaid  R.iwson  of 
Boston  aforesaid  to  accomplish  his  ahoininahle  villainy  and  deceive  of  his  daughter 
Mrs.  Rebecca  R.iwsmi,  wlnnii  he  was  married  unto  hy  a  minister  of  the  gospel  on  tho 
first  day  of  July  liJ7'J  in  the  jirest' nco  of  near  lo  witnesses.' 


The  scijttcl  of  this  '  abomiuiiblo  villiiiiy'  isqttitc  Iragiciil. 
pnpcr  states  that 


The  other 


'Thomas  Rum«ey  pretended  to  bp  Sir  Thomas  TTale  jr.  neplipw  of  T.ord  Chief  .Tiis- 
tice  Hale,  made  a  respcntable  appearance,  appeared  to  be  well  aciinainted  with  Lord 
Halo  and  boini^  a  person  of  a  very  handsouu'  address,  paid  his  devoirs  to  Rebecca 
Rawson,  who  was  accounted  one  of  the  most  beantiful,  polite,  and  accomplish,  '.  yonnj; 
ladies  in  Boston,  and  had  tho  vanity  to  think  herself  suitable  to  make  the'  yonu:,'  Lord 
a  wife.  Accordini(ly  they  were  married  and  handsomely  furnished,  sailed  for  Kujiland 
and  safely  arrived.  She  went  on  shore  in  a  dishabille,  li'avini;  her  ti'unks  on  board  the 
vessel  and  wont  to  loilije  with  a  relation  of  hers.  In  the  morning'  early  he  arose,  took 
the  keys  and  told  her  he  would  send  the  trunks  on  shore  that  she  niight  be  dressoil 
before  dinner.  Ho  sent  tho  trunks  np  and  she  waited  impatiently  for  the  keys  till  one 
or  two  o'clock,  but  he  not  comiuf;  she  broke  open  the  trunks  anil  to  her  inexpressiblo 
surprise  she  found  herself  stript  of  every  tliini;,  and  her  trunks  tilled  wiih  combusliblu 
matter,  on  which  her  kinsman  onlered  his  carriage,  and  they  wont  to  a  place  where 
she  stopt  with  her  husband  tlie  ni^'lit  before.  She  eiHiuired  liir  Sir  Thomas  Hale  jr., 
they  said  he  had  not  been  there  lor  sonu-  days.  She  said  she  was  sure  he  was  there  the 
niitht  before.  They  said  Thomas  Rumsoy  had  been  there  with  a  yoiin^  I>aily,  lint  was 
jjone  to  his  wife  in  Canterbury,  and  she  saw  hiin  no  more.  Having'  learned  many 
curious  works,  such  as  painlinn  on  f^lass.  she  thouiiht  herself  able  lo  supjiort  herself, 
and  on  her  return  to  America,  she  was  swallowed  up  hy  the  carth(inakc  at  I'ort  Royal 
in  America.' 


Mr.  IIknry  Skwall  came  to  Newbury  in  ]('>'■]■'>,  in  1  (1 1 0  was  married, 
went  to  Enplancl  the  same  year,  was  there  setlh'd  as  a  clerirymaii  till 
lOoi);  in  KKil  he  sent  for  his  family  to  come  to  Newbury,  where  he 
resided  till  his  death.  He  resided  in  Piuker  street,  (Ibrinerly  Sotitli 
street,)  on  tlie  north  side,  a  few  rods  N.  W.  from  I\b-.  Silas  Noyes'.s 
hoitse.  Of  Mr  Sewall,  Mr.  SavaL^e  tints  speaks.  '  Tiiis  ancestor  of 
one  of  the  most  venerated  families,  which  has  friven  three  ol'its  metii- 
bers  to  preside  in  the  highest  court  of  civil  and  criminal  jttrisdiction  in 
Massachusetts,  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  at  Newbury.  The  biogra- 
phies of   Eliot  and  Ahlen,  and   especially  the  copious  collection  of 


CONCLUSION. 


8UU 


Ainciicnii  oi.itiiiilis,  IF.,  1 1.1,  Imvc  well  lu-qietiiutci!  tlic  iiKiiioiy  of  liis 
(u'soeiulmils,' 

A  note  ill  tho  Qimrtorly  Roi^nstrr  of  Ffhiiiruy,  1^11,  to  ii  hio-rijiiiliy 
<;1  jiidi^'c  .'^lumiei  Srwiill,  Mules  tliiit  '  (liiriii!--  lli.-  „i,o  IiiiikIitiI  iiiul 
l<nly-<My;lil  yciiis  tliiit.  h:\vv  dupHi'd  .silicon  supreiiio  coiirt,  n»  such, 
wns  Urs\  i'MnUhsUvd  in  iMiissiu-lnisfUs,  ii  place  iimoiiif  its  jii(lir,..s  Unn 
lireii  lu'ia  fiRlity-roiirfollcctivfly  (more  than  luill"  oC  llmt' period)  l)V 
ioiir  descendiints  oC  (he  above  ineiitioneil  piiliinicli  (,f  i\evvl)iiry  •  niu'l 
tlie  oKico  of  eiiief  jiistieu  hy  tliree  oC  tliem  during  Die  eullectivu 'lenu 
ol  eighteen  yeurs.' 

Tlio  dospondmits  of  IIenuy  Siionx  now  ocriipy  tho  snmo  farm,  and 
live  on  tli(^  same  spot,  where  their  lirst  ancestor  resiih-d  mure  than'  two 
eontiiries  ajio.  The  same  may  he  said  of  the  desceiidants  of  Thomas 
Smith,  wiio  reside  on  the  spot  wiiero  he  resided,  near  the  'clay  iiilts' 
as  they  were  caHed,  at  the  foot  of  Hill  street,  alias  '  West  India  lane.' 
Captain  .lames,  son  of  lienlenaiit  .lames  Smith,  horn  in  1(;7(),  and  mar- 
ried in  IC.DC,  and  ensign  Enoch  i.ittle,  son  of  .losepli  Little,  mid  horn 
m  Kis.'i,  were  the  lirst  settlers  on  Crane-neck  hill.  When  they  went  up 
to  clear  tho  land,  which  was  ahont  the  year  1708,  the  Indians  were 
very  troublesome.  On  one  oi-casion,  ensijrn  Little  placed  his  hat  on  a 
post,  which  an  Indian  mistakini^  for  his  person,  pierced  it  with  a  ball. 
When  iMr.  Little  lirst  came  to  live  on  the  hill,  he  rode  up,  bringini,'  his 
wile,  as  was  the  custom  of  that  day,  behind  him  on  a  pillion  "tIio 
gnrrison-hoiise,  at  his  iirst  coming  to  Crane-neck  hill,  was  on  the  spot 
where  the  late  deacon  Saimiel  Tcimev's  house  stands.  Another  "-ar- 
mon-hoiise  was  Mr.  liaiiaiiiah  Oiduay's,  near  where  Mr.  .loshna 
Ordway  now  lives.  Mr.  l':zra  ril.sbmy,  who  died  in  171)7,  aged  ninety- 
lour,  frefpi(<iitly  mentioned  that  he  well  recollected  an  Indian  wigwam 
which  he  had  often  seen  in  Ash  swamp.  °         ' 

Anthony  Somkrhy  resided  in  a  house  wliich  stood  on  the  spot 
where  the  jail  now  stands.  The  luinily  derives  its  name  from  the 
village  of  Someihy,  in  Lincolnshire,  Avhere  the  family  was  settled 
].r(>vious  to  the  coiuiuest.  The  lirst  we  have  any  account  of,  is^Adnin 
<lo  Somcrby,  mentioned  m  Doomsday  Book  as  a  landhokler  in  Lin- 
colnshire. Little  Hytham,  is  a  village  in  South  Heath,  ei-rht  miles 
Irom  Stamford,  in  Lincolnshire.  ° 

AnnAiiAM  TorPAN  resided  a  few  rods  north  from  the  liousc  of  cai)taia 
Lichard  Adams,  and  between  that  and  the  house,  now  owned  by  the 
heirs  of  the  late  Mr.  .Joseph  Toppan,  one  of  his  descendants  A  |)art 
ot  Mr.  Abraham  Toppan's  posterity  have  conformed  the  ortho-rra p'hv 
ot  the  word  Toppan  to  the  nsiial  pronunciation  of  the  name,  and  write 
It  Tappan;  for  instance,  tho  brothers,  Messrs.  Arthur,  Lewis,  Charles 
and  .John,  and  Benjamin,  late  senator  in  congress  from  Oh'io  and  a 
icw  other  families. 

There  are  doubtless  many  others,  unknown  to  the  writer,  who  reside 
on  the  soil,  which  was  lirst  occupied  by  their  ancestors,  esiiecially  in 
t he  western  part  of  Newbury,  which  was  settled  many  years  later  than 
the  lower  ]Kirt  of  the  town.  There  were  but  {\i\v  fam'ili'es  in  the  upper 
Ijansh  prior  to  1700,  and  the  greater  j.art  of  those  resided  on  or  near 
the  mnm  road.     South  of  that  road,  tradition  says,  one  of  the  first  sel- 


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llei-s  was  llaiiauiali  Oidway,  son  of  James,  the  next  Saimiel  Poor,  son 
of  Samuel,  al)Oiil  17(1-'),  iieiif  Jiuliau  lull ;  the  next  were  Euoeh  Litile 
aiKJ  James  Smith,  who  eommeuued  a  settlement  on  Ciane-neck  hill 
about  1707,  the  year  that  Mr.  Lillle  was  married.  'L'lie  next  was  Sle- 
])lien  Sawyer,  who  was  married  in  1719.  John  Chase,  son  of  Aquila, 
born  in  lii-jo,  was  the  iirst  of  I  hat  family  who  settled  in  any  part  of  the 
upper  parish.  The  first  physician  in  that  part  of  the  town,  was  Dr. 
:\]atihew  Adams,  who  resided  on  Cranc-neek  hill,  and  died  November 
twenty-fourth,  17J-;,  aged  sixty-nine  and  a  half  years.  The  fust  jier- 
son  who  ever  went  to  market  in  Newhiu-y  ;ts  a  biUelier,  was  an  Eng- 
hslmian,  named  Smitli,  who  was  sent  by  John  Chase,  in  the  year  1731, 
with  his  son  David,  then  a  lad  of  Iburteen,  whose  business  was  to  take 
eare  of  Smith,  and  keep  him  sober.  Nearly  all  these  first  settlers  lived 
to  an  advanced  auc.  liananiah  Ordway  died  in  June,  \l-5^,  aiied  nine- 
ty-two and  a  half  years.  Sanuiel  Poor  died  July  eleven,  17(''9,  in  his 
eiiiiity-sixth  year.  "  Ens.  Euoidi  Little  died  April  iwenty-eiiihth,  17(j(), 
in  his  eighty-first  year.  Captain  .lames  Smith  died  in  December,  1757, 
in  his  sixty-second  V(^ir.  John  Clittse  died  2Ci  Fel)ruary,  1710, 
eighlv-five,  and  his 'son  David  died  17  Dee.  lbO-2,  aged  [)2  year 
'imoiuh.s.  Ezra  rilsburv  died  in  1797,  aged  91.  Captain  Edmund 
Little,  son  of  ensign  Enoch,  died  29  Aug.  lb()3,  in  his  bbth  year.  Mr. 
Samuel  Dole  built  his  house  on  Crane-neck  hill  in  1730.  He  died  15 
Dec.  177(),  in  his  7oth  vear.  David  Dole  died  15  Oct.  IS39,  aged  61. 
Judith  Dole  died  17  AiW.  1^37,  aged  90.  Jane  died  3  Feb.  1825,  aged 
M.  Aiuos  Dole  died  28  March,  IblC,  aged  bS.  The  first  person 
hmied  in  the  iirave-vard  near  the  foot  of  Crane-neck  lull,  was  Micah 
Dole,  who  died  in  his  7th  year  22  Dec.  1717.  The  first  j.erson  buried 
in  the  grave-yard  east  of  lAb-.  Stephen  TImrlow's,  was  Mary,  wife  of 
Thomali  Chase,  3(1,  who  died  12  Oct.  1725,  aged  21.  In  the  same  yard, 
a  uranite  pyranud  is  erected  in  meiuoiy  of  the  late  doctor  Daniel  Noyes 
Poor,  and  liis  ancestors,  on  whirji,  there  are,  as  I  iipprchend,  several 
mistakes.  The  inscriiition,  I  belii've,  should  staiul  thus:  Samuel  Poor 
was  liorn  in  1023,  and  died  31  Dec.  Ii;s3,  aged  CO.  Samuel  Poor,  his 
son.  was  l)orn  14  Oct.  1053.  married  Rachel  Eaih-y  If)  Feb.  KibO,  and 
died  29  Nov.  1727,  in  his  75th  year.  Saiumd  Poor,  his  sou,  wns  born 
3  June,  10b2,  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  deacon  Benjamin  Morse,  in 
Sept.  1705,  and  died  1  1  Jnlv,  1709,  aged  b5.  I'enjamin,  his  son,  was 
horn  5  Sept.  1723,  and  died'  IS  March,  lb  17,  aged  93  t-2  years.  The 
mistakes  aic,  1  think,  in  the  first  and  second  giMieralions.  Jolm  Poor 
died  23  Nov.  lObl,  aued  09,  and  not  23  Nov.  1(')91,  aged  61,  see  page 
1  12.  Samuel  was  born  in  105:],  juid  not  in  101b,  and  was  not  a  son  of 
Jolm  Poor.  Where  the  first  Samuel  Poor  resided,  I  have  never  asi-er- 
lained.  His  son,  Samuel,  lived  on  Water  stre(t,  near  the  foot  of 
Moody's  lane,  and  was  livimr  there  in  l''>i)5.  See  p.aLM^  103.  Prior  to 
1721,  the  jieople  in  tlin  West  Pari-h  buried  all  their  dead  in  Sawyer's 
hill,  with  the  exception  of  those,  who  u'^ed  ih(>  biiryini>--ground  aroimd 
Queen  Ann's  chapel.  This  biirial-'.n'ound  is  now  called  tlie  Pelieville 
cemetery.  The  e.arli(-st  record  of  a  l)urial  in  tliat  place,  which  has 
been  foiind,  is  that  of  the  reverend  Henry  Lucas,  avIio  died  Auaust 
twenty-third,  1720.  The  oldest  stone  is  in  memory  of  IMrs.  Sarah 
Partlet,  who  died  January  sevehteenth,  1727  From  this  date,  until 
about  1700,  there  are  many  nauK^s  round  here,  iirincipallv.  if  not  whollv, 
^episcopalians,  while  all  others  used  the  upper  yard.  The  ground,  on 
which  the  chapel  stood,  with  ihc  yard  around  it,  is  said  to  have  been 


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in   Ib.O    It  was   n-aip.   eiihu-gcl,  one    hundred   dollars   l-.avino-  been 
be.  ncathed    or  that  ,>nr,,o,se   by  Uol)ert  Dodge,  e.<|nire,  on  coTuS 

ns^  "u  'v.  'r"''"  r'''r  '^"""'^*  '''  ^^'^^"'l-    ^"  ^'-  ''^^'"f  1  ;  .  a 
tl  0  v-^d      T  , '"'•'>'^^''  <-V'""  ''/"'""'i  "'■  "^'^'^'"S"  '•^■I'=^"'^  ""<!  ^"l-'-^'-ng 
nn.rc    two      u?      ."^■'    ?"'  '"'"  •^'""'^  ''^  ^  substantial  and  beaa7if.d 
ninnnei,  two  new  ,^•ates  and  a  reeeivm-  tomb  Iiave  been  added  and  the 

ollai.  an<l  the  ccniclery  now  reflects  great  eredit  on  all  eoneerned  in 

.e  nndertakn.ir.     A  substantial  granite  wall  was  erected    nfo"     " 

he  grave-yard  n,  the  first  parish  in   18:23,  and  much  enlajd  by  a 

bequest  of  an  acre  of  land  by  the  late  doctor  .\athan   Noyes,"  but  the 

Viid  Itself  and  some  of  the  toud.s  need  repairs,  an<l  uionnnients  should 

be  erected  to  the  memory  of  Messrs.    Parker,  Noyes,  and  Moor      The 

'o.sL  m  1  7o().  J  he  lust  person  buried  m  it  was  a  miss  Swnsey  The 
I.  U  was  once  called  Sm-llings  hill,  probably  from  doctor  A\-dliam  Sn el- 
lun  us''u^  Pl.ys.can  m  Xewbury.  The  alteratroi.s  and  embel- 
l.sl  n  nts,  winch  have,  w.thm  a  few  years,  been  made  round  the  pond 
and  the  v.emity,  have  greatly  added  to  the  l,eantv  of  the  see ne4 
Ihee.wdh  the  elegant  new  buildings  lately  erected   on   Ib-di  stS 

ogether  w,th  t  ,e  Putnam  school-house,  whi^h  is  soon  to  be  erec  ec   at 

mrtTthe?    '"n,  '''''''' ^^^^' ^^''^^  (in.shed,  render  that  beantifu 
paitof  the  townsl.l  more  attract.ye.     The  burial-irround  in  Eyfield 
pansh  was  Irrst  used  as  such  in  1702.     The  two  eldest  ins.-riplions  o 
the  grave-stones  ni  this  place  are  as  fbllows  :  ^-"iinion.-,  on 

'Mehetable   Dator  of  M,-.   Hmirv  aiul  Jano  Sewall,  wife  of  M,-    \Villi.,„,    Mnn.lpv 

PromotcH  setthnsrthe  worship  of  Co.l  luTcnnd  Ihon  went  to  her  lor  fi'    so,  WUlhm' 

oauein^  her  .so,,  Samuel  and  four  D^cy^  with  their  Father  Au'nr.e  &  I      7oV''i','!'; 

■iS  was  the  tirst  interred  in  this  place.'  "      ^  ' '"~  -^-'"^ 

'HERE  LIKS  YK  BODV  0|.'  AIR 

JOSHUA  WOOU.MAX 

WHO  DIED  MAY   YE  :i(iTII 

17():i.  AGED  (17    VE.\RS 

KIRST  MJ*y  CHHJ)  IU)R\E 

I.V  XEWBITRY 

&  SECOND  I.\TURID  L\ 

THIS  PLACE.' 

The  jwish  as  has  been  mentioned,  wns  so  named,  m  hounr  of 
Anthamel  Byheid  who  was  son  of  the  reverend  Puchar.l  Hytidd  ' 
Long  )u  ton,  m  Sussex,  and  the  youngest  of  twentv-one  children  1  e 
ea  ue   o  Hoston  m  Hi/  f.  at  the  age  of  twenty-oue.  and  on  April  tven  y^ 

s;t;l:;ginlior'''^^'''"^^-^'"^''^''''""^ 
'  The  Petition  of  Nathaniel  Bylield 

,-,  "Natiuniel  Bvi-ikl"' 

'Jl 


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ION, 


The  portrait  of  jiula'c  Hyfickl,  with  liis  font  of  uiins,  wiis  ]iresentod 
to  the  jiarish  of  Bylicld  Juno  fu'st,  lb3 o,  by  George  Lyde,  esquire,  of 
New  York,  a  descciuliuit  of  the  veneralilc  judge,  who  died  the  sixth 
of  June,  173;),  in  his  eightieth  year. 

From  monuments  in  tlic  grave-yard  of  the  iirst  parish,  I  copy  the 
following : 

'  To  the  memory  of  TuisriiAM  Coffin,  ]'.s<i..  vvhohavina;  served  llio  first  church  of 
Newhury  in  the  oilice  of  a  Deacon  20  years  died  Feb.  4,  17011-4  a;;ed  72  years. 

'  On  earth  ho  piir-clias-cd  a  good  deuree, 
(jrcal  boldness  in  the  faith  and  liberty, 
And  now  possesses  immortality.' 

'  To  the  memory  of  Mrs.  .TrniTii  lute  iiirtiions  wife  of  Deac.  Tristram  Coffin,  Esqr. 
who  having  lived  to  see  177  of  her  children  and  children's  children  to  tlie  M  generation 
died  Dec.  15,  1705  ai^ed  80. 

'  Graue,  sober,  faithfnl,  frnitfull  vine  was  she, 
A  rare  example  of  true  piety. 
Widow'd  avvliile  she  vvayted  wisht-for  rest 
With  her  dear  husband  in  her  Savior's  breast.' 

'  Here  lies  in  a  slate  of  perfect  oblivion  John  Ahams,  who  died  Sept.  2,  ISll  aged 
79.  Death  hath  decomposed  him,  and  at  the  general  resurrection  Christ  will  recompose 
him,  when  perception  and  thonj;ht  shall  resume  their  several  functions,  and  he  shall 
become  identically  the  same  person,  which  Deity  composed  him,  and  shall  be  happy  or 
miserable  according  to  his  dispositions.' 

'  Here  is  interred  Jlr.  Roueut  Ahajis,  who  departed  this  life  March  ye  5,  1773  in  ye 
71st  year  of  his  age. 

'For  near  12  years 
This  man  an  asthma  had, 
Above  ten  years 
He  was  not  in  a  bed. 
He  to  murmur 
Was  never  heard  by  won 
But  waited  patiently 
Till  his  change  did  come.' 

'  Here  lys  ve  body  of  Benjami.n  Pierce,  Esqr.  who  died  IMay  ye  liHh  1711  aged  12 
years  and  three  months. 

'  Pillar 'i  th'  Stats  he  was 
Bid  fair  still 
At  greater  things, 
To  all  yt  knew  him  well, 
Pattern  of  Vertue, 
Kind  to  all  was  he, 
Loued  by  frinds, 
Feard  of  his  enemie. 
F.mbalmd  in  tears, 
Enuey  itselfe  stood  dumb, 
Snacht  irom  ye  world, 
In  times  most  troublesome.' 

'  Here  lyes  interred  what  was  mortal  of  yo  Honourahle  Daniet.  Pierce  Esqr.  who 
having  laithfully  served  his  gderation  both" in  church  and  military  station  fell  asleep 
April'ye22d  1701  aged  00. 

'  Here  lies  interred  a  soul  indeed, 
Whom  lew  or  none  excelled. 
In  grace  if  any  him  exceed, 
He'll  be  nnparallelled.' 


CONCLUSION. 


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'  Here  lyes  ye  body  of  Mr.  Damef,  NoYF.s,  who  died  March  ye  15th  171G  aged  42 
year.s4  inonthes  and  lOdays,  fe       " 

'  As  yoii  are,  so  was  I, 
God  did  call  and  I  did  dy. 
Now  children  all, 
Whose  name  is  Noyes, 
Make  Jesus  Christ 
Your  only  choice.' 

'  Here  lies  ye  body  of  Mr.  Timothy  Noves,  who  died  in  1718,  aged  03. 

*  Good  Timothy  in 
His  Youthlull  days 
He  liued  much 
Unto  Gods  prays 
When  a<ie  came  one 
Ho  and  his  wife 
Thay  liud  a  holy 
it  a  pious  life 

Therefor  you  children  r   ' 

Whos  nams  are  noyes 
Make  Jesus  Christ 
Your  only  Choyse.' 

Other  speciiiacns  of  every  variety,  some  of  them  exceedingly  beau- 
tiful, miglit  be  given  in  abimdunco,  but  iny  limits  will  not  permit. 
Ihey  reinuid  us  of  that  stanza  in  Gray's  elegy,  in  a  country  church- 
yard, in  which  he  says, 


'  Their  names,  their  years,  spelt  by  th'  uuletttered  muse, 
The  place  of  liime  and  eleiiy  supply; 
And  many  a  holy  text  around  she  strews, 
That  teach  the  rustic  moralist  to  die.' 

There  arc,  in  Newbury,  several  other  burial-grounds,  both  public  and 
private,  that  have  not  been  noticed,  but  of  which,  1  siiall  mention  only 
two ;  one,  near  the  Hocks  bridge,  in  which  Mrs.  Aim  March,  wife  of 
Samuel  Marcli,  who  died  June  eighteenth,  1724,  was  the  first  person 
buried,  the  other  is  the  Oak-hill  cemetery,  a  beautiful  and  romantic 
spot,  bounded  on  its  northern  and  western  sides  by  High  street  and 
the  Newbiiryport  turnpike,  and  contaiuing  four  acres. 

It  was  laid  out  in  1812,  and  so  far  completed,  as  to  be  used  for  its 
appropriate  jnirpose  the  same  year.  The  whole  expense  for  the  pur- 
chase of  land,  making  avenues,  grading  and  embellishments,  has  been 
two  thousand,  live  hundred  dolJnrs,  and,  when  finished  according  to 
its  original  design,  will  possess  still  greater  attractions  as  a  rural  walk, 
especially  for  those,  wlio,  '  Isaac-like,  love  tu  go  forth  and  meditate  at 
even-tide.'  This  benuliful  and  ai)propriate  addition  to  the  cemeteries 
and  burial-places,  within  the  limits  of  Ould  Newberry,  owes  its  ori<nii 
principally  to  the  exertions  of  Messrs.  John  Porter,  John  "W'ood,  and  t1ic 
reverend  Thomas  B.  Fox,  as  I  have  been  informed. 

Originally,  it  was  my  design  to  furnisli  a  table  of  mortality,  for  a 
specilied  number  of  years,  of  those  persons,  who  died  in  Newbury 
above  the  age  of  eighty,  and  of  those  al)ove  ninety  years  of  ase,  biit 
the  list  has  increased  to  so  large  a  number,  that  is  i'lnpracticable',  and 
IS,  at  the  same  time,  so  imperfect,  that,  were  it  published,  it  would  not 
be  of  much  value,  A  rw  instances  of  longevity,  in  addition  to  those 
found  in  the  geneali    , ,  I  here  ins(ut. 


404 


C  O  N  C^  I.  U  S  I  O  N . 


[n  17'io.  Jiinp  ^,  Sleplu-n  Sawypi-  died  in  liis  91  st  yoir.  Up  wms  then  '  tlicolilpst  niiiii 
in  town."  In  Jimip,  17,V^,  IliuKUi'iah  OnhMiy  dipd,  iii;pd  ','2  1-2  yoai>.  Ho  was,  at  thai 
time,  •  Iho  oMpsI  man  in  town.'  Sini'P  llipn.  a  larup  nnndipr  of  rnnrh  mnip  a^pd  jer- 
s(ins  have  dpcpaspd  in  NVwIniry.  In  1'"p1).  170('i.  Mrs.  Snsanna  Coomlis  dlpd,  airpil  '.I'l, 
Tlip  npvvspappi-  nolii'P  is.  that  sIip  was  tlip  oldpst  '  I'pinalp  in  town."  AIipI  lln'-p  dipd  1  1 
Marci),  17.')7,  in  his  IMIli  ypar.  ICbpiiPZPr  llnsp  dipd  :i|  July,  17'.i-.',  ai;cd  '■>'.  .Mrs.  Saiali 
.la(d<nian  dipd  Dpp.  I7'.i1. "aucd  Ui'.  Widow  Cattiaiinp  I'ooj- died  :i-2,lnly,  I8'J7,  a;;pii  '.i^). 
Widow  Sarah,  iplicl  ol  Cdph  >hirso.  dipd  1 1  Die  IM'i,  a^od  l(t()  yparsand  two  iiionlhs. 
]\lr.  CaUd)  .Morse  died  ■.'■.'  ,hinp,  17  III.  airpd  !'.').  Mrs.  Lydia  Cliasp,  Ibrniprly  wile  of 
Samuel  .Sawyer,  dipd  Nov.  ISl.'i.  as;od  '.•!.  Deliorah,  widow  of  Harnes  Slioii,dipd  Ml 
Sppt.  17iw,  aired  it:i  ypars  and  !^  months.  31rs.  >[olly  Toppai  dipd  0  .Ian.  IMi;),  aued  lO') 
years,  one  mouth,  aiid  1.')  days.  Widow  F.li/aljctii  Moody  dii'd  'JO  TpI).  1S-.'7.  aired  '.i7  I  ■•! 
years.  In  177:!.  .Jan.  •.'•').  dieil  .Foseph  Atkins,  esq.  in  Ids  fi:id  year.  He  was  horn  in 
"Sandwich,  Old  Enirl'.md.  was 'of  the  royal  navy  w'as  in  the  tiimoiis  sealiirht  hi.'lweeri 
the  Enslisli  and  Wrench  in  liiOO,  was  at  the' takiii','  of  d'ihraltpr  and  was  a  noled 
captain  in  the  niendiants  sprviee,'  llis  widow,  [Marv  Atl.ins.  and  danr;hlpr  of  yov, 
Jospph  Dndh-v.  (lied  \ov.  10.  1771,  in  her  Sllh  year.  In  Nov.  1771.  .Mrs.  Lyiha,  widow 
of  William  Sawyer,  died,  arrf"'  '•'■'■  Ann  Hoy't,  widow  of  .losepli,  died  ',':i  .fan.  17itl, 
aired  Ol).  Deac.  Amos  Chase,  a  native  of  Newhnry,  (lied  in  Saco  March  ■-',  181 S,  aireil 
99  years  and  II  months.  Nathaniel  Little  died  "-J.')  jMarch,  K-.'iO.  aired  9:t  1-1  years. 
Sept.  l.'i,  18-1:1,  Nicholas  Noyes  died,  aired  D,')  years,  7  months,  and  10  days.  Mary 
Woodhridire  died  lo.lune,  1817,  ajred  9->.  Anna  .Moody  diod  15  [•'eh.  IVll.ajrpd  97 
years  anil  7  months.  Mrs.  Prudence  B.iilpy  dipd  lo  .May,  is H,  aired  9:!.  Mrs.  .ludith 
Colhv  died  18  .April.  181:',.  aired  9.').  Mrs.  Al)iy:ail.  widow  of  Nathaniel  Kniery,  died  10 
Dec. 'l81;l.  aired  97  1-4  years.  3lary,  widow  ol' .lonathan  Uoirers,  di(>il  7  March,  18'J.|, 
aired  99.  Mr.  Timothy" To|ipan  died  :.'  Sept.  179ri,  a:;ed  99  years,  and  months.  !ary, 
relict  of  capt.  Willi.ini  Woodbridire,  died  1.7  June,  1817,  ay;cd  <)2.  In  1807,  S.  ,-i.  rJ, 
Lydia  Smith,  widow  of  Mosps  S.  died,  aired  91  nearly.  Nov.  :2d,  1809.  Klizahelh,  w  idnw 
of  Henry  Rolfe,  died  in  her  9v;d  year.  .Mr.  Ahner  (Jreei, leaf  died  1810,  Jan.  10,  aireii 
91.  K/.ekiel  Bailey  died  I'l  Feb.  "l8i:!,  aired  95  l-:2  years.  Fdi/.abeth.  ndict  of  Moses 
Moody  died  19  Feli.  1817.  ajed  97  1-2.  'Alexander 'Haskell  died  11  March,  1SI7.  aired 
m.  S"tephen  Greenleaf  died  Vi  '  N-t.  17dr!,  aired  91  years  and  •.'  months.  Mrs.  Klizabelh, 
relict  of  (leap.  Cnttinir- Noyes.  (hed  -20  , Tan.  17  hi.  "in  her  O'Jd  year.  Deac.  Archelans 
Woodman  died  17  ."March,  nnCi,  aired  91.  Robert  Adams  died  .'!  Feb.  17(19.  a;rf''' '•'■'''• 
Joshua  Baynton  died  Oct.  '.'9.  1770.  aired  91.  Daniel  Sawyer  died  22  Oct.  1781.  aireil 
almost'.':!.  William  Grant  died  20  April.  17*^5,  aired  91.  A  larire  number  of  the  des- 
cendants of  Henry  Jaques  have  b(>en  remarkable  for  longevity.  Deac.  Stppheri  ,Ia()iie» 
died  about  1779,  aired  9:i.  Samuel  Jaijups  died  in  Juiu;  2\,  ajred  95  ]-2  ypars.  Jli« 
sister,  Deborah,  widow  of  capt.  Israel  Adams,  died  -.'0  May,  18:!T  aired  99  years,  and  "Hi 
days.  Siephen  Jiuines  died -^9  .March.  1811,  aired  9'.' years  and '"  nontlis.  Job 
died  in  ISO},  aued  81.  Sarah  died  7  June,  1805.  aired  8s.  Th.u.khil  and  Belt 
died  in  18:!1  and  is:i5,  aired  each  77.  -Mr.  Parker  Jaques  is  now  livinir  in  his  -.i,-!!  year, 
and  John  Jaipu's  in  his  tMlth  year.     Elijihalel  Jaijues  dieil  in  ,Iune.  1^01,  atred  nearly  90. 

The  averaire  aire  of  twelve  children  of  Samuel  and  Ibinnah  I'lumer,  born  between 
1719  and  1710.  was  7:!  years.  Mrs.  Sarah  Baillet  died  Jan.  1M5,  a^'ed  99.  Joshna 
Noyes  died  Jan.  '-!:(,  18o:t,'nired  90.  Elizabeth  Thurston  died  15  Nov.  1819,  in  her  97lli 
year.  ^Ir.  Abraham  Jaqnes  of  Wilminirton,  .Mass.  had  10  (diildren,  whose  aires  were 
"RS,  77.  SO,  8(1,  85.  81,  SO,  70,  90,  80  =  S-'i's  averaire  ajje,  8-.'  :!-5  years.  Col.  Moses  Lillle 
died  19  Oct.  17^0.  aired  90.  Catherine,  relict  of  Ebenezer  Davis,  died  ■!  I'pb.  1810,  aired 
99,  Henry  Adams  died  .')0  Auir.  lS:i7.  aired  91  l-'J  years.  Eunice?  Dnnimer  died  '..'S 
Feb.  18:i8^  aired  90  :)-.|  years.  Mary  Thurlow  died  in  \'^U^^,  aged  nearly  HIO.  Williatii 
Bartlet,  esq.  8   Feb.  1811,  aged  9:i.  Beetficld  Sawyar  died  aired  97.     .>1ary 

Jaqnes  died  .'iO  ^larch,  1S05,  ajred  04  years  and  5  mouths.  Jonathan  :iiid  David  Wliil- 
more,  twin-brothers,  born  in  17:i(i,  were  nearly  100  years  of  age.  The  former  dii.'d  '.'9 
:March,  18:j2,  aijed  about  97. 


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It  was  niy  intention  to  devote  a  few  pn<Tcs  to  Ijlo^rr-Tpliicnl  skctclics 
of  many  of  tlie  natives  of  '  Oukl  Newberry,'  who  liave,  in  various 
Avays,  distiiigiiislied  themselves,  and  had  collected  copious  materials 
for  that  piirpose,  but  my  limits  will  not  allow  of  any  tliiiijj;  more  thtin  ii 
mere  mention  of  tiie  names  of  a  very  few,  whoso  memoirs,  were 
justice  done  them,  would  fill  a  volume.  Of  these,  one  of  the  most 
able,  useful,  and  patriotic  citizens  of  the  country,  and  wlio  rendered 
great  service  to  the  nation,  durin<f  the  French  and  revolulionary  wars, 
by  purse,  sword,  nnd  pen,  was  briiradier-<renera]  .Iacoh  HAii,i;y,  who 
died  in  Xcwburv,  Vermout,  March  (irst,  lcl6.     lie  was  boni  iu  .\i;w- 


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bury,  Miissixclmsclts,  July  s.ocoiid,  17:28,  soUloJ  in  Ilanipslcad  171.3, 
mised  a  comimny,  of  Avlii(!li  lie  was  cuiitnin,  at  llie  comuu'iicement  ot' 
the  lueuch  war  in  17-30,  was  at.  the  capture  of  fort  William  llonry, 
and  run  the  gauntlet  at  the  dreadful  nmssucre  that  occurred  by  the 
violation  of  the  |)lii!;hted  faith  of  the  enemy  in  Auirnst,  1737,  and  was 
one,  who  escaped  to  fort  I'Jdward.  lie  was  made  a  colonel  by  p;,.nerid 
Amherst,  with  whom  he  was  at  the  taking  of  Ticonderoga  and^Crown 
point  in  1731).  In  17()3,  ho  obtained  a  charter  for  a  township  in  Ver- 
mont, whither  he  removed  in  17(51.  lie  was  there  appumtcd  by  New 
York,  brigadier-general,  and  soon  after  by  general  Washington,  com- 
missary-general of  tlie  northern  depart'ment,  which  involved  great 
responsibilities,  and  subjected  him  to  dangers,  clifficnlties,  and  sacriUces, 
of  an  extraordinary  cbarncter,  and  mnny  anecdotes  might  be  related  of 
his  exploits,  hair-breadth  esciipes,  encounters  with  the  enemy-Indians 
and  tories,  the  constnnt  vigil-ance  to  escape  the  scouts,  sent  from  Canada 
to  take  him,  and  for  whom  a  reward  of  five  Imndred  guineas  had  been 
offered,  dead  or  alive,  lie  made  a  treaty  with  tlie  St.  Francis  tribe  of 
Indians,  by  whom,  and  the  friendly  Indians,  ho  was  looked  up  to  as  a 
father.  By  means  of  spies,  lie  acipiiied  important  intelligence  respect- 
ing the  movements  of  the  Jiritish,  and  rendered  great  services  with  his 
purse,  pen  and  person  at  or  Ijefore  the  capture  of  Burgoyne,  where  ho  was 
engaged  witii  two  or  three  of  his  sons.  He  sacrilied  a  large  estate  in 
the  service  of  his  country,  for  which  he  never  received  any  compensa- 
tion, and  w^as  equally  distinguished  for  his  talents,  his  patriotism,  and 
his  piety.  See  reverend  Grant  Towers'  historical  sketches;  of  Coos, 
and  Exeter  News  Letter,  October  third,  1842. 

Brigadier  general  John  Boyd  was  lioru  in  Ncwburyport,  Dec.  21,  1701. 
In  1780,  October  twentieth,  he  was  appointed  an  ensign  in  the  second 
American  regiment,  and  when  the  army  was  disbanded  by  act  of  con- 
gress, he  was  discharged.  On  January  twenty-eighth,  17^7,  he  was 
appointed,  by  John  Hancock,  lieutenant  of  a  colnpany  in  Boston.  On 
April  nineteenth,  1788,  he  sailed  for  India,  arrived  at  the  Isle  of  France 
January  second,  1789,  and  in  July,  went  to  Madras,  having  procured 
recommendatory  letters  to  the  English  consul,  residing  at  the  court  of 
his  highm  s  the  Nizam,  and  ])y  wd.  u  he  was  presented  in  form  to 
liis  highness,  wlio  presented  him  with  the  command  of  one  thousand 
infantry.  The  Nizam  was  then  in  alliance  with  the  English,  and  had 
taken  the  field  against  Tippoo  Sultan,  with  one  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  infantry,  sixty  thousand  horse,  and  five  hundred  elephants. 
In  nOo,  he  was  a  prisoner  of  war  at  Ougene,  and  was  released  August 
fourth.  In  1791,  he  writes,  he  was  raising  two  battalions  on  the  parli- 
zan  ])rinciple.  In  Sepcmber,  1797,  ho  was  in  camp  Ilydiabad,  and 
after  many  years'  service,  he  sold  out  to  captain  I'elose,  a  Neapolitan 
partizan.  He  was  in  Paris  in  1808,  and,  in  1809,  was  appointed  a 
colonel  by  Thomas  Jeffer.son,  and,  in  August,  1812,  was  appointed  a 
brigadier-general  by  James  JMadison  in  the  T'nited  States'  service, 
commanded  the  detachment  of  fifteen  hundred  men  at  the  battle  of 
■Williamsburg,  Upper  Canada,  November  eleventh,  18i;?,  distinguished 
himself  by  his  courage  and  military  skill  at  fort  Ceorire,  and  the  cele- 
brated battle  at  Tippecanoe.  He  was  ajipointed  b,y  general  Jackson 
naval  officer  of  Boston,  INIarch  fourth,  is:50,  where  he  died  October 
fourth,  ISIJO,  aged  sixty-six.  See  Weekly  Messenger,  volume  eighth, 
page  seven  hundred  and  seventv-fourth, 


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CONCLUSION 


Mr.  JiALi'ii  Ciioss  was  boni  in  fpswicli  Aitgiisl  Iniii'tooutli,  170(i, 
vmnc  to  A'c'whiiry,  manii'd  ^iirnli  .lolinsoii,  and  was  one  ul'  the  most 
iisc't'iil,  j)atnutic,  and  jiioiis  citi/,cns  of  tlif  town,  was  one  oC  the  seven 
persons,  who  made  a  pvoscnt  of  u  lioiiso  to  Mr.  Parsons,  whom  lie 
boarded  gratis  at  liis  own  house  for  three  years,  and  jravc  a  large  sliare 
of  the  exj)ense  of  bnihhng  a  meetiiig-liouse.  His  two  sons,  '  Stephen 
and  llalpU  Cross,  were  among  tiie  most  inlhiential  eiti'/ens  of  New- 
bnryport.  Tiie  former  was  born  in  17ol,  and  the  hitter  iu  ITAti.  Tiicy 
were  ship-builders.  ilaliiJi  joined  the  northern  army  as  licutcuant- 
eolonel  of  a  veginienl  raised  in  this  qnarter,'  and  on  Oetebcr  eighth, 
was  at  tlie  lidiiug  of  Jjnrgoyne.  The  brothers,  witii  others,  built  tlie 
frigates  Ilaneoek,  ]5oston,  and  rrf>' ■■••";,  for  t''p  state.  Sle|)hen,'al 
the  close  of  the  war,  was  appoin"  .     nitcndent  of  the  excise,  and 

afterwards  collector  of  the  customs  .'biuyuort.' 

Rnlpli  also  lilled  various  honora.;  oflices.  Yrom  1790  to  17!)(;, 
l)rigadier-general  oi"  the  brigade  to  which  the  corps  of  ]\ewbuiyj)ort 
were  attached.  He  was  a  commissioner  of  bankr'.iptcy,  and,  in  1802, 
was  ajijiointed  collector  of  the  customs,  where  he  continued  till  his 
death. 

Colonel  MosKs  Little  was  another  of  those  patriots,  whose  sterling 
fjualities  of  mind  and  heart,  the  trying  scenes  of  the  revolution  brought 
into  notice.  He  was  born  in  Xewhury,  ^lay  eighth,  ]7'2I,  and  died 
]\lay  twenty-seventh,  ]7'.)?>.  In  April,  177-3,  he  marched  to  Lexington 
with  a  company,  was  colonel  of  a  regiment,  formed  his  men  in  Indian 
lile,  and  marched  on  to  Bunker  hill  on  the  morning  of  that  celebrated 
battle.  His  black  velvet  clothes  were  sprinkled  with  the  blood  of  the 
wounded  and  dying.  In  Auniist,  he  returned  home  to  attend  the 
i'uneral  of  two  of  his  children,  staid  two  days,  and  returned.  After  the 
troops  evacuated  Boston,  lie  went  to  New  York,  was  with  his  regiment 
'at  Trenton  and  Princeton,  and  came  home  iu  1777,  on  account  of  ill 
liealth.  In  1779,  he  was  appointed  by  the  commonwealth  to  take 
command  of  the  naval  armament,  which  was  designed  to  dislodge  the 
enemy  at  Penobscot,  but  declined,  on  account  of  his  health.  By  a  shock 
of  the  palsy,  he  lost  his  s])eech  in  1781.  For  saiitu-ity,  strength  of 
mind,  and  imperlurbnble  self-possession,  which,  in  the  most  trying 
emergencies,  never  failed  him,  he  wa<  inisurpasscd. 

William  Plumek  was  born  in  Xewburyj'ort  June  twenty-fifth,  1759, 
went  to  Ei)[)inir,  New  Ihun[)s]iire,  17(iS,  elected  rejiresentative  in  general 
court  n^'),  and  continued  such  several  years.  In  1791  and  1797,  he 
was  speaker  of  the  Ikjusc,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  17b7.  He  was 
senator  of  New  Hani[)shire  in  1610  and  lSll,and  president  of  the 
senate  both  years.  He  was  also  senator  of  the  rnited  States  from 
June  seventeenth,  1^0;.*,  till  March  third,  l!r07.  He  Avas  governor  of 
New  Hampshire  1812,  181G,  1817,  1818,  and  one  of  the  presidential 
electors  iu  1820.  He  is  member  of  Massachusetts  Historical  society, 
Americfui  Anti(piarian  society,  and  first  president  of  Natural  History 
society. 

It  would  be  2Talifyiiia"  to  notice  many  other  natives  of  ould  Newbu- 
ry, with  others,  who  resided  here,  such  as  major  Enoch  and  general 
Jonathan  Titcomb,  Jonathan  .Tarkson,  Jonalhan  (Ircenleaf,  Tristram 
J^altoii.  colonel  .Incol),  and  i.'olduel  .rose|ih  (lerrish,  siMiior,  anrl   .loscph 


(;  0  X  (;  L  L  fi  1  u  \ , 


107 


Cerrisli,  jiniior,  Xieliolas  I'iko,  niitlioi-  of  tlif;  Sysiciii  oi'  Arilliiui'tir, 
Mosus  liiowii,  William  Daitlul,  .l;u-ulj  iVrkiiis,  "TiR!0|iliilii.s  rursuus, 
wiiosd  reimlation  as  a  lawyer,  and  whose  inulbimd  knowledge  in  almost, 
every  department  of  sci(mce,  has  prohably  iiRver  heeu  Hnrjiassed,  if 
eqnalled.ia  the  ITnitcd  folates.  But  the  jrialerid  ttisk  mnst  be  |)ost- 
jxaied  to  some  more  jiropitionsoecasicju.  During- the  sanguinary  scenes 
of  the  revolution,  her  citizens,  both  by  land  and  sea,  furnished  their  full 
l)ro|.ortion  of  money  and  men,  to  earry  on  the  war,  with  a  zeal  and 
unanimity  seldom  equalled,  and  if,  with  their  characteristic  energy,  they 
entered  largely  into  the  business  of  i)rivatcering,  and  captured' many- 
large  and  valuable  i)rizes,  their  losses  were  also  unusiudly  great. 
Twenty-two  vessels,  with  all  their  crews,  from  thirty  up  to  one  hundred 
and  seventy  men  each,  went  to  sea  and  never  retinued,  a  loss  of  lif(\ 
compared  with  which,  the  massacre  at  Jiloody  iirook,  which  sent  a  tlniU 
of  anguish  through  the  whole  colony,  was  a  Irillc.  One  of  these  ves- 
sels was  the  Yankee  Hero,  carrying  twenty  guns,  with  acom])lementof 
one  hundred  and  seventy  men,  conunnuded  by  James  Tracv.  '  Some 
fifty  of  her  crew  were  vohmteers  from  the  enterprising  young  men  from 
Kcwburyport  and  vicinity.'  Some  liuiiilics  izavc!  up  two.  There  were 
two  brothers  named  ihookings,  two  IJradbury,  two  Willard,  two  Stick- 
ney,  and  several  others.  Twenty-three  were  sons  of  widows.  The 
flower  of  manyfamihes,  embarked  on  board  of  her,  tound  thus  together 
a  watery  grave,  as  after  leaving  Boston  she  was  nev^er  seen.  The 
America,  cajitain  William  Collin,  a  twenty  gun  ship;  the  Wexford, 
captain  Thilip  Trash,  an  eighteen  gun  bng;"aletterof  marque,  captain 
Jonathan  Jewett;  brig  ]3ennington,  captain  llart;  schooner  Civil  Usaii-e, 
carrying  eighty  men,  captain  .lerenuah  ilibbard  ;  a  schooner,  cpnniiandi'd 
by  captain  Siiringer ;  with  lifteen  oilier  vessels,  of  various  sizes,  all 
shared  the  same  fate.  The  crews  of  these  twenty-two  vessels,  all 
owned  in  jN^ewburyport,  probably  amounted  to  more  than  one  thousand 
persons.  What,  then,  nuisl  have  been  the  loss  of  life,  at  sea,  to  say 
nothing  of  property,  during  the  revolutionary  war,  I'rom  the  sea-coast  of 
]S'ew  England  alone  !  We  at  the  ])resent  day  can  have  but  a  I'aiut 
conception  of  the  enthusiasm,  that  i>crvadecrtlie  country  during  that 
momentous  crisis,  or  of  the  sullLM-iugs  and  jirivations,  exi>erienced  by 
our  fathers,  in  that  fearful  struggle.  One  of  the  lirst  privateers,  iitted 
out  from  Newburyi)ort,  was  called  the  Came  Cock.  On  leaving  the 
harbor,  the  captain  sent  a  note  to  his  minister,  desiring  prayers  that  Ootl 
would  preserve  him  in  his  attemjit  to  scour  the  coast  of  om-  unnatural 
enemies !  The  extent  of  his  petition  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact, 
that  his  vessel  was  a  sloo[)  of  about  twenty  or  thirty  tons,  and  carried 
four  swivels !  Another  privateer,  called"  the  General  Ward,  com- 
manded by  captain  William  EussoU,  was  still  smaller,  as  it  car- 
ried one  swivel,  and  thirteen  men,  each  of  wliom  had  a  musket. 
Ir  a  short  time  it  took  two  brigs  and  a  schooner.  The  .schooner,  which 
had  been  given  to  two  of  the  captors,  was  retaken,  but  the  brigs  arrived 
in  safety.  I  have  had  the  use  of  several  journals,  kept  by  those  who 
had  been  engaged  in  privateering.  From  one  kept  by  captain  John 
O'Erien,  I  make  a  few  extracts.  "  On  June  ninth,  177i),"he  sailed  in  the 
armed  schooner  llibernia.  On  June  twenty-lirst,  took  an  English  l)rig 
and  sent  her  in.  On  June  twenty-lil'lh,  had  an  engagement  witli  a  ship 
of  sixteen  gtuis,  from  three  till  live  o'clock,  V.  M.,  when  the  llibernia 
left  her,  having  had  three  men  killed,  and  several  wounded,  and  was 
then  chased  by  a  frigate  till  twelve  o'clock.     On  July  seventh,  took  n, 


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schooner,  and  scut  lior  to  ]Vevvbiirypoit.  .Inly  tenth,  in  coinpiiny  with 
captain  Lench,  of  Saloin,  took  a  siii|)  canyini,'  thirteen  I'onr  iioiniders, 
and  ou  the  same  day  look  a  brij^,  and  then  a  schooner  hideu  wilii  mo- 
lasses. Jnly  eleventli,  took  an  hermaphrothte  hrig-  m  ballast,  and  having 
11  nnmber  of  prisoners  on  board,  jrave  tiiein  the  briu,',  and  gave  chase  to 
anotlier  brig  that  was  in  sight,  and  took  her.  IJe  concludes  by  saying, 
that,  '  if  captain  licach  and  lie  had  not  parted  in  the  log,  they  coiiicl 
have  taken  the  wliole  lieet.'  Captain  O'Brien  was  engaged  in  many  en- 
terprises and  battles,  but  was  never  taken.  T  have  also  two  other 
journals,  kept  by  the  late  doctor  Saiiuiel  .Nye,  of  Salisbury,  Massachu- 
setts, who  went  as  siu-geon  on  board  the  Vengeance,  carrying  twenty 
six  pounders,  and  one  hundred  men,  couunanded  by  cajjlain  Wingate 
Newman,  who  sailed  sixteenth  of  August,  177b,  and  returned  to  Aew- 
buryport,  twenty-ninth  iMay,  1779,  having  taken  and  sold  in  fSpain,  or 
sent  homo,  Septendier  seventeenth,  ship  Harriet,  {jacket,  si.xteen  guns 
and  forty-tive  men;  8e|)teud)er  twentieth,  Snow  Eagle,  twelve  guns 
and  forty-three  men  ;  December  third,  took  brigantine  Elizabeth  ;  twen- 
ty-seventh December,  took  brig  Francis,  having  on  board  two  thousand 
([uintals  dry  lish ;  on  the  nineteenth  of  April,  177U,  took  letter  of 
)nar(]ue  brigantine  Mary,  bound  from  Liverpool  to  Antigua,  with  forty- 
eight  men  and  sixteen  ibur  pounders.  His  second  cruise  was  on  board 
the  ship  .liraerica,  John  Somes,  commander,  who  sailed  eighteenth  June. 
1760,  and  returned  ninth  of  August,  having  taken,  with  the  assistance 
of  the  Brutus,  on  July  lifteenth,  ship  William,  brigantines  Duke  of 
Burlue,  Kitty  and  Bell,  and  Snow  Beaver;  and  on  July  eighteenth,  the 
America  took  ship  Everetta  and  brigantine  Nancy.  From  a  record 
which  appears  to  have  been  kept  by  one  of  the  crew  of  the  brigantine 
Dahon,  I  learn  that  that  vessel,  commanded  by  captain  Eleazer  John- 
son, was  taken  December  twenty-fourth,  177(),  and  carried  into  Ply- 
mouth. Of  the  crew,  one  hundred  and  twenty-four  in  number,  who 
were  put  into  Mill  jjrison,  fifty-four  belonged  to  Newbury  and  Newbu- 
ryport.  Among  them  were  Anthony  Kna|)p,  Daniel,  Cutting,  Richard 
and  Henry  Lunt,  Othu  Boardman,  Samuel  Cutler,  Paul  Noyes,  Charles 
Herbert,  Jonathan  Whitmore,  and  so  forth.  The  crews  of  niany  other 
Newburyport  vessels  were  also  in  Mill  prison,  riymouth,  and  in  Ports- 
mouth, in  these  two  prisons  there  were  at  one  time  five  hundred  and 
seventy-four  American  citizens.  Forty-seven  of  the  crew  of  the  War- 
ren, together  with  the  caf)tain,  Tiinotliy  Newman,  died  on  board.  Many 
of  the  prisoners  were  detained  in  prison  tour  years.  Of  the  prisoners 
taken  in  the  Dalton,  two,  namely,  Ifenry  and  Cutting  Lunt,*  were  on 
board  the  Bon  Homme  Pilchard,  commanded  by  John  Paul  Jones,  and 
were  his  lieutenants  in  the  terrible  action  with  the  Serapis,  September 
twenty-third,  1779. 

Mr.  Richard  Smith,  wdio  went  out  in  a  privateer,  in  the  spring  of 
1778,  was  taken  prisoner,  put  on  board  the  Jersey  prison  ship  November 
seventeenth,  1778,  and  discharged  twenty-seventh  of  April,  1779,  dur- 

*  Cooper,  in  hi.s  Life  of  John  Paul  Jones,  states  that  his  lieutenants  Cutting  and 
Lenry  Lunt,  were  from  Xow  Hampshire.  This  is  a  mistake.  Both  of  them  were  na- 
tives of  Xewhiny.  In  a  letter  to  his  father,  (iatetl  Naiitz,  April  twentieth,  !77ii,  lieu- 
tenant Cuttins;  Lunt  thus  writes  :  '  I  am  hapjiy  to  inform  you  of  our  deliverance  from 
a  horrible  prison,  where  we  fared  very  hard.  I  reler  you  to  brother  Richard  for  partic- 
ulars. I  have  sbipi)ed  myself  for  another  cruise,  and  liope  I  shall  have  better  success. 
I  am  soing  in  a  ship  called  the  Poor  Richard,  commanded  by  .John  Paul  Jones,  esquire, 
but  our  expedition  is  secret,  but  I  hope  to  be  at  homo  next  Christmas,  if  my  lite  is  spared.' 


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•■  ig  whicli  timo  twclvo  ImndiTcl  nrid  sovnity  ])ri.soncrs  died.  When 
•  Lsclmip'tl,  ho  \\•il^s  iiblii;('d  lu  return  to  Acwliiiry  haicCoot,  niid  hcg  his 
way.  This  is  one  S|)cciiii(Mi  oC  tlio  siilli'iiiiiis  ot-cnsionod  by^var. 
Wimt,  Ihoii,  innsl  haw  l)ccii  iho  njiirroiintr'  oC  iirivation  and  distress, 
e.\-|i(.'rienccd  1)ytlio  wliolc  (•onutry  (hniiijr  tlic  revohitinnary  strnirjrio  ? 
_Oue  instance  more,  and  I  liav'c  (Kine.  On  Dcecnilier  "seventeenth, 
1770,  the  sehjctnien  f>r  Aew  hnry  sent  a  petition  to  the  general  eonrt,  by 
Wi^y  oC  remonsiranee,  in  wliich  they  say:  'on  the  nineteenth  of  April, 
177.J,  onr  iiiiniite  men  and  others  \v(>re  ealled  npon  to  mareii  to  the  as- 
sistance of  our  (hstresscd  hreliucn  at  C:ainl)ridup.  On  the  tu-entiet!)  of 
the  same  month  we  followed  them  with  ])rovisions  neeessary  for  their 
support,  in  about  two  days  after  they  arrived  at  Caml)rid!Te,  they  in- 
formed ns  that  they  had  received  onr  provision  in  plenty,  bnt  were 
obli<red  to  eat  it  uncooked,  they  bein-r  desiitule  of  kettles  to'cook  it  in.' 
Jn  juiolher  place  they  -.ay,  that  ■  blankets  beinc;  uni)rooiirable  of  the 
merchants,  we  were  obliged  to  tret  a  p;reat  part  of  Iheni  in  ])articnlar 
families  one  or  two  in  i  place  in  dilFerent  parts  of  the  town.'  'The 
eloihiiiix  nlso  was  collected  in  .small  (pianlities  from  more  than  two  him- 
dred  places  in  dilli'ient  parts  of  the  town.'  '  By  an  order  of  eourt, 
I)earin,ic  date  December,  17  7,J,  we  were  ordered  to  "send  three  tons  of 
Kiiii!i.'<li  hay  to  head-(]iiarlers  at  the  same  ]iriec  allowed  to  those  towns 
not  one  liftli  of  the  wa.y  distant,'  and  so  forth. 

iNolwiliisiandm-i:  the  diliiciilties,  distresses,  and  privations,  which  the 
people  of  America  were  callerl  to  encr.anler,  and  of  which,  petitions, 
like  the  jireceding,  gi\-(<  ns  some  faint  idra,  it  is  remarkable  with  what 
eheerfniness  they  weif;  enconmered,  and  v.-liat  nnwavering  confidence 
they  h  id  in  their  ultimate  success.  Thus,  in  a  letter  wrrtfen  by  Mr. 
Jeremiah  J)ole  to  his  wife,  da.!(Ml  June  eighteenth,  177o,  he  .^ays  : 
'throiigli  the  good  prr-viilciice  of  (^orl  my  life*  was  saved,  but  "\ve 
expect  to  go  at  it  a^nlu  today  very  hot.'  On  June  twentieth,' 177.'i,  he 
thus  writes:  'I  am  well,  yet  T  "want  to  eome  home,  but  can't  yet 
belbre  we  have  killed  or  diov(^  the  regulars,  and  cot  the  day.  I  keep 
up  my  courage  yet  to  linrht  them,  and  will  till  I  die.'  His' last  letter 
w^as  written  r>eptember  third,  1777.  lie  says,  'we  have  been  cb^agirpd 
very  bad.  and  exjiect  to  drive  on  very  soon  towards  the  enemy  to  drive 
them.'  On  the  l!))hof  S(^jitember,"the  dav  of  Eiircrovue's  s,irrendcr. 
he  was  killed.  ]n  a  letter,  dated  11.  I.  Oct.  II,  1 77.S,  written  to  a 
friend  in  Xewbnryfiort.  Mr.  Henry  Htidsou  tlius  writes:  'the  nicht 
before  last  onr  tents  all  blew  down!  ^nd  we  were  obliired  to  set  sheber 
where  we  eonld,  some  in  houses,  some  under  stone  walls.  Our  mess 
found  pretty  good  (piarters  in  an  old  qnaker's  house.  It  would  be 
j)relly  tolerable,  if  it  was  fair  weather  all  the  time,  but  these  oxnabrig 
houses  are  not  so  eleven-  in  rainy  weather.  Who  woidd  not  be  a  sob 
dier?  I  must  now  conclude  praying  I  may  be  preserved  through  the 
campaign,  till  we've  drul)bed  the  dogs  away.'  Here  J  mnst"eease 
making  any  more  allusions  to  the  iulereslinu'  events  of  the  revolution, 
and  return  niy  thanks  to  Mr.  Jonathan  Iv-ttell,  for  his  copy  of  Mr. 
Samuel  Ilolfe's  journal  of  a  eampait^n  to  Louishmg  in  I7.J8,  and  for 
the  reminiscences  and  facts,  furnished  him  by  captain  William  rS'oyes. 
who  lost  his  left  hand  at  the  siege  of  Lonisbmir.  The  iournal  of  Mr 
Rolfe  contains  twenty-six  panes,  bnt  I  have  no  room  lor  tin  abstract,  nor 
even  to  give  the  names  of  those,  who  were  present  at  the   siege,  nor 

*•  A  b.ill  p-iiso'!  thrnii:,.'!  iiis  hit  in  llip  Irittlo  of  Bunkm-  hill. 
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llio    iiniiios  of  tlio   soldiers   ("oiMuiiuiilcd    liy  ciiiitaiiis   Jacob    (icrrish, 
Williiim    Koirpi's,    I'^/ni    Ijiiiit.   mihI    Hciijauiiii    IVrkins,  ns    iiitciulcd. 
On  tlial  sid)io('t,  ii  voIiimk!  iiiiijlit  easily  lie,  written,  and  anotlieron  ihosn 
reeentiie  eliaraetei's,  who  were  liorii  or  resided  in  '  Onld  iNewherry.' 
W'lin,  tiiat  ever  knew,  will  ever  Innret   .Madame    l(on|ier,  or  'I'iinotliy 
Dexter,  or  Jonathan  J'hnner,  or  lienjaniin  I 'ran,  or  colonel   Cotton,  and 
a  host  of  others  loo  nnnu'rons  to  menliDH,  w  Iid  whilom  llonrislicd  in 
tliis  rc'U'ion '.'     Could  J  roll  liael;  the  wheels  of  time,  and  present  to  the 
eyes  of  my  readers  a  view  of  /.'ewliury,  tis  it  was  in  1 /?•"),  the   picture 
oi'  tlio  aotors  of  tliat  day,  arrayed  in  their  anti(|ne  costmne,  ami  siu'- 
roundod  by  appropri;iie  scenery,  would  both  startle  and  aunise  tlioni. 
The  lm<j;e "cocked  lint,  tlu^  fnll-holtomed   wi;;,  tlu^  ti'.^ht  breeches  M'ith 
the   massive  silvi-r  knee  and  !-;hoi!  buckles,  \\\r  polished  manners  of 
the  j:;r;^//r;»r'»  of  that  day,  to'/ether  with  those  markeil   dislinclions  in 
soeietv,  which  the  revolution  and  its  consei|nem'es  linve  almost  entirely 
oblitiMated,  have  [la-sed  away,  and  with  tiiem  have  passed  the  stocks 
and  the  wlnp[)iiiu:-post,  those  relics  of  a  less  reliued  sejc,  whicli  onco 
stood  near  the  bend  of  ]\IarII)oro!inIi  street,      hi  \l'i\,  I  liml  the  follow- 
ini?:  'carvinp,'  the  beail  of  tlu'  wllipllin^•  post,  eighteen   shillin2;s   and 
ten  pence.'      hi    l/iil,   1  ilml   the   followiu!^  charge  in  Newburyport : 
'  iron  works  for  the  town  slocks,  iour  shilliu'.fs  and   sixpeiu-e,  and  a 
bowl  of  toddy,  eiiilit  ])enc(\'     These   appenda<res  o['  civilization   stood 
till  about  179;],  citlier  in  Federal  street,  lU'ar  the  jail,  or  in  Water  street, 
near  where  the  cuslom-house  now  slamls.     In  the  plants  of  Newbury, 
tliere  is  nntbinij  jiecidiar,  with  the  exception  of  three  species  of  bcacli- 
phnn  on  Plum  island,  the  pni//iis  Htloralis  of  Ibixelow,  and  the  t/rriutria 
■prplniilts,  or  sand-wort,  discovered  on   J'lum  islarul  hy  doctor  Richard 
S])o(rord  of  Newburyport.     There  is,  also,  a  kind  of  ji'rass,  now  called 
black  p;rass,  whicli   was  once  called  jiic^eon   •rmss.     It  made  its  iirst 
apnearance,  less  tlinii  a  ccMitury  aa,o,  on  the  l)anks  of  Little  river,  just, 
beiow  Trotter's  bridire,  near  the  place  of  a  'stand,'  where  wild  pii^eons 
•were  once  eautilit  in  irrenl  mmiliers.  and  thence  derived  its  name.     It 
is  now  spread  over  thousands  of  acre  s,  and  is  every  year  i^aininii;  mound. 
Among  the  minerals  of  Newbury,  are,  to  be  fouial  amianthus,  asbestos, 
precious  serpentine,  limestone,  lilirdus  and  granular,  dolomite,  tremolite, 
iron  pyrites,  arsenical  iron  ))yrites,  iron  ore.    Nearly  all  these  arc  Ibund 
in  what  is  called  the  Devil'sden,  near  JMill  liridi'c  on  Little  river,  where 
excavations  were  first  made  for  limestone  in  ]('ii»7.    ;\mong  the  curios- 
ities in  Newbury,  may  be  niention<'d  this   locality,  and  the  floating 
island  in  the  ineeting-house  pond,  which  is  in  the  rear  of  the  Imrying- 
yard,  near  the  first  parisli  inceting-honse  in  NiMvhury.    A  good  descrip- 
tion of  it  may  be  fbuud  in   Silliinan's  .h)urnal    ibr  L-:.'7,  jiage   V.12,  by 
Amos  PcMtingell,  junior.     It  con'ains  about  half  an  acre  of  land,  whicli 
rises  and  falls  with  the  water,  which   is  sometimes  eight  feet  higher 
than  at  other  times,     TIick^  are  on  it   six  large  trees,  M'hicli  rise  and 
fall  with  the  island,  -which,  in  dry  seasons,  is  [)erce))til)ly  lower  than  the 
snrroundinir  land.     On  tliis  island,  for  more  than  a  century,  there  has 
been,  yearly,  a   jjair  of  those  birds  called  moor  hens,  which   regularly 
visit  it" about  the  tenth  of  May,  and  depart  in  the  fall,  with  a  brood  of 
young  ones.     "Whether  it   is  the   same  ])itir,  or  their  heirs,  who  never 
forget  their  annual  visit,   I  am  unable   to  say.     The   veteran  elm  of 
Newbury,  mention(>d  on  the  last  page,  is  wortliy  of  a  visit.     Another 
elm  tie*!  still  laiiicr.  hut    not  so  well  proportioned,  stands  in  IJyfield, 
near  tlie  house  uf  .Mr.    Ueniamin   i'-'arsou      lioth  of  them  are  much 


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laf>,n'r  lliaii  the  HiiaoKs  elm  uii  JJoslou  iMiiiimoii.  Of  liinis  luul  wild 
fowl,  tliiU  (V<>(iiii'iit  Ni'whiiiy  ill  ilillui't.'iil  simsuds  of  iln,  year,  Uut.!  urr 
between  one  mikI  (uu  luiiidivd  .s|,i!,-i(.s,  of  uliirli  moit!  lluin  liidl'  uro 
.t'dil)l('._  U'dd  tiukics  were  ui.uiidiuit.  iii  .Ncwi.iiiv,  us  l,il.c  us  17()7, 
iM.sh,  IVdiii  iIr.  ocean,  mid  llic  rivers  .Meiiinuic  mid"  I'mkei.  me  niii^^'lit 
III  id)iiiid;iiu'e,  mid  oysleis  ol' 11,  liirov  si/L' (.111';^  idioiiiided  in  tli,,.  latTer 
river,  iviid  tliere  is  not  a  day  in  the  ycm\  in  wliieli  Uic  iiniialcs  of  llie 
idiiisdionse,  sittmled  oii  lis  l.anks,  eminol  obiaiu  u  siiliicient  sii|)|i|y  for 
tlieir  own  use.  In  addition  to  the  aiviimlinial  and  uiiuitime  adv'aiita. 
K'os,  possessed  by  tlie  eitizciis  of  muii'iit  Acwimrv,  witii  tiiu  (aeilitios 
of  eoiiveyaneemid  tr;iiis|iortaiii)n,  may  lie  mealioned  Uie  inipulse  giveu 
to  all  kinds  of  business,  by  the  eri'clion  of  maniiliu'lmes. 

Siiico  IS.'ii;.  loin-  cdllon  raclori.-s  iiiiv.'  b.'eii  civctcd.  lUhl  ;i  lilili  incorpoiiiti'ii, 
Tlie  Kssi'x  mills,  ISliii,  I'oiilnia  si\  tiioiisaud  inul  seven  liianlreil  spliulles.  one 
Iniiijlicd  mid  siiveiily-llii'ec  Iocihh.  wliifli  niiiiiiiraetiiie  one  iiiiiliaii  and  m\  Iniii- 
(  re(  tlupusaad  yards  of  No.  2!)  piiiiliii:,'  rlotli^,  iisi-s  one  thousand  and  oai-  iiini- 
(lied  hales  of  cotteii,  one  tlioiisaiid  tons  of  coal,  mid  pays  to  its  one  handred  and 
ioitv-live  operatives,  alioaf  lliiily  liiousnid  dollars  per  aiinnin.  The  Harlhl 
niills,  \o.  1  ami  :.',  ls;iiiaiul  IS  In,  roaiain  seventeen  tlionsaiul  one  handred  and 
tlnrty-siv  s))iadles,  three  Innidivd  and  si\tv-seveii  looni-i.  and  with  lour  Innidivd 
opeiativcs,  who  n'ccive  about  si>;  thousand  dollars  pi  r  mouth,  inamil'aetine 
alxMit  two  milhoii  yards  of  Xo.  .|i)  shectinirs  and  shilling's,  from  oin-  thousand 
jiiid  on(!  Innidivd  bales  of  cotton,  with  one  Ihoiisaiid  loiis  of  coal.  Thcst.  two 
blnldnn^^  an;  oiii;  hundred  and  til'ty-siv  by  lifty,  and  two  Inuiilred  and  sixty  by 
lilty  leet  in  Icimth  and  bieadih.  "The  Jaines'mills,  18!-.'  and  INll,  will,  wheii 
completed,  contain  seyeiitefm  thoasaud  and  one  hundred  spindh-s,  ihree  hun- 
dred and  lifty  lo.aiH,  four  handled  operative-,  wiio  will  receive  about  live  thou- 
sand dollars  per  month.  inauar;iclure  alwait  one  million  and  ei'.;ht  hundred 
Ihonsaiid  yards  of  \o.  -10  and  (iO  cloth,  from  one  thousand  l.:i|es  of  eoltou.  and 
use  one  thousand  tons  of  eoal  per  ammiii.  lis  hacith  is  three  huadred  and 
twelve  hy  hlly  feet.  Tlu?  (dohe  mills  now  in  piocess  of  erection,  are  calculated 
to  contain  twelve  thousand  and  live  hundred  spindles,  three  huadred  and 
twenty-live  looms,  ami  with  two  hinidied  iind  seventy-live  ojieiativiv.,  to  nianu- 
fiiclure  seventy  thousand  yards  of  ,\o.  1  1  and  •,>(!  'cloth  per  week,  use  four 
thousand  bales  of  cotton,  and  one  thoii-and  loin  of  coal  per  annum,  at  an  e\- 
pense  for  wau'es  of  about  four  thousand  dollars  [ler  month.  Th(>  udlids  inauu- 
facUired  at  these  mills  are  of  the  lirst  (piality,  and  farnish  enmloyinent  in 
various  Ways,  for  seviaal  thousand  persons. 

As  nimdi  lias  been  nssi^rled,  eonem-iiiii,",-  tln>  nbdiu'lioii  of  a  eerlniu 
bell  by  certain  persmis  mikiiowii,  and  luueiisaitl  that  is  rather  apoeryplial 
ill  Its  eliaiaetcr,  J  have  been  retiuested  to  state  tlie  facts  eoiiec>rnini?  it, 
wiiieii,  as  near  as  I  can  aseertaiii.  are  tliese. 

On  INIoiiday  inoriiino-,  Oetolaa-  funrleenlh,  l^;]ll,  a  nell  was  Ibund  on 
the  front  door  steps  of  the  lielleville  eluireh,  and,  near  to  it,  a  sealed 
letter,  of  wliieli  the  Ibllowiiiur  is  an  exact  copy. 

•  Iviiitw  idl  iniMi.  to  whom  thcsp  iiii'sciits  slinll  (■emr'. 

'  I  was  horn  in  the  yen- ,  ia  Loh'loii.  i-aiulaiid,  w;is  soon  iiftor  tiiiiis]i()rte(!  to  thin 

coaiili-vaiul  prcsoatcd  to  (pipou  Ainic's  chiippel  in  Xowbiirv,  state  of  .AlassiicliUMMts  (as 
rny  lalinl  shows.)  l.y  the  lord  ai.shop  of  Loiiilon.  After  ivinaiMiiiir  (luiclly  in  thi>  l)olfry 
of  said  cliappel  li.rinaiiy  years  I  was  talaai  hy  forrc  anil  sccrrtiv  honied.  After  the 
lapse  ol  a  tew  yi'ars  I  reappeared  and  was  plaee.l  in  thi'  lielfry  of  a  scdioolhonse  in  this 
viemity.  Soon  alter  I  was  taken  down  and  pla.'ed  in  the  behrv  of  //,/,v  iharrh,  where  [ 
called  tOi;eth(M- the  C(ni<,'ie;ration  lor  many  years  —  bat  in  the 'year  is:;8  I  was  takeu 
down  to  make  ro.an  lor  a  lari^er  persoiiaiie  — in  a  few  mome'ms  after  reaehin"  the 
^'roniiil  1  was  sinlen— l.y  wdiooin  ?  ao  o!!«  knows  — and  plared  in  the  I.eliVv  o7  the 
same  sehoolhonse  now  in  another  street,  where  I  remained  until  last  Saturday  evenintt 
when  reeiMve.l  a  call  from  some  friends,  which  I  sjUkIIv  accepted,  and  have  treated 
nii>  well  and  placed  me  where  yiai  now  Iind  me. 

'  Heslore  me  to  lay  lawful  owners  or  beware  ! ' 


412 


f  •  fi  V  r '  I .  n  s  I  n  \  . 


If  llu'  writi'i'  nf  llif  inci-f 


liiiir     li.tliif    iiiIkiiiIimI     ti>     ti'll     till'     Inllll       lid 


vvii«  piihcr  I'Xirciiu'lv  iuiiuriiut.  uv  ux 


iv  i      mil   iiii«  II      <^'     1^  II     ii»'       linvii,     I.*-' 
li'Kiiiiilw  iiiiliirt  iiiiiitii  in     ihil    I'lilili'l' 


of  words  to  c'oiivi'V  iii.>  uU'Mn,  as  llu!  followiiim'  lini-t'  iinnulive  of  tiu-ls 
will  sliow.  (.iiiiTU  Aiini's  i'lin]it'l,  us  Ikis  iihciuly  ln'oa  hliowii,  was 
oiiuiimlly  biiill  for  ii  foii'.!;ii'UiHioii;il  iuciiii)i.'-lioiiM',  Iml  llio  liiiiKU'is, 
liudiiifj;  llml  bolli  lowii  ami  htulc  R'l'iisfil  to  allnw  tlu'iii  loiist-  il  I'orMii-li 
n  |uir[io.sc'  111  lluit  [ilai'i-,  afu'iwurd  i-otivciti'd  it  into  an  E|iisco[iul  c-hiirch, 
wliicli  llioy  called  (iiicfii  Ann's  cliaiud.  Tlu;  licil,  wlindi  was  ii-;.rniarly 
used  fronillie  liiiic  ol'  its  arrival  till  l7('iG,  wilh  the  I'Xi'epliiai  of  a  few 
of  the  hist  years,  when  it  was  used  but  ouec  in  a  month,  had  on  it  the 
foUowini:?  hdiel ;  '  presented  to  (lueou  Ainie's  ehapel  by  the  bi>ho|i  of 
London.'  The  diseontinuaiu-e  of  i)nblii'  worsliiu  in  the  ehaiu.-l,  three, 
sabbaths  ont  of  fmir,  indiieed  tliose  who  Hvcd  in  the  vicinity,  a  j.',realer 
jmrt  of  wiioiii  had  aliciuh'd  tho  eha|ii'l,  to  form  a  new  juirish,  build  a 
ineetinR-house,  which  was  raised  June  tweiity-thinl,  17C. I,  eonslitnli!  a 
new  chnrcli,  and  settle  a  con^retiatinnal  minister.  In  17(iO,  public  wor- 
ship ceased  entirely  in  the  chapel,  whicli,  •  beincr  thus  deserted,  went 
to  decay.'*  ' 'riieChrisleiiin;;' basin,  which  is  of  silver,  is  in  ihe  pos- 
session of  St.  raid's  church.' '*  The  bible,  was  i.;iveu,  by  a  Mr.  Jack- 
man,  to  tho  church  in  Boscawen,  New  Uanipsiiire,  and  the  eoniinuiiion 
cloth  was  worn,  as  a  sliawl,  by  a  Mvs  I'almer;  llu;  bell  remained  for 
ten  years  unmolested,  and  apparenlly  niichunied  by  any  jiersun  or 
society,  in  the  belfry  of  tlie  deserted  chapi'l,  wlu-n  the  steeple  was 
blown  down,  about  •.  vi-ar  befoit>  the.  fall  of  the  house,  throwiniiC  the 
hell  into  the  street  beeinjf  this,  JMr.  Duvid  \V'liilniort',  an  innholder 
in  the  neighborhood,  wheeled  it  iiilo  his  barn,  where  it  remtuned  for 
some  time,  unconcealed  and  unclaimed,  till,  at  the  n  i[ue.sl  of  I\lr. 
Whilmore,  colonel  Josiah  Little  removed  it  to  his  own  house,  where  il 
remained,  unconcealed,  as  is  well  known,  till  the  biiildinu;  of  tlio 
Belleville  scliool-liouse,  where  it  was  used,  both  for  school-house  and 
nieeting-honsp,  ready  to  bo  delivered  to  any  [.crsou  or  society  leuJilly 
or  equitably  entitled  to  it.  Keciuests  were  made  to  Mr.  Little  to  tiivo 
up,  or  .sell,  the  bell  to  St.  Paid's  ehiindi.  To  all  these  requests,  Mr. 
Little's  uniform  answer  was,  in  substance,  this  '  The  bell  is  not  mint! 
to  give  or  sell.  Any  person  or  soi'iety,  cliumiii!.!:  it,  can  have  it  by 
substantiating  the  claim.'  Satisfieil  that  no  such  claim  could  be  lei},ally 
made,  certain  persons,  wlio  they  were,  or  for  what  motive,!  pretend 
not  to  say  or  know,  tlctermincd  to  obtain  possession  of  the  bell,  and 
accordingly,  as  it  would  seem,  employed,  for  iliat  pur[iose,  some  stufiid 
agent  or  agents,  whoso  organs  of  actiuisitiveness  must  have  vastly 
exceeded  those  of  locality,  as  they  did  not  appear  to  know  the  dillerenco 
between  Kent  street  school-house  in  Xcwbnryport,  and  Pilsbury's  lane 
in  Newbury.  They  accordingly  made  a  sad  mistake,  and  instead  of 
taking  queen  Anne's  chapel  hell,  carried  otf  the  Kent  street  school- 
hou.se  bell,  which  lias  the  following  label:  'Joseph  Joyet  fecit  17^)7. 
Lebeau  alia  grande  angc,'  which  they,  no  doubt.  sni)posed  meant,  being 
interpreted,  'presented  to  queen  Ann's  r' apel  by  the  bishop  of 
London.'  The  selectmen  of  Newbnryport,  however,  thought  ditfer- 
ently,  and,  in  the  course  of  the  day.  reclaimed  the  bell.  Having 
bailed  in  this  attempt  to  obtain  the  right  bell,  the  thieves,  having  studied 
tvjpography  for  over  two  months,  and  having  selected  what  they  doubt- 
less deemed  a  suitable  time  for  the  accomplishment  of  their  design, 
determined  to  try  again. 

*  Reverend  doctor  Mor.ss. 


CO  N  C  L  II  M  I  O  N. 


4ia 


'T  w.is  till-  evo  bi'lbro  Ctiiistiims,  wIhmi  nil  tluo'  the  In 


N..t 


I  iTiMUiii'  was  rdiriiii,',  nut  I'Vi'ji  ii  riiuiiii', 


■Ixcciiliii;,'  llini-  (MTsiin-t,  with  Ihi'ir  cuMcli'aHi  oun  vvliofl,        'l^t'fit 
Ititcudin:,'.  ot'  ciiiirsf,  lliu  liu'lll  l>''ll  to  "li';il ; 
Wild,  Willi  rc)iilslr|is  i|iijli>  iioi-iclf^^s,  rr<'|)t  up  I'iUbiiry'ij  laiiu, 
Ari'DiiiiilihliiMJ  tlicir  |iiii|>om',  .mil  (ri'pt  hick  iiiiiiii  ; 
And  Ihiiii  lliiit  il  ly  to  llii^,  the  ciiinpil.T  Indicvcn, 
The  bell  has  beoii  nii»^iiit{,  uiiU  ho  have  tlu:  tliiuvori. 

And   now,  lest  it  miiy   bu  s:iiil  of  llio   cuuipiliT,  as  uf  llciiii',  tho 
autiqiiury, 

'To  fiitiiii'  11  ;ps  iriiy  tliy  diiJiiPHS  Inst, 
A.I  tlioii  iiiL'oorv'si  tlio  iliiliic,:!  ot'  tlie  piist," 

I  pIoso  niy  Ixxtk  u'itli  llu-  Colli. wiip^  ln'imlirtil  linos  of  poetry,  i.,'  tiiiss 
lliiiuiiih  (loiild,  (•onccniin;j:  tlio  nui^niiticcMf  olui  Irco,  now  stiuitlin.u-  in 
I'lirkcr  slroet,  hcfom  flio  lioii.so  ol"  Mr.  Uiclninl  .l:ii|iii'.s,  wlii^'li  wuh 
lran.si)liuiti;d  mul  &ct  ont  by  his  orundfuiht'r,  Mr.  llicliiinl  .laiinos,  in  17  i:j. 

Tin;  OLD  i;lm  or  xkwhury. 

Did  it  i.'vcr  fiirni'  in  vour  way  to  p;i.ss 
Till' silvi-ry  pond  vvilli  its  lii"ii;;i(  of  :,'rim. 
Ami!  tliri-'adiii:,' tin'  lain"  liard  by  to  snc 
Thu  veloraii  Kliii  ol'  Newbury  / 
Yon  saw  how  its  roots  had  ijraspcil  the  ground, 
As  if  it  had  I'olt  the  iMith  wi-nt  round. 
And  I'astfnod  tln'tii  down  with  dcloriiiinod  will 
To  ki'op  it  .^ti'aiiy,  and  hold  it  .still. 
Its  a;;i'd  trunk,  .so  .stately  and  stroll!,', 
lias  braved  the  blasts,  as  they've  rushed  aionir. 
Its  head  has  towered  and  its  arms  have  sfireud 
While  tnoro  than  a  hiinilied  yoars  have  fled. 
'VV'ell,  that  old  I'.lni.  that  is  now  so  yrand, 
Was  onco  ii  twii;  in  the  rustic  baud 
Of  a  yoiilhl'ul  peasant,  who  went  one  night 
To  visit  his  love  by  the  tender  liilht 
Of  the  iiiode.st  moon  and  her  twinkling  host, 
'While  the  .star,  that  liithleil  his  bosom  most, 
And  g.ive  to  his  lonely  li^et  their  spi'cd, 
Abode  in  a  rotla;,'i.'  beyond  tho  iTiead. 
'Twas  the  peaceful  close  of  a  summer's  day, 
lis  glorious  orb  had  p,is>ed  away. 
Tho  toil  of  the  held,  till  the  morn,  had  ceased 
For  a  season  of  lest  to  man  and  beast. 
The  moth'    '.ad  silenced  tho  huiriming  wheel 
The  father  relurued  for  the  evening  meal, 
Tlie  tlianks  of  one.  who  bad  chosen  the  part 
Ol' iho  ))oor  in  spirit,  ihi!  rich  ill  he.iit, 
Who  having  the  soul's  grand  panacea. 
Feel  all  is  added  that's  needful  here. 
And  know  this  truth  of  the  human  breast, 
That  wanting  little  is  being  blest. 
Tho  good  old  man  in  his  chair  reclined 
At  a  humble  door  with  a  peaceful  mind 
While  the  drops  of  his  sun-burnt  brow  wore  dried 
'  Uv  the  cool  sweet  air  of  tho  eventide.     ' 

Tho  son  from  the  yoke  had  unlocked  the  bow. 

Dismissing  the  faithful  o.v  to  go, 

And  graze  in  the  close  ;  he  had  calLd  the  kine 

For  their  oblation  at  day's  decline. 

IFe'd  gathered  and  nnmheied  the  lambs  and  sheep 

And  f.islened  them  up  in  their  nightly  keep. 

He  'd  stood  by  the  coop  till  tho  hen  would  bring 

Her  huddling  brood  sate  under  her  wing. 

And  made  them  secure  from  the  hooting  owl 

Whose  midnight  prey  was  the  shrieking  fowl. 


411 


CONCLUSION 


When  all  was  fniishod  ho  s|)e(l  lo  llie  well, 

Wlicro  till!  old  tircy  bucket  liastily  Ibll, 

And  tli(3  clear  cold  vvati'i-  camn  up  to  cliase 

The  dust  of  the  lield  I'miii  his  iieck  and  lace, 

And  hands  and  leet,  till  the  youlh  began 

'I'o  look  roMovvcd  in  the  oulei-  man, 

And  soon  arrayed  in  his  Sunday's  best, 

The  slilFnew  suit  had  ilone  the  rest, 

And  the  hali;  vouul;  lover  was  on  his  way, 

Wheie  tluou;;li  the  li'n  and  lield  it  lay, 

And  over  the  bramble,  the  brake  and  the  ^rass, 

As  the  shortest  cut  to  the  house  of  his  lass. 

It  is  not  recorded  how  lonij  hu  staid 

In  the  cheerful  home  of  the  smiliui;  maid, 

Hut,  when  he  came  out,  it  was  late  and  dark 

And  silent  —  not  even  a  dou:  would  bark, 

To  take  from  his  feidiui;  ol'  loneliness, 

And  make  the  length  of  his  way  seem  less. 

lie  thon^'ht  it  was  stranii;e  that  the  treacherous  moon 

Should  have  given  the  world  the  slip  so  soon, 

Anil  whether  the  eyes  of  the  uirl  had  made 

The  stars  of  the  sky  in  his  own  to  fule, 

Or  not,  it  certainly  seemed  to  him. 

That  each  grew  distant,  and  small,  and  dim  ; 

And  he  shuddered  to  think  that  he  now  was  about 

To  take  a  long  and  lonely  rout. 

For  be  (lid  not  know  what  fearful  sight 

Might  come  to  him  through  the  shadows  of  night. 

An  elm  grew  close  by  the  cottage's  oaves. 

So  he  plucked  liini  a  twig  well  clothed  with  leaves, 

So  sallyiuir  forth  with  the  supple  arm 

To  serve  as  a  talisman  |)arryin;;  haiin, 

He  felt  that  though  his  heart  was  big, 

'Twas  even  stouter  for  having  the  twig. 

For  this  he  thought  would  answer  to  switch 

The  horrors  away  as  be  crossed  the  ditch. 

The  meadow  and  copse  wherein  pei chance 

Will-o'-the-wisp  might  wickedly  dance, 

And  wielding  it  kee|)  him  from  having  a  chill 

At  the  menacing  sound  of  Whip-poor- Will, 

And  his  llesh  from  creeping  beside  the  bog 

At  the  harsh  bass  voice  of  the  viewless  frog. 

In  short  he  felt,  the  switch  would  be 

Guard,  play-thing,  business  and  company. 

When  he  got  safe  home  and  joyfully  I'ounil 

He  still  w,is  himself  and  living  and  sound, 

He  planted  the  tree  by  his  family  cot, 

To  stand  as  a  monument  marking  the  spot 

It  had  liel|)ed  him  to  reach,  and  what  was  still  more, 

Because  it  had  growi\  by  his  lair  one's  door, 

The  twig  took  root,  and  as  time  (lew  by. 

Its  houghs  spread  wide  and  its  bead  grew  high, 

While  the  priest's  good  service  had  long  been  done, 

Which  made  the  youth  and  the  maiden  one, 

And  their  yi^uug  scions  arose  and  played 

Around  the  tree  in  its  leafy  shade. 

But  many  and  many  a  year  has  lied 

Since  they  weie  gathered  ;imong  the  dead. 

And  now  their  names  with  the  moss  o'ergrown 

Are  veiled  from  sight  on  the  church-yard  stone, 

That  bears  away  in  a  lingering  fall 

And  owns  the  power  that  shall  level  all. 

'I'he  works  that  thi;  band  of  man  hath  wrought 

Bring  him  to  dust,  and  his  name  to  nought, 

While  near  in  view,  and  just  beyond 

The  grassy  skirts  of  the  silver  pond. 

In  its  green  old  age  stands  the  noble  tree 

The  veteran  Elm  of  '  Oukl  Newberry.' 


INDEX. 


Adams   Rol)ort  "Q. 
Aiidros,  Sir  Kdmiinfl  147,  ].j!. 
Atkins,  Dudley  'j;;n. 
Amphislipna,  105. 
Arnold,  15onodict  2-lS,  210. 
Anti-slavery  society,  081, 
Andover.  Institution  at  Ul!). 
Aurora  borealis,  I'JO. 
Academy,  Dummer  227. 

Baptist  churcli  formed,  n'). 

Bartiet,  .Iosp]di  .'i:)l,  "111. 

B.irtlet.  Samnid   l.'il. 

Barnard,  Rpv.  Thomas  210. 

Bailey,  John  18.     ]}allad,  .Tjr,,  331. 

Bass,  bishop  K<l\vard  207,  383. 

Banlcs,  102,  281. 

Boll,  r,0,  107,  172, -111. 

Battery,  floatins;  2')0. 

Boddily,  Rev.  John  209. 

Breakwater,  281). 

Blown,   Mary     10.    George,  James, 

Richard,  !.'>.  Kw,  175. 
Boston  port  hill,  211. 
Bridiies,  121,  221,  250,  205,  280. 
Burying  places,  -IS,  200,  -100,  403. 
Bylield,  170. 

Byfield,  Jndu:e  Nathaniel  401. 
Battle  of  Bloody  Brook,  38S. 


Church,  formation  of  10,  diOlcuIl 

51,  72,  77,  Sl-ll.'!,  2M,  217. 
Church,  episcopal  170,  184.  200 
Clark,  Dr.  John  28,  391. 
Cateciiism,  287-201. 
Celebration,  centennial  281-283. 
Chase,  Aqnila  47,  323. 
Chaise  making,  255. 
('barter.  148,  152. 
Clark,  Stephen  M.  279. 
Clergymen,  namo.s  of  .370-373. 
<'otton  mills,  285. 
Colnian,  Benjamin  testimony  of 
Colman,  Thomas   l.'i,  18.  20.  ' 
Comb-making,   225. 
Collin,  Tristram,  43,  40. 
Collin,  Edmund  his  letter,  211. 
Common,  .30,  140,  145 
Common  Pleas,  159,  Court  bouse. 
Colors,  cross  on  the  21,  141. 


les  1 

271 


!4n-: 


Dummer,  Richard  10,  33. 
Doijs,  laws  concerning  42. 
Dole,  l^icbard  31,  120. 
Dark  day,  187,  257. 
l)e.\ter,  Timothy  229,  2(')0, 


274, 


Dana,  Rev.  Daniel  208,  283. 
Diet,  articles  of  307. 
Kaslon,  Nicholas  and  John  ].5. 
Kar!lirjuakes,  20,  00,  197,  198. 
Kmbargo,  opposition  to  274,  278. 
Epitaphs,  370-387 

Freeholders  and  freemen,  140.  147. 

Fashions,  regulations  of  55,  58. 

Fever,  yellow  270. 

Foit  on  Plum  island,  253. 

Fire  in  Newburyport,  270. 

Franklin,  'William  41. 

Ferry,  43,  40,  MS,  100,205. 

Garrison  house,  153. 

Garrison,  W.  L.  2SI. 

Genealoiry  and  grantees,  291,  323. 

(ioods  imported,  pledge  against  230. 

(ierrish,  Joseph  230." 

,  Graduates,  38,  350.  300. 

and    I  (Greenland.  Dr.  Henry  04,  07. 

I  Greenleaf,  Capf.  Stephen  102,  104. 

1  Hurricane,  IS,  30,  197,  241. 
i  Hail  storm,  50,  200. 

I  Hunt.   I'^li/abeth  inquest  concerning  159. 
I  Holbrook,  Daniel  elegy  and  criticisnl  con- 
I     corning,  103. 
!  Hyde,  Sam.  202.  Hospital,  200. 
n  44,  i  Hale,  Rev.  :Moses  210. 

'  Indians.  37.  38.  40,  103,  302. 
'  Ipswich  fright,'  215,  247. 

f 

I  Jaqiies,  Richard  104,  195. 

I  Knapp,  Isaac  281. 

I  Kent's  island.  47. 

!  Knight.  Richard  presentment  of    58. 

Limestone,  discovery  of  105, 
50.    Lnmpton.  Rev.  IMr.  18), 
.Lowell,  Rev.  John   107,  222. 
j  Louishurg,  expedition  to  215. 

■■  Mall,  jAIarket  square,  and  hall.  272,  279. 

Meeting  bouses,  17,  37,  44,  02.  04.  151.  103, 
!  100,  lOi),  100,  200,  214, 233,  207,  272,  278, 
:      285.  ' 

I  Milton,  Rev.  C.  W.  205. 
;  Mason,  Mr.  Robert  148. 
I  Moodv,  imprisonment  of  150. 
!  Morrill,  Isaac  153. 

March,  Capt.  John  defence  of  Casco  fori 
I      148,154.170. 


410 


INDEX. 


Miisir,  wnrU- on  liv  Jolin  Tufis,  IS,'). 
:\Iills, 'JO, '27.  43,  U\,  1-14,278. 

Npwhiiry,  name  niul  settlpment,  0-1 0. 
Npwlinivp'irt  incnrporiitiMl,  J'.'S. 
Ncvvspnpor  first  piiblislipil,  'J-11. 
Noyes.  Ivpv.  •Iiimr's  TJ.  15.  ^IC). 
Noyes.  Col.  Thomas,  17;!. 

Prtlin'T.  Tirrntliy  200,271. 

I'iirker,  Rov.  Tlinmns  11,12, 1.0,  (i9,  ;J74. 

Piirkcr  rivpr,  nnmed,  liSO. 

I'areons,  Rpv.  Jonnthaii  210,253. 

l^arsoniiiTP,  17,  1 15. 

I'aiislips.  town  Hivide'l  into,  101. 

Pagp.  Ilpnry  killed  281. 

Ppipiod  War.  22. 

PliilipV  war,  1)7.  3^ 

ppst  lioiisp,  227.  Poor  lioii^p,  107. 

Plant.  Pvpv.  I\1.  lS:i,  184,  207.  a'^j. 

'  j'opp  day.'  cplpliration  of  24!*. 

PInrn  Island  2S,  .50.04.  122. 

Pliimnr,  Franr's  15.  10.  20. 

Popkin,  Rpv.  .Tolm  S.  274. 

Pound,  15. 

Potalops,  100, 

Provisions  and  lalior,  price  of  regulated, 

ri4,  2.50. 
Punishment  for  thrfl,  243. 

Quakers,  01,  07,  120,  187,  223. 

Rawson.  Mr.  F.dward  .5S.  307. 
Rirhardson.  Rpv.  .John   j|.5,  133, 
Uoirers,  IJpster  pxppulion  of.  108. 
Roi^ers.  Abnor  his  death,  283. 
Rolfp,  Rev.  Jpnjamin  334. 
Rope  walk,  218, 
Religion,  revival  of,  210,  212,  213. 


Slaves  and  slavery,  1.54,  188.  241,  2.57,  334. 

Sewail,  Henry  and  Samuel  13,  32,  01,  308. 

Splertrnon,  10. 

School  honsp,  ,57. 

Schoolmaster,  32. 

Shcp)).  mannpr  of  keepins;  138. 

Stamp  act,  230,  232. 

Ship-yard  and  shippins,  31,  101,  274. 

Snow,  fireat  fill  of  180. 

Snelling,  Dr.  William  presentment  of  55. 

Tavprn,  first  kent  10. 

TitcomI),  Col.  piloses  death  of  222. 

Thomson.  Rpv.  F.dwin  150,  108,  100. 

Toppan,  Abraham  24,  300, 

Toppan,  Rev.  Christopher  100,  104,  213, 

37t), 
Town  house,  built  100, 
Tucker,  Rpv.  .John  21.5,232. 
Turnpike,  Newburvport,  273. 
Throat  distemper.  108,  204,  200,  20S. 
Tylhin;;  men,  121. 

Vickery,  Joshua  tarred  and  feathered,  32.5. 

Washington's  visit  to  Nevi-bury,  202. 

War,  disapprobation  of  278. 

West  Newbury,  incorporated,  270. 

Webster,  Elizabeth  punished.  00. 

Wliitefield.2n0.  21.5.  238.  ' 

White.  Mr.  Paul's  wharf,  00,  6,5. 

Witchcraft.  48,  01.  122,  12,5,  127,  134,  1-57. 

Winter,  severe  180. 

Wiu's,  o|)position  to  220,  221, 

Wolves,  42. 

Woolen  fiictory.  207. 

Woodman.  Josliua  21. 

Worsliip.  manner  of  307. 

Wnodbridtre,  Rpv.  ,Tohn  22.  08,  GO,  100,  201. 

Wardwoll,  Lydia  punished,  00. 


C 


334. 
3(58. 


C 


213, 


325. 


ra. 


201. 


